If you’re open to doing a bit more work, https://www.opensecrets.org/ might be a good resource to look up political affiliations of corporate PACs and lobbyists.
Edit: must have messed something up, meant to reply to unsettlinglymoist’s https://lemmy.world/comment/15849319 comment not the OP.
Outside of rate limiting and sending detected bad bots to poisoned static data, yeah not much you can really do without harming valid use cases.
In the federated world people can just set up relays or listener instances, which are far better than hammering hobbyist instances with the additional bandwidth.
You can put Lemmy communities in lists so they don’t spam your home feed. https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/
The existing integration works suprisingly well given the different use cases. Bettet than Masto and Peertube.
Unfortunately Mastodon not supporting group actors is the main difficulty in the integration on its end. Lemmy has hacks like auto-boosting thread posts, but kbin and peertube don’t so you can’t get thread posts without following the post author.
I think allowing user following (allow subscribing to user pages) and handling tags (which I’m not sure the right approach, probably can fit in whatever multicommunity feature gets developed) are the only missing things on the Lemmy side.
Thank you Ruud!
https://m.lemmy.world already points to an instance of Voyager, probably close to what you are asking.
Follow your friends, check out your instance’s federated feed and follow some people there (if you aren’t self hosting), follow some tags, and follow a trending bot like @popularposts@masto.ai
Is that 100m active users?
I hope hosting all these massive communities is enough a portfolio to land Ruud a crazy job offer one day that pays him stupid levels of money while allowing him plenty of time off to maintain these massive hobby projects.
True, that’s why you have to appreciate that all that glitters is gold.
Semver pre version 1 lets minor changes be breaking (points 4 & 5).
Definitely something instance owners could define, but a specific list is not something I think needs to be defined at the code level.
Your profile says exactly what I’d expect Myspace Tom to say, so thanks for being a friend to all!
Is that Myspace Tom in your avatar?
I mean it is pride month, let him dig in those heels! Silly wording aside, where the heck are Reddit’s PR team and why hasn’t the board put controls on Huffman at this point? Where are the adults in the room? Man this going to fill the minds of conspiracy theorists for a decade.
27.3k as of right now, that is crazy! Its nice to see the instance counts going up for both lemmy and kbin, hopefully communities can be more spread out too to prevent defederation like we saw this morning.
Instances have filters in the admin settings, but for a user level filter there isn’t one yet. The devs are overwhelmed trying to get some key performance stuff out, but I can’t see them turning down a feature patch if you want to write it and create a pull request.
Awesome, glad this is finally getting cleaned up, I wanted to hear about announcements, but it was getting so spammy so fast I unsubscribed and was just checking in from the local feed. I’m going to resubscribe.
Q: Is it better to create my community on a large general Lemmy instance, a topical Lemmy instance, or create my own Lemmy instance?
A: It is up to you, but there are a few things to consider. General instances will likely help early discoverability, and your main account is likely already on one. However, your community will encounter risks of admin change and others defederating with the general instance for reasons unrelated to your community. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you must create an alt account on the general instance to create the community.
Self-hosting an instance will let you be in control. You’ll have fewer worries about your community not being found due to defederation or the instance admins shutting it down over reasons unrelated to your community. However, you’ll have to rely on word of mouth, communities like this, and the community search tools like Lemmy Explorer to get people there.
Topical instances might be a good middle ground if you trust the instance admins. As the local feed will have related topics, you’ll likely be a positive contributor to the local instance feed and find a lot of shared interests with others on that instance. Topical instances will probably only be defederated by instances you wouldn’t want to federate with already. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you’ll need to create an alt account on the topical instance to create the community.
Edits: network issues, reworded
Hopefully things like PineTime, Bangle.js, and the return of Pebble can shake up the market. There’s always neat DIY hacks like the SensorWatch too that can still make the space fun even if the major players get enshittified.