Oh right, I tried that - I was going to put a link in my comment, not just complain - but it didn’t work, so I assumed it must be elsewhere. But now I’ve clicked on your link a few times, it shows up. Thanks.

There’s some sticky posts for this community - on the importance of initially populating a community, and providing links (I’ve no idea where ‘protest’ is hosted)

Thanks. Subscribed.

The Name of the Wind is a brave first recommendation though. A little joke: for George R R Martin’s unfinished work after he dies, Patrick Rothfuss has already been selected as the author to also not complete them.

Not yet. It’ll be a few days before it will have 7 days’ worth of complete data to take a rolling average from. It’s fudging things a little in the meantime.

That said, it’s just a bash script (I’m not much of a coder), so I don’t know how much use it’ll be to you.

Clicking that link on mobile opens up my email app! I think it needs a ! before it to work.
Alternatively: embedded link to Trending Communities

It’s maybe better to start something yourself and then request help if it’s gets popular rather than ask someone else to start it for you.

On average, Lemmy communities have about 170 subscribers, so there’s every chance you wouldn’t have to do any moderation at all.

Accidental Renaissance on Reddit was set to private by its mods, who opened up here instead. I don’t know how subscribers on Reddit there was, but yesterday’s surge now means there’s 1659 Lemmy subscribers.
So yes, there’s some movement, but I doubt it’s a “mass exodus”

PRAW is the Python wrapper for Reddit’s API, and searching github for “lemmy api python” revealed some results, so you’d use one API to download a post, and the other to upload it.

There’s existing bots that do this though, and they all seem to just fill feeds with indiscriminate, un-replied to, spam

Hi. Your Link #1 doesn’t work because you have a space between the ‘]’ and the ‘(’

Fixed version: Social Anxiety

I only have mild anxiety that this means this comment will likely get clobbered by that link-fixer-bot. Or maybe it won’t and I’ll look foolish. Hello Bot!

It’s true for subscribers - you can compare your view, with the result on something like browse.feddit.de or lemmyverse.net, which give the total count.

Dunno about upvotes though, that must be universal, surely?

It’s blockable fortunately - maybe not via whatever app your using, but if you log into your instance website with a browser, you can choose to block the bot (at) lemmit (dot) online

Please include links for those of us unfortunate enough not to be on lemmy.zip

!linuxscripts@lemmy.zip

OP was asking about blocking instances, not communities - e.g. everything that’s hosted by lemmy.world, not just nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Ah, I wondered if that’s what it was - I found a Star Wars community through a web search and it said there were 2.5k subscribers, but it only shows 1 subscriber (me) when I view from an app.

I don’t have iOS to compare it to Apollo, but WefWef is - so far - the best way I’ve come across to browse Lemmy. I’ve installed it on my Android phone, and it handled logging in and presenting a home screen with the communities I’m subscribed to better than the Jerboa, which was very flaky about logging in, and only wants to show me the communities that the instance I signed up to happens to have.

WefWef didn’t show any posts before I logged in, and it’s not super intuitive about how to do so, and once I’d figured out that I need to press the middle icon, it turns out I’d made life a bit harder for myself by signing up with a less popular instance (“don’t overthink it” they said!).

Anyway, I’m also using WefWef from my PC - the feed is a bit narrow obviously, but it’s worth mentioning that the app works well from Windows too.