Skavau
@Skavau@piefed.social
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
I'd object and probably complain and it'd get your instance blacklisted. I'd support all community migrations being made publicly known - so you can see the timestamps and paper trail of a community.
But this isn't quite the way that community migration would work here - it's not quite the same thing. You would be attempting to give the impression I am actively contributing to a community I'm not - whereas I'm talking about moving a community from instance A to B. The community for all intents and purpose is the same.
If did posted actively to a community I do not own or moderate and they moved server and thus took my posts there with them, I wouldn't really object to that.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
Well currently an admin could easily intervene and stop a migration by removing the community mods, to be fair.
For example, now that I am working on an AP server, I can take all your posts on !television@piefed.social and mirror them on !television@metacritics.zone. I could also avoid sending notifications to you, so you'd be aware of this only if you visited the site directly. How would you feel about that?
I mean you could just copy my posts anyway manually, if you were so inclined. There wouldn't be much I could do about it no matter how you did it.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
I don't think an admin of a server would think that if a community sets up there and operates there that they "own" it, to be honest.
Also, currently, it would only duplicate the content and change how it appears from a Piefed instance.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
I do. I care very much about identity and authenticity in the Fediverse. A server that can take posts done in one group and publish as their own is as unreliable as a server who puts fake posts impersonating a popular user.
Then we're at an impasse. But communities becoming completely modular and movable solves the problems you speak of. That's the answer.
again, why you are talking about Lemmy only? Mastodon instances from all sizes go down every other week.
Because I don't really care or know that much about Mastodon.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
First, I think that community migration implementation from PieFed has very bad implications. It is literally rewriting history.
I don't really care about that. If the idea of communities being effectively modular becomes an accepted standard, then no-one will blink an eye at their posts on a prior community being redirected after the fact to another instance.
Second, if we want to make the Fediverse something really accessible, it needs to be a lot more reliable. Yeah, when we are a few thousand people it's easy to coordinate the migration of a few dozen communities. But if we are talking about millions or billions of people, we can not afford to have constant failures.
We don't have constant failures though? What are you referring to here? Lemm.ee crashed out due to owner/admins burnout. That's the only major one i can think of.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
I don't see near enough people on lemmy, or look at enough profiles to notice this. And I don't agree that most accounts state their location in their biography.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
Sorry, I'm thinking strictly in terms of Reddit vs. Lemmy/Piefed/adjacent networks because they are essentially Reddit alternatives that function the same.
This is a strawman: I'm saying "We should not have to rely on open registration instances and hope that the admins get enough funds to keep going", which is not the same as "all instances should be paywalled".
If Piefed (or Lemmy) brings in effective community migration where an entire community can be lifted from one instance to another, then I am not bothered by future lemm.ee scenarios happening. Communities can become nomadic, and that's fine.
Again, it's not just about reddit. Also, it's about having places where politics are not such a proeminent part of the discussion. E.g, Threads got a lot of their initial momentum by avoiding politics and getting sports journalists to post about NBA and football.
That's on people needing to do that. You don't need to convince me of that. I'm doing it with music and TV.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
There is nothing stopping them, but there is no one here that wants them to come:
People don't really respond well to advertisements and influencers on Reddit either, for context.
Scroll around for a bit on the federated timeline of your preferred Mastodon instance, tell me how long it takes for someone to display an anti-business sentiment.
So here do you just mean "people tend to be democratic socialists/communists/anarchists"?
There is no one coordinated movement to get creators on YouTube and tell them "hey, if you start putting your videos on PeerTube we will contribute to your Patreon".
Oh, well I don't know enough about Peertubes success here. I don't really use that.
The majority view on "how to best fund the Fediverse" is "set up donations". Whenever I bring up "I think it's more fair if everyone paid just a little bit, this is why my instance is only for paying members", I am immediately treated as an evil capitalist pig.
Oh for goodness sake. I simply don't believe that a paywalled system as you imagine could ever even approach Reddits numbers, or even Blueskys.
Do you think that Fediverse is a good representation of the overall political spectrum?
Not really. So? Neither are major reddit subreddits in many cases.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
"Normies"? How?
What's stopping small businesses and influencers from setting up support communities to try and boost their profile?
What reporters?
Anyone who is not 100% aligned with their political mindset
Does this, by the way, not depend on the instance?
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
For the reasons above. It's not that they are "afraid of growth", but the general culture on the Fediverse is reactionary and averse to change. Making it more universally appealing would mean bringing different people, and this is what they are afraid of.
What changes are people afraid of? What "different people" is the Fediverse afraid of?
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
Why didn't they go to Mastodon? (hint: some of them did in 2022)
No idea.
Or perhaps there will be some other platform that is not so afraid of growth like Lemmy is, and people will go there, just like people went to Bluesky instead of going to Mastodon?
Yeah, there might be. But it'd have to be pretty similar to Reddit. I don't know of any right now.
I don't know how you think the fediverse is somehow afraid of growth though.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
The Bluesky surge happened after a massive global election result and a massive grievance from progressives/leftists over Musk and how Twitter has become. Indeed, if you think lemmy is politically partisan - then Bluesky is no different.
The Reddit -> Lemmy surge happened because of some poor Reddit admin decisions.
When the next fuckup from Big Tech comes around, do you think that people will think about going to Mastodon/Lemmy/PieFed, or they will just look at Bluesky?
It would depend on the site origin of the fuckup. If Reddit fucks up, as a reaction - Lemmy would get many new users.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 4 days ago:
You initially made the Bluesky comparison. And to be clear, by "Lemmy" I did mean the wider Fediverse.
In any case, Bluesky itself is also flatlining and declining anyway.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 5 days ago:
I mean Bluesky had 1 million registered users in September 2023, and 3 million in February 2024. It clearly had a higher base level footprint than Lemmy has ever had.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 5 days ago:
Tbf Idk what you imagine Lemmy can somehow do to entice new people
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 5 days ago:
When do you think Bluesky started? It was already a known place by many before the 2024 US election, and was founded by the ex-Twitter co-founder. The people behind it were several orders of magnitude more well known.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 5 days ago:
How are you noticing that you're specifically seeing less interaction from UK people?
- Comment on is there is any Lemmy server that care about privacy(does not require email), Does not impose limits on community posts like my current instance and does not have high amount of restrictions? 2 weeks ago:
I suppose it depends on the purpose of the community. Narrowly defined communities like eeveelutions or The Addams Family don't really justify a glut of content in an hour.
- Comment on Voting in the threadiverse 3 weeks ago:
Public voting, or at least semi public-voting helps cultivate a high-trust culture on-site in my opinion. And being able to remove repeat offending downvoters who do it nonetheless is very useful.
I managed to discover the serial downvoters on my old lemm.ee comm and when I banned them (about 4 of them?) it had a huge impact. They didn't all downvote /everything/ but they downvoted a lot of things, and no contribution. And if they got in early, they could sink new threads. As that kind of behaviour now is more-or-less confined to non-interacting support/troll accounts, it's much rarer of a problem. Unlike Reddit when a lot of threads can quickly get downvote buried instantly for seemingly no reason.
- Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
And the unnatural and extremely sudden increase in mentions - over just the last week or so, it's gone from Piefed almost never being mentioned anywhere to it being mentioned in hundreds if not thousands of threads a day. That also makes me suspicious.
It was gaining momentum anyway, but the big reason was the collapse of lemm.ee - which held many medium-sized communities having to find a new home. A lot chose piefed.
- Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Piefed isn't a centralised system itself. There isn't just one Piefed instance.
- Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
That's a strange comparison. I imagine someone who objects to the politics of the lemmy developers would also object to similar political expression said by anyone.
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- Comment on Get Your Chai Ready! Lemmy's Indiasocial is Here! 2 months ago:
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