Since its inception, the Lemmit instance has been controversial. That might be an understatement, but let’s roll with it for now. One of the major issues people have with the bot, is the cross-posting of “interactive” Reddit posts, ie posts where the value lies in interacting with the OP, like AskMen, AskWomen, and AmITheAsshole. Personally, I fully agree with that viewpoint, but I didn’t feel like interfering with supply and demand - in the sense that AmITheAsshole, for some reason, is the most subscribed community on this server.
That might change though. Earlier this week, I disabled the posibility to request new subreddits. This weekend I will follow that up by disabling the scraping of so-called interactive communities. So in order to facilitate that, I created a list of all the communities on this server (posted separately in [email protected]), and I will check each of them to see if they should be disabled. The goal is to keep a list of “content only” (or at least “content mostly”) communities, where the value lies in the link that’s provided or in the body of the self-post - not in the comment section. I’m sure this is going to be a disappointment to some people, but I do agree with the sentiment that this is better for Lemmy as a whole.
Edit: It is done. All 816 communities have been checked and and 110 of those have been purged from updates. I am sure some mistakes were made - that some communities have been disabled or left intact when they shouldn’t have. If that’s the case, reach out to me, and I’ll fix it.
I realize that lemmit.online is reviled for creating noise with high traffic subreddit reposts, but I want to supply another perspective. My city subreddit is one of the communities you’ve disabled already. It’s a small city, with few subscribers on Reddit. There is no Lemmy community for my city, and no one even posts to the Lemmy community which exists for my state. So, no, I’m not going to create a Lemmy community to talk to myself. The loss of the lemmit.online community for my city means that I’ll need to use Reddit, and if I’m going to be there anyway then I might as well just give up on Lemmy rather than have to use both.
No problem, as far as I’m concerned, all suspensions are negotiable. Which one was it? I’ll re-enable it straight away.
Thanks. It’s https://lemmit.online/c/Boise. IMHO The tiny subreddits with very few posts that don’t cause front page Lemmy noise are the most important to retain, because Lemmy does not yet have the userbase to support its own niche communities.
Voila:
I understand your argument, and fully agree. There’s over 800 communities that I have to check though, so mistakes will be made.
Totally understand, and thank you. I’m frustrated with the folks attacking lemmit.online, not you for providing the service. Much appreciated.