Political ads are definitely propaganda.

The classic line by advertisers is ‘we are just trying to inform people’. In most cases, it’s bs. No one needs to be ‘informed’ about McDonald’s existing.

Things like directories and maps don’t fall into it in my mind, so long as they are objectively curated, without undue prominence given to one option over another.

I didn’t get banned from Reddit. But my favourite communities did.

The Hexbear devs are actively working on bringing Lemmy to feature-parity with Hexbear so they can migrate Hexbear back over to Lemmy.

Yeah, it’s a little difficult to browse all content from other instances while logged into a different one.

For instance, I just tried to go to ‘Perthchat’ by clicking on @NormieGirl@lemmy.perthchat.org’s profile. It got me there, but I can’t vote or comment, which feels a little unintuitive.

The outcome for this for Hexbear was ultimately removing downvotes.

It isn’t as bad of an outcome as you might expect. People still end up ratio’d, and anything garbage gets manually removed by mods. (The ‘report’ button becoming a ‘super downvote’.)

It’s probably not too scalable, but it works for a community of its size.

There are two Lemmy browsers for Android, including one written by the Lemmy dev.

I double posted but it turns out the app doesn’t have a ‘delete comment’ button.

Another approach that hits some of those concerns is to create a whole new instance of @archive.ml, and import everything there as read-only. That way you keep all the architecture, and it’s accessible via Lemmy, but it doesn’t flood the database and stats of this instance.

Depending on your language capability, you may find HelloTalk useful.

It’s a language exchange app between Chinese and English, with translation tools built in. There are considerably more Chinese users than English ones, so you’ll have little trouble finding people to talk to.

It’s your lucky day.

Learn from other banned subs. In particular, TD.

1. Enable accounts to register and immediately post.
2. Deputise some more mods to handle the ensuing mess.
3. Lock the subreddit, except for stickied and front page posts directing people here.

Why are there double up communities, like Sino and China?

Might be worth switching it off for the refugee wave, and doing cleanup afterwards. User retention is crucial right now, and you want to capitalise on the immediate excitement of signing up to a new platform. (Assuming, ofc, that there’s semi effective spam control in place—I recall Hexbear had to shut down registrations occasionally due to wrecker spam and lack of effective tools.)

Which country?

You have to manually approve each account request??

A ridiculously small number of users actually post.

Most browse. Some upvote. Fewer comment. Even fewer post.

Jumping ship to a completely new platform is a pretty big endeavour.

Oh shit your the person behind the atrocities master list! That thing’s so useful to casually drop in conversation.

I’m honestly a little bit star struck.