The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

Agreed. The only thing I actually miss is geographically local contacts. But as far as just culture and discourse goes - I'm good.

[squid_slime@lemm.ee]

too true, make it a lifes mission to avoid getting shafted. take pride in once ability, for me: that is repairing electronics, using privacy respecting platforms and having as small a finger print as possible.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

The journalist does the leg work to produce novel news.

Just to add that in addition to novelty, journalists provide valuable services, like

• holding up a mirror to the present culture
• documenting and disseminating happenings
• packaging up events into narratives

Not to say that you weren't including these in "novel news," but just to make it explicit.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

I get what you're saying. This stuff hinges on essentially finding small businesses to run, for example, a commercial PeerTube instance. And then leave it up to the rest of the fediverse if they want to federate with them.

I don't think any of us, or the current devs, would be the ones to add this commercial functionality just because we're not the sort to chase those types of incentives. But who knows, maybe some business will develop a plugin or peertube wrapper, or hell just a whole new thing, and see if anyone federates.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

God yeah, I'll be like half way through an article before realising it's just padding out some very surface level details about what I'm looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.

[sbv@sh.itjust.works]

Absolutely - I wanted to list interactions between regular users and someone who makes money with a platform.

After a bunch of Twitter users (including journalists) bounced off Mastodon when Elon bought it, the fediverse needs to understand why, and think about what it means to be a viable platform.

[Guest]

It told me today that Romeo and Juliet was a Romantic Comedy

[sbv@sh.itjust.works]

maybe this place is just not for influencers - not like the corp platforms, anyway

The things people need to build a livelihood on a platform are quality of life features. In a lot of cases, I think it's small stuff: being able to reward patrons with a tag on a specific community; automatically highlighting popular posts; making it easy to find a user's monetization page; etc.

I think the fediverse will attract more and more people with its network effects, but probably never all of the people all of the time.

At the moment, Lemmy is an ad-free version of Reddit missing some community and notification features. There are good political reasons to be here, but that hasn't driven a sustained increase in users.

So we won't get critical mass for network effects by being a better Reddit.

One to make the platform self-sustaining (or grow) is to give creators a reason to use the platform, which will give people a reason to come and stay.

[vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works]

That's just like, your opinion man.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

"Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, you can visit https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content. If you prefer an app, https://vger.app/settings/install has download links."

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

I liked her enough to follow on Mastodon so I’m with you there. Thanks for explaining that. I didn’t realize she had her own site and her own publication.

I didn’t mean just sharing here but she frequently writes on exactly this topic then shares to mastodon then here. Almost like all the HN posts sharing their own blogs about why blogging is good, lol. Which I still enjoy.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

Here’s how you get on Instagram or Reddit or whatever:

1. Go to whatever app store you use
2. download
3. enter email, username, and password
4. verification email

You’re done. Your voyager link is not the whole process.

[aoxomoxoa@lemmy.world]

I jumped over here a couple weeks ago at the request of another redditor and it's like a breath of fresh air.

I still check out reddit for a couple subs that just don't have enough interaction over here "yet".

I've mentioned lemmy a couple times over there and got replies like " it's just too complicated " etc. and now that I think about it they were most likely bots

Ima go back to the cesspool and investigate

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

I don't want to have any kind of conversation with you just here to speak my mind and make you reas it

[lena@gregtech.eu]

Where moving from one service to another doesn’t mean losing everything you’ve built and everything you’ve ever said.

I generally agree with this post, but this isn't true. It would require portable identities.

[valmond@lemmy.world]

You are right of course, I just think it might be easier to start small. Starting small means we already have the bandwidth to do so, we just need the software.

I'm working on the tenfingers sharing protocol which could be used to kickstart a more anonymous decentralised web.

[Guest]

Honest question but why would the fediverse even want billions of users signing up and using the platform? I enjoy it here because it's a step away from that sort of thing and covers niche topics because it's mostly nerds using this.

Keep in mind a ton of people still don't even have a clue what reddit is. They're all attracted to the massive ones

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Your past comments are still available even if you switch to a new account

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I’ve mentioned lemmy a couple times over there and got replies like " it’s just too complicated " etc. and now that I think about it they were most likely bots

Ima go back to the cesspool and investigate

Feel free to join us on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

• !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
• !buyeuropean@feddit.uk