So problem all solved?

Yours also allows me to open it on Mbin.

You would be 100% correct. It was for long-form high quality writeups of drama in a hobby, not looking at drama specifically on Reddit.

Really wish people used [email protected], from a quick look the three you put seem to be about specifically Fediverse drama

Mbin user here, link in the OP kicks me to lemm.ee while originallucifer’s link lets me find it on Mbin

From the Obsidian Discord:

PSA: Our main server was taken down by a forced reboot at 2024-08-24 3AM EST / 12AM PST. When the account server was down, our services like Sync, Publish, and account functions like login or sign up were disrupted.

Normally our services would have immediately auto-restarted, however we made a mistake in the auto-restart configuration, which meant that it did not automatically restart. I was able to start it up again manually at 8AM EST. Everything is back to normal now.

I have since located the configuration issue and fixed it so if this happens again it would be down for at most a few seconds. Apologies for the inconvenience!

Hey, thanks for the recommendations! I have never heard of Tomboy so I went and looked it up and from the images I saw on Wikipedia it definitely looks “forever ago”.

Wish Lemmy Scheduler worked with Mbin, because I found a lot of good posts for [email protected] that would best be spaced out to avoid spamming and to keep the community active for a decent period of time.

Curiosity made me check if [email protected] existed and it does but it is not very active—I’d imagine any not-man looking for fashion communities on the Fediverse might not bite on male fashion advice lol. Now I am also wondering if just plain “fashion advice” exists, or anything for nonbinary people. Back when I was on Reddit I wasn’t aware of such a subreddit, I was only aware of malefashionadvice and femalefashionadvice.

I’ll be honest, I am not even qualified to advise on fashion. I am sure I am not colorblind but things like “oh, that color washes you out” or “that color flatters you” have never been something I am able to see. I feel I’m missing a lot of knowledge like this, but I get by because none of my clothes cause me trouble in daily life—no pain, unexpected restricted movement, or general discomfort; people compliment my outfits sometimes; and I’m happy with what I’m wearing.

Also, good luck with the community and I hope you find posters, as someone who is also one of the primary posters in some communities I’m in and hopes others would interact sometime.

I look for things to post on some of the communities I follow. Unfortunately I cannot commit to doing this regularly for all communities I follow.

Also, your icon need not be made by you, so even if your art skills are as mediocre as mine it is fine! Grab some Creative Commons thing, slap it on your community, and attribute it. That is what [email protected] did.

I do like fashion.

I always thought “streetwear” implied a certain kind of style that is not my cup of tea, and I am very uncomfortable posting a picture myself online, even if I censor my face out.

This is exactly why I chose Mbin: to help diversify Threadiverse software.

The reason I want it to grow is because I want to talk to other people about my interests without having to use Reddit. Not just me being the only poster about it.

I did say that I wondered if I’d accept bots if I was guaranteed the above outcome, with other humans, not with it being overrun with bots. I also don’t want to talk to LLMs. The reality is we do not know for sure if botting the place up will help it grow, and botting it makes it unpleasant for users now, so I am against it.

Fake engagement to drive more users here seeking engagement, thinking they are interacting with real people. Not a fan of the deception, but I read somewhere on the Fediverse (do not remember the source, or if this is true!) that Reddit started this way, and eventually got a huge amount of real people. I do not want to talking to an LLM on here, but I wonder if I’d be against LLMs pretending to be people in the comments if I knew the tradeoff would be the Fediverse growing, as itself and not some thing taken over by a corporation, with more actual humans to talk to about my interests with. The thing is, I don’t know if that outcome would occur for sure.

Although your comment made me think: bots dropping hot takes do not get upset when people get toxic in the comments :P

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I could swear there was a community link fixer bot, which is pretty useful for people reading comments, trying to click a link to a community, and getting an error. Bot has the correct link as a reply.

Community-specific bots can be quite helpful. NameThatSong on Reddit had a bot that would run your post through song recognizer bots if your post had audio, to try to help the poster identify the song. I found it useful. I should probably figure out how to make a similar bot for [email protected] someday.

I feel bad because most of the people posting on [email protected] seem to be really good at it and I am pretty obviously nowhere near their level of skill. I also do not see many posts made by people around my skill level. But hey, at least it’s Fediverse engagement and I do try to help keep that up. Writing this comment also made me think that perhaps a lot of Fediverse hobby communities have skilled people and beginners are perhaps too scared to post because they don’t see anyone else just starting, so being the beginner asking for help might actually be valuable.

On one hand I kind of get the point, on another hand I feel a need to post something every week or so so people who click on the community can quickly see the community is not dead and someone is checking at least semi-regularly.

[email protected] (https://kbin.social/m/musicals) was active. Then kbin.social started having issues and it has been inactive for 5 months. Prior to that it was mostly just me and the mod posting.

The issue with musical theatre is that I spend a lot more time actually rehearsing for or working on theatre than I do talking about more discussable topics with strangers not working on the same production as me. Broadway news? Uhhhhh… (that’s what the mod was posting). I’d be happy to reestablish it somewhere functional, but I have to figure out what I would post first. Maybe finding the mod’s news sources and posting links, and asking how the commenters’ productions are going? Audition tips? Posting their own performances is probably way less popular because these take place in a physical space and who worked on what gets documented in a program, also known as easy doxxing… The nature of it being a documented performance art makes it harder to post what you’re working on, though I imagine a costume designer could post a costume and just not talk about where their production is or something… it is the performers (actors, pit members, etc.) that would have a harder time posting their work. Unless they post themselves practicing or rehearsing or something, but then it opens you to nasty “you suck” drive-by YouTube comment-style judgments… hence why I don’t post my own performances.

Trying to think of stuff to post on [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. Will probably have to actively seek new stuff out.

The struggle of wanting a Fediverse community and being unable to make it because you don’t know nearly enough about the subject, and gaining enough expertise takes time. Or you just don’t know what would get posted. In addition to being into musical theatre I play instruments. Oh god what do I post. r/piano is so full of people performing that I just do not care about. I think the trouble with a lot of performing arts communities online is we’re a bit busy you know… actually performing. Talking to your bandmate about this hard piece for the concert, about how you think the conductor is doing, etc. is cool and also often specific to your performance and not too good for discussion with strangers in my opinion unless it is a famous conductor or well-known piece. Same issue as the musical theatre stuff.

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