If you want game-related communities, I can create them for you on https://level-up.zone and make you a moderator.
(OT: this decision of only allowing users of an instance to create communities is one of the things that I dislike the most about Lemmy. I am seriously considering creating a separate service to let people request communities on instances without an account)
One single popular cloud service that fetches the data for the users and this stops being true.
But I don't understand what you are trying to argue. Do you think that AP is only meant to be a single improvement about existing implementation for (micro)blogs?
This may be possible with a basic web stack
"basic web tech stack" is quite a bit hand-wavy, don't you think?
Yeah, indieweb sites could do a lot of things: authn and authz, content syndication, backlinking, Social Graph, etc. But none of them had been standardized and put into one single protocol. ActivityPub is precisely this protocol.
Saying that "we can do that with a basic web stack" is not that different from saying "we can have a protocol to publish XML content without styling using a basic web stack, why do we need RSS or Atom?"
And this is why I didn't hesitate to approve some of the recommendations there. Still, "topic-specific instances over generic ones" remains a primary guideline.
!latteart@lemmy.zip is identical to !rivian@lemmy.zip.
latteart does not have an topic-specific instance that I would consider a better home. rivian does.
Is it better to have no recommendation until some threshold is reached?
It could be. My concern though is that this will lead to just a bunch of communities created around the top 3 largest instances. I strongly believe that one way to avoid network effects acting in favor of any particular instance is by establishing a more clean separation between "instances for people" and "instances for groups".
That is a false fallacy. We know that is not true from failed blackout. There were multiple platforms that people could have gone to, but didn’t.
Absolutely disagree!
The blackout failed precisely because there were no alternatives that could provide the depth and breath of content to the hundreds of millions of users that Reddit still has.
The majority of people who tried Lemmy during the protests went back to Reddit, and the major reason is simply lack of content in the long tail of diverse interests.
So how does multiple instances help with that?
They don't help, but they don't make it worse.
We can have people on fediverser.network trying to convince redditors to migrate. They will check the website, go through the instance selector, find an instance and register. Hopefully, they will be auto subscribed to the communities that are recommended and be satisfied with what they have.
Let's say we have another fediverser instance deployed by some admin from, e.g, Slovenia. This admin goes and promote their fediverser instance as the best one from Slovenians that want to migrate. There will be no "find my instance selector", because the fediverser instance is already has connected to a specific Lemmy server. The recommended communities has some overlap with fediverser.network, but for some communities they will prefer to recommend the completely local one.
Let's say one of the admins from lemmygrad/hexbear/tankie.social also deploys their own fediverser instance. They will be reaching out to a different subset of redditors, and those redditors will be expecting a different subset of communities.
Three different instances. Three different audiences, all of them with the common goal of getting people to migrate from Reddit to the Fediverse. It doesn't matter from the individual redditor point of view which instance they used to migrate, as long as the recommendations are sound. But if we try to get every redditor to through the same one instance, we will end up satisfying no one.
I am one of the admins. Should I hire myself?
Getting people out of Reddit and into the Fediverse is the goal. If that happens though different Fediverser instances, it's fine.
What's the point of mirroring Reddit if the content is the same?
Because Reddit's content is not the problem, the rent seeking is. Their shitty client is. Their closing of the API is.
The people that are still on Reddit are not there out of loyalty, they are just there because that is where they find the content.
a reason for rejecting !rivian@lemmy.zip?
Because it is a community that is not on a topic specific instance with 3 posts, all by yourself.
why communities with 0 activity (e.g. !playstation@level-up.zone and !xbox@level-up.zone) are chosen over active ones?
That is my mistake. I was setting these communities for Reddit mirroring. What alternatives do you think should be in its place?
What is "here"? Because the majority of North America pretty much still believes that more policing == more safety.
XMPP had social media even before ActivityPub existed.