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  • From experience: I can say that a topic instance such as ours is easier to moderate due to the fact that it’s narrowly focused and the number of posts here are small in comparison to a general instance such as lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. I moderate the users that join pretty fiercely so I know that the only people that join/post from here are interested in amateur radio in some fashion. I also think we are a bit lucky in how we moderate with the fact that hams tend to moderate themselves and others already through their acts and experiences with radio communications in general (thanks everyone!).

    I sorta see how you can view niche instances as having sub-subreddits. Generally though, every community out there is just a subreddit and you can subscribe and post to any of them, even though some communities do share the same topics (there are lots of other amateur radio communities out there).

    I definitely like seeing people creating communities here, as long as they are amateur radio focused (see rule 5). I also would suggest making an account on a general lemmy instance as well, in case you would like to make a more generalized community. I think it’s probably just good practice on any federated application to create accounts on multiple instances.

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  • BenDoubleUtoAmateur RadioSpotting with the Fediverse?
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    For lemmy: it’s mostly link sharing, so I’d mostly see posting about *OTA experiences, pics, questions here in the POTA/SOTA communities.

    Mastodon, on the other hand, would just be one way to show something like that since it’s more time related and ephemeral. Bot was my first stab at something like you mean, but I do think there could be something to auto-post with all that data.

    And while not on the fediverse: I use hamspot for something like this. It flips the onus of posting a spot to actually listening FOR a spot from people you know around the fediverse.

    BUT if we want to let our ideas get REALLY wild with it: I could totally see a federated service for spotting or any *OTA related activity. Different instances handing different kinds of spots. Parks or summits or islands being different items that people can subscribe to, spot from, and activate. Just spit ballin’.


  • I could see a community used for spotting. Not sure how the browser extension part would work.

    I see people post a sorta self-spot on mastodon all the time. Something that might be nice is a mastodon bot that could read a certain hashtag or if it was @ed so everyone could follow the bot to see who is activating.