Check back in a few hours.

I can see your community via community search on Voyage.

The post also appears on search. It looks like the tool works.

Even from a major instance (one of the ones that was successfully federated by a bot)?

Try searching for the community via your other Lemmy accounts. Might be first worth posting something with your mod account first.

The tool enables first time federation for new communities.

Try adding the community via this tool:

https://lemmy-federate.com/

I actually remember hearing about this when it came out.

Kinda freaky to think that 2012 is retro these days.

Thanks for sharing!

Reals of Chaos

I was wondering why the name sounded so strange (more so for the 90s). Turns out it’s “Realms of Chaos”.

As I said, I see where you are coming from and you do have a point.

I am just trying to explain the reasoning behind the opposing arguement. It’s not just being old school for the sake of being old school.

The forums of old weren’t not just a few hundred users. Some of the bigger ones had DAUs in the tens of thousands.

I agree with you that all mainstream platforms (FB, Twitter, Reddit - this just the ones I have experience with) work like that.

Believe it or not, but there still exist modern forums with large user bases (stable or growing), so it’s not like it’s an archaic model.

It’s fair to criticise Lemmy for using this approach. I genuinely see where you are coming from. But if we approach Lemmy as an evolution of old style forums, then the “hide” approach makes more sense.

With admins, mods (not relevant for default UI?) actively dealing with mass downvotes, stalker-like behaviour and so on.

Part of the adoption of the dual-side block method is because large corps want automation and don’t really care about quality (all about engagement).

Not much of an example these days, but pre-mainstream social media (forums, chat) block was always hide on your end.

To be honest I never blocked back in the old days (the mods would take care of outright spam and users being disruptive).

For me, the new method seems counterproductive. Hiding your post/messages that can still be accessed via another container and/or account just seems strange to me.

I liked Blue Shift the most, I just wish it was longer.

I would actually say OP should remove the [satire] tag. Good satire is when it’s difficult to figure out whether you are making fun of the topic or agreeing with it.

Adding a [satire] kills the whole comedy vibe.

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