rglullis

The "huge fines" are proportional to the revenue of the company and there are plenty of legal steps that need to be taken before someone with a big stick gets involved.

Also, this is not an issue for the developers, but for the admins.

I think y'all are expecting too much from 2-3 poorly funded developers who are being overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of people who grew used to have a "free" product developed by a giant corporation who employs thousands of people and has revenue in the hundreds of millions.

I also think that this constant chasing for the next Messiah is counterproductive. I wish the best of luck for the Sublinks developers, but I also wish they could find a way to work to grow the ecosystem as a whole instead of competing for such a small slice of the Internet.

To put it all together: If the largest issue with Lemmy is tooling for moderation and proper instance management, I'd be more than willing to refocus my work on Fediverser into it. But I have to say that I can not put any more effort into it without getting proper compensation for anything. As much as I'm hopeful to see the Fediverse grow and for the downfall of Big Tech, I know that we will need more (a lot more) than just a handful of people working on this as side-job while thousands of other just keep watching and repeating "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

Not that I hold the Lemmy devs in particular high regard, but unless OP is cutting them a check every month enough to pay their full time salaries, I really don't think that he should be expecting anything just because he faced an issue that was difficult, but (a) not specific to the developers but the admins of the instance and (b) ultimately solvable.

I also think that this is not a reason to justify a whole fork or even a fully adversarial position. Yeah, tooling for moderation and instance management is lacking, but these can be built on top of the existing codebase. If my fediverser tool does that for user authentication and account management, it could also be extended for content moderation and provide granular access for staff.

I'm building on top of Funkwhale, so yes to both.

The instance itself is already up. To signup you need to become a member and $29/year gives you access to it, alongside with Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix.

What I am building now is a way that will unify this with a storefront which can let people sell their music and also a way to collect donations from their fans.

My low-tech and not photo-specific solution for this: I've created accounts for my parents on my matrix server, and we have a "family room" to share photos of the kids. The element client let's you browse all media upload to a room, so you sort of get the "chronological order" display.

Not to diss an open source project, but Faircamp is "just" a static site generator for artists that want to showcase their music. It has no storefront, can no communicate with customers, etc. People need a lot more than a nice-looking playlist .

If you are considering an alternative for Bandcamp, may I contact you? I am working on something that I hope can both be useful for artists looking for a mor stable income stream and music listeners who want an alternative to Spotify.

Take a look at https://fediverser.network/?mapped=true, and it will tell you exactly what are the recommended alternatives to any subreddit. This is a crowdsourced database, anyone can signup and make a recommendation, which I then can merge into the list.

So in theory, we could facilitate the migration of users in mass if the clients did two things:

• provided a "login via reddit" system (like the one on https://portal.alien.top)
• Use the data from the fediverser database to auto-subscribe the logged user with their list of subreddits (which could be obtained when they authenticate with reddit)

This would single handedly solve all the "content discovery" issues, and if more instances beyond alien.top integrate with fediverser, we could even have a system that selects an instance to user automatically.

But the social network can be open. My current idea is precisely to build this like communick (replacing Mastodon with Takahe) and make it on top of the activitypub-enabled services that can interop with other networks, except that to get accounts at the instances people need to pay the monthly subscription.

Oh, wow, talk about timing.

Last week, I wrote a post asking for feedback for an idea to fund musicians. While the feedback was mostly positive, I realized that what I was proposing wasn't necessarily restricted to musicians, and could be used as a model for all types of creative work. So I decided to take this whole thing and make a prototype for a "paid social media network where people and companies can contribute to anyone working in a creative project"

I would really like to help any of the existing clients to integrate the reddit-to-lemmy community map from https://fediverser.network. Voyager sort of has this functionality with the "migrate subreddits", but it does a very simple comparison of the community names.

5 to 10% at best.

5 to 10% of people creating new accounts would be amazing. The mirror accounts from fediverser collected around 1.5M accounts in about 2 months. 5% of that is 75 thousand, which means that we could be bringing 37.5k new users to Lemmy per month.

folk having less incentive to engage with those threads if it’s extremely unlikely

This will change with (a) the cumulative effect of new users migrating and (b) if we successfully explain to people that the idea is part of the orchestrated effort to get people out of Reddit.

I very strongly feel that a true 2-way bridge is the best solution,

There is also a practical issue to avoid sending comments to every reply. I will only have a message being sent to the comment if I can send it from the Reddit user (meaning, the Lemmy user that wants to use the two-way bridge needs to have an account on Reddit as well, ideally use their own API key to do it). I rather not use the fediverser API key to do that, because it can be flagged as spam and it will be likely to trigger a game of cat-and-mouse between Reddit admins and those running fediverser instances.

So this is why I'd like to make it configurable. There will be people like you, who'd be okay with mirroring your comments. There will be people like me, who do not want to contribute to Reddit further and just to use the response system as a tool to get more content on Lemmy and eventually start converting some of the users.

One account that just does everything.

And to do this it introduces yet-another non-documented, non-specified, non-ActivityPub compliant API to make the lives of client developers even more difficult.