For some reason I never got the mention. Yes, soccer.forum (and pretty much all the other instances listed on !communick_news_network) are still active and up-to-date.
Also, I’m still waiting for the official announcement, but I do have some good news regarding funding for Fediverser, so hopefully soon I will be able to resume work on the two-way bridge.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !communick_news_network
There is no “misresporting”. Selfhosted forum is a topic-based instance, like many other that set up as part of !communick_news_network .
alien.top is a fediverser instance, which is done to help mirror content and to help people from reddit to migrate.
The whole idea of fediverser is to make migration for redditors as easy as possible and in a way that they when they migrate they have access to all the content they were used to.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !communick_news_network
The communities I want that aren’t on Lemmy are extremely niche.
And this is exactly the communities that fediverser wants to bring!
Reddit’s moat is not on the popular content, it’s in the long tail. Reddit knows that people on /r/politics or /r/gifs are mostly to pad their numbers, but their real strength is that you can not find people to talk about Kerbal Space Program and Rain World outside of Reddit.
These “extremely niche” communities are the ones that are being held by network effects. These are the communities that I’d like to have on fediverser.network, and these are the communities that I wish we could get coordinated enough to pull away from Reddit.
No one is going to bridge all the content on Reddit to Lemmy (…) because of the immense computational, storage, and bandwidth requirements,
alien.top was mirroring about 150 subreddits for two months, most of them of the niche type. The database of “1M comments” is taking less than 10GB of disk space. Looking at the last backup, the whole database uncompressed is 18GB. It’s running on commodity hardware. Even with the mirrors making copies of the images to object storage, my object storage bill this month was a whooping $0.66.
If we focus on the long tail, it is not that expensive. And by the time that we actually start getting bigger number of users, I’m sure that we can come up with different strategies to deal with the data. We can create a common pool of resources for shared storage, we can divide the instances in “topic-based” and “user-home” (like I’ve been doing with communick.news and the ones on !communick_news_network), etc.
So, Lemmy is sometime missing content. I don’t regret switching from Reddit to Lemmy but, expecially for niche communities, the content isn’t always here....
All of them are getting a lot of “bot” activity and increased usage by real subscribers. And it is because of the positive results that I started looking at some of dead communities around and started asking other mods if they would like to have the alien.top accounts working there.
[email protected], the place to discuss the upcoming Euro 2024
!football...
An alternative perspective on Alien.top and the Fediverser project
Tl:dr: Remember the human, even if the project doesn’t work, it wasn’t as useless as it may seem, resources consumption may be concerning...
alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam
Whoever is in charge of that instance, STOP....
An idea for more content on Lemmy (and the fediverse): Relly (Relay+Lemmy)
So, Lemmy is sometime missing content. I don’t regret switching from Reddit to Lemmy but, expecially for niche communities, the content isn’t always here....