BenDoubleU

u/BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio
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On Lemmy I’m still finding my way. I clicked on the local feed and found your post, but I’m not sure how to make it this default.

you can set the default home view to "Local" in settings on web. I also use Voyager and it has a setting for Default Feed as well. You have to set that view on each app you use, it's not account specific.

  • Subscribed shows all of your subscriptions
  • Local are all the posts local to our instance
  • All are all the posts that everyone on our instance subscribe to

I will say that the settings, at least on web, leave something to be desired. They can be a bit confusing. I've thought about adding different web interfaces, but i'm ok with the default so far.

Lemmy web:

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I'm definitely not opposed to any community that would be used for emergency radio communications like ARES or RACES. I have to say, I don't know enough about CERT in general, but if the community focused on the radio aspect of preparing and emergency services. I say give it a go!

2 things:

  • Rule 5: Community creation should be amateur radio related
  • Community creation can be done by anyone with a lemmy.radio account

With those in mind, I say go for it!

~ Ben (w0odl)

The best part about federated services and lemmy is you can start a community on any open instance.

lemmy.radio is for amateur radio only, however. Both membership and community creation.

So of course one of the issues with moving to a new object store is old local images are orphaned. I'm looking at how we might be able to migrate at least our user/community images, but this may be how it is for now. You may have to reupload your profile photo/banner. I'll work on updating the community images. Honestly, this will help us save on storage in the future.

From experience: I can say that a topic instance such as ours is easier to moderate due to the fact that it's narrowly focused and the number of posts here are small in comparison to a general instance such as lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. I moderate the users that join pretty fiercely so I know that the only people that join/post from here are interested in amateur radio in some fashion. I also think we are a bit lucky in how we moderate with the fact that hams tend to moderate themselves and others already through their acts and experiences with radio communications in general (thanks everyone!).

I sorta see how you can view niche instances as having sub-subreddits. Generally though, every community out there is just a subreddit and you can subscribe and post to any of them, even though some communities do share the same topics (there are lots of other amateur radio communities out there).

I definitely like seeing people creating communities here, as long as they are amateur radio focused (see rule 5). I also would suggest making an account on a general lemmy instance as well, in case you would like to make a more generalized community. I think it's probably just good practice on any federated application to create accounts on multiple instances.

73!