What things sound like an awful combination but are surprisingly good together?
Can be food, tools, music, whatever comes to mind
Can you please give me some tips on how to grow and popularize a Lemmy community?
I’m a moderator of a smaller community. I’m posting quality content multiple times a day, and I posted about it in New Communities. The number of subscribers is low but it’s growing steadily....
What do you think about sublemmies that add content by reposting from Reddit?
Is it a good (probably temporary) way to get content in Lemmy?
What podcasts do you recommend?
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What is a childish thing you still fully enjoy as an adult?
For me, I’m nearly 40 and I really love Avatar the last Airbender, reading YA novels, and sometimes I make pasta with fun shapes, just because I can....
Animals and insects suddenly are as smart as humans, which species should we try to befriend first before a world war between species occur?
To me, the first should be ants, they’re practically everywhere and there’s a lot of them
What is the difference between linked instances and allowed instances?
I’ve contributed to the project for a few months and used it for over a year and I still don’t know the difference. I think I asked the maintainers once, but I forget the answer.
how secure are direct messages?
Like how private are they?
Wouldn't people who claim glutamate (MSG) allergies immediately die, since it's also a neurotransmitter?
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How long until we have corporate instances in the Fediverse?
Not willing to give them ideas so fast....
What region of your country is the worst?
Most disgusting food, stupidest people, worst weather, whatever reason. What is the shittiest part of your country?
Default Profile Pictures: Yes? No? Something else?
I recently made a PR for default PFPs. I was thinking of using using a priority of user set pfp > instance default pfp > Lemmy lemming. Is this something people would actually want?...
Are there door to door religuous solicitors in the UK? (kbin.social)
In the US we have Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses that do this; are there any similar in the UK and what kind of religion do they proselytize?
What is a useful tip a new lemmy/kbin users should know? (kbin.social)
I'm sure many new users are curious.
Why does the frontpage of kbin.social work so much better than any other server? (kbin.social)
When I visit kbin.social, I see new posts regularly. On other servers posts stay on the frontpage for multiple days. This is also true if I switch their sorting to "hot". So that is probably not the difference....
Is there a way to migrate your lemmy account to another instance?
Today I was made aware that beehaw.org blocked my entire instance. I would be ok if I simply could not write a post/comment in beehaw, that would be reasonable....
How common is it to fly your country's flag, and how is it seen by others?
My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it’s like for others here on the fediverse.
Why did you choose your instance?
I’m currently struggling to find my home. I have an account here at lemmy.ml, where most of my posts are, and one at kbin....
People of Lemmy, what is the scariest paranormal experience you've had you can't explain at all?
What it says on the title. Mine was when I was 12 and I lived in a very haunted house which had some weird activity going on, like things moving out of place and pets freaking out. I was sitting in the computer, alone in the house, and suddenly I see a shadowy figure on the screen, just some meters away behind me, thinking was...
Are there any women-centric communities?
Something akin to /r/twoxchromosomes....
What‘s keeping us from promoting Lemmy on Reddit?
Serious question, as I‘ve barely seen any mention of Lemmy on Reddit. None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware. Would it be against the TOS to start a coordinated promotion?
What are some great AI tools that aren't ChatGPT?
Title. Could be apps or websites.
If hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs, then won't the surviving 0.01% make hand sanitizer resistant strains?
You have a chance to speak at a wedding reception. Ruin the entire wedding in just 5 words.
I really want to like Lemmy
I really want to like lemmy, but it’s difficult. I’m new to all this fediverse thingy, and I might just have old habits and perceptions how things should work but… I keep seeing the same posts more than once, iOS experience is not that good really, sometimes I see dead posts from 2 years ago for some reason, despite having...