rglullis

Now for football, you don’t care enough about football or pretty much any of the instances you host to make them active AS AN INTEREST

That is not true. Football, Basketball, Hardware, Self-Hosting, Web3/Ethereum, Photography are all things that I created because it were topics I followed on Reddit. I still post, but finding content to post to bootstrap dozens/hundreds of communities is a full-time job.

find someone to lead each instance as it was their baby

Short of paying someone else to do it, I've tried pretty much anything. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.

No, I don't think he is sleazy or have ill-intentions. I think he genuinely wants to do good things.

The problem it's just that he lacks focus and he worries more about feeling validated than dealing with the daily grind of continuously improving his product. As soon as any of his projects start getting a minimal amount of interest and people start depending on what he has promised, he finds himself some "new" project to be busy with. At the same time, he still feels possessive about his creations, so it's hard for him to just delegate away any significant part of the system.

I hope that the successful kickstarter makes him realize that shit got real and that he already got the validation that he was seeking, and that the money is enough to get him surrounded by good people who are a bit more focused on "proper" project management.

down votes use “Dislike” which is not used in the ActivityPub language

Dislike is an Activity type defined by ActivityStreams, which is the basis of the ActivityPub vocabulary.

And how are you going to cover the ~4000€/year to operate the topic based instances?

The cost to operate the instances are already sunk with the rest of the infrastructure that I have to operate the rest of Communick.

Centralization was happening on Reddit

This is an apples to oranges comparison. No financial resources are needed to run a subreddit.

monetization of a forumli or social media is always going to be reluctant. (...) The vast majority of people were against a 5$ one time fee.

Again you and your argumentum ad "other people"...

Why is so hard for you to say "I don't want to pay for it?" Why is it so hard to plainly state that you don't think that the work of admins is not worth anything?

Did you expect me to go to another single admin instance just after having lost a previous one?

Ah, my bad. I thought lemmy.film going down was a recent event. In any case, how much longer will my instances have to stick around for you to accept that they are not going anywhere?

There was a reason given, but it smells of bovine excrement: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114041543384358354.

When probed a bit more about it, the silence was deafening.

My position is

The more time passes, the more you are being proven wrong and the less you are willing to concede:

• You keep conflating the topic-based instances with the subscriptions to the accounts on Communick, even when I made pretty clear that the topic-based instances were meant to be kept open, without monetization and there was no plan to charge for anything there.
• Centralization continues to happen around the bigger instances, because the donation-based system is not enough to support the handful of admins that are willing to operate servers as a hobby.
• The Fediverse continues to struggle with growth and attracting mainstream appeal.

due diligence when I choose an instance to host a community I post too (...) I think they are a good sysadmin and do a good job, but they need a backup.

Couldn't that apply to lemmy.film as well? Why were you then okay with posting there, but not on soccer.forum or metacritics.zone?

I'm not saying he is "an issue". What I am saying is that he refused to help at every opportunity.

it’s better to work on one at a time than trying to make them all a success at once.

He is already actively promoting and posting more than a handful of communities on lemm.ee and others. The only communities where he consistently found justifications not to help are the ones I run.

To repeat: I am not demanding anything from him and I am not entitled to anyone's goodwill. But if someone has any form of objection or issue with me or my work, I'd rather they make it explicit so that everyone else can evaluate for themselves than sticking with this eternal avoidance and non-committal position.

Ok, let's see if !football@soccer.forum does any better...

I believe you will find that most mods are narcissistic to various degrees.

Yep, I lost count already of how many mods of small communities I contacted, asking them if they were willing to cooperate and work together on a topic-specific instance. They'd rather be talking to themselves on "their" community than working together with others to build something with a chance of success.

There are also some other people posting highlights via Mastodon.

But it doesn't matter if it was one or two people. One or two people are already more than the zero you had at LW.

The best is the enemy if the good.

Please, stop trying to rationalize your behavior. Your actions have already proven where your values and interests are, and where they are not.

I'm not expecting to change your mind and I'm not expecting any form of cooperation from you anymore. All I'm asking of you now is to be honest and outright state that you simply are opposed to what anything I do, build or propose.

At that time, there were more people posting on soccer.forum. This means that, if you had joined me and the others on soccer.forum, the network effects would grow in its favor.

So, yeah, you could've helped me and the topic instances. You could have helped with decentralization a lot more than "moving from the first to the second largest instance". But for some personal reason you refrained from it.

And again, it's fine if you don't want to help, but don't go around acting like your hands are tied.

If you want to take one data point in the extreme end of a distribution curve and use to construct an argument, then let's just agree you are not in for an honest argument.