So I do NOT understand what makes a community trend. I thought I'd use it to discover communities I didn't even know I wanted. Instead, I've found a few communities I have no interest in, and thats fine. Not all communities are going to cater to everybodies tastes.

But the real puzzler for me, is when I click a trending community, and theres 2 subsubscribers, 0 posts ever. What exactly qualifies that as a trending communities???

I don't know if everybody sees the same trending communities, but if you do, theres one right now with a jumbled bunch of letters as the community name, no posts, 2 subscribers And the sidebar is a bunch of imdb links.......

What am I supposed to do with that information? Why is THAT trending??? Is this a case of mods of that community (all one of them) are also the developers of Lemmy, so they program it that way? Or is this some algorithm thing that I don't get???

What is going on here?

Tonight!!! The Cleveland monsters look to become only the 4th team in history to accomplish a reverse sweep. Once down to the Hershey bears 3-0, the series is now tied 3-3 in a best of 7 series. With the winner of tonights game going on to face the Coachella Valley Firebirds this Friday at game 1 of the Calder Cup Series. The monsters in 2016, then known as the Lake Erie Monsters last won the Calder Cup in 2016, sweeping the Hershey Bears 4-0.

Tonight, they battle the Hershey bears once again, this time in a game 7 to advance to the Calder Cup. Game starts at 7pm from Hershey PA, but can be watched on WUAB Channel 43 at 7pm.

GO MONSTERS!!!

Tonight!!! The Cleveland monsters look to become only the 4th team in history to accomplish a reverse sweep. Once down to the Hershey bears 3-0, the series is now tied 3-3 in a best of 7 series. With the winner of tonights game going on to face the Coachella Valley Firebirds this Friday at game 1 of the Calder Cup Series. The monsters in 2016, then known as the Lake Erie Monsters last won the Calder Cup in 2016, sweeping the Hershey Bears 4-0.

Tonight, they battle the Hershey bears once again, this time in a game 7 to advance to the Calder Cup. Game starts at 7pm from Hershey PA, but can be watched on WUAB Channel 43 at 7pm.

GO MONSTERS!!!

Ok, so here's a situation I ran into, and thought of a solution for, but I'm not a programmer, so I don't know if this is possible.

I live in Cleveland. Last I checked, we have a population of 300,00ish people. Might be closer to 350,000. Not the point.

As it stands, in general I'd say roughly 10% of general society uses reddit. Using rough numbers, that would mean 30,000ish people. I just checked, and /r/Cleveland has 151,000 subscribers, but only 58 users on the site at the moment I checked. That tells me there's a lot of people subscribed to /r/Cleveland who no longer live in Cleveland.

I refuse to believe that of roughly 300,000 people, half are on /r/Cleveland. Especially if only 58 are online. So, maybe a lot of bots.

That being said Lemmy has probably less than 1% of society. And Cleveland has a finite number of potential users.

So when I look for the Cleveland sublemmy, I find three of them. Two I could join right away, the third is still pending because it seems the mod is the only user, and he hasn't been active in months.

Point is, this city, even if there was only one Cleveland sub would still have a very small userbase. Now we're dividing it among multiple communities all serving the same purpose. There's only so much that happens in Cleveland. The majority of the reddit posts are "where should I eat? What should I do when I visit? Why do you guys have billboards of just eyes?"

There is NOT a lot going on here. And if we split these users up multiple times, you'll have what we have now. Multiple dead communities, with a split userbase. So logically the first idea is "Well you only need one Cleveland community. The other one should close." But that flies against the very foundation of what this place is built on.

So how do you integrate both communities userbases as one, without merging the subs? And that's when it hit me.

Groups.

User groups, and sub groups. Lets start with sub groups.

So lets say I'm the head of Cleveland@instance1 and Fred runs Cleveland@instance2. We both see the userbase problem. So I send Fred a message, and ask if he wants to group up. He says yes. Now we're grouped up. So what does that mean? It means that Joe, a Cleveland resident, could subscribe to Cleveland@instance2. It would then have some checkboxes that say "group Cleveland@instance1 and Cleveland@instance2?"

And for every checkbox you leave ticked, you'll group those subs together. If you don't want to group them, uncheck the boxes of the ones you don't want to group.

So now Joe is subscribed to Cleveland@instance2. But because he's grouped my Cleveland@instance one, everytime he posts, the comments and the up/downvotes for his comment will now be grouped together. So when he makes that post on Cleveland@instance2 it will show up on Cleveland@instance1 too. Anything in that post is technically being posted to Cleveland@instance2

So if you ARE subscribed to Cleveland@instance1 but NOT subscribed to Cleveland@instance2, then you wouldn't even see the post in Cleveland@instance1. You're only seeing it, and able to interact with it from Cleveland@instance1 because they're both officially grouped, and you agreed to the grouping on your end when you subscribed.

You could, in theory reject the grouping when you subscribe, and then subscribe to the second one seperately. Which would keep everything seperate and as it is now. I don't know who would want to do that, but it would be possible.

Now, for the user groups.

Pretty much the same concept, but on an individual basis. So, lets say I subscribe to videogames@instance and I also subscribe to gamers@instance. Those communities have NOT grouped for whatever reason, so YOU group them for yourself.

So now when you post, you'll post once, and it will post your new post once in videogames@instance and once in gamers@instance.

So now you posted two seperate posts, but because you grouped them on an individual basis, you'll see all the upvotes and replies in one post in your inbox on your end. In reality there are two seperate posts, but your interaction with it feels as one.

So, there was a time when they announced that they were changing their name. The name I kept hearing, and hating, was the Cleveland Rockers. Blegh!

So me, assuming the new name was going to be based on the idea of rock and roll being part of our image, I had a different idea. A crazy idea. A real longshot that I never expected to happen, but I still say the name is 100% cooler then "The Guardians" (especially since they don't use the guardian statue imagery).

My idea is that the Cleveland Indians makes a HUUUUUUUUGE purchase. They buy WMMS from iheartradio. They continue WMMS as 100.7FM, and still play rock themed genres. Kf anything, they become the non-corporate rock station. Who plays local artists. Who doesn't have a set list that just repeats everyday. But during the games, they'd have Tom Hamilton and crew announcing the games. Just as always.

They become the Cleveland Buzzards, and use the WMMS buzzard logo as their logo too.

The other idea I had was calling them the "Cleveland Drummers" with a cartoon version of John Adams face as the logo. This was before he died, so I figured he'd be at opening day of the new team......and then beat his drum. Unfortunately, he came down with health issues. He battled health issues, and died during the Guardians first season.

And the stadium does not feel the same without him.

You think maybe Tim Misney is one of the subscribers?

I just learned about the Fediverse in May. I now have a Lemmy account, and a Mastadon account.

I'm not interested in /kbin, as I have no interest in facebook, but something caught my eye. SpaceHey.

Problem is, with mainstream things, you can google and find out which places are safe, private, not stealing your info........or you can find out that they're facebook, and stealing EVERYBODYS personal data. Even people who've never signed up.

I have less info on SpaceHey. And since I figure you guys know what's going on, maybe you can give it a yay or nay. I'm also interested in Peertube.

I've seen a few of their profiles, and when they say they made it just like 2008 myspace, they're pretty much wrong. This isn't 2008 myspace. By 2008 myspace was still a social network, but they were making major changes to the interface.

The profiles I saw looked more like a customized myspace profile from 2006. It was just a huge difference, but I was there.

Also, I'm unclear if it's because I have no account, but the profile display pictures don't seem to have any way to click them. You used to be able to click them, and go into a page of many pictures. The one on your profile we just called your "default photo". It was the one to represent YOUR profile. I'm also noticing that nobodies default photo is their own face. It's all anime and drawn picture art. That's not in the spirit on 2006 myspace. Your default pic was the one that you thought made you look the best.

So youngin's, don't think the idea of super close face shots, or above the head looking down shots to hide your personal body issues are some new concept. We were doing it in the dying days of 56k connections. Back when some of you were learning your shapes and colors. We were debating if that picture was default worthy, and wondering if we should re-arrange our top 8. Then getting offended when our profile was dropped from one of our friends top 8s, or moved down a rank.

Long before there was "facebook official" there was "top 8 worthy".

So, is there anything bad I should know about SpaceHey, other than the massive amount of nostolgia it's hitting me with?

I like Lemmy.World. I'd like you use old.lemmy.world as my default experience.

On my cellphone, I just click it in the sidebar. Done.

On my tablet, I click it. It just displays a blank white page. Refreshing does not help. If I type in old.Lemmy.World, I get the old ui loaded, but I'm logged out, and it will not allow me to log in. It accepts the log in as a correct username/password, but then reloads the old ui with me still logged out.