Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this....
I don't have a Facebook, I don't use messenger, Instagram, whatever new crap they make, and I certainly don't want them to gather data on me, just because we happen to use the same protocol. Fuck meta.
A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it....
This could not be any funnier. Please reddit, take legal control of the piracy subreddit, right as you take the experienced mod team out. I'm sure everything will go fantastic.
When reddit goes dark on Monday, there will be a horde of people looking for an alternative. When the APIs go dark at the end of the month, another horde will come. When /u/spez says just about anything, it'll happen again. What can we do to prep here for that? How can we attract good moderators to moderate communities here?...
Setting up an instance isn't too bad, but it involves so much technical know-how, that a significant push to people self hosting their own instances probably isn't going to work out. If you know what a VPS is, know how to SSH, know how to get an HTTPS certificate, chances are you can read the docs and figure out how to get an instance running.
That's not really the issue though, the main issue is having some form of cohesion of communities. Lemmy is federated, but it's never going to take off if all these different communities continue to stay small and fragmented. And those larger communities need to handle all those extra posts and users, meaning their single server needs the resources to handle that demand. It's the centralization problem all over again.
I run my own instance, and while it's not hard to federate, it's cumbersome (I have to add it... to the search bar?). I would have expected to be able to drop in the name of a Lemmy instance, fetch a list of the top communities, and add the ones I want. You can't do this though, you have to add each individual "sublemmy" entirely by hand.
Until that problem is solved, and until the Lemmy project finds some better clever way to organize similar interests across different instances (technology@lemmy1.whatever and technology@lemmy2.whatever need some kind of way to merge), I don't think it will be largely successful. We need a way of creating large, active communities, without so much friction between "what server is it on?" It needs to be seamless, so we can distribute the cost to operate across all our instances, so no single entity feels like they need to keep throwing money at their server provider.
The best way to support Lemmy is to start drafting those PRs to make it better and to get closer to that sort of system.
Poll: What's a great webcomic that you're currently reading?
What did you read this month that you really like?...
YSK about corporations' strategies to kill open source protocols (ploum.net)
Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this....
Best thread I've seen thus far on the issue of Meta joining the Fediverse (social.coop)
ADHD alien (comics on adhd) (adhd-alien.com)
A couple of her comics have been posted here, but I think its important to link to the source as well 😀...
Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it....
Brandon Sanderson Lectures on Worldbuilding in Science Fiction and Fantasy (www.youtube.com)
Part 2 here...
Be kind to yourself (lemmy.world)
How can lemmy handle 5k+ signups per hour on Monday?
When reddit goes dark on Monday, there will be a horde of people looking for an alternative. When the APIs go dark at the end of the month, another horde will come. When /u/spez says just about anything, it'll happen again. What can we do to prep here for that? How can we attract good moderators to moderate communities here?...