After that play the prequel, Before the Storm

Fixed the community link for you: !Randomactsofgaming@lemm.ee

because it affects the communities too, lots of outside accounts use the communities here

if there's downtime for the instance or database issues or something, then subscribers to c/programmer_humor or c/programming might want to know because it affects them too

Make a Github pull request, examples:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/347

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/354

the instance needs at least 5 active users

He called Git simple lol. Some good points here though. GIMP is definitely a bit clunky. Kdenlive does crash a lot for me, and often fails to recover the autosave, and it renders slowly. But there's a lot of other good open source programs too. Firefox, OBS, Blender, some people in the comments were saying Krita but I haven't tried it yet. There's also Chromium and VSCode but obviously those are backed by huge companies.

The problem is this dilutes the comments.

If you have 2 posts and one of them has a comment, people might see that comment and join in on the conversation, also the human OP gets a notification about the comment and is likely to reply. What Lemmy needs is more comments not more posts.

But with bot posts you have 1000 posts and maybe 1 of them has a comment but no one will ever see it, people will see the community has lots of posts but no comments and that isn't interesting, it's just a glorified RSS feed at that point.

Communities are supposed to be comprised of people not bots. The Google definition of "community":

a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

plus the admin team seems to get to most of the reports before I do

pretty cool how the tiered moderation of Lemmy works

I think this is a pretty big problem with how people are using Lemmy in general

https://lemmyverse.net/communities shows 27,726 communities

https://join-lemmy.org/instances says Lemmy has 42.2k monthly active users (as of v0.19.0 that's including people who only vote and don't post/comment)

I just think that's way too many communities to be sustainable, people jumped on Lemmy and tried to create a community to match every subreddit, and then they did it on multiple different instances too.

I'm not sure how to improve this. You could delete communities but then you lose post history and subscribers. You could close communities and make a pinned post, but then they clutter search results and they definitely look dead, because they are. There could maybe be a new Lemmy feature added to merge a community into another one (moving the posts over and then deleting the old community) but that would have complications with subscribers on other instances.

The default browser on most Android smartphones will raise its minimum OS requirement to Android 8.0 with the Chrome 120 release in early 2024.

The minimum version for Google Calendar for Android is also now Android 8.0

if you want to browse All then I think you might want to ban some of the meme communities

also v0.19.0 is adding the Scaled sorting method, which should help you see those niche communities more again

go to https://voyager.lemmy.ml/ to test it out, they need help finding bugs anyways

well now someone needs to make the most obnoxiously American patriotic instance possible, as a meme

I see we have these communities

https://sopuli.xyz/c/rct

and

https://lemmy.world/c/rct