Just wanted to shout out the creators of the community and the whole community! Thank you :)
Just wanted to shout out the creators of the community and the whole community! Thank you :)
Echoing a big thanks to everyone here. I've been on other platforms since the mid 2000s, and this is the first time in a very long time that I've felt that this is the start (obviously not downplaying the efforts of users of Lemmy before...things...happened elsewhere) of something special. That being said, this is not a "mission accomplished" moment - we all have to work together to keep this going. A lot of us are recently coming from a platform where the sheer mass of thousands of users online simultaneously was keeping a reasonable flow of content coming. Keep posting first and third party content, keep asking questions, keep fomenting discussion, and keep being nice and welcoming!
Just FYI. There are several F1 communities across instances, so be sure not to limit yourself to only one.
Any other you can recommend, made my account on here today and as of yet I'm not very familiar with how all of this works
I believe there is a !formula1@lemmy.ml. If you hit Communities and filter by All, then search Formula, you'll find it!
Though, you may notice there is an issue with hitting subscribe, it might just say that you're subscription is pending due to heavy traffic and I read somewhere that it is a visual bug. However, even while pending it will show up in your subscribed list and content!
One of the upcoming Lemmy updates (I guess 0.19 or so) will allow linking communities on two or more instances. I'm not really interested in a pending status most other communities don't have.
Just read the news about Mulsanne and Jeppe. Saw what Reddit was doing to other communities, and braced myself for when it came home. So, off to a new platform until this one gets ruined, then wash, rinse, and repeat.
I am a mod on RBR sub, we got inserted "old mods" in our group chats and a reddit bot that we cant remove from the group chat. Just saying.
I'm not sure a lot of the casual users staying over on Reddit will be much of a loss. That sub was becoming pretty awful since 2021. Hopefully the slightly more difficult process of figuring out a new site will keep a lot away. Reddit won't die. It'll wither though
if you find the answer on this, please tell me, I'm lost but love it at the same time, hahah
I think the lemmy.ml community is distinct. I suspect it will be a case of a handful of communities opening up on different servers, and over time one (or a couple) will "win".
Yeah that was my reading too. I think it's going to be a disorganised mess at this point. As (hopefully) more people migrate, we should see one of them win out.
E.g. this one on .world has the most subs, but only 1 mod. The one on .ml looks healthier but has less members... hm.
What you're seeing is the fairly meaningless count of accounts on your instance that subscribe to each community. You have to look at the "home" instance to get accurate total subscriber counts.
Could you explain the difference between .world and .ml? Are they separate sites entirely (like Reddit vs Twitter), different "subreddits", or something else?
They're different federated instances.
world subscribes to a community on ml, ml starts copying new posts to world so users there can read them.world comments or posts to a community on ml, it gets copied the other way.instance-a posts on a community on ml, that post gets copied to ml, which then further copies it to all subscribing instances.All of which is to say... many Lemmy instances federate together to make a super-reddit. Each individual instance participates, and you can (mostly) make an account on any instance and interact with users and communities on other instance.