That works too. Like some people prefer Arch btw, and that's wonderful. But... mainstream normies aren't likely to want that. Anyway, lemm.ee is already awesome and exists:-).
I'll just come out and say it: there is an enormous difference between a communist and a "tanky". For one, only one of those actually believes in communism, and for another one of them is capable of rational discussion without resorting to the "your (sic) stoopid (sp), nuh uh YOU are!" schtick. I have found it more protective of my sanity to block the other type.
Florida says hello. A bunch of other places too, sadly:-(.
The self-started purpose of hexbear is to "dunk" on people. That's not a bug - it's a feature. We need not be shocked, Shocked I say, SHOCKED when they do what they said that they will.
It would help immensely if a label could be applied, so that people do not wander over there without first being warned. Not that it's mandatory, but it's like porn: fine if that's what you wanted, though a bit surprising if not.
Reddit did things to us all. You couldn't like be nice to someone bc you would get your ass handed to you. EVERY comment had to be so defensive, and primarily what worked was snark. Here... is different, most of the time (and when it's not, we can block and move on:-).
I tried multiple times. They give me dirty looks and grief about all the political extremist content here. We who know how to block it tend to forget, but for a newcomer it's definitely off-putting. And yes X is that way these days too, but people already know it and don't visit it for the first time, so it gets grandfathered in.
We have some work to do before we will go mainstream.
I've stopped referring to community sizes - especially when there hasn't been a post for a year. Instead, monthly active users is where it's at:-).
And yet a glance at how the Russian army is equipped...
That's a good perspective. Mbin, Piefed, and Sublinks are all now implementing the ActivityPub protocol as well as Lemmy, meaning that even if "Lemmy" were to go away or fall behind or sth, the Fediverse overall would remain (as you said, and I am agreeing:-).
And entire new categories of things too - like I think that something as central as wikipedia shouldn't be federated (Russia, China, and North Korea would all have their "set of facts", separately from what the Western world uses, and e.g. Taiwan would be banned from using the latter and thereby forced to use the former, etc.), but for more niche concepts like individual video games or movie fandoms that's a great idea, so that just one single point of failure does not cause loss of all content.:-)
(and unfortunately as we see with the Internet Archive getting attacked recently, that aspect is revealed to be of greater importance than I think most people give it credit for - it's not easy to keep something up-to-date, particularly with "recent" edits, and ActivityPub as we see does so upon literally every single change, whether you wanted it to or not!?:-P)
Yup.
People being able to contribute more readily should really help the development move along faster, methinks, even though it is starting from behind and needs to play catch-up for awhile.
Yes but the only one I've ever seen that blocks all of the big 3 is lemmy.cafe. And even that does not block posts that advocate for violence - e.g. an example from literally yesterday, and this one from a memes community on Lemmy.world, from a user on sopuli.xyz.
Note that I am not advocating for removal of such content, only relating how in my personal experience, suggesting the Fediverse to normies has never once turned out any other way than badly. Granted, hexbear.net for its severity and lemmy.ml for its large userbase are probably 99.9% of the issue, but especially until after the election I have no plans to tell people about Lemmy anymore. After that, if lemmy.cafe still has Lemmy.ml removed, I will probably tell people about that one as an entry point.
Which isn't all on its own going to push the Fediverse into the mainstream, until we do more cleanup to make normal people feel welcomed rather than scared to be here.