Discord won because (...)
I'm pretty that they had valid reasons to have achieved such a dominant position in the market. But we can say the same about every other platform. Facebook, Reddit, Microsoft, Google... All of them were once the underdog who got a good product and leapfrogged the competition. The problem is what they did after to keep this position.
There is no way to get out of this cycle unless we start championing open source solutions, even if technically inferior at first.
Any problem in reposting content?
You will be the only one at first.
What do you achieve compared to using a throwaway account?
If you use a thrrowaway, Discord still keeps their dominant position and have no competition, so they will keep enshitifying.
If you use a bridge, more of their accounts will be just bridging bots, real users will be on the alternative networks and they will be forced to compete.
You don't need to self host, there are servers that do this for you
One person used Matrix and they sucked.
Judging people based on the messaging platform (or vice-versa) is one of the most shallow things there is nowadays. It's like girls who say they don't date anyone who uses Android.
Use Bridges. If you still need to interact with people on legacy platforms, use bridges.
Matrix make it super easy to interact with people on Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. Set this up for yourself and you get to be the pioneer of the group who can lead them to a better way.
Yeah, I disabled the alien.top mirror bots because most of the complaints were related to "I can not reach the real user by interacting with the bot".
So the next step is to build a proper bridge, which would solve this problem. I haven't worked much on that to be honest because I am waiting on the response from NLNet to see if I can get a grant, and because I am more and more pressed to do things that can generate meaningful income.
In any case, I need to reiterate that the content mirror and the bridge is separate from the "Login via Reddit" feature. If an instance admin wants no reddit mirror bots, they just don't need to enable it.
Both of them require use of client-side Javascript, which is blocked by most privacy extensions and browsers like Brave.
I'm of course biased, but I think that my approach on fediverser could pretty much solve issues of content discovery if more instances were willing to adopt it.
If we take as a given that most people coming to Fediverse already had an account on Reddit (and/or Twitter, Instagram, etc), then we can leverage the information they have on those platforms and use it during the registration to onboarding the user on Lemmy (and/or Mastodon/Pleroma, PixelFed, respectively)
Thanks, I think my question now is about figuring out if there is any ready-made dashboard for grafana. Maybe I just need to look a bit more.
I don’t think the parent comment was trying to make any negative comments about your site or even rant
I find that hard to believe when I see his username on the list of downvoters.
I think they were just making an observation about the state of job reqs.
And even if you shared that opinion, wouldn't you be at least interested in alternative methods for job searching?
You don't have to. I am not forcing anyone to go and use it. But it is weird how people go out of their way to post just a random rant on a community for people who want to give and receive feedback.
If the comment was about criticizing something specific about the site ("It looks ugly", "It didn't work", "why are you using login with third-parties", "some other tool already does it better", etc) I'd have no problem with it. But I really, really don't see the point of going around just putting down other people's efforts while going off merely by their own assumptions and biases.
Because the whole point is to leave the platforms from BigTech behind?