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(Lets forget about the part when one guy started copying entire threads including their users, which was not well thought out)

That was me. ;)

And sorry to disappoint you, I thought about it a lot. Mirroring the entire thread was less about the benefit the (few) users that are here and more about the potential to bring the masses of Reddit users who are stuck there because they (rightfully) claim that they do not have any other place to find their niche content. Mirroring the entire thread was also a way to ensure that we were (a) breaking the monopoly on the conversation and (b) creating an incentive for app developers to create a hybrid Lemmy/Reddit client, that could read from Lemmy and post to both, which would effectively make the transition away from the siloed network completely transparent.

The one thing that I didn't get to execute properly was that I should've completed the two-way bridging before enabling the full mirrors.

A Lemmy instance is not just a basket for specific topics, it’s a expression of ideology...

1. This is booooooring. So boring. This is the kind of thing that keeps people away. To the absolute majority of people, social networks are about FFF: Friends, Family and Fucking.
2. It's not an exclusive option. If you are part of 5% of people who want to be in the small, niche group are still free to do so. The other 95% of people who just care about gorging in from the content hose would be perfectly happy by following from the larger topic-based instances.

A slow and steady promotion of lemmy is the best that can happen

This is what the Mastodon crowd would also say. Now they are seeing constant churn and watching Bluesky grow, and have to bury their faces in the sand arguing stupid things like "Bluesky might be winning, but they are not really decentralized". Yeah, it is true. It's not "really" decentralized. 99.98% of the world will say "so what?" and continue to use it.

I'm tired of consolation prizes and moral victories. I want the web to be free, and I want it to be free for more than just a tiny niche of ideologues. Slow and steady will not win against Big Tech.

Content is King. You can have a good chunk of people that manage to go through the UX issues, they will still leave if they don't find what they want. The mirror bots (alien.top, lemmit.online) were meant to help with that, but the people here would rather complain about the post volume instead of learning how to follow only the subscribed communities.

Painless onboarding is second. Fediverser is meant to help with that, but no other admin has shown interest in adopting it.

A clear way to find-what-goes-where is third. My proposal to separate user/local instances from topic-based instances has been rejected here, even after I offered to put them under the governance of a wider admin group.

Now, I'm tired of this culture and small thinking. Fine if you want to be proselytizing and convincing people "at retail", but this will not be nearly as impactful if we had a dozen people who had the courage to setup a Lemmy instance with Fediverser.

I’d ask why you swiped on them in the first place.

For women:

• because getting a match (even if from a "maybe") is always a confidence boost.
• because the abundance of men allows them to be extra picky. If they are matching with 8, 9 and 10s, and you are a solid 8. Your luck with them will depend on how many messages they got that night from 9s and 10s.

For men:

• Shotgun, spray-and-pray approach.

Who wants to talk to someone who, based on all available evidence in this scenario, can’t hold a conversation?

Lonely and/or horny people.

"why aren't I having fun conversations?"

You are taking their question at face value. What they really mean is why am I not being contacted by attractive people?

Already did it for https://cupid.careers/... I can easily port it to another site to make a dating Fediverse actor

And they all end up being bought by match.com

That's a good point.

Not everything needs to happen in the Fediverse. E.g, you can have the messaging part delegated to email, xmpp, matrix... Then you add a system where the other party needs to send a "request for contact info" separate from the public profile.

I am working on website that is Okcupid for Jobs. You follow @thecupid@cupid.careers and it posts questions that help you match with other professionals that might work well with you.

and the apps are dreadful as I’m sure many of you know.

What about Federation would make the apps better?

Lemmy devs are only going to do what they want to do when they want to do it.

I know, I agree, but I don't really blame them. Either we need to find a way to support them with more resources so that they can increase their output, or we need to take it upon ourselves to make the changes that we would like.

This RFC is just about how to present the information returned from the API (activity pub is not involved at this level)

I know and it was clear from the beginning. I am just really tired of dealing with different clients and different accounts to participate in the Fediverse, and I really want to see more clients implementing the C2S side of ActivityPub...

I'm not a "Lemmy App developer", but I am interested in having more fediverse apps that can rely on ActivityPub directly and less on the server-specific APIs, so I would propose something completely different:

1. Do not add any type of ad-hoc changes.
2. Image Galleries can and should be represented as ActivityPub collections. Push the Lemmy devs asking to add a "gallery" collection to the Page object.

Yeah, I know that this route would be a lot more complicated than pushing for a quick feature. Still, it seems worth doing.

Many of which I have no idea how they plan to make money. Astral (the creator of ruff and uv) is one recent example.

We are getting off-topic, but to me it seems clear that they are trying to become to the Python world what npm became to Javascript?