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Regarding the .world community: The mods were not actively tending the community. Reports were piling up and not being resolved. Messages were sent to the mods requesting them to reengage, but nothing changed. So the mods were removed while the .world team looks for possible replacements.

The mods at [email protected] also look like they have left Lemmy.

If anyone seriously feels like moderating a conservative community (without burning it to the ground for teh lulz) there are plenty of job openings.

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Are there any lemmy communities that allow criticism of transgenderism?

If you are willing to be respectful and discuss ideas in good faith then there are lots of communities to choose from. Here are two off the top of my head:
[email protected]
[email protected]

If you want to broaden your perspectives and have discussions with actual trans people you could try [email protected]

However, it is clear that you are searching for a guaranteed safe space to say something that you aren't comfortable voicing out loud, even on an anonymous forum. We have all seen this show before, hence the comments you are getting. If you want a radical free speech space to say anything without consequences then Lemmy isn't your platform.

There. Now you can stop complaining that nobody will answer your question. Go do something more productive with your day.

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About federation with Threads: how is it possible that lemmy.world is federated?

It is odd that threads.net appears on our instances page, while the same is not true for other Lemmy instances which have not blocked Threads. Lemmy.world is federated with Threads by default simply because it is not on our instance block list. I do not believe our instance has done anything special to force a link with Threads. I mentioned it in our admin chat and will update this post if I learn anything.

However, even with threads.net listed on our instances page, Threads does not seem to work with Lemmy. I am able to search and view Mastodon user profiles from lemmy.world, but it does not work for any of the Threads test profiles.

Edit: The lemmy.world database has no records for a person on threads.net. Our best guess is that a Threads user tried to interact with lemmy.world. Perhaps the process got far enough for our instance to recognize threads.net and add it to our instances list, but not far enough to create a record of the user in our DB.

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I wouldn't expect jets from other countries to be any different. Aircraft in general get a lot of inspection and maintenance. Military jets planes push the limits of what their materials and systems can handle, and it takes a toll.

Idk how credible the site below is, but they claim the F-16 averages 15 hours of inspections ad maintenance for every hour of flight time. Also that military jets are generally only mission-ready about 50%-75% of the time, which means they spend an awful lot of their useful lives in the inspection and maintenance queues:
https://simpleflying.com/military-aircraft-maintenance/

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What's Geocaching?

It's a community treasure hunting game. A person hides something, then posts GPS coordinates and/or clues to lead you there. Often the hidden item is a sealed container so people can leave log books or unique trinkets. Some of the trinkets have serial numbers you can use to see where they've traveled.

I haven't done it in years, but I remember it being a lot of fun. Hunting for caches led me to a bunch of interesting new places that I would never have explored otherwise.

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Can I follow mastodon accounts in Lemmy?

From Lemmy you can see the accounts, but usually not their content (see note below). @[email protected]
@[email protected]

Interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon doesn't work well because the two services structure their content differently. Lemmy is community based and Mastodon is user based. Lemmy doesn't have a mechanism to follow an individual user, and Mastodon doesn't have an analog to communities (afaik).

(Note: In the case of these two accounts, some of their toots are visible because they have been pulled into the [email protected] community as part of an experiment to bridge Lemmy and Mastodon.)

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Does the community allow fantasy maps?

In my opinion the community is intended for real-world maps. Communities like [email protected] and [email protected] might be a better fit for fantasy maps.

Though I don't mean to be a heavy-handed dictator. If you have something to share that you think the community might like, go ahead and post it. We'll see what people think via the comments and votes. If people here want to see fantasy maps then that's fine with me.

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How long to grow a community?

I empathize with your situation. I'm in the same boat. Even with hundreds of subscribers, if everyone's lurking then the community gets stale and withers. Becoming a one-person content machine isn't sustainable.

Though on a brighter note, with this post you just gained a subscriber to your community. Browsing through it reminded me of how fun geocaching was. I just dusted off my old geocaching.com account from a decade ago. I'll have to take my kids out and see what we can find!