Just been lurking and this is my first post lol but I must say this place is great so far imo if I can say so for the short time I've been here.

I see a lot of unhappy people with the hexbear instance and I agree they have some very shit takes. I will also agree with the people who say not to defed and create a bubble, censor, etc. it is easy enough to ignore but everyone works differently. Doesn't seem like a big issue to me. Just my two cents.

Defederate from Hexbear please <3

Just keep doing what you have been doing as far!

While not a problem inherent to this instance in particular, the relative lack of activity in Fediverse communities makes me wish we had a way of coordinating the continued recruitment of users from relevant subreddits. I'd like to never need to visit Reddit again, but there's not that many active Fediverse communities yet, and Lemmy growth statistics haven't been great since a one time boost following the Reddit blackout.

Not sure how to convince the mutineers to abandon their ship for ours, but thanks for everything captain!

my only complain is I miss the option to sort by default top comments first, not popular ones. I guess that is not a dbzer0 problem, more a lemmy one :)

besto instance

i am not confident enough to create or mod communities, not even create a post, but i wonder if we could create a thread of 'Community Organization Thread' and:

• list already created and active sublemmies and make some kind of accessible and nicely formatted text index (maybe already made)
• make people post ideas for new communities in the comments
• let people react positively on them
• let users comment on the parent comments "it already exists, see this: [Lemmy sub link]".
• if the community does not exist and the positive reactions are +100 or something, somebody could offer themselves to create the community and post the Lemmy link, suggest the best instance for it, add suggestions and ideas...
• if there is more than 1 community for the same idea, users can decide if working separately (bc of differences), merging, collaborating, etc.

this is because i feel like we are creating communities non stop with zero planification, and maybe it would be better to post content first, see how it goes, and then create the right communities. this is just a random idea, but i think that if we organize together, we can create content in a smarter way and make better use of resources.

pd: oof that pirate is very handsome hehe

I would appreciate a defederation from Hexbear. I'm really tired of getting swarmed by them and having to see their invariably shit political takes. I spoke a bit about it on the thread you made on /c/anarchism, but I thought I might as well speak about it again, since you asked.