worldnews World News Kerala is rolling out free broadband for its poorest citizens. What’s stopping your government?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Greed.

    The answer is always Greed.

    What profit is my government(Greek) going to have by doing this? Nothing, so obviously it's not gonna be done.

    If everything is because of profit, then nothing works.

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  • technology Technology Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum!
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Not in this day and age where me and my grandma have our own.

    There are so many, you can't keep up to date with your hobbies unless you are willing to follow 50 platforms with 60 different UIs and community rules.

    I prefer the aggregation of data like fediverse where we can follow topics and not platforms.

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ Fully understand if this is impossible, but is there any way to pirate/emulate switch games?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%
  • reddit Reddit Reddit is restoring deleted posts
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    If you are not a European citizen you cannot ask for your data to be deleted but you 100% can report a company, in this context Reddit, for not complying with GDPR.

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  • reddit Reddit Reddit is restoring deleted posts
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    I have mentioned it in my other comment in this thread.

    The link that the thread you linked to, has, doesn't work. It doesn't even have an option to delete your data. I have screenshots on my other comment.

    Reddit doesn't have a way for you to delete your data which against the GDPR.

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  • reddit Reddit Reddit is restoring deleted posts
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    The controller should use all reasonable measures to verify the identity of a data subject

    Huge emphasis on reasonable. If by asking me to log in for the sake of verification results in me not being able to delete my data as I've demonstrated above, then this is 100% NOT REASONABLE.

    They are actively hindering the process that GDPR requires me to take.

    I don't care about the small letters, this is a GDPR violation. I should have an easy way to delete my data and this ain't it.

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  • reddit Reddit Reddit is restoring deleted posts
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    GDPR applies to people in European Economic Area whose data is used by companies,

    I am in Greece. I am protected by GDPR.

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  • reddit Reddit Reddit is restoring deleted posts
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    I have already sent a GDPR request to Reddit and they refuse to comply.

    I asked them to delete everything they have about me, including my account and they told me that I need to login into reddit and ask it from there which:

    1. I don't have to since GDPR says that I can even do it verbally and I don't even have to write to a specific email, I can just let any employee of that company that I want this and they should honor it.
    2. They straight up don't even have the option to delete your data there, since I requested for the complete erasure of my data as that is also in my rights.

    Reddit literally refuses to comply with GDPR rules and tonight after work I am going to lodge a formal complain about GDPR violations as I do have proof of this in my emails.

    Fuck Reddit I hope it crashes and burns.

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  • reddit Reddit thank god lemmy doesn't have karma
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Different subreddits had different rules. In some subs you needed loads of karma to post.

    Karma farming was also used to bump up the account so that it could be sold to malicious buyers for propaganda or spam posting purposes.

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  • gaming Gaming Hoping Starfield won't force me into base-building / micromanaging like Fallout 4 did
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    It's also the reason I don't play No Man's Sky(apart from the bait and switch launch).

    People don't play Bethesda games because they are good sims but because they are good RPGs.

    If they pivot to a sim/building type game then I don't think people will like it.

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  • greece Greece Καλως ήρθατε στο /c/greece | Welcome to /c/greece
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Ναι το Username είναι unique per instance.

    Καλως ήρθες!

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ best public tracker for indie/small PC games?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    I will disagree on the grounds that I've too many shitty indie cashgrabs.

    Piracy is my demo period.

    Recently I did it with alaloth. Amazing game. Instantly bought it afterwards.

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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Risky click.

    In fact, it's so risky, I ain't gonna click it at all.

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  • reddit Reddit This comment right here
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    While it is neat I don't see it offering a good user experience.

    The reason this shouldn't be in here, in a forum platform, is that if you go to the front page and try to read new it keeps bouncing up and down because it's constantly updating.

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  • gaming Gaming What Indie hidden gems do you recommend?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    I can't let Alaloth down.

    It's soooo good!

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  • lemmy_support Lemmy Support Lemmy UI suggestions
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Collapsible comment threads

    This already exists

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  • reddit Reddit This comment right here
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 99%

    This comment is incorrect as well.

    The people that cared left and what's left behind is people that wouldn't leave anyway and the strike only bothers them.

    This person is living in a bubble and can't see further than their nose.

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  • technology Technology Comcast complains to FCC that listing all of its monthly fees is too hard
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Where is /c/leopardsatemyface?

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    Lemmy Alkalyon 1 year ago 85%
    I just realized Lemmy upvote/downvote colors are the opposite of Reddit. Good easter egg.

    Upvotes are blue and downvotes are orange. I love this details, didn't realize before.

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    greece Greece Αποκλείεται να είναι νερό
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    where we expected tsipouro but toasted with holy water instead.

    This is hilarious.

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  • reddit Reddit So, how do we think this ends?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    The main problem with NSFW content in Lemmy is that it's almost exclusively in some media format which effectively tends to put a huge strain on the system, be it technical difficulties or storage space in general.

    If the lemmy platform wants to survive, NSFW content needs to be allowed but the technical difficulties will probably take a while to be fully resolved.

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  • greece Greece Κραυγή αγωνίας από εργαζόμενους της Εθνικής Τράπεζας
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Τα ΜΜΕ σήμερα:

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  • greece Greece Αποκλείεται να είναι νερό
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    I remember a classmate of mine and his experience.

    His mother, got his water bottle ready for school when he was like 6-7, but instead of water she filled it with raki.

    The dude played football in recess and being parched after it, he picked the bottle up and swallowed 3 mouthfulls of it before realizing it was raki.

    Obviously he got drunk instantly, the teachers called her and they took him to a hospital for a check-up but thankfully he was ok.

    But yeah, this bottle is a trap, especially at 3AM when you don't think or see and just want gurgle water.

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  • technology Technology Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    We need to document this and make sure everyone knows what reddit is doing.

    There's been a lot of posts both here and on reddit saying that mentions of kbin and/or lemmy get deleted or the users/subs get outright banned, like /r/redditMigration, which had 2 posts and got banned for spam.

    Regardless of the outcome of the strike, Reddit already has died. The users that matter won't go back. The users that stay will be media and a large pool of lurkers with no value to the community.

    Reddit as we knew it, already died.

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  • reddit Reddit r/gaming public again for community input
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Reddit has been banning users and/or communities that redirect others to Lemmy.

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  • gaming Gaming CMV: PoE blows Diablo IV out of the water
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    I couldn't get into PoE ever.

    • I don't want to invest thousands of hours before I even understand how to play the game(with its millions of subsystems)
    • I don't like the fact that changes on your character is tied to orbs that I have to farm. Want to respec because you messed up your build as a newcomer? Too bad, go farm 1000 orbs of regret. Nah, fuck that.
    • I don't like that I have to follow a guide in order to play my game effeciently since if I do it on my own I will mess it up so much I won't even be able to level up.
    • I don't like the economy based on 50 orbs that I have for 90 different things.
    • I don't like the fact that the monetization is tied to your progression by means of locking storage away from you. You want to progress? Better pay up for 50 stashes or gtfo. It's a free game and it's still monetized in a wrong way.
    • I don't like systems being added every season and if you quit for a few years you have no idea what the fuck is going on.

    Personally, I find Diablo 4 boring and PoE bad.

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    Jerboa Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%
    New error when logging into lemmy.ml only.

    I've added 3 accounts to the app and 2 work fine. My lemmy.ml account returns `Value <html> of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject` and since this only happens in the `lemmy.ml` instance I can assume its server related. I am, however, able to use the webapp with this account just fine and lemmy responds relatively fast. Anyone experienced something similar?

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    gaming Gaming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora comes out December 7th
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    This game looked very mediocre and empty inside.

    It's a great Demo for the engine but didn't look like much more than that.

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  • technology Technology Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Yeah the non-commercial part just destroys the entire announcement. Mods could just use a community made bot that they bought for like $5 and be done with it.

    Since this will be now against the ToS, no one will be bothered to develop these tools for free, to move around.

    This is a worthless post.

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  • lemmy_support Lemmy Support Learning about Lemmy – A Fediverse Version of Reddit
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Additionally to guides, there 100% needs to be an FAQ section somewhere.

    The amount of times I can't find [insert other instance's community here] when searching for it has been asked is both insane and expected.

    Fediverse is new(for most people) and people are confused. An FAQ page would help massively as a first stepping stone when encountering issues.

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  • reddit Reddit So, how do we think this ends?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    These and others are why you’re finding me with you here in the fediverse.

    I've been here for a week and it already feels like home!

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  • reddit Reddit So, how do we think this ends?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 98%

    Squabbles

    Isn't this developed by one person, isn't open source and forbids NSFW in general? That is never going to go well.

    Tildes

    No mobile app and no ActivityPub so it's a very specialised. Additionally I don't like the UI at all and I've read this in multiple threads here as well.

    Lemmy + Kbin

    Both are show the same content as they are federated so it's up to who prefers what really. I prefer Lemmy, but anything is fine.

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  • gaming Gaming Fable Official Trailer
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Yeah it's confusing, honestly.

    It feels like the Prince of Persia game that was announced, to me. As in, the company that made this game, made something vaguely similar and just slapped a known IP's name on it, for recognition's and marketing's sake.

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  • gaming Gaming *Permanently Deleted*
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    If my horse ain't flying, I ain't playing.

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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Press X to doubt, the community says.

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  • jerboa Jerboa Is there any way to see the thread you're replying to while you're replying?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    And in the web app, above the comment it says Show context.

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  • lemmy_support Lemmy Support How do I add moderators to a community I've made?
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    They need to have a post in the community, go into the post click the 3 dots and appoint them as a mod.

    Here is what it looks like.

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  • greece Greece Πρώτη μέρα στο /c/greece
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Έχω τις αμφιβολίες μου για το αν θα καταφέρει μεγάλο μέρος του reddit να κάνει migrate εδώ αλλά αν δω συμμετοχή θα το στηρίξω.

    Με την μαζική έξοδο του κόσμου, δεν περιμένω να φύγουν όλοι προφανώς. Το Reddit, θεωρητικά δεν θα πεθάνει, αλλά πρακτικά ναι, διότι το κοινό που νευρίασε με το Reddit είναι κυρίως το κοινό που παρείχε και το content.

    Όταν λοιπόν χάσεις τον κόσμο που φτιάχνει content τότε θα χάσεις και τον κόσμο που καταναλώνει αυτό το content.

    Επίσης για το Fediverse, γράφτηκα απο νωρίς στο Kbin, Mastodon, Tildes, Raddle και εδώ και απο όλα μόνο το Lemmy με τράβηξε οπότε και εγώ σκέφτομαι να κάνω εδώ το νέο μου σπίτι.

    Welcome to all of us, λοιπόν.

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  • technology Technology Reddit CEO: We’re sticking with API change, despite subreddits going dark
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Doesn't matter.

    Each user doesn't visit reddit once.

    I will be subscribed to more than one subreddit which means I will visit all of my subbed subs and thus reddit will lose all of these interactions.

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  • gaming Gaming Notes from the Starfield showcase.
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    Since this is a bethesda game I expect it to have full mod support. Or at the very least, they will probably not put artificial roadblocks for mod devs.

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  • fediverse Fediverse Here's why more people won't switch to Lemmy.
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  • Alkalyon Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%

    He has a master’s degree in Computer Science and works as a software engineer

    I doubt it, sincerely.

    The only difference in the onboarding experience is honestly that you can register to any server instead of one. Then you just subscribe to communities.

    There are all kinds of people here and if someone with Master's Degree in CS can't figure it out, then it's 100% on him.

    This ecosystem is different. If they don't want to put the absolute minimum amount of effort to even read 2 paragraphs in the first page, then they don't have anything to offer to this community and it would be best it they thought it is dead, honestly.

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    Gaming Alkalyon 1 year ago 99%
    Notes from the Starfield showcase.

    I just typed out a few notes during the showcase so I will put them here for discussion. * There are over 1000 world. These are procedurally generated but have handcrafted content placed randomly on them. * Every you see exists and all planetary objects can be visited. * Illumination is changing based on the atmosphere and the sun type/proximity. * Animation system and combat system has been reworked from the ground up. * You can play in 1st or 3rd person. * Resources exist and are collectable * You can find enemy camps on planets and/or other random things/locations. * You can fast travel to your ship. * You can have companions that aid you on the ship or on ground. * Visual style for the tech was called by devs as *Nasa-Punk* as in *advanced but worn* * You can choose landing spots on a planet or fast travel to an existing one. * You jump drive to other systems and can upgrade drive for longer jumps. * `New Atlantis` is the biggest city Bethesda ever created. There are more cities: * Akila city: Western style. Looked like RDR2. * Cydonia city: Mining city built for resources. * Neon: Known as *Pleasure city*. Cyberpunk style. * There is a *mythical* group called Constellation. They are the last explorers of humanity and are looking for answers to long lasting humanity's questions. Your main story revolves around them I think. * Character creation is vastly improved and it's extensive. Mocap used for the making. * You choose one of 40 (employee) presets and then put more details from there. * You choose your background and skills. Chef was an example. Your skills affect interactions in the game. * You can have up to 3 traits and each has pros and cons. * You get 1 skill per level and you can rank up skills. * 5 skill trees with 4 ranks per skill. Jetpack, mind-control and Neurostrikes(heavy strikes) shown. Great build diversity. * They studied data from NASA to strike balance between realism and fun. * There is dogfighting in space * Ships are highly customizable and upgradable down to rearranging modules around. * Can hire crew members with different skills * Ship has a power allocation system(think of an Equalizer style thingie). You can reallocate power according to situation. Shields and weapons for combat or engine for escaping, etc. * There's a trait that lets you target specific subsystems on an enemy ship. * You can destroy ships and loot them or board them and capture them for your fleet. * You can commit piracy on friendly ships. * You can build a outpost and produce resources from animals. * You can build outposts, assign companions to them and keep producing resources. You can decorate outposts and live there. * Guns are highly customizable down to type of ammo. Melee weapons exist. Miniguns shown. * Gravity changes with each planet. * Firing in 0g can push you back. * Photo mode exists. Please feel free to add any details I missed. edit:[ Here is the full showcase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMOPoAq5vIA)(45 minutes) for people who want to watch it.

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    Greece Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%
    Καλως ήρθατε στο /c/greece | Welcome to /c/greece

    Μιας και δεν υπάρχει κάποια ενεργή κοινότητα σχετικά με την Ελλάδα και τα νέα περι αυτής στο fediverse, είπα να κάνω την αρχή. Ευπρόσδεκτο όλων των ειδών το περιεχόμενο αρκεί να τηρεί του κανόνες του Instance και του Community. 🇬🇷

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    Asklemmy Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%
    Creating account on different instances and the effects.

    tl:dr at the end. I am one of the many people that were active in Reddit but I am also one of the ones that is going to delete their Reddit account on the 12th of June and move to Lemmy(Fediverse) full time. I have encountered a specific issue though which I am not sure how to solve. I wanted to create the equivalent community of `/r/greece` here, but I can see that the `/c/greece` is already existent but moderated by a user that is now banned, so that community is in limbo. People recommended 2 things: 1. Request the community in [!community_requests@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/community_requests) 2. Create a new `/c/greece` community in another instance. I have encountered an issue with both of these solutions. For the 1st solution, I created a request post 2 days ago which went unanswered(either accepted/declined) while other posts after and before mine, have been answered/resolved. I can understand there has been an increase in users and Dessalines can't administrate/moderate everything on their own but I can see that there are multiple Admins in lemmy.ml and I believe they should be doing something or step down and appoint other people there that want to do it. I have since, recreated the same request post in hopes that I can get the community and bring it to fruition. For the 2nd solution, I had created the `/c/greece` community in @lemmy.world but the problem is, that by going there I cannot find any community using the search functionality. I have 2 windows open, one logged into lemmy.ml and one in lemmy.world and when searching the same term, lemmy.world brings massively fewer results for communities so even if I wanted to use my account on lemmy.world I would have to use another instance to even ***FIND*** new communities. I am not sure why the reduced number of results but I guess there is an admin setting there that allows for federation with fewer instances. TL:DR Why is the searching for communities so vastly different between instances and how can users overcome it to discover new communities?

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    Community Requests. Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%
    Requesting /c/greece

    Having migrated here from reddit I thought about bringing life to a Greek community here in lemmy.ml. Unfortunately, there is a single moderator that has already taken /c/greece, /c/greek and other similar once but have since been flagged as banned. I would like to take over /c/greece and move it forward, instead of leaving it to rot in limbo as the moderator cannot be interacted with. [Here is a post of mine](https://lemmy.ml/post/1168162) inside the community to help [@dessalines@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines) with the process.

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    Greece Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%
    Πρώτη μέρα στο /c/greece

    Για όποιον τύχει και δεί το παρόν post ας γράψει τι σκέφτεται, πως του φαίνεται η πλατφόρμα και οτι άλλο θέλει, μιας και φαίνεται να γίνετια μαζική έξοδος απο το reddit και θα μπορούσε να υπάρχει εδώ, στο fediverse ένα εναλλακτικό community για τους Έλληνες.

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    Lemmy Support Alkalyon 1 year ago 100%
    Take over community from solitary mods that have been banned

    Being a newcomer and seeing as there is an increased amount of users migrating from reddit I wanted to see if there is one, or create a community. I have found that the community going by country name, has only one user, one mod and that mod is flagged as banned. Additionally, they are the sole moderator of similar communities by name as to somewhat gatekeep them, I supposed. What is the course of action from freeing up these communities? Or is it just better to create a new one in another instance and be done with it?

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