I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

I’m generally curious and/or trying to get a sense of people’s views.

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  • Another big, lingering question is why Meta wants to do this in the first place. Lambert says Meta wants to give users more control over their posts and followers, with easier avenues to engage across platforms.

    So will they be implementing a method to export this data in ways that could be imported to other platforms? Otherwise I don’t see where federation fits in here all that much.

    Extending reach isn’t really the same as control imo.




  • Now you can sign up to any instance, and you check what would be the recommended community to replace your favorite subs. You go and !civ@level-up.zone (yeah, I just created it). If the alien.top bots were running, the community would already have at least the 14 posts that were created on Reddit today and made to their front page.

    If the posts are from a Reddit community’s few actual posters and none from any of the posters on Lemmy instances, what’s the incentive to switch over to Lemmy? Moreover, if someone’s mainly a poster, aren’t you only encouraging them to stay on Reddit and post as they know there’s someone handling mirroring their posts elsewhere for them?

    I’ve read over the discussions around this and I can sort of see where you’re coming from for some of the few folks that want to lurk and browse Reddit stuff via Lemmy apps or the like, but I’m struggling to see how much it really helps different Lemmy instances draw more posters. This may help bring lurkers over, but from what I can tell, there’s not much of a problem with people lurking across Lemmy, but more of a poster problem, in terms of having a greater variety of people posting and commenting.




  • Lemmy is a technology where each instance follows the same rules: acompatible federation API. You want people to know your website is a Lemmy instance.

    I kind of see where you’re coming from, and I think the reason I wasn’t thinking of it in those terms is that I see ActivityPub as the more important underlying tech across the fediverse than say Lemmy/Mastodon/Friendica/etc.

    I say that in part as I’ve come into the fediverse from Mastodon, where there’s more than two options in play, e.g. Akkoma/Firefish/Misskey/Pleroma/etc. each of which has some commonalities, but also some pretty distinctive features, particularly from the Misskey side. Hell, Mastodon itself even has Glitchsoc, which is what the original instance I joined on that side of things runs.

    On reflection, I don’t know that the microblogging instances mix in the name of the software they’re using as much, which you’d think with more options they might be inclined to, but the more I think of it the more I remember a lot of them use some fun, odd names instead.









  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.worldLemmy is losing users
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    1 year ago

    The best thing to do is build the communities here that you are interested in. Do what you can to make them lively and active.

    The question as ever remains, though, how does one go about this without coming across poorly? That’s always the tricky part of trying to form new groups and communities, because it’s not quite marketing but it’s in a similar vein to get things going, and it more often than not reads as at best mildly uninteresting or at worst offputting and annoying.