There's a lot of good protest going on right now. It is not enough but it is encouraging. If any good solution is to be had for the horror that is happening now, it lies in the groundswell of yelling and resistance that is developing on the ground.

It's good to hear what is happening, and what's coming. It's good to hear what events look like on the ground. It's good to hear reasons for hope, outside of the system of "politics" and "political news" which is mostly discussing the current system's total abject failure to do anything useful.

That's the main focus for this community, although individual writers may cover all kinds of topics. I'm also open to recommendations.

!lefty_stacks@rss.ponder.cat

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

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• Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.

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• What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

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• Garden Grooves is now The Eternal Playlist: https://crazypeople.online/c/eternalplaylist !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online
• weedtime has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/weedtime !weedtime@crazypeople.online
• Low Effort Memes has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/loweffortmemes !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online
• Pokemon TCGM has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/pokemonTCGM !pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online
• Community Corkboard is now CPO Announcements: https://crazypeople.online/c/cpo_announcements !cpo_announcements@crazypeople.online
• Auto Racing has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/autoracing !autoracing@crazypeople.online

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

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One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

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TLDR

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• WG is becoming a test instance.
• Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
• Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
• crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
• crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
• Don’t test in production.

I've created four new #Piefed photo-based communities. They are:

1. !recordpics@piefed.social
2. !dustbloom@piefed.social
3. !lumoura@piefed.social
4. !blue@piefed.social

I'll mostly be using these communities to post photos from #Akkoma and #Pixelfed. Not only will they categorize these photos in a coherent manner, they'll be open for other contributors, and also be easy to moderate.

Why not use hashtags instead? Simple: anyone can use a hashtag and no one can moderate them. Which means they're easy to spam.

For my purposes, groups are simply better.

Around two years ago, I created @fediversenews@venera.social -- which proved to be one of the most popular Friendica groups ever. Unfortunately, I had difficulty moderating that group and so I decreased my posting there. However, I saw that Piefed has a much more advanced moderation toolkit, so I'm migrating that community over there.

If you still follow @fediversenews@venera.social, be sure to follow !fediversenews@piefed.social -- since that Friendica group will be shut down soon.

I enjoy Will Quinn's daily bunnies, but it's pretty much the only thing I go onto Bluesky for.

So... I created an unofficial mirror here:

!dailybunnies@lemmings.world

dailybunnies@lemmings.world

If you're on Bluesky give them a follow there as well please, and have a look at my Daily Bunnies custom feed

https://sh.itjust.works/c/avgeeks

!avgeeks@sh.itjust.works

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/56091906

https://lemm.ee/c/Repurposed_Headlines

Heyo, i created a community a couple of days ago specifically dedicated to reviving dead (unmoderated and inactive) communities. I realized that a lot of great communities i like are actually unmoderated, and i obviously can't mod them all; so why not create an archive of all of them?

If you have a community that you like, but it is dead: you're more than welcome to post on here!

!comm_revival@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!SnowRunner@discuss.online is a popular game on PC and Consoles about transporting cargo through rough or almost impossible road conditions!

You can find the community here: !openttd@slrpnk.net

I created the popular !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world several months ago.

In the interest of decentralization, I decided to create an independent instance.

!dullsters@dullsters.net

The dull mens club community will stay active, but please visit us at the new one.

Do you enjoy monster-battling RPGs with an 80's aesthetic? Are you curious what a Jumpkin is? Do you just want to jam to some cool video game music?

If any of that intersects with the stylish BAFTA-nominated game Cassette Beasts feel free to join us over at !cassettebeasts@lemmy.world

!HandmadeMarketplace@sopuli.xyz

https://sopuli.xyz/c/HandmadeMarketplace

Want something unique? Maybe even one-of-a-kind? Check out some handmade items from independent artisans! (:

Thought we could use a community for folks who craft handmade goods.

Could be soap, food, sculptures, art, clothes, toys, and all kinds of wonderful stuff!

Hopefully we can get more artisans to join up, and folks who would like to purchase from & support independent artists & craftspeople from all around the world!

For politcal and conservative discussions

!Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com

For those who don't know what gender abolition is. Gender Abolition, also known as post-genderism is the belief that gender stereotypes are harmful and restrict people's ability to present the way they want that makes them feel happy. Gender abolitionists seek to eradicate gender stereotypes and restrictions associated with them to create a more free and accepting world.

For clarification, Gender abolitionists do not agree with TERFs or any similar rhetoric, anyone from those groups claiming to be "Gender Abolitionists" or "Gender Critical" are not real gender abolitionists and are appropriating the term. Real Gender abolitionists believe that people have the right to bodily autonomy and self-identification. That means in short, Gender abolitionists respect and stand up for trans rights.

If any of this sounds interesting to you I recommend checking out

!genderabolition@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Here you can show and present us your DJ or Modular Setup. You are supossed to only post photos, to have an clean environment.

For the excellent book and TV show Wheel of Time fans.

!wot@lemmings.world

Things are happening, folks, and we want you to get in on the ground floor! Federate and receive daily doses of cute, positive energy. No news, just cute views!

Link: !umd@sh.itjust.works

re-publicado de: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/10975319

there’s already !kindnesskommunityalt@lemmy.blahaj.zone, which i made for english speakers. i also have !kindnesskommunitybr@lemmy.blahaj.zone so more portuguese speakers can access it who aren’t users of lemmy.eco.br

Creator Recommendations is for finding new content creators based on your interests on any (if specified) platform. Why trust an algorithm to tell you what you might like? Ask a community.

Also, you can ~~promote~~ share your favorite creators on any platform and/or ask what other creators you should follow.

Side Note: there wasn't an 'If I like Blank' community on here, so if anyone knows if it just goes by another name comment below or that would be a good community to have on Lemmy. I see communities for recommendations on specific topics but not a general "IIL _ WEWIL" community.

!creatorrecommendations@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/c/creatorrecommendations

Do you suffer from a personality disorder, suspect you might, know someone who does, or simply wish to engage on the topic with others?

That's what !personalitydisorders@lemmy.world is for.

!kindnesskommunity@feddit.cl is a community where you can be nice to other people.

you can vent/ask for advice and people will support you. you can talk about your achievements of being kind to others, and you can use it as a general discussion platform.

Also, see !kindnesskommunityalt@lemmy.blahaj.zone where more people can access the community.

Can't be bothered to read the whole news article? Get a quick AI summary in the post itself. Uses a specialised summariser (not just asking an LLM "summarise this"). Summaries are 60% identical to human summaries and >95% accurate in keeping original meaning.

News summary had moved to !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com the bot has been updated to use a better we scraping method and improved summarisation.

If u don't like this please just block the community no need to complain or downvote.