Thank you for the summary

Yeah, it’s just showing that indeed Piefed.zip is still federated with HB and Lemmygrad (while still informing new users about them)

piefed.zip

from the .zip admin:

piefed.zip (and lemmy.zip) already blocks hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmynsfw by default, and sends a PM to the user when they sign up to let them know why we do this, and how to remove it.

https://piefed.zip/comment/3366842

It’s not even recommendation, it’s just a way to see the same content (whatever sort you use) but in one view per topic instead of everything altogether.

Hello,

Hope you are doing well. Any time-frame (even rough) in mind for Lemmy 1.0 release?

Welcome!

If that can help, Piefed has a few features such as built-in keyword filters or community titles filters that can help curate the All feed a bit better.

Piefed.zip is a well managed instance.

Glad to hear

I would take the bet. I’ve been discussing with other mods/community builders on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip for more than two years now. If someone isn’t motivated enough to request the community on an instance community, they are not going to last long as mods. Not that it’s a bad thing, moderating is not for everyone, but it still needs a bit of motivation.

Seems close to !imadethis@lemmy.zip ?

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.transdroid.full/ ?

Can’t wait for Lemmy 1.0 to release, comments consolidation for all crossposts is going to change your experience

About closing stale communities, !fedigrow@lemmy.zip has regular initiatives to handle inactive communities and redirect to active ones.

It doesn’t need to be that complicated. Most communities can be requested on instance support communities.

What usually happens is

• community owner doesn’t want to close it, even if it’s inactive
• nobody cares enough to request that community

Counterpoint: a new user has a look around, see that a community on a topic hasn’t been active for a month, they think this platform is dead.

While if they found that stale community, but with a pinned post to the active community on the same topic, it helps them to find active places.

P.S.: Matrix also isn’t a messaging protocol. It is a distributed database protocol that has been abused for making a messenger with it.

Harsh, but true

Seems over complex to be honest. As long as the choice is configurable, it seems fine

That said, at a quick glance it does still look like the way to replace it is to use a different instance’s community listing? (lemmy.world, lemmy.zip, whatever) Which is still a trend towards “centralization” - even if configurable now as to which source of bias the instance admins chooses?

At some point, you have to refer to an existing instance.

Lemmy.today’s blocklist is empty, that one could be used for people who want to avoid all bias.

Comment from Nutomic as it seems you might have blocked him

This is an unreleased feature to federate some popular communities when a new Lemmy instance is created. It was hardcoded to lemmy.ml for a while, but I already changed this and made it configurable. Obviously the entire development code for Lemmy is not ready for production now, and needs a lot of fine-tuning. Its not an argument against the stable release version of Lemmy.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/6276

I’ll comment higher