Sorry, what about PieFed specifically solves the issues?
I sincerely don’t see how piefed relates to Fediverser at all…
Yeap, there is a whole video from nerdstalgic talking about how that scene could have saved the finale.
Yeah, and this is the part where Fediverser was supposed to help. Not just with the mirrors to help bootstrap the content, but also with the whole part of Community Ambassadors. Sadly, no one got into the ambassador part.
Last season was great. It was only the finale that sucked…
(and, yes, if you want a HIMYM community, just let me know and I can make it on https://metacritics.zone/)
I’m making a poll on Mastodon to see if it’s a matter of sample bias.
a large userbase so as to ensure there’s content to enjoy.
That’s not a requirement. Yeah, it takes some getting used to the idea that people might have to be the first to “discover” a community in order to have it in the frontpage, but even my modest instance is well connected enough as to not seem empty to newcomers.
Looks like I need to improve the marketing and messaging…
See that “grayed out” SIP part? That’s what was meant to be my first actual service, but I can not afford to offer SIP until I consistently hit ~$1000/month in revenue.
Yeah, please don’t give up. I need more people like you here.
I’m finding it incredibly ironic. Mine is the only instance that is unashamedly for-profit and access is only for paying customers…
Sorry, it wasn’t clear to me. Are you saying that your first association of the name Communick is with “Communism”?
You are the first that makes this association, at least that I know of.
Communick is rooted on “Communication”, “nickname” and “unique”: because the original idea was that people that sign up to the service get an unique username across all instances…
I really don’t get this “if you don’t block XYZ, it means you are in favor of them”.
My instance does not block any of the big tankies, and yet it has not been a problem.
Well, I’ve always said that Communick is not meant to be an instance focused on any particular group, so perhaps it could count as “normie” for her?
Oh, wow! I don’t think I ever saw them. I’ll see if I can find a way to cross-post to the sport-related Lemmy communities that I have.
Still, it would also be nice to be less reliant on bots and to get more people involved in the content creation…
i hate IP laws, but it is what it is
It is what it is because we are too afraid to challenge them.
which made you demand that everyone else change their usage patterns to filter out the spam you created.
I really don’t get this argument. Browsing by “all” is akin to drinking from the firehose, people are not using the affordances that the software provided from the very beginning and then the problem is with those who are bringing content to the network?
the existing lemmy codebase was probably not performant enough for what you were planning anyway
Au contraire!. One of the reasons that I was creating so many different instances was precisely to avoid concentration of communities in a single instance. In Lemmy’s currrent design, the communities are the chatty agents. Every comment and post becomes a message broadcast by the community. The reason that LW has become problematic in the overall network is less about the amount the user it has and more because of its communities.
But it creates a chilling effect
I just disagree, here. In fact, it feels like the opposite is the problem here. I feel like the Fediverse is so concerned about being a place for minorities and outcasts that it only accepts fringe opinions.
Mastodon is a really crappy name.
May as well be, but completely irrelevant. There are a dozen other projects providing microblogging and a Twitter-like experience. All of them failing to appeal to a more “normie” crowd.
So, if “official” support is not allowed on Bluesky, even less on the Fediverse. This means that we will be on our own for the foreseeable future (until Twitter/Facebook completely collapses)
what can we do here? I’ve been posting pretty consistently, but I also wish others could chip in:
Suggestions are always welcome.
Sorry, I reject the premise. The cartoon does not make sense in a decentralized/distributed system.
Lemmy/Mastodon/“The Fediverse” are not isolated places, but an ecosystem that can sustain many different niches.
A Lemmy community is a place. A topic-focused instance is a place. The minority here shouldn’t be worried about any tyranny from the majority because they can always have their boundaries established and they can choose how permeable they are.
We can’t really replicate that on Lemmy (hopefully one day we will)
Get the admins to install fediverser, and this is exactly what you get. New users can be automatically subscribed to list that can be managed by the admin.
I missed another F, for Fun.
The onboarding by topics is good, okay. For someone that is coming from Reddit, it would be even better if the the subscription was automatic and without having to think about it.
The other two, I think they improve the tooling a bit compared to Lemmy but they do not solve the problem of the Fediverse: content is still limited outside of the news/politics and that Federation makes it confusing to give a reference point when looking for content.
But overall, I think we keep making the mistake of building decentralized social media software focused on the server, replicating the corporate sites. We should be thinking about “switching instances”, but simply of switching/improving clients.