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.

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    No problem, as far as I’m concerned, all suspensions are negotiable. Which one was it? I’ll re-enable it straight away.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        Voila:

        2023-10-07 17:23:54,906 - root - INFO - Community Boise is ENABLED, has 67 subscribers and 0 posts per day.
        

        I understand your argument, and fully agree. There’s over 800 communities that I have to check though, so mistakes will be made.

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          Totally understand, and thank you. I’m frustrated with the folks attacking lemmit.online, not you for providing the service. Much appreciated.