Google gained control of the web by populating the world with Chrome/Chromium and wants to strong arm the web as a whole through it. Climbing the ladder and pulling it up from underneath them, with their fisted approach to Manifest V3 the beginning salvo.

For Google it’s just another day in the office.

For the time being the bot account flag is voluntary anyway, so there’s nothing stopping a repost bot from not indicating they are one.

Block and move on is the most straightforward solution at the moment.

From my PoV it’s probably many of these projects are effectively public good spaces. Hosting a code repository has become less of an esoteric thing and turning into a public good benefit (like a physical library but virtual for code). Spaces like Reddit and Twitter are todays analogous of a public discussion forum in a park or at a bar.

Internet tools have become so ubiquitous they are critical to serve public needs and public benefits. However these internet spaces are increasingly commercialized and privatized, which runs against them being valuable public goods (see the difference between Wikipedia, run primarily for public benefit, and Wikia/Fandom).

Omg yes!

Stop asking all the trite personality questions that everyone in the conversation knows is a prepared answer to a prepared question. There is absolutely no sincerity and honesty involved, which absolutely defeats the purpose.

Unless you have a super compelling reason to get sequenced, do not use direct to consumer sequencing services or offerings. In general it’s not so much the tech or whatnot that is bad, but rather without being in a position to determine if you have some genetic, prospective genetic screening isn’t ideal.

If you feel you have a good reason to be sequenced (eg family history of a kind of cancer, particularly breast and colon), seek out a genetics consult with a genetic counsellor or geneticist at a major hospital or academic center.

This comment isn’t to constitute any kind of medical advice. Rather, you are much better served getting sequenced done well.

Yep lemmy.world is live (stress) testing in production. It has its benefits, like when a set of patches were committed to vastly improve performance that was a big problem on a huge instance like lemmy.world but not on the smaller ones, and its downsides with all the random issues that pop up which happen when testing live in production.

Yea I get that. I was being facetious with my comment.

Tearmoon Empire by another name

Too early to tell what set of tropes and typical story arcs it’ll go through, but it works well as an establishing point.

I think people will flock to wherever there’s activity. Then my random series of thoughts:

Firstly, there’s some rumblings about setting up some kind of multi-community feature (either server-side at the community level or client-side at the user-interface level), so hopefully this comes around sooner rather than later.

Secondly, Lemmy does support cross-posting formally (for example, if you submit an identical link to multiple communities, there will be a small bit of additional text indicating it has been cross-posted and linking out to submissions elsewhere), but text-based cross-posts are not as technically featured (this might have changed, but when I last tried it merely appended a “crossposted from XYZLINK” to the start of the text body).

If a critical mass of people congregate, they may want the episode-posting bot to work on their community anyway.

The broader pragmatic perspective is it’s pretty evident there are a number of people interested in participating around anime and manga centric topics, but the fact that people are spread out across a variety of different communities makes it difficult to reach a critical mass for conversations to start self-sustaining themselves. If you and like-minded individuals are interested in committing the energy and effort to grow something, I’m definitely happy to come along and help out. Ultimately though, the addition or removal of automated episode-posting bots doesn’t really change the fact that it’s hard for incidental participants to stay engaged if there’s little conversation about the episodes or anime in general, and from my PoV the real “content” are in these discussions rather than in the submissions made. In some ways, a lot of these individual episode threads become mini-communities in and of themselves.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with starting something and then handing it off to someone else later either.

The bot is probably the same bot used on /r/manga to automatically post chapters from Mangaplus and similar services. This is usually a burst of activity during the weekends and a few submissions over the week.

It’s just a quiet place when no one really wants to comment on anything really.

Given it’s basically a direct port of the bot I don’t particularly care. Really the “problem” is the real content of communities like these are the discussions but there’s been absolutely no concerted interest or activity to drive people to visit and participate. Taking out bot updates for some series won’t change this.

Another alternative is to run it on a different Anime community on a different instance. Either way, one moderator (probably the one who created this community) has made no comments since doing so, and the other hasn’t made a comment or submission in 14 days. The last (and only) logged moderation action is from 26 days ago.

My ultimate point here is that if you are interested in growing a community but the people who have the ability to exert influence over what sticks and what doesn’t is not being responsive, some options available here are to get the unresponsive people out, or to go elsewhere to work with people who are.

If none of the mods have had made any comments recently, probably worth reaching out to an admin to see if you can get mod ownership temporarily.

Discord is by far the worst place for a community to retreat to because it’s resources and discussions are impossible to find through cursory searching and I’m so sick of adding to my list of Discord servers just to get information that belongs on a Pastebin or Github readme.

In many ways though, Lemmy has grown into something that is active much faster than so many other kinds of social media platforms. Does anyone remember Disapora or Google+ being the next Facebook or Facebook replacement? What about Wit social? Most definitely do not.

From my PoV:

1. The activity around memes, image sharing, memes, shitposting, memes, memes, and memes have not felt too different from Reddit, but unsurprising as it’s very easy to consume content
2. The typical communities that have coalesced in a grassroots fashion are thriving well as long as one can accept there’s a lot of duplicate threads (like the Twitter related stuff in technology communities). Some communities are populated by Reddit content porting bots and these feel so barren because it’s a wall of submissions with a small number of comments each and the bot owners have no visible intent to stop.
3. Niche communities are incredibly quiet. That’s understandable but also unfortunate, more so if it is a niche community that did not move over.

Things will hopefully get better with time.

Funnily enough, the first volume of Tour Lie in April was gifted to me and was my very first volume.

I’m more of a digital person, but I still have the volume.

Quite excited to see how these particular details start coming full circle with the characters involved.

The generic stuff that has a broad common denominator will easily take hold on Lemmy as they would in any growing community (like shitposts, question threads, gaming, technology, news, image focused communities and so on).

The niche stuff will take a while to grow, more so as the niche subs are those less likely to move from Reddit (or already have communities like Discord that they retreat to). More specific communities will need to build a new base here unfortunately.

Time will tell; it’s not been that long.

Their antics seem to always be entertaining no matter how many romcom tropes get ticked off the list

Yep since the first party app’s primary goal is to generate revenue (over actually providing a good user experience), it’s packed full of everything to achieve revenue generation:

• Ads
• Tons of tracking to figure out how long you viewed something, what you clicked on, and so on to build an advertising profile that can be sold
• Obtrusive Ads
• Lots of suggested/recommended stuff to get you to keep your eyeballs on the app longer
• Ads masquerading as real submissions
• Paid promotions

Third party apps don’t have revenue generation as their sole highest priority (if at all), so naturally they strip out all of that stuff which makes for a terrible user experience.

One of the great things about lemmy.world’s insane user count growth is actual live stress testing of Lemmy software. Instead of having an open question of how Lemmy might scale with large instances, there’s now real world production systems providing that opportunity.

The technical issues will pass, but the notion that merely spreading out the load will alleviate them is probably just treating the symptom than the cause.

I suppose from my PoV I see this as very much live testing in production and have adjusted my expectations around that instead of anticipating a wholly seamless experience.