• !sekiro@lemmy.zip
• !bloodborne@lemmy.zip

Gotta actually link things if you want people to find them, my friend! 😉

Interesting! Tbf there is very little going on in our small town, a cult might spice things up a bit.

Rock and stone, my friend ⛏

Unless “abroad” is in one or both of those directions 🤔

‘Bough’ and ‘bow’ are pronounced the same

Except, of course, when “bow” is pronounced “bow” instead.

What confuses me about most non-bun areas is that it’s not just a different word, it’s a collection of words and which one is correct seems to change based on size and consistency and even contents of said bun.

Are they always rolls, where you are now, or are they subject to a similarly complex system as elsewhere?

Oh jesus, here we go.

That would be a bun.

Came into this thread wondering “who the hell wears belts?”. Then saw everyone in here was taking belt wearage as a given. Then looked over at my husband and saw he’s wearing a belt.

TIL, all men apparently wear belts and I just never noticed before.

Running an instance definitely does help, but the problem is convincing people your small instance is competently run and there to stay.

For people unable to selfhost, ways to help include:

• Making posts and comments, especially in smaller “dead” communities. Preferably about things other than Reddit.
• Contributing fixes on GitHub
• If you’re unable to do that last one, contributing quality reproducible bug reports on GitHub (rather than in, say, instance-specific meta communities)
• Helping to answer questions from all the confused new Lemmings, yes a lot of them are asked repeatedly but we want people to learn and stay so be polite and patient.
• Making sure people know about finding communities through sites like lemmyverse.net
• Curating lists of related communities and approaching mods to have it stickied or added to their community sidebar (helps people navigate around within their niche interests)
• Going to the extra effort of including local links when you mention a community, so people can find their way directly to the subscribe button. Example: !crochet@lemmy.ca (Lemmy / Kbin)
• And of course, shitposting memes.

Yup, it’s been extremely effective. I got engaged at the end of last year and certain types of people seemed genuinely horrified that I didn’t get a diamond ring.

Anecdotally though those tended to be older folks so I think maybe it’s losing effectiveness and younger people are seeing how absurd and arbitrary the whole thing is.