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Meh, I'm not worried about myself, so much as whether the Fediverse itself will survive. Every single person that I've recommended it to irl comes back in our next encounter with how much politically extremist - and violent - rhetoric is used. Chapotraphouse is the least of the Fediverse's troubles, though it too is one of them.
Overall though they seem connected: not wanting to defederate from either lemmy.ml with its constant calls for guillotines (I mean... not that I don't understand the reason for such:-) or from hexbear.net, mainstream users are being turned away.
And since like 90% of Fediverse content is made by a couple handfuls of people, I do worry about our long-term sustainability. Oh well.
Yeah, the fediverse will die in a few years but I don't exclusively blame the tankies for this, it was always designed for them in mind to begin with.
I blame the regular users who, upon hearing about conservatives, immediately threw a fit and defederated all conservative instances before they could even get going. I think most Americans are to blame, really, their social divide is too overbearing and not at all willing to mingle with those of opposing political ideology.
The best solution I can think of is a federated chatroom, IRC-type deal. Not entirely sure on the logistics of how such a thing would even be moderated, but yeah, too much politics, not enough porn.
I'm personally willing to put in some effort to grow more content across the fediverse, branch out in topics. Maybe a general/random community will do well, where anything goes, but it'll need some dedicated members to get a foundation. Up to you, I suppose.
Let me introduce you to !fedigrow@lemm.ee , which can help with that
Or !justpost@lemmy.world I guess!
!justpost@lemmy.world does not seem to federate well for me - all of the posts seem to have no up (or down) votes or any comments. Then again, Discuss.Online just updated to 0.19.5 yesterday (from .3) so perhaps it's related to that. Usually when nobody from an instance has yet subscribed to a community, the posts themselves are not visible. This is the first time I've seen something like this where I can see posts, but the content in them (votes and comments) are missing.
Oh, also I see none of the posts that are more recent than a month ago (28 days). Though looking at it from a different instance reveals that there are new posts.
I just subscribed so hopefully that will help this instance federate the content in a few hours from now.
My normal process, if it helps to know, is to browse All, often by New, and if I see content that I like I will subscribe, or conversely if I dislike it (like a location-specific community) then I will block it. It seems that in this case, since nobody from my instance had subscribed before (or even weirder, someone did but then somehow that was dropped, 28 days ago), that was not working, since posts from it were not showing up even in "All".
It looks to be a very nice community - I will enjoy checking it out when it's ready, and will recommend it to others, thank you very much for sharing:-).