No Reddit Refugees ?
No Reddit Refugees ?
Ima miss /r/perth, but honestly even without the current API nonsense I've been uncomfortable with reddit's trajectory for a while.
Sup
Hey! Couldn't agree more, sometimes i'd read through comments and think, 'are any of these not bots?' I'm sure i couldn't actually tell the difference and was just being paranoid, lol!
A few refugees have congregated around lodion's instance, 'Aussie_zone', so keep a check in on the perth community there also. I've subbed to the perthchat community which 'should' mean people on that instance will have an easier time navigating to see what you guys are up to. That is, if i've understood the networking feature of the fediverse correctly! Please tell me if this is incorrect.
I'm subscribed to aussie zone but its also pretty quiet.
I enjoy browsing /r/perth every now and then but I just get a weird feeling from it. Not about bots specifically, its just everyone is so... salty? About either politics, bad drivers, housing.
Lol, i think i just replied to a message from you yesterday on there! :)
True, i's actually talking about Reddit comment sections more generally than r/Perth. But true, it was every couple of weeks a rant about bad drivers would appear. I suppose for the same reason as why radio phone-in hosts always use it as a topic. An easy driver of viewer/listener engagement.
I only just found this instance today, searching perth on lemmy.world only showed the community there and on aussiezone. I'm sure one of them will pick up eventually, try first week of July after the Apollo and Slide users start getting notifs about switching to Lemmy, and users encounter the actual roadblock of trying to use a 3rd party app that's been broken.
How do we get more communities to show on perthchat.org's lemmy instance?
Happy to bail on reddit, but need to get it with more content from around the world...
I've noticed that communities from other instances don't show up unless someone is already tracking them.
It happened here at lemmy.perthchat.org when I was trying to find !selfhosted[email protected] I think. Search for it (with 'all' selected), didn't show up, entered lemmy.perthchat.org/c/[email protected] in the url bar, subscribed, went back to search again and there it was.
Someone needs to:
- Sign up on lemmy.perthchat.org
- Search for a remote community from the Perth Chat instance (mine for instance [email protected])
- Subscribe to it
- Wait for scraping to happen
It doesn't really work for dead instances where not much activity happens because the subscription only works as new activity happens, it doesn't backfill comments, only posts.