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Yeah just FYI if sh.itjust.works turns in to this kind of thing I will definitely move to a different instance

I think that is a mistake. Plenty of nice folks on this instance people shouldn't jump to conclusions. Also this discourse on that thread is really problematic. The idea of defederating a whole instance over 1 community is terrible. I would understand. If most of that instance was a troll den that is definitely not the case with this instance

I am at an over my dead body moment with reddit. I don't care what their numbers say I'm not going back.

This dude just loves screwing with people.

lol I like how "back in the day" was two weeks ago LMAO

So yeah I just want to show what I am talking about something is completely weird. So if you are on a sh.itjust.works instance and view a community outside this one you see this :

Now here is the same block not logged into an instance:

See the stats are completely different. This is maddeningly confusing. They need to fix the stats overall. I am not sure that any place collecting stats could be right at this point.

I saw it mentioned somewhere that when you see subscriber counts for a community those counts only reflect the amount of subscribers from your instance. At least that is the way I understood it. I know that's not related to comments but there seems to be some ways that the federation work that is not great. Could it be that the comments are from an instance that your instance has de-federated from?

That's interesting 🤔 I wonder if something about the federated nature makes active users difficult to count accurately. I wouldn't say that Lemmy is a ghost town but there isn't as much participation as their could be. I'm not even sure how the stats define active to be honest. So there is a lot of unknowns about how that calculation is done.

It seems like the only people left on reddit will be jerks and trolls which is fine by me. You are in the right place ignore the haters.

There is lots of great 101 books. I think bucklands complete book of witchcraft is a great follow up. I think that Raven Grimassi's book The Wiccan Mysteries is also amazing and one of the books I have my private students read. Also check if the books you read have a bibliography as that might give you more ideas. BB

I deleted my account. I will miss some of the nice people I met over there. I hope they come here and we can hang again.

In any case I'm glad you are here instead of there and I'm sure what you do will be appreciated by this community.