It’s too hard to compare water, flavored drinks, and smoothies. Those are all different things

I like The Sims 4. I think it’s the best Sims game. The mood system makes it so much more interesting than previous games and makes the sims feel a lot more like real people.

It sounds like you came across documentation for how to host a Lemmy server. Can you explain what it is you’re trying to do? I’m not sure what you mean by “use the official web app.”

What are the bot accounts being used for? I haven’t noticed any posts made by bots (unless you guys are all ChatGPT and I’m the only human here)

Agreed, that warning message is confusing. Also I don’t understand why we should have to select a language at all, since if I’m posting in an English community it should be implied that my post is in English.

Interesting, do you think this approach will limit how big Lemmy can get? For example, if a server wanted to subscribe to ten communities that are the size of large subreddits, how much data would that be? How much would it cost to maintain a server that could handle that?

Hmm interesting, thanks for the explanation.

Yes it’s a meaningful decision, I’m just saying that prospective new users don’t necessarily understand what the decision means or why they should make it. I’m not really sure how to solve this issue though, since it’s part of a larger question of why should anyone pay to host a server to begin with. I mean currently nobody is incentivized to maintain a server that costs a significant amount of money, so why should anyone try to attract new users?

That’s what I meant, I think they should make it so that all communities show up by default on the community list page.

Also just so I understand what you’re saying, are you saying that I could intentionally sabotage a server just by subscribing to a lot of communities, which would cause the All page to use a ton of resources whenever people look at it?

I really like it. The platform itself is great. The main thing that needs improvement is the onboarding experience. It seems really confusing at first, but I think that’s mainly because it’s not explained well.

For example, the first step of the onboarding process is choosing which server to join, which I think is kind of a misleading decision. It seems like you’re choosing what community you’re going to interact with, but that’s not really the case. You’re mainly just choosing who’s going to foot the bill for your network traffic. The decision seems important but it’s really not IMO, at least not for someone who’s just trying to jump in and see what Lemmy is all about.

Also, community discoverability is a problem, but I think that could easily be solved with better UX on the community page. (For example I think there should be a message that says “Looking for more communities? Try doing {insert instructions here} to find them.”

Why isn’t there a script that admins can run to do this automatically? It seems like a no-brainer that you would want all communities to show up in search by default.

How much does it cost to run large instances? Do you have an estimate of how much it costs to run lemmy.ml?

Which community are you referring to? I want to see if I can figure out how to do it on my end. (I haven’t had any issues subscribing to communities, but that might be because my instance is already linked to the communities I’m interested in or whatever)

Hi I can see your post

I joined Lemmy for the same reason. I’m not ok with the way social media companies use recommendation algorithms to increase engagement and make their users feel shitty. Since Reddit is going public soon, I’m sure they’re going to start coming up with new, manipulative ways to increase engagement, which means it’s time to jump ship.