We're experimenting with using users_active_month as an alternative / additional metric to subscribers. Today's list is here: https://feddit.nl/post/2399274 (it's not the sort of community you'd normally subscribe to, but you can click [email protected] if you want)
I'm finding that an oddly strident pose (not sure if it's 'cos Liara was NB before it was even cool to be NB, or if that's unrelated)
Thanks. Its a beautiful vid. Maybe the "(feat. Spike)" is self-evident for more clued-in fans than me, but if not, it means that the YouTuber got Steve Blum (voice artist for Spike from Cowboy Bebop) to read the "Tears in the Rain" speech from Blade Runner
For me, being stuck at 'Subscribe Pending' does seem to happen for KBIN mags, but it isn't exclusive to them. Whenever it happens, it does the mad thing of bringing everything though up to the point I tried to subscribe, but nothing after.
To fix it, you can often - but not always - go to the source Mag or Community, and find a semi-recent post from after you subscribed, and copy the absolute link (e.g. https://kbin.social/m/science/t/383186/Visualizing-the-mysterious-dance-Quantum-entanglement-of-photons-captured-in), then go to your instance and post that in the Search field. And then the change the thing your searching for from 'Communities' to 'Posts', and then wait a bit, and then click the link if it shows up.
This tends to force through the change past 'Pending', and from then things will start turning up.
Memes like this are very finely engineered, using only the very latest, bleeding-edge version of Microsoft Paint, and I felt that putting "I'm (pretending to be) a Bombad General. My loyalty is (not really) to Naboo" would ruin the artistry.
Today's list using users_active_month: https://feddit.nl/post/2364983
Some similarities, which suggests that it's new subscribers that contribute activity, and dormant subscribers remain dormant, perhaps.
I think Lemmy counts 'activity' as posts and comments, but not upvotes, so this list will highlight the more 'chatty' communities (some Main/Meta/Bot-fed ones on there) which is maybe what we want, but it'll exclude the ones that are 'interesting' (pics posted by one or two people, about which there's not much to say, other than 'nice imaginary train').
I'll post again tomorrow, and that might reveal more about how it would shape out.
It's easy enough to change, so I'll test it out, and share the results
Thank you. Your post inspired me to do what I should have done in the first place - test it from a Private Browsing window (which works)
I'll clear out my cookies or whatever, and try again when I want to use that instance.
Been having fun on futurology.today this morning.
Started writing a post on their fediverse links page to point here.
Thought I'd test the relative link first, but got 'couldn't find community' error.
Got this same error for a bunch of links, so started writing a post about it on their meta page.
Thought I'd test those links again first, and this time they worked (albeit with a timeout error)
Tried subscribing here from an account I have on that instance, it worked eventually, but shows "No Posts". Since time seemed to solve the first problems, maybe it'll fix that one.
Not sure. They're just credited as "Vibes".