And when you do, maybe you can also tell them there is this tiny little company who offers Matrix, Mastodon, Lemmy and Funkwhale access for less than $2.50 per month, is not VC backed and pledges 20% of its profits to the Fediverse projects?
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If you really mean communities, then I'm not sure I agree with any of the premises... Having "big" communities is not a bad thing. it's already super difficult to get enough of a critical mass in any new community, and you are proposing a mechanism that will make it even harder. I also don't think we shouldn't be thinking in terms of "competition" when it comes to communities.
Unless you have deep disagreements with the mods of a community (no matter on which instance they are), it's simpler/faster/easier for everyone if we stick to the already established places.
Communities or instances?
FYI: there is already a Fediverse Marketing Community as part of https://fediforum.org/projects/. How about joining forces with the people who are already there instead of duplicating effort?
hi @preston@possumpat.io, perhaps Communick can help? I can throw in a couple of free months for free and host it for you...
The onboarding by topics is good, okay. For someone that is coming from Reddit, it would be even better if the the subscription was automatic and without having to think about it.
The other two, I think they improve the tooling a bit compared to Lemmy but they do not solve the problem of the Fediverse: content is still limited outside of the news/politics and that Federation makes it confusing to give a reference point when looking for content.
But overall, I think we keep making the mistake of building decentralized social media software focused on the server, replicating the corporate sites. We should be thinking about "switching instances", but simply of switching/improving clients.
Sorry, what about PieFed specifically solves the issues?
- Does it allow people to sign up to the instance directly from their Reddit credentials?
- Does it provide a mapping between Fediverse communities and subreddits, so that when people sign up they are automatically subscribed to their groups of interest?
- Does it provide a separation between topic instances and user instances?
I sincerely don't see how piefed relates to Fediverser at all...
Yeah, and this is the part where Fediverser was supposed to help. Not just with the mirrors to help bootstrap the content, but also with the whole part of Community Ambassadors. Sadly, no one got into the ambassador part.
Last season was great. It was only the finale that sucked...
(and, yes, if you want a HIMYM community, just let me know and I can make it on https://metacritics.zone/)
I'm making a poll on Mastodon to see if it's a matter of sample bias.
a large userbase so as to ensure there’s content to enjoy.
That's not a requirement. Yeah, it takes some getting used to the idea that people might have to be the first to "discover" a community in order to have it in the frontpage, but even my modest instance is well connected enough as to not seem empty to newcomers.
So, not federated/distributed?