you might need this feature before it can be done easily https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

I really like the feature for All/Local/Subscribed, but maybe it’s a temporary solution until we get some better method to group communities and post to a group of communities instead of posting to communities individually

There’s an option to export/import your settings, which includes the list of subscribed communities

This is not limited to just Lemmy but any federated systems.

Not just federated systems, things like the Wayback Machine exist too, web crawlers, people can save websites too (every web browser has a save option), or you can self host an archiving crawler if you want to backup a certain website, data hoarders exist.

For example, last I heard, an administrator has to drop into a command line to delete media from removed posts, otherwise they’d still be accessible if the URL was known. (Think illegal material.)

that’s not true anymore, there’s a dashboard built into the website now

Lots of people don’t like those communities that are filled with bot posts. A lot of people even disable viewing of bot posts. Most of those bot posts have 0 comments.

I just don’t think they’re a good example to support your case.

Yeah you’ll need an account. Once you have an account the easiest way to edit is to click the pencil icon at the top right of the file in the website. You can edit in the web browser and then submit a pull request from there automatically.

anyone can update the list and make a pull request https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/app-definitions.ts#L459

someone could make a pull request to add this

join-lemmy website code: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/main.tsx

docs code: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/introduction.md

The Summit app can to this

Semi off topic, but isn’t the subscriber count badge useless now since Lemmy fixed their reporting of that?

I use Boost and it seems to be able to do at least most of the moderation actions needed, and it supports notifications. I think Summit, Connect, Sync, and Jerboa are also good but I haven’t used them too much.

A post will federate to every instance that has at least 1 subscriber of that community. If you want to get your communities federating to other instances and get them more popular, use this tool

https://lemmy-federate.com/

https://lemy.lol/post/19638974

In the user settings there’s an option to export everything to a file, then you just import that file into your other account

That would make community names a bit longer so they’d be more annoying to type and share?

Most niche communities (with some exceptions ofc:-) here aren’t as active as they were on Reddit, so many of us end up spending more time in the generalized ones - e.g. [email protected] rather than specific ones like r/OnePlus or even r/Android.

I think we need to get better about crossposting to multiple communities. You could post to all 3 of those.

I filed an issue on Github for you

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4743

Just saying it’s an easy one to start with to get familiar with the system

And yeah it could be used to verify “tags” in the title, or require you put the year for something like a movie title or game, like (1993)

also my comment kicked off a little discussion in here, so that’s nice too

a pretty simple plugin idea would be a regex to validate post titles, deny the post if the title is invalid

I might try it unless someone else beats me to it

I guess to start with it could be a config file with a dictionary of community name: regex

and later it could be made to use the database with an api to set the regexes, could even allow community moderators to set their own regexes (might need a maximum regex length, maximum number of parenthesis/groups in the regex pattern, and disable lookbehind/lookahead, for performance reasons)

awesome, I hope this can bring more devs on board

also I think we should organize behind a single GitHub tag, like

https://github.com/topics/lemmy-plugin