Plenty of people are delighted when the community they forgot they subscribed to months ago suddenly has new content!

Thanks for this. Both are new to me so I added them to the help post.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Lemmyverse will let you search every community hosted by Lemmy instances that share data with it, which is most. If you set your home instance before you start clicking links they’ll open on your home instance so they are easier to subscribe to.

Here’s a recent post I put together with some more resources:

https://walledgarden.xyz/post/1600683

Edit- Also worth mentioning the Voyager interfaces offer a solution for this.

an unpopular comment posted on downvoting-enabled Site A will show higher when viewed on downvoting-disabled Site B

More or less yes, depending on how you have your sorting set and if the comment/post has any positive interactions. At worst it just shows as something with a single upvote and is sorted based on time or however it fits inline with other content with similar vote numbers. Since it’s removing the outliers you see a better overall picture of what’s being said IMO. It’s up to you to decide if that’s positive, negative, or even something you care about.

Or only if it was actually posted on Site B?

It affects how people on instances with downvotes disabled see it no matter where it was posted from. Basically the downvotes simply do not exist to instances that have them disabled.

Having trouble wrapping my mind around this. The post is on Site A. My comment is on Site B. The evil downvoter sees it on Site C. Um - what happens next?

You don’t ever know that evildoer downvoted, because vote totals never drop below 1 (technically 0 but assume OP doesn’t undo the default vote or you downvote). Other instances can still see the vote totals. You can still easily tell popular things from unpopular things but without the downvoters affecting the way YOU see the content.

It does a lot of things but one example would be if someone were to downvote something out of spite with all their alt accounts. Depending on sorting and whatnot you or someone else may not see that content on an instance with downvoting enabled because it usually gets pushed down or collapsed. Without downvoting that content will instead show as something with few upvotes and more or less be blended normally with the rest of the comments.

There’s always the option to join an instance with downvoting disabled or to turn off the vote tallies yourself in your account settings.

If you ever find one with solar panels outside it totally isn’t me but don’t tell anyone else.

Wow this would make a great secret entrance to a cave dwelling.

The scenery is beautiful and the bonus pic had a smaller lens flare, so for me that’s the winner. Both pictures did a great job of capturing a special place.

A beautiful shot! I can easily imagine this as the cover of a novel.

Yes please.

I love lamp

Where’d you get this post, at the… toilet…store?

Fuck the feds.

Grow your own, smoke your own.

I’m smoking weed about it.

Shut the fuck up Missouri, adults are taking

Doing what now?

Very cool, thanks for posting.

Exactly this

He most likely assumes they will “hurt the right people.”

Psychos gonna psycho.

Frogs are awesome. That one looks happy as a frog!

When replying with suggestions it might be useful to reply with links in case the instance someone is on hasn’t federated with that instance or community yet.

For example, [email protected]