Came prepared to downvote this for being common sense, but judging by the comments it actually is surprisingly unpopular! Well played.

• !sekiro@lemmy.zip
• !bloodborne@lemmy.zip

Gotta actually link things if you want people to find them, my friend! 😉

Rock and stone, my friend ⛏

‘Bough’ and ‘bow’ are pronounced the same

Except, of course, when “bow” is pronounced “bow” instead.

Love rhythm games, hadn’t heard of this one, and I’ve been looking for new things to download ready for going on an internet-free holiday soon.

This recommendation was basically made for me. Thanks!

Oh lord, ok now things make a lot more sense 🤦‍♀️

Can I ask how you were “introduced” to .world? Just been wondering why that’s the one everyone is moving to atm.

Running an instance definitely does help, but the problem is convincing people your small instance is competently run and there to stay.

For people unable to selfhost, ways to help include:

• Making posts and comments, especially in smaller “dead” communities. Preferably about things other than Reddit.
• Contributing fixes on GitHub
• If you’re unable to do that last one, contributing quality reproducible bug reports on GitHub (rather than in, say, instance-specific meta communities)
• Helping to answer questions from all the confused new Lemmings, yes a lot of them are asked repeatedly but we want people to learn and stay so be polite and patient.
• Making sure people know about finding communities through sites like lemmyverse.net
• Curating lists of related communities and approaching mods to have it stickied or added to their community sidebar (helps people navigate around within their niche interests)
• Going to the extra effort of including local links when you mention a community, so people can find their way directly to the subscribe button. Example: !crochet@lemmy.ca (Lemmy / Kbin)
• And of course, shitposting memes.

I’m no fan of defederating over minor disagreements but yeah, some types of people are just incompatible with building a welcoming space. Good choice.

Update to my own confusion:

1. You see the rainbow icon on posts that aren’t from your home instance. This icon takes you to the full original URL of that post on the remote instance.

2. The regular chain link icon on comments does indeed give you a link to a comment via your home instance. But that’s no good if you’re trying to link it agnostically for everyone else.

I don’t even see that icon on posts (desktop, web), only on comments. So now I’m even more confused! :D