These siloed platforms are created to favor the companies, not the users. The web is open. We don’t need one different browser to read long articles, write a trip blog, or to read movie reviews.

The app-iification of the web is something that we should be eschewing away, not trying to replicate it because this generation grew up not knowing any better.

I get that the game is not as popular as before, but what is the problem of keeping in maintenance mode? A few hundred thousand people paying $5/month surely is enough to keep the servers running, no?

Well, yes, but a bridge to Discord could be bringing traffic from order of magnitude more people than we currently have, and we do not have the infrastructure for it yet.

There is a fork called Incarnator which sees some occasional commits, but I think it’s more of a maintenance project that an attempt to continue bringing innovation. I believe that my ADAPT project has learned all the lessons from Takahe and will manage to bring more exciting features.

Short of pruning the data every once in a while (and losing all history) there is nothing that can be done to optimize it. It may work as a proof-of-concept or if you want to run on your own, but I really don’t think it is a good idea to promote it.

The latter. Any instance that has at least one user following the bridge will have to process and store every message coming from the bridge discord room.

Do you really think this is a good idea? Have you considered the amount of traffic will be generated and the amount of data storage this will require?

So every new conversation thread becomes a new post and every response becomes a comment?

I’d say this is impossible, by design. The main problem of corporate social media is that it is controlled by an oligopoly, and we can not get this much concentration of power in a system that is designed to be distributed.

The world does not revolve around you.

The problems of Corporate-owned social media affect all of society. We need an universal alternative that can be a real threat to them and alternatives like the Fediverse serving only the fringes do little more than act as a “managed opposition”.

I am building some solutions to these problems myself

No need to be coy. What problems are you tackling? Where is the code? I agree with pretty much of what you are saying, this is why I started working on Fediverser, how about joining forces instead of coming with yet-another plan all on your own?

How old is TikTok?

level-up zone seems pretty dead to me

It’s not dead, it’s in a catch-22. It’s not open to users, so there is no way (yet) for users to create communities there without going through me. I want to find a solution for this on this summer so that I don’t become a bottleneck.

there’s only one mod who I have no experience with.

That would be me. I’m the one running the topic-specific instances. Nice to meet you.

If ttrpg.network doesn’t seem suitable to you, I can create a community on level-up.zone and make you a moderator.

I’d rather have communities in instances that are topic specific, that’s all. It is easier for discovery and easier to explain to newcomers.

Still, which instance looks more adequate?

There is a whole instance for that at https://ttrpg.network/

A lot of your problems woild go away if you stopped browsing by all…

It’s not a federation issue, just that the community was running the alien.top mirroring system and I stopped it.

Regarding “why I do not join you instead”: Nothing against you or lemmy.zip, I just do not want to contribute to communities that are on non topic-specific instances.

I can give you all the moderation powers and full control over the community at the topic-specific instance if you want. Also, my ADAPT project is very close to achieve API-parity with Lemmy, and this summer I am planning to convert the topic-specific instances to it. This will mean I will be able to add new features and make the work for content curation and promotion easier.

Yes, it was one of the alien.top targets. Still, better to use a topic-specific instance that already exists for 3 years than bootstrapping yet-another community.