Defederation is a double-edged sword. In the end, those who defederate will lock themselves into a smaller space and lose out on content produced by users outside of their instance. With how hard it currently is to discover content, a big instance defederating from lots of other instances with little good reason can easily backfire. At least that's how I see it from what I currently understand about Lemmy.

I think people are trying to defederate to filter content, which is not something that defederating is good for right now, cause every big instance has a lot of diverse communities. Also, there's been concerns about bots and safety which makes sense, but that doesn't mean that we're under risk of staying defederated permanently or for any significant amount of time. Moderation tools, content filtering and discovery needs to become much better before that resolved for everyone in a satisfying way.

As for /c/thedonald and communities like it specifically, it's ridiculous to take what seems to me as satire as 100% serious straight up bigotry, but I do understand that we've seen communities with origins in satire turn to serious on the internet before. I think an instance-wide flag for communities that signals that the content is satire when you open them or see a post from them. Allow communities to be created with it from the start but only modifiable by admins afterwards, so you can't take it away or add it after a community is made. It might just work to mitigate this problem and help punish rule breaking quicker and easier.

Modern games have become too focused on providing a clean, balanced and no-real-obstacles experience. Sometimes I want to play a game that is a cohesive experience without being laser focused on some big idea about how I should play it. As an example, I've recently replayed arx fatalis. It's really fun how you can do everything in that game that you'd want an npc for in any other. It's also fun how each playstyle requires its own big chunk of knowledge about how the game works. Modern games try too hard to be minimalistic and fail to see the fun in a truly open experience. Even when you have options, they have all the fun pre-balanced and pre-optimized out of them. They give you too much info. No sense of discovery

Well that would just be quite unshenanigans of me if I went with a boring example, now would it? :)

Everything can be a poison depending on the quantity and method of interaction, at least that's what I heard. Maybe it's poison in your digestive system, but won't actually kill you if you apply it. Kinda like if you drink shampoo versus using it as intended.

Hah, I thought I noticed some autotune weirdness! I usually watch on 2x speed and sometimes I don't slow down for examples. Glad to know it wasnt just me!

Hey, thanks for posting about it!

Everyone is welcome to post educational content and essays on music production, as well as their own work if they need some feedback or advice. And for a long while, I'll be posting a lot of the content there from my own journey, which hopefully sparks some interest so that the place ain't gonna be empty!

Glad it helped! I think we as producers tend to forget sometimes that behind every plugin we use there are hundreds of different algorithms doing different things with waveforms and digital representation of sound, since we only care about what we see and hear and that seems intuitive to us. Sound is physics and psychology and building incredibly complex things is only possible when you understand everything that goes on behind the scenes. Though you do have to pratice too... which is often more difficult than the theory, lol

The main purpose of making a local community is to aid discoverability of it on this instance, since that's the whole point of a music instance - sorting by local and getting music content. Adding to the sidebar is okay, but you'd need to do the same for every local (or relevant external) community to be fair and that's a ton of work (i assume) you don't need.

Picking and choosing different communities to x-post to is a lot of work for me, because I am really bad at categorizing stuff and most of my content coud easily be posted to several waveform communities at a time, because it's general production advice and free tools. Figuring out which tools are compatible with which DAW communities is not even something I can do to a decent degree and posting to every DAW or genre community about things applicable to all of them may become near impossible (and much more importantly it will spam the feed).

I'll consider fully migrating here when things settle down a bit, since there is a lot of talk (and action) about defederating certain instances or defederating by default if security measures aren't up to par, so having a big local userbase dampens the effect that has on discoverability really well (considering you have to go out of your way to find content from less populated instances.)

Thanks for responding and detailing my options here, I think I'm going to create an instance for music production here and cross-post for now if you give it a green light!

I see. Though, with the rate we're growing right now we might not stay small for very long, lol. I think keeping the quality bar where people don't just post random stuff with no discussion whatsoever is quite important, and as long as everyone respects each other it should still feel like a small cozy place.

You can make some sick sounds by feeding your oscillators into peaky filters, like comb, flange and phaser then into high gain distortion and modulate the filter frequency with envelopes and lfo to completely destroy the sound! It can make pretty much any dubstep and riddim effect you ever heard, lol

lol, I might just put a small image of like 6 of them XD

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Glad you found it useful!

Discoverability sucks right now, unfortunately. Crossposting to big instances helps this stuff getting discovered in local. Searching for communities is hard as is (since you need pre-existing knowledge for the server to find it), and making it easier on the end-user will help create a self-sufficient community that can maintain itself and maybe even grow on its own. And you gotta have an account to create a community since there isn't one here, so that's just that.

Gregory's explanations are refreshing and add a ton of perspective, such valuable stuff! I'm not sure about House of Kush plugins or gear, but there are a lot of producers with ears not being able to tell the difference between plugins, who will swear by a product for no other reason than they heard it somewhere else. Make sure you can hear it before you buy it!

I'm gonna hold off on the decision until I see a bit more input, but if the general sentiment is that staying open is better, I'm not gonna go against the flow there. I just wish Lemmy devs added some features to counterbalance the fragmentation of the fediverse

You made a second post that is the same, mind if I take this one down? Your previous one seems to work just fine, and I suppose if you were to try something else you could try the upload image feature next time? Instance servers allow for uploads.

Ah, yes, the OTT. I got it up there for ya!

Content management bots would be great. A feature I desperately need right now is actually automatic cross-posting. I host my community on multiple instances and post actively to others. Linking posts together to have better reach and having multiple backups in case of one instance going down is incredibly important to Lemmy's continued growth and survival. Lemmy itself doesn't support a lot of redundancy features, so it'd be nice to automate the process a bit. A start would be a script that logs into an account and cross-posts a specified post to multiple communities in other instances. It'd also be nice to have it append the original instance at the end, so that people can follow for discussion.

Wrote a long winded-reply and my internet cut off when I sent it so I'll keep it brief. I agree that we don't want to centralize. However, Lemmy isn't feature complete. I'd love us to have some more reach. I don't need control over where that reach goes or how big this community gets, I just want it to be big enough to be functional. And functional means having enough folks with knowledge to help out new guys and being able to able to post a thread looking for advice and be likely to get replies. That's all I want. And for that to be a reality, Lemmy needs to step up it's cross-posting game from reddit. I don't like the attitude of FOSS community with regards to things like Linux, that user experience issues is a user problem, not a software problem, "just use the console, bro", though that's been getting better over the years. I just have to disagree there, it's only valid up to a certain point that is reached far too quickly. I feel like we shouldn't make it harder on users than we absolutely have to.

That said, you're right, I don't own this c/ and I don't dictate the rules. I just hope that the rules we can agree on will help us build a community that people want to join. That's my goal.