I would normally say centralization makes perfect sense for a list of where to find #Reddit alternative communities. But https://sub.rehab/ is a shit show. Drags my browser to a crawl (what could it possibly be doing in my client that is so computationally intensive that the mouse jerks around?)
Then when I try to add a record, it gives this vague error popup every time:
“Error We were unable to process your request. Sorry about that. Let us know in a GitHub issue”
MS Github? No thanks. Then these guys ignore submissions sent to their Mastodon account. I think they spend more time with their “buy me a coffee” tip jar than making the service usable. I suggest first checking these sites:
There are a lot of communities that were created in the last week but never had any kind of interaction or their mods never started to post to attract people (they don’t even have rules or a description)....
People will ignore subs with no posts and go to ones with actual content.
I doubt it. I looked for m/Brussels on fedia.io. Didn’t find it. My choice were:
Create an acct somewhere that has m/Brussels so I could post; or
Create m/Brussels & take on the burden and responsibility of moderation.
I favored option 2 because I’m not going to manually search hundreds of instances to see if it exists somewhere. #subrehab is a shit show and had nothing for Brussels anyway. So if I had found an existing but empty community I would have simply posted there with a low expectation (as opposed to not posting). I would at least have some reassurance that the post would be seen by someone (the mod).
@lavender can’t stop u/wolf from creating m/henhouse on some other instance but she can preempt that on kbin.social. OTOH, case matters, so if m/javascript is taken I think someone can create m/JavaScript which is rather unfortunate.
@darts#subRehab has been a shitshow. They run something extremely heavy on the client side that makes the mouse jerky (what could they possibly be doing?). When attempting to submit a new record the site gives “Error We were unable to process your request. Sorry about that. Let us know in a GitHub issue”. Github.. wtf? Then @subrehab ignores submissions from the fedi.
Do we have a problem with squatters?
There are a lot of communities that were created in the last week but never had any kind of interaction or their mods never started to post to attract people (they don’t even have rules or a description)....