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.

https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/113879891465168070

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.

Looks like I need to improve the marketing and messaging…

See that “grayed out” SIP part? That’s what was meant to be my first actual service, but I can not afford to offer SIP until I consistently hit ~$1000/month in revenue.

Yeah, please don’t give up. I need more people like you here.

I’m finding it incredibly ironic. Mine is the only instance that is unashamedly for-profit and access is only for paying customers…

Sorry, it wasn’t clear to me. Are you saying that your first association of the name Communick is with “Communism”?

You are the first that makes this association, at least that I know of.

Communick is rooted on “Communication”, “nickname” and “unique”: because the original idea was that people that sign up to the service get an unique username across all instances…

I really don’t get this “if you don’t block XYZ, it means you are in favor of them”.

My instance does not block any of the big tankies, and yet it has not been a problem.

Well, I’ve always said that Communick is not meant to be an instance focused on any particular group, so perhaps it could count as “normie” for her?

i hate IP laws, but it is what it is

It is what it is because we are too afraid to challenge them.

which made you demand that everyone else change their usage patterns to filter out the spam you created.

I really don’t get this argument. Browsing by “all” is akin to drinking from the firehose, people are not using the affordances that the software provided from the very beginning and then the problem is with those who are bringing content to the network?

Next you are going to tell me that the reason we should keep Lemmy small is to not break people’s workflows.

the existing lemmy codebase was probably not performant enough for what you were planning anyway

Au contraire!. One of the reasons that I was creating so many different instances was precisely to avoid concentration of communities in a single instance. In Lemmy’s currrent design, the communities are the chatty agents. Every comment and post becomes a message broadcast by the community. The reason that LW has become problematic in the overall network is less about the amount the user it has and more because of its communities.

But it creates a chilling effect

I just disagree, here. In fact, it feels like the opposite is the problem here. I feel like the Fediverse is so concerned about being a place for minorities and outcasts that it only accepts fringe opinions.

Mastodon is a really crappy name.

May as well be, but completely irrelevant. There are a dozen other projects providing microblogging and a Twitter-like experience. All of them failing to appeal to a more “normie” crowd.

Sorry, I reject the premise. The cartoon does not make sense in a decentralized/distributed system.

Lemmy/Mastodon/“The Fediverse” are not isolated places, but an ecosystem that can sustain many different niches.

A Lemmy community is a place. A topic-focused instance is a place. The minority here shouldn’t be worried about any tyranny from the majority because they can always have their boundaries established and they can choose how permeable they are.

(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.