Thx for this! Much appreciated! Although when I posted in the nostupidquestions one I only got swarmed with exclusively political responses (that didn't even answer my question) and even one guy being an ass about it, even though I didn't ask anything political at all, nor did I want that...
Is there anything like that community but less toxic and unhelpful by any chance?
Hmmm, as simply as I can put it: it's kinda like an image search engine (one that, believe it or not: actually gives you what your looking for, crazy I know), you type whatever your looking for, a bunch of stuff relating to that pops up, you pin and organise that stuff in your profiles boards and groupings or download them locally, and it adapts to you and gives you more relevant stuff that your interested in, super handy for references, trying to quickly find images, and ideas in general, that's what it's made for in the first place so it's pretty popular among creatives for a reason!
I'm not an expert at all but, I'm kinda shocked something like that hasn't ever been thought of for the fediverse, isn't it's whole thing like, everything can talk with everything? Wouldn't a pinterest alternative be rather straight forward then? Just have the service crawl all of the fediverse for public images, and show them to users looking for them (I don't think you'd need an insanely massive server or anything to pull that off, the service just links to everything and doesn't technically store those images itself unless you click download or something), kinda how pinterest itself works I think so, I guess it's just nobody here cares enough about that to bother with it, not enough artists/creatives around I'm presuming, bummer...
Thanks for the welcome! Appreciate it stranger!
That really sucks, but I guess that's just how it is these days, thanks for the suggestions anyways. I occasionally hear about friendica, but there's like, nothing for it outside of its website and years old posts mentioning it, kinda seems dead and desolate looking at it from the outside, only pixelfed sorta seems alive and kicking out of the two.
I'll share some of my initial ramblings, experiences, complaints, and opinions on here incase you want that, if not then my bad, sorry lol:
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Tbh most of the fediverse still doesn't seem to have reached a meaningful "critical mass" from my POV, mastodon is as close as it's gonna get it seems, and even there it's nowhere near as active as even the smallest of the mainstream social medias, also nobody on the fediverse seems to care about anything but politics and tech, that's literally the most major con for me, those are the only 2 dominating topics on these platforms, can't escape it, it's everywhere, jesus lol, everything else is completely sidelined or straight up just not a topic because of how few people are around. Not "normie" or anything non-political/techy friendly at all it seems, nothing I'm interested in or need is active or cared about on any of these fediverse platforms, everything's kinda dead and desolate outside of the main 2 topics, bummer. God I miss the old internet man, everything suuuuuucks now, wtf happened...
I'm really hoping things get better here because my god we badly need alternatives to the big platforms, there's literally nothing outside of them anymore, I wouldn't be here if I wasn't forced to, again sorta got forcefully plunged here whether this place was ready or not, but unless fediverse stuff starts really pushing advertising and actually catering to the normal person or something, anything, then I really can't see this whole thing going anywhere beyond a niche secret geeky political club.
All the major problems I'm seeing here at a first glance that would prevent a normal person from ever trying these things out, simply stems from there being just not enough people, thus not many different people with different experiences and interests to talk to, thus not enough different public topics and communities, thus not enough engagement and activity, thus not enough speedy development or interest in developing more alternatives to stuff, thus not enough feedback, and thus: an echo chamber of just 2 things and not much else, and apparently everyone here takes pride in that and makes it their whole identity, lot of hostile politics obsessed people here on lemmy especially, not been a fun experience browsing around, so yeah, no clue if we'll ever have any real competition to social media besides bluesky I guess, am probably gonna get dogpiled for saying all that but, just being honest here with my initial experiences: it's not great, getting some cult vibes from some of the communities and people here, and those seem to be the majority, not the minority, so very difficult to get past them.
If It wasn't clear, I don't care whatsoever about politics, most normal people don't and never will, i just wanna live man, already got enough issues on my plates as it is, 1 or 2 topics aren't my whole identity, don't need that shit shoved in my face 24/7 everywhere I go and guilt tripped/pressured into all that nonsense if I post in any vaguely populated community (posted a question about social media on a questions community and immediately got swarmed with exclusively political responses, just one single guy commented something that wasn't political and that's it, none of it even answered my question, it's a complete echo chamber man, wtf am I supposed to engage with on here? 💀), it's legitimately so annoying and frustrating, no wonder why there's not that many people on here if the main content and audience are that. Definitely won't post much on here if that's what I should expect, even reddit as awful as it can be is much better in this regard then lemmy, never had that sort of experience on there even once, just wish they weren't being assholes right now and banning a bunch of people for no reason or explanations, otherwise the people and content on reddit is just better then lemmy in every way possible, and feels way more welcoming then my initial experiences with lemmy (mastodon is a little friendlier, but waaaay harder to find and talk to anyone on it). There's more to life then screaming at each other guys, don't be shocked if this whole place stagnates because you keep scaring people away for not 100% being like you smh.
Again don't get me wrong, you guys are almost onto something with this project, and if it succeeds then I legitimately think the internet will be a much better place, just need to remember that non technical and political people also exist and should not be treated as second class citizens on here, y'all kinda need those folks or your gonna be forever niche and unviable and nothings gonna change, I seriously hope things get better on here, cause everything sucks right now, online, irl, literally everywhere all at once with no serious alternatives to anything, I yearn for the past so badly 😔
I'm very sorry to hear that, things have been rough for a lot of us lately as well, I really hope you'll all be in a better place soon, sending hugs to y'all.
I've not been doing the best either tbh, life's being an ass as of late and beating me to a pulp, but I'm surviving for now lol.
That's totally fine! I don't see a major problem with that. If you wanna go for it or not it's up to you, you can always have other mods who're more familiar and comfortable with heavier topics take charge on some things if need be.
What do you mean exactly? I'm very confused by that lol, somethings probably flying right over my head, but I don't see why you'd need to disclose any personal information to start something.
Hey there! Yes please, I'd deeply appreciate that! And thank you for the effort of all this, I'll go check it out right now!
I also heard there's a community here called "communitypromo" or something that people sometimes refer to, maybe try posting there and see if it helps attract more people to your community? No clue how effective it is though, but can't hurt to try I guess!
The mental image of all of you in a room, sitting on the ground, arms crossed, and backs turned to each other is killing me 💀💀💀
At least your not doing badly, but still, I hope you have better days soon stranger, please take care.
Although this place is quiet right now: feel free to reach out if you wanna talk to someone or need anything, hopefully more people will start popping up in the coming days.
That's good to hear. I hope so too, It's not looking good on that front if I'm completely honest, but fingers crossed I'm hoping at least like, 2 other people show up, I'll take that as a win considering the odds lol.
Aaaaand there it is, this is exactly why normal people aren't switching to these platforms, dude: not all of us are technical geeks, we have lives and things going on outside of this stuff, we don't view everything in the same lens as you do (shocker, I know), not all of us are gonna worship what you worship, a lot of you are so goddamn hostile and then wonder why people refuse to leave social media, get real...
Again, not an expert here, do I need to put that in bold letters for you not to immediately be passive aggressive on first sight? I just got here dude, back off.
Also you guys constantly make random projects and forks off of stuff all the damn time, and their not small tiny little projects either from looking at them, from my perspective it literally is just about there being no interest, stop justifying laziness, nothing will ever get done with that logic.
My bad for bothering with your niche insulated platforms, will be a lot more hesitant with that next time, enjoy constantly scaring new people off and never knowing why I guess.