To give them their due (little as that may be), this only seems to prevent users from logging in to the mobile web interface, not from viewing content as a random user from Google.
I don't think a roulette would work, because not all instances are created equal. Like, just look at Lemmygrad for the proof of that. There are other differences too, like some instances turn off downvoting.
I've had to change my mindset; if I care about it existing, then I have to be the one who makes it. I've already created !smashbros@lemmy.world and I've become a mod for !ukcasual@lemmy.world.
I think if he was in the thread trying to answer the hard questions, explaining how some of the apparently more l blatent lies were mistakes and apologising for them, and admitting that they need to go back to the drawing board and listen to the community more, then we'd all have regained a little trust in him and the company. But instead he's ignoring most people and pretending everything is fine.
Dreadfully tired after a late night of doom scrolling, but the day is glorious and there's work to do outside, so it'll probably balance out. Good afternoon friends!
I'm kinda loving the vegan flavour in these memes, never saw that on Reddit and always got the vague impression a lot of people there looked down on it.
I think there might be more going on as the post in question is 4 days old, and all the comments are at least 1 day old; is the syncing typically days behind? The federated version that OP links shows 0 comments, and the version on my instance has just 5 comments.
Is it to do with when a user on the remote instance first interacted with the post? I.e, its only showing comments from after someone on lemmy.sdf.org first interacted with the post?
I saw this story going down on Reddit a few days ago but only just now learned that the original creator of r/BattleTech came back to boot out the bad mods, which is pretty cool.
I think I'll put my hand up. I've not got mod experience, but I'm very interested in making Lemmy the best that it can be, and I am/was a regular on r/CasualUK. So if you still need help then sign me up!
I think the conventional way this is handled on Reddit is separating memes and fluff into one one community (subreddit) and more discussion based content into another community. It works on Reddit because even if the memes get more engagement in an absolute sense, each subreddit has it's own yard stick for what is doing well, so a discussion that makes it to the front page of its own subreddit will make it through to the front page of users who are subscribed, alongside the memes. I don't yet know enough about how Lemmy ranks posts to know if this will work, but hopefully it will.
From my limited experience so far: