Seems like instance admins already sort of have the ability to hide communities from all, like how Reddit would hide certain subs from r/all
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2943#issuecomment-1581485335
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2055
I think it's still not in the UI yet but maybe coming soon, and 3rd party UIs/apps could implement it
that's intentional for threads with 0 comments to show up
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
"New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they are created or receive a new reply, analogous to the sorting of traditional forums"
traditional forums also showed threads with 0 comments (or else obviously no one would ever be able to see them and comment in the first place lol)
Gottem!
I kinda don't hate the idea of coming up with our own unique name like Burrow, feels like something Apple would do lol. But then it wouldn't be a common term across the fediverse, and also I feel like it would require explanation and then you'd have to choose how to explain it anyways, and you'd still have to use a word like server, instance, portal, provider, etc.
Asking potential new users to think for 5 seconds is sometimes a tall order lol
you're right about people making choices, but I still think the word choice matters, I've told people about Lemmy before and they always ask what an instance is
I think proxy is accurate enough for getting new users to signup (when talking about servers that do federate of course)
but I do think server is good too
The thing I like about proxy or hub is that they imply you can access the other content out there and the choice isn't super important
if we wanted to keep the word instance then yea "default instance" isn't bad, or maybe "home instance"
yea I understand, but I think the term "instance" confuses new users
I would only use terms like "proxy" or "hub" if the instance actually had federation enabled, otherwise I would probably just call it a "server" or "host"
The thing I like about proxy or hub is that they imply you can access the other content out there and the choice isn't super important
the point of this post is to reevaluate our terminology because it's a huge source of confusion for new users, I don't know what term is best but I'm pretty sure "instance" is not good
maybe we should stop calling them instances and start calling them proxies?
One would be tagging communities based on the content in them so these subscribe lists dont have to be constantly manually updated and instead can be set on a community level.
eh instances don't have this either and yet you associate instances with these tags, I think a hardcoded list is fine and it doesn't need to be anywhere near complete or perfectly up to date, just a starting point or suggestions
I think they're mostly just a publisher now, but they've been putting out good stuff.