It’s an interesting thing to ponder and my opinion is that like many other things in life something being ‘OC’ is a spectrum rather than a binary thing.

If I apply a B&W filter on an image is that OC? Obviously not

But what if I make an artwork that’s formed by hundreds of smaller artworks, like this example? This definitely deserves the OC tag

AI art is also somewhere in that spectrum and even then it changes depending on how AI was used to make the art. Each person has a different line on the spectrum where things transition from non OC to OC, so the answer to this would be different for everyone.

Ahh yes this is one of my favorite quotes and one I think about a lot.

A subscription import/export function would be much easier to implement but I don’t think that’s what users want when they say they want instance migration functionality.

With Twitter, situation is different since most celebs are still on it and people generally use it just to see what the popular people are saying. Once (and if) these celebrities join Mastodon, Twitter would start to finall fall.

It’ll probably make the onboarding process easy for people who find the concept of fediverse daunting. This might help fediverse go mainstream.

good to see you took the matters into your own hands lol

That’s great to hear

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It started with that subreddit but it’s now more of a general instance, but fair.

Wow even if admins take over that subreddit, such a big subreddit will surely create a snowball of many more subreddits doing it.

I don’t see reddit ever recovering from this (They’ll not die, but things won’t be the same)

Lemmy and kbin are different things which work on the same backend and are part of the fediverse. Similar to how mastodon is fediverse counterpart of Twitter, lemmy is fediverse counterpart of Reddit, and kbin is a unique thing which is more akin to old school blogging sites.

For this to happen every single instance will have to fetch every community from every instance to aggregate posts and make sure new similar community is added which isn’t feasible (I think).

Give it some time, and I think organically 1-2 most popular communities will emerge for each specific topic and people will then just subscribe to those ones.

While the other recommendation in the thread are good, I think they are hard to implement things that will take time.

A quick fix solution can be to add a button on join-lemmy which says something like ‘Confused on where to join? click to join a recommended instance’ that redirects to the sign-up of one of the recommended instances (there is already a list).

This will allow for load balancing and easier time for people to just come and join.

The devs were not ready for a sudden influx of users. But with influx users some more devs have joined the contribution too, so hopefully improvements will come frequently.

you can checkout lemmy.fmhy.ml (I am one of the admins but its pretty big)

You’re doing great work man! Thanks for making this

Yea I think it’s broken right now

He really sounds like ‘fuck it I’ll just improvise and get this shit over with’ from his answers.

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