Communities
Join a few of our fresh communities! Please don’t mind the dust as we work on getting settled.
- !askandroid@lemdro.id
- !androidmemes@lemdro.id
- !techkit@lemdro.id
- !google@lemdro.id
- !googlepixel@lemdro.id
- !xiaomi@lemdro.id
- !sony@lemdro.id
- !samsung@lemdro.id
- !galaxywatch@lemdro.id
- !oneplus@lemdro.id
- !motorola@lemdro.id
- !meta@lemdro.id
- !apple@lemdro.id
- !microsoft@lemdro.id
- !chatgpt@lemdro.id
- !bing@lemdro.id
- !reddit@lemdro.id
Recommend a Community
Is there a technology-related community you would like to see on Lemdro.id? Share a comment below with your suggestions!
Seeking Experienced Mods
Are you an experienced mod with an interest in supporting one of these communities or bringing over an existing community from Reddit? just reach out to @ijeff@lemdro.id to chat!
A Fediverse home for developers
Are you a Lemmy app developer looking for a home community on the Fediverse? We can help with that! Just send us a link to your Github or Play Store product page. We would be happy to host a community for you, including moderation support! No cost, of course. Just reach out to: @ijeff@lemdro.id.
Make one community for androidapps
Yep, the AndroidApps & AndroidGaming subs were very active and very informative
Imo I feel like given the size of the community there is too much segregation. All these android related topics should all just be in /c/android until we reach a critical mass that more organization is required. No one will bother to subscribe to all of those with 0 engagement… And plz don’t delete posts we are so small here! As long as it isn’t spam I’m ok with questions etc. here. The rules shouldn’t be the same as reddit as the community isn’t the same (at least not yet).
Totally agree.
Day after day the mods delete questions and force users over to askandroid, a community with only ~250 subs and 8 active users a day.
The main community had about 10 new posts within the last 24hrs. A few questions would not hurt at all (5 within the last 24hrs)
We unfortunately don’t have the ability to tag posts on Lemmy, which would allow people who don’t want to see certain content to filter them out. Similar to memes (which we posted a discussion thread about), there tends to be a love it or hate it opinion on specific questions.
There are pluses and minuses to each approach, but Separating it out means folks can choose whether to subscribe to one or both - with them appearing together from the subscribed view.
I’d also just flag that viewing a community subscriber count from a different instance will only show you the number of folks subscribed from your same instance.
For example, !askandroid@lemdro.id has 762 subscribers. You’d have to visit lemdro.id/c/askandroid directly to see the cumulative count (although subscribers from certain instances may still not appear correctly).
But I do understand wanting more eyes on any particular question, but it can often be better if the folks seeing the post are the ones who have intentionally subscribed for that content. Happy to revisit this with an discussion thread in the near future though!
The metrics I quoted may not be precise, but they are still representative. How many more subs does android have on your instance compared to askandroid?
That aside: Just look at the post & engagement numbers!
My argument is that, at the moment, the community is too small for so many specific sub-communitites. And this approach sends users into oblivion.
Most of the deleted questions aren’t even reposted in the other sub, and if they are get way less responses.
Yeah, I definitely didn’t mean it as a rebuttal. It’s just an observation I recently also shared with mods who weren’t sure if things were bugged out or not (we have a few modding from different home instances). One of the many Lemmy quirks!
I do know there are folks who would actively unsubscribe from !android@lemdro.id if it were loosened up, but I do take your point. I’m checking in with fellow mods (time zones are tricky) about the option of posting up a community discussion thread on this. Thanks for the input!
agree. this is one thing I hate about discord communities too, so many servers have like a million channels but minimal activity. like, you’re killing your own server by segregating everything.
Absolutely floored at how active this instance & community is. It’s like I never left Reddit.
Cheers!!
Lemmy is pretty cool but I’ll have to admit the overall user base is too small for now. Don’t get me wrong I want this to replace reddit but there simply isn’t enough communities to fill every niche like reddit. The communities that fill a specific niche that I am subscribed to on here have less than 100 users.
It really depends on your interests. If you like Linux, Android, or some leftist topics, Lemmy is quite good. But most other fields are still lacking
Which subs? A lot of subreddits I used to enjoy are now just a shell of what they once were.
Make one for androidmasterrace and androidcirclejerk.
Hello everyone, why the mods are removing genuine posts? I know they break some rules you have. TBH there are too many rules, and this is very early stages of lemmy so don’t be so strict. You guys are doing a too good job in my opinion.
These are the same mods from the Android subreddit. That should answer everything you need to know.
I understand why they are strict on Reddit. The sub is huge, but here, they are imo too strict considering how small the platform is.
I’d give you a genuine answer, but I’m afraid these mods will ban me like they banned me from Reddit for having a negative opinion about Samsung.
I’m so glad we gave these mods power of the Android community on Lemmy. Way to go, us!
Can we get a fairphone one?
I would love to follow a fairphone community
you used URLs for your subreddit links but fwiw you can make links clickable for users from other servers by linking to (/c/community@serv.er)
Links should be clickable for anyone since 0.18
If you can’t click those links then your client is at fault
the ones in the op are web links
I’m a bit late replying to this but that was actually a wefwef bug. The links are in fact the ones automatically generated by LemmyUI when typing !android@lemdro.id (it provides a popup with autocomplete options).
Ah, why would they do that? You don’t have to link anything. !sony@lemdro.id - no formatting
oop, that’s even more convenient
Is there an android gaming community anywhere?
Not that I’m aware of, but Android gaming is welcome on the main !android@lemdro.id community as well!
Maybe a GrapheneOS one? That’s what Android/AOSP should be like, in my opinion. Private, secure, and putting the user in charge of the OS. Not sure if it has the userbase for a community, though.
!grapheneos@lemmy.ml exists
As an aside…I just tried to post there, and that Community has disabled new posts. It’s one person posting stuff with no comments, so it’s closer to a delayed RSS feed than a community for discussion and interaction.
Also, as you mentioned, that’s on lemmy.ml and not lemdro.id where this post was asking about Communities here.
Thanks. I guess I should’ve searched first, but it’s handy that I can predict the past.
Good to be here! I’m going to try calling this instance my home because of my love of all things Android, its relatively small instance size, and my last instance’s service availability being quite poor.
