Wow, welcome everyone to the community.

What would people like to see ongoing? The daily threads are good, does anyone have ideas for what topics or do you want to mirror the CasualUK standards?

Also, please cast your (up)vote in Sun-Spider’s Icon thread here: https://lemmy.world/post/54770

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    I find myself looking back on a week ago as if it was a whole other age of the world. Logged in to lemmy.world for the first ever time, saw you’d created this place 24 minutes prior, it was like it was meant to be 😢

    Long live UKCasual!

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    Maybe we should be a bit more, well, casual?

    I occasionally got frustrated with how trigger happy the mods over at the Place That Shall Not Be Named were on CasualUK. Posts that promoted some fun discussion and were upvoted after the first couple of minutes of them going up were still deleted and deemed as “moaning” or “low effort”.

    Perhaps a clearer definition of “low effort” might be “it took you 10 seconds and everyone ignored it”, and rather than a ban against moaning, perhaps we might ban “boring moaning”. If the moan is entertaining, satirical, prompts engagement it should be left alone.

    Just my 2p’s worth.

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      I think the most important rules is the “no politics” one. Personally, I have GAD and need to avoid news for my mental health. Casual UK has helped me feel that I’m interacting with community/society without having that interaction polluted by politics.

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        Yes I agree. It’s kind of amazing how politics can ruin a conversation. Especially online. I find that can happen even if I loosely agree with the other person.

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      I expect most of those rules and moderation techniques grew out of it being such a large community with just a constant stream of content. We’ll have our own struggles here, they may be the same or they may be different, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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        Yes, my thoughts exactly. Its probably due to (a) having 1.5 million users and (b) necessitating lots of individual mods, over-moderation is safer than under-moderation.

        If the moan is entertaining, satirical, prompts engagement it should be left alone.

        Broadly agree, providing its not too negative / repetitive. Hopefully the community will decide organically.

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      What I observed over the years in that Other Place is that communities could be more-or-less self-regulating until they reached a critical size - after that they would have to either be heavily moderated or turn to crap. We’re nowhere near that size here, and perhaps we’ll never be (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

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    I am willing this community to grow. Getting to grips with Lemmy is quite the headache, but I hope people will give it a chance and take traffic away from Reddit long-term. Happy to be here watching it unfold.

    edit to add: and for what it’s worth, I really hope we’ll be allowed ducks.

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    Still entirely lost, I know of a community I’d like to join but on a different server and it doesn’t show up in search to join it.

    But having ukcasual to read makes me want to persevere.

    Reddit is dead to me, long live lemmy!

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      If you have the full community name (like this place is !ukcasual@lemmy.world) it should come through on search, though it might take a while. Especially if it’s a community on a heavily loaded server like lemmy.ml, you may want to try a couple of times, waiting a minute or two in between, so the search gets a chance to resolve.

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        It’s https://lemmy.world/c/gunners I am signed up to the feddit.uk server, I don’t understand why UKcasual on the same server works but that one doesn’t.

        I can view it on browser but the jarboa app can’t seem to find it, and I can’t seem to log in on the lemmy.world site to subscribe because it won’t recognise my details from feddit.uk.

        I’m so confused.

        • the_inebriati@lemmy.world
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          Easy mistake.

          Don’t try to log into lemmy.world - you don’t have an account there. You have an account at feddit.uk, so log into that and then search for the community you want through the feddit.uk search. Use the search term “!gunners@lemmy.world” if you’re struggling.

          Basically, you’ll only ever sign into feddit.uk, but that can reach out to other communities(subreddits) on other instances.

        • Pspspspspsps@lemmy.world
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          It can be quite difficult to find communities especially using the app unless you see a post in all and can just click through.

          If you open up your browser, open feddit.uk, click the search icon and type !https://lemmy.world/c/gunners I think that should work. You have to search from your ‘home server’ (the site you signed up on) so you remain logged in. It’ll give you a link, and when you open it you can hit subscribe that way. Much easier to just click the sub name from a post in ‘all’ tho.

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          I think there is a lot of usability work still to be done. You can only sign in to your instance with your credentials, not at any other. Other instances should preferably give you a button to view the post you’re currently looking at in your own instance. So click the button, type in the address of your instance, and it redirects you to your own instance with the post you were viewing already open. Right now you have to copy the address of the post you were viewing and paste it into your own instances search field, or get to the post in some other way on your own instance.
          This is particularly problematic when a post links to another post using a full URL to the post. If you click that, you get moved to the original instance that this post is on, which may not be the instance you yourself are on.
          This sounds more confusing than I believe it is. If you have an account on beehaw.org, you can only interact with other posts if you’re currently viewing that post on beehaw.org. If you’re not on beehaw.org, you have to find the post you want to interact with on beehaw.org first before you can interact with it.
          I’m trying to come up with an analogy. Like… uh…
          Imagine you’re borrowing a book from a library. This library also has the possibility of borrowing books from other libraries if they don’t have it. But once you’ve borrowed it, you can’t just go back to any library and hand in the book there. You have to hand it in to the library you yourself have borrowed it from, which can then send it back to the library they borrowed it from. You always have to go through your own local library because the other libraries might not know who you are.
          Maybe that’s stretching it a bit. I’m definitely all ears for better analogies.

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          @Rain3h Dunno waht the Jarboa app is.

          But log in to the feddit.uk server, search for @gunners in the search, and if nothing is broken with federation it should show up.

          The cevat is that sometimes at the moment servers are turning on DDOS protection, and that breaks the federation. Hopefully they eventually can turn that off and restore federation to it’s full working state. lemmy world seems to be connecting to fedia.io at the moment at least.

          @sideone @Two9A

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      Also a hot tip, if you know a user on that server as they may be promoting it. Click on their profile and it’s probably in their comments/posts.

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        It’s weird because when I view the website I can view it and I can see the user that made me aware of it has many posts, but when I view his history on the jerboa app to add it it doesn’t show his posts.

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          jerboa app

          I gave up on this and went back to a web browser on mobile. I don’t think Jerboa is working enough to use yet.

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          Strange, I don’t seem to be facing this issue. I did hear that It doesn’t show previous posts before the app or maybe account has been setup

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    I believe it’s in the public interest to reopen both the skon-scown and the roll-bap-cob debates. Civil war to put in place the rules we plan to follow going forward, what!