Oh I don’t mind it, I like the post :)

I was thinking that there might be a lot of Lemmy users working in such roles, without a place (that I know of) to share those stories

Oh, we do have a !talesfromtechsupport community (link). Looks like the mod is inactive and the community doesn’t have that many subscribers

Maybe we can try making a new one here on programming.dev

Cool, didn’t know about the community, posted!

As of 2017, the rules in Canada have been the following:

All new devices in Canada must be sold unlocked, and carriers must offer to unlock existing phones free-of-charge

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/contact/phone/q19.htm

That’s the goal for the community eventually!

I don’t think there are enough medical professionals making that content yet, so in the meantime I’ve been trying to share news/updates relevant to medical professionals. I’m happy to make any changes to the community to help meet those needs.

It seems to be a chicken-egg situation like other niche communities. While it’s mostly laypeople right now, it might just need a few medical professionals to start making text posts there, and then others can find the community over time.

I can also do more promo for it

That’s part of why I clicked the article, I was confused if I read it correctly

We’re actually in contact with the r/Medicine moderation team over in [email protected]. We never ended up formally announcing a partnership / official status because everyone got busy, but it’s something I want to go back to at some point. There are a lot of amazing medicine/healthcare communities on Reddit that could benefit from an alternative here

See also this post for other medical spaces: https://lemmy.ca/post/6611650

I also think that Mastodon healthcare people could be interested in a community here, if there is a good way to reach them and let them know it exists

This is one of those things that I’m planning to work on more actively soon!

I think it can be an effective way to help people find Lemmy, and it will work better if that the focus is on letting people know that the option exists (rather than being pushy about it).

Which community to work with

IMO it’s the best community to work on might be one that you are already familiar or active with. If you have a good reputation with the mods already, they will be more likely to listen to your idea. Similarly, some subreddits will benefit from having a space on Lemmy more than others.

What benefits to highlight

I’ve been busy with some other things for some time, but when I was last working on this with a few subreddits, the main benefits were:

• A lot of users don’t want to have to use Reddit, and many have already stopped using Reddit. Having a similar community without ads/tracking with the same moderation team will go a long way to helping those people stay involved

• A well known backup community is very helpful. Some subreddits serve important purposes and even temporary outages on Reddit can affect time sensitive questions. Meanwhile, there have been cases where entire subreddits were removed in error (ex. automated systems reacting to mass reporting), and users had no idea what happened. It’s helpful to have a second place that everyone knows to check for updates in those situations.

Potential process

• bring up the idea, and offer to help with the set up and day to day moderation
• work with the current mods to make moderation consistent between the platforms, so that the experience is similar
• see if some of the mods want to make accounts here so that they can rest easy knowing they have moderation permissions here, even if they don’t use it day to day

Once both communities are linked, there’s a chance for trust to build and users will feel more comfortable knowing that the Fediverse community is an ‘official’ one. That can be helped by having information in the sidebar, a pinned post, and/or a note on the submission page, etc.

Day to Day

This requires having an account on Reddit and being somewhat active on it. Users are more likely to explore the fediverse if they see content from it. Some ideas could be

• A weekly “here’s what you missed from Lemmy”

• Sharing any major updates about Lemmy / the fediverse community

• If there is an important post that could benefit from reaching more people, then letting the OP know that they can post here as well

The article is nice, but I’m not sure if I’d send it to friends that aren’t familiar with the fediverse. It seems to gloss over some problems and focus less relevant ones

It doesn’t touch on the issues with Blueskys protocol and makes it sound like an equivalent choice (or worse, a better choice). In the downsides section it touches on racism in badly moderated instances, and the difficulty of setting up an instance. Those issues aren’t relevant to the vast majority of users who will join a large instance that has defederated from the bad stuff.

It’s a nice article for those who are already somewhat familiar, but a bad first impression

Very cool, thank you!

This is both really cool, and really unsettling. I wonder if this research might help in the other direction as well, such as with transplants and grafts

Thanks! :))

[email protected] and [email protected] for more

Others have commented on the issues with Vivaldi, but do you have points on what you like about Vivaldi? People might suggest non-chromium browsers that do the same things

https://lemmy.ca/post/23688697

Yes I’ll see about pinning a message next time I’m on Desktop, to redirect anyone that is looking there.

Looking through the recent posts, the old community wasn’t getting that many new posts already

Nice!

I’ll see about pinning a message next time I’m on Desktop, to redirect anyone that is looking there. The old community wasn’t getting that many new posts already

sarcasm is already hard to understand online, even harder for generative AI

I know sometimes I would take a peek at the person’s comment history to see if they were well informed / a shill for the product. The AI can’t do that

I’ve seen some dashboards around, is this what you’re looking for?

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
• https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame

At the same time, the variables in that calculation might change over time. If it becomes easy enough for them to support it, or the costs of not supporting it get too high, they might change their minds.

Alternatively: wean yourself and your friends off of snapchat. In my part of the world, snapchat isn’t popular anymore. It doesn’t offer anything new and so barely anyone uses it.

Another side I haven’t seen mentioned

It might be easier to track users in Chrome. If even a few users open it in chrome instead of Firefox, that’s a benefit for them