For the confused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0hETFY67F0
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
Well, see, Mastodon has had a functional monopoly on ActivityPub usage, and also Mastodon users are able to and do engage with Lemmy communities. Mastodon's share of AP usage going down is of interest because the fediverse has a monoculture issue, and that's a thing people on a forum like this one should keep in mind.
Misskey's char limit is an admin setting, FWIW. There are plenty of *key servers with higher.
Yeah. I think Misskey defaults to 2000, and supports up to 7000. And Glich-soc supports signidicantly higher, and that's a Masto fork.
And you think Mark Cuban is funding what, exactly? A member's co-op?
Your freedom to worship (or not) doesn't mean you're free from the social consequences, though
Cool. You... don't have to engage in discussions that bore you. Why waste your time?
They released an official all on the app stores
There are significant logistical hurdles to a dedicated onboarding-only site. For instance, who is going to run and pay for it? And why? What's really tying them to the site? What's driving that commitment?
With other sites -- even large, general purpose ones -- there is this sense that you are building a community. That you're doing this for the people who rely upon you and your work. And there's the hope that those people will stick around and contribute, either as moderators, or as funders, to help keep the lights on, and keep the space hygienic. But if the whole purpose of the space is for people to GTFO and find their "real" site... who are they doing this for? Why? And what are they getting out of it?
To set up and operate this is to get excited about being the cog in someone else's machine. Most of us are already cogs in someone else's machines, professionally. We're not going to want to do it as a hobby, too.
And for funding, if the whole purpose is for people to leave, they're not not going to pay you for being a temporary sandbox.
These are centralized, business-type solutions. This is not a centralized space. There is no umbrella corporation backing all of this. Loss leaders are not a solution. Asking someone to be the sacrificial lamb for the network is not reasonable.
Because monopolies are good when it's one that I like!
Should they? Yes. Focused sites should at least have the option to letting members follow unrelated communities.
But those communities shouldn't necessarily be visible to everyone else, even via All. My teammates don't need to be able to fingerprint each other's niche hobbies, political interests, other-language communities, etc., even if I want to let them engage in those things however they like.
Like, maybe I don't want [email protected] showing up in All, but still want to let users find it and subscribe to it if they know it exists. That's a real and reasonable use case, I think. But with fediverse software, end users introduce content into the All feeds, and thus into each other's line of sight. The inability to restrict that at the instance level is quite limiting with respect to the kind of site one might want to present to the world.
The end result was going with a traditional forum. I'm watching nodeBB to see how stuff like this will be handled longer term.
No, but that's a great idea.