There is also !carporn@sfw.community, if you want to join.
rglullis
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I usually share the opinion that making sexual references to everything is silly, but in the case for the communities that are based on Reddit's "SFW Network", it seems appropriate.
If you think about it, all these communities are just sharing visually stimulating images and are intended to be consumed without significant context. This is pretty much the definition of porn.
If anything, I kind like the idea of having a name in the community that reminds you that of you shouldn't be spending too much time on...
You can and should fund the developers as much as possible , but I am talking about paying for the work done by the instance admins and moderators.
It doesn't matter. People will never understand the difference between the open web and walled gardens.
People say they want freedom, but in reality they want to become little tyrants. We've been asking for years to have a level-up playing field, and now that we do these reactionaries are going to find something else about it.
only lists singular alternatives?
It's comprehensive for the point of view of subreddits, not of the Lemmy communities. The idea is to have one recommendation for each subreddit, not of all communities that can theoretically be related to a given subreddit.
The goal should be to attract lurkers and convert them into posters.
That was also my argument when Reddit content was automatically mirrored on alien.top. That's also one of the reasons that I'm giving preference to topic-based instances. If someone sets up a Fediverser instance to mirror Reddit content and sends them to a topic-based instance, there will be less complaints than if the they are pointing out to a community on an instance that happens to host one relevant community.
we should have multiple Fediverser sites?
Multiple fediverser sites is not a problem. Actually, there are already other deployments and I'm actively looking for other admins willing to deploy it on their servers.
You are right. The wording needs to change, it should read as something like "comprehensive map of alternatives to Reddit", which is only in the subheader.
I thought we want people to embrace the Fediverse because it’s Fediverse and not to create a clone of enshitified platforms.
Baby steps. go take a look at /r/RedditAlternatives right now and see how many people are telling how difficult it is to migrate. We are not getting them out of enshittified platforms if they are thrown into a whole new paradigm. We need to ease them into it.
So it’s better to promote the same popular communities and create a doom-loop of no new community ever-growing in activity because it never gets recommended?
Yes. The paradox of choice is real. You and I might prefer to have absolute control, but the large majority of people are simply looking for a straightforward solution to their immediate needs. Just last week I was arguing with someone on !newcommunities@lemmy.world because it was the 5th community in a month created to talk about TV shows and movies.
If the recommended alternative is bad somehow, then sure let's move on. But if it is good enough, then please just let it be flexible and accept it.
Embracing diversity and federation are the fundamental principles behind Fediverse to me.
The code is open source, and you are welcome to run your own instance of Fediverser, and the recommendation database can be cloned or forked however you see fit.
Don't forget, the main goal of Fediverser is not to create a comprehensive map, but to help people who are migrating from Reddit and are not familiar with how the Fediverse works to get started. For them, it's better to have one entry point for most of their topics, then to give them a bunch of different communities with the same name but slightly different mechanics.
What amount of activity is considered enough?
Ideally, something proportional to the corresponding subreddit and with more than one single person dominating the posting.
Basic things like spam, illegal content and alike everyone can agree on.
That seems enough for now. But there were also cases of communities that were on smaller instances with poor uptime or seem abandoned. I removed them.
Are the recommendations bad? In most cases, the ongoing criteria are:
- topic-specific instances over "generic" ones.
- Activity.
- No constant issues of downtime / poor moderation.
You are right though about the "locking" mechanism. I'm also not too happy about it. Maybe I remove the "locked" attribute and just hide the forms in case the recommended instances and communities are healthy.
In the meantime, please post on https://communick.news/c/fediverser_network in case you have any community recommendation that you think should be revised.
And Thunderbird can do email/rss/newsletters and even Matrix...
Not to worry, there are plenty of other segments that I could use some help:
Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade
It's not just Reddit. Civic debate has completely deteriorated with the rise of Social Media. It amplified everyone's voices to the point that left drowning in a sea of noise.
Thank you! Fixed now.