It’s not “the official futurology instance”, it’s “the official r/futurology instance”:

This is a sibling community to r/futurology on Reddit, set up and moderated by the same people.

Sympathy lost for this attention seeker.

She was an attention seeker back on reddit

So you never had any sympathy to begin with, because aTtEnShUn SeEkEr, which is the lamest cop-out ever. Just say you hate women and get it over with.

Sounds like you’re just proving her point.

Adding this one to the list of specialized instances

Well, yes. Obviously only do this if you thought the mods were doing a good job with that subreddit. :)

Yeah, most of my stock of saved memes are from r/animemes and r/anime_irl. They did at least make it through the filter of being funny enough at the time to compel me to save them. And they’re not necessarily ones that would be easily found by looking at the top posts in those subs.

I’ve seen some magazines put a note in their description that the owner is willing to hand it off to the mod team of the corresponding subreddit. I think that’s a decent compromise in order to welcome the old subreddit to migrate over and maintain continuity, while also not waiting around for other people to act.

It gets weird when we talk about this stuff on only one axis (left-right) rather than two (left-right/libertarian-authoritarian, though that’s still a simplification). Specifically, I’m an anarchist, which means I’m part of the “far left”. Anarchists, along with “ultra”-communists, are seen as being to the left of Lenin/Stalin-style communists. Saying that the problem with the lemmy devs is that they’re “far left” implies that people like me are the same as tankies, and we kind of resent that.

While lots of people are suggesting creating communities for your niche interests, I think it’s even more important to to find niche communities that others have created and contribute to them. Obviously you can do both, but if you’ve got limited time to post it may be better to focus your efforts, and be the “first follower” rather than the leader.

I’ve been doing this for /m/Animemes and /m/anime_irl, just making one post per day in each. There hasn’t been a ton of other activity yet, but the subscriber counts have been growing steadily, so we’ll get there.

I’ve also been wanting to build up /m/Bitcoin in the same way, but I don’t feel like I’ve got much to contribute right now, so I’m focusing on the anime communities.

I think part of it is that leftists (myself included) don’t like being lumped in with tankies. I didn’t downvote though.

The lead devs of lemmy are tankies, basically meaning authoritarian communists of the genocide-apologist variety. They also run the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances.

This is also why I signed up on kbin instead of on lemmy. The other lemmy instances are fine, but I don’t want to contribute to the influence of the lemmy devs any more than necessary. Hopefully they try to pull something stupid and get forked off the project.

Just so everyone’s aware, upvotes and downvotes are also public, due to how federation works.

This isn’t true. Posts and comments are sorted by upvotes, downvotes, and age. The place where wires got crossed with regard to upvotes and boosts is “reputation” on your profile. Boosts are supposed to be like retweets.