rglullis

Language changes. "porn" has been used to express "visually stimulating imagery" and "simulacra of the real activity" for quite some time. There is nothing dumb about appending porn to the SFW subreddits, because there is no better expression (*) to succintly express that those subs are not made for deep/meaningful discussion.

(*) Maybe it could work with "obsession" or "fetish", but the pearl-clutching crowd would also criticize the sexual connotation.

No real benefit in promoting this over !unixporn@lemmy.world. If you were at least creating the community in a different instance, I'd be happy to help.

If you'd like to reconsider and help reduce the reliance on LW, I can create a community for you on https://poweruser.forum/.

• Sign up to Fediverser
• Search for communities for your interests.
• The community should be associated with a subreddit. If it's not, you can make a suggestion for the change.
• Apply to become a Community Ambassador. I'll approve it. Once you are approved, you will be able to do the following:
  • See the posts from the subreddit that is associated to the community.
  • Send DMs to people on Reddit, inviting them to join Lemmy and your community
  • Add other sources of contents (RSS feeds)

There were more things that I had planned, such as the ability to do one-click repost of interesting links, but I didn't get to it because that would mean effectively that I would have to turn the fediverser site into a an alternative Lemmy frontend.

I really wish more people had taken on the "Community Ambassador" work that I've done for https://fediverser.network/. It could be really helpful in creating a focal point for everyone that wanted to help the migration of people interested in a specific niche.

She touches on the aspect of monetization and claims that "you could save money by being on the Fediverse".

Yes, in theory it is possible. In practice this is something that only is available for the already-famous journalists who have enough pull to move their audience from Substack to their own property.

For everyone else, the Fediverse is (a) too small and (b) too "anti-money" to encourage professionals to even try making a living here. They stay on Substack for the same reason that video creators stay on YouTube: it's a horrible master, but at least it lets them pay their bills.

a right-libertarian

You have no idea how wrong you are, but if this is what you need to believe to sleep at night, I won't be able or interested in changing your mind.

Quite on the contrary, if anyone seriously tried that it would fail quickly and just result in burned investments

What do you think that Automattic, Flipboard and Ghost are doing? Do you think they are paying people to develop integrations with AP because they are really nice people and have zero intentions of profiting from their investments?

Look, I better leave this conversation. I should have learned by now that there is no point in arguing with ideologues.

would be a very poor substitute most likely

• phanpy is already doing it for Mastodon, and there are plenty of people satisfied with it.
• You have no idea how far one can go by getting a generic training model and fine-tuning on the device
• we don't need to have something a perfect replacement. We just need "good enough".
• even if it is not perfect, it is better than the nothing that reactionary "no algorithm in the Fediverse!" crowd is bringing to the table.

That is just not helpful at all, because it destroys the very foundation of what the Fediverse tries to achieve.

Says who? You and the gatekeepers who'd rather have everyone stuck in the past, just to preserve some technical/ideological purity?

Yes, they do like the personalized algorithmic feed, and that is inseperable from the surveillance part.

There is absolutely nothing stopping the personalization algorithms to run on-device or delegated to a separate service from the video feed.

they certainly don’t want to pay for it either.

It doesn't have to be a "donation/public funding" vs "ads/surveillance capitalism" dichotomy. I bet we can find alternative models of governance and funding, provided we get to a place Fediverse is relevant enough to attract the attention of some small business, media channels, institutions, etc.

There is no point in trying to make the Fediverse a copy of the corporate social media to appeal to users that see no reason to switch.

Again, this is just a lazy cop-out and a perfect display of the hubris here that is so off-putting.

You make it sound that the people using Instagram or TikTok are there because they like the Surveillance Capitalism, or getting bombard by ads, or they are all sucking up to Zuckerberg. Have you ever considered that maybe people are still there because they actually like some of the features they use in the products and they can't find it here?

"Millions of people", let's round it up to 10 million, ok?

Instagram reports 2 billion active users. TikTok reports 1.5 billion, Facebook reports 3 billion. So, the Fediverse as a whole gets maybe to reach 0.6% of the major networks.

Do you want compare only with the Threadiverse with Reddit? Let's be again be generous here and round it up to 60k MAU. Reddit is reporting around 75 million MAU. So, even if we consider that Reddit is lying like crazy and that 2/3 of the users on Reddit are fake, Reddit is ~400 times larger.

This is cockroach levels of usage.

Yes, the Fediverse will survive. But it doesn't mean that it ever was relevant.

Without a clear anti-capitalist and anti-oligopolist stance it will be co-opted and destroyed

With this continued "anti-capitalist" stance there will never be anything to be destroyed. Without real investment and resources, this will be forever nothing more than a castle made of sand.