You just made me snort diet Sprite.

Mods please install an upvote twice button.

aeooooooooooooo

Well then, get working on the competition.

You need to show up in a little box on their interface otherwise they’ll never find you.

Yes but you are punished for trying to show up in the little box, when you could show up out the window instead. Always playing an always losing game makes like, less than zero sense to me: it makes negative sense!

Of course it is, but then again: it’s because everyone else is talking. No one stops everyone else from starting their own project and overtaking his by sheer power of community. Until that happens, one man would have to suffice.

Should we be apprehensive about using his projects?

I mean, we certainly aren’t, as evidenced by the fact that even with the whole power of numbers and community, an alternative hasn’t sprung up yet. And that’s the thing. Dansup is walking; most of everyone else is talking (shit).

You’re free to start delivering code and release of your own! Dansup is walking, most of everyone else is talking.

The complaint is that most of the All feed is US politics, a topic which is already massively dominant on Reddit. Some people are looking at alternatives because they want to avoid that. If it’s the same, why bother changing and not stay on Reddit?

Well then the key is to not show the All feed. That feed, by its very design, is about showing the overview of what is going about “the known fedi”, and we can’t control what other people talk about, fedi or otherwise. If he current news is Luigi, exploded Starlink launches and double Nazi salutes, that’s what’s going to be talked about - and the presence of generalist instances is going to amplify that effect. Unless you have enough cats, enough Linux, or enough ich_iel.

A lot of people came here because they wanted third party apps on Reddit.

Well then they were told wrong: here it’s not about developing for Reddit. In fact, when someone tried to act on trying to bring people from Reddit or emulating “third party app” by bringing in the threads from Reddit, it was the lemmings who complained (even if rightfully so).

This is booooooring. So boring.

If you are part of 5%

And yet it’s the point. If you just make Lemmy yet another place for the commercialized majority, all that results in is yet another cicle of people who care getting pushed out and have to create a new platform elsewhere. Wasted effort. Rinse and repeat.

You want the web to be free? Then you have to guard against the effects that make it unfree, one of which is the firehose of users who only have a mentality of “consoom” and who think “the internet” is the tiktok button on their smartphone.

A way of combining communities into “multilemmys” would be great.

Don’t mbin already have this?

There is no ideal generalist instance. If you open the top 20 instances

[proceeds to list pretty much all good instances, and complains about hexbear]

…I’m curious, what is your definition of “generalist”? Because I suspect it involves “not punching nazis”.

Agree. I’m of the opinion that the default view for guests should be Local, Scaled. Or alternatively, Local, Popular. But never All, and certainly not mixed with Active.

To be fair, you can’t say they’re wrong. Open https://discuss.online/ , by default you’ll be set on All - Active. Out of the first 9 posts you see, 8 are about T or M, the last one being a meme.

The fact that they (or you) complain about the “All” timeline having the same stuff in all servers shows they have no idea what they’re talking about: that’s the entire point of an All feed! (plusminus stuff like defederation). It would make more sense to compare the Local feed of instances, IMO.

Besides, the default sorts are active and popularity nowadays, so it only makes sense that stuff that we care about and have to have words with, takes the forefront. If you want to solve that the solution is not “let’s ignore what’s going on around the world”, it’s “post more cats” and “post more ich_iel”. Or just use the Scaled sort, I don’t understand why is that not the default for guests / visitors.

And that’s right there with the complaint about the 42k users too. The people who came first came for very specific reasons and have particulars to talk about. Complaining that for the next people to come in “I’m going to be called a westerner imperialist” is delicious hypocrisy on not noticing how indoctrinated they are.