Imo I feel like given the size of the community there is too much segregation. All these android related topics should all just be in /c/android until we reach a critical mass that more organization is required. No one will bother to subscribe to all of those with 0 engagement.... And plz don't delete posts we are so small here! As long as it isn't spam I'm ok with questions etc. here. The rules shouldn't be the same as reddit as the community isn't the same (at least not yet).
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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agree. this is one thing I hate about discord communities too, so many servers have like a million channels but minimal activity. like, you're killing your own server by segregating everything.
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Hello everyone, why the mods are removing genuine posts? I know they break some rules you have. TBH there are too many rules, and this is very early stages of lemmy so don't be so strict. You guys are doing a too good job in my opinion.
These are the same mods from the Android subreddit. That should answer everything you need to know.
I understand why they are strict on Reddit. The sub is huge, but here, they are imo too strict considering how small the platform is.
I'd give you a genuine answer, but I'm afraid these mods will ban me like they banned me from Reddit for having a negative opinion about Samsung.
I'm so glad we gave these mods power of the Android community on Lemmy. Way to go, us!
The cool thing about this platform is that we can just leave. There's another android community at !android@lemmy.ml
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Honestly, Iβm okay with them banning people for being negative, there are SO many places you can go to do that if you want to, especially with all the servers here on Lemmy.
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Oh I'd love to see exactly how you got banned. Chances are it was for a tad more than just "having a negative opinion about Samsung".
Hey there, if you would like to pass me your username on Reddit I'd be happy to take a look for you. We have folks who very much dislike Samsung so that shouldn't have been an issue - and if it was, it was an oversight.
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I think they just removed my post. I don't think it broke any rules?
Hi there, I hope you were able to catch some of the other comments but memes are captured under rule #3:
Describe images/videos: Please provide an explanation in the self-post body when sharing images or videos. Memes are not allowed.
Sorry for the late reply, I was away for much of the weekend until yesterday and thought we had gotten a reply out to you. Based on this discussion, we created !androidmemes@lemdro.id as a compromise between folks who want memes and those who do not. We've been aiming to find a balance between being more lenient during this period while also remaining responsive to user reports, which we did receive for yours.
You can typically find an explanation of the removal reasons in the modlog (when accessed from the community sidebar). Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn't seem to be handling user notifications too well but hopefully this improves in the near future.
Edit: Apologies for the multiple posts. App went haywire on me... Lemmy growing pains!
This is exactly the kind of shit I was worried about when people were talking about attracting reddit mods to Lemmy.
Good thing we can create or go to an alternative Android community. Any good ones ATM?
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I feel bad for you. Deleting a post which has already has a around 250 points, and around 60 comments SMH. Either delete them early or write a comment warning.
My points keep getting reset every couple of days, so I don't care too much about that. I think I was making a valid point though. Obviously people were pretty engaged with it.
Cool thing about lemmy is if these mods want to be jerks, I'll just go to another android community on another instance.
Thanks for this feedback! Based on this discussion, we've created !androidmemes@lemdro.id as a compromise between folks who want memes and those who do not. Hope that helps! We've definitely been aiming to be a bit more lenient as things take shape while trying to also be responsive to user reporting.
Always happy to check in again for a pulse check. Hopefully Lemmy can implement a better way to let directly notify folks when a post is removed, but in the meantime everyone can access the modlog from the community sidebar. Please let me know if not!
you used URLs for your subreddit links but fwiw you can make links clickable for users from other servers by linking to (/c/community@serv.er)
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Can we get a fairphone one?
I would love to follow a fairphone community
Absolutely floored at how active this instance & community is. It's like I never left Reddit.
Cheers!!
Lemmy is pretty cool but I'll have to admit the overall user base is too small for now. Don't get me wrong I want this to replace reddit but there simply isn't enough communities to fill every niche like reddit. The communities that fill a specific niche that I am subscribed to on here have less than 100 users.
The number of subscribers you see in an app or in the web shows subscribed from your instance only. The real number of subscribers can be much bigger. But yes, it is not even close to Reddit scale and coverage.
@User17w9a @Clipboards I disagree. Are you looking at all communities or just lemmy.world? As long as you are looking across the fediverse there are plenty, in fact, way more than reddit.
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Is there an android gaming community anywhere?
Not that I'm aware of, but Android gaming is welcome on the main !android@lemdro.id community as well!
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I would like to recommend Motorola . Also why are there so many deleted comments already?
Make one community for androidapps
Yep, the AndroidApps & AndroidGaming subs were very active and very informative
I think it would be great if there was a PC hardware sub as part of this instance, since it is all about tech.
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Good to be here! I'm going to try calling this instance my home because of my love of all things Android, its relatively small instance size, and my last instance's service availability being quite poor.
Hm. Checked few of listed communities - only automated link posts to the related news sites... Not exactly what I would expect from a community.
They're shooting themselves in the foot by fracturing the conversations like that if you ask me. If there were a million subscribers here it would be a different story but the sub is still growing and it's just making it harder to talk to people.
Unfortunately none of it is automated. They're fresh ones and we are working on bringing over more of the Reddit counterparts.
:) Ok, not yet automated. But most of these communities look like an RSS feeds from the news sites. May be interesting for people who want to have everything in one place, but I'm more interested in more personal posts.
Slightly off topic but why can I access the google and Samsung one from vlemmy but not askandroid?
Eg this link doesnβt work: https://vlemmy.net/c/askandroid@lemdro.id
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Try searching for https://lemdro.id/c/askandroid from vlemmy. You might be the first subscriber on that instance.
Has lemmy.world been defederated from lemdro.id? When I log into this community using my lemmy.world main account I can't see anything.
EDIT: In case anyone else is having this problem, the issue was my language settings. Despite having "Undetermined" set as a language, that was the problem - I clicked the little "X" to unselect any languages and then saved, and now it's working again.
Thanks for sharing! Pretty strange.
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