Yeah there are lovely solutions for everything if you can self-host, but the general crowd only has standalone websites hosted by some brave pirate captain.

With regard to ebooks, a clean Kindle-friendly website that immediately downloads the .azw3 file for any book selected.

Bluesky and their AT Protocol sound much better.

They follow a federated model quite similar to Mastodon, except with better feeds powered by a variety of user-choosable post ranking and content discovery algorithms. It is the true federated Twitter/X clone.

We are not in want of such solutions, Lutris and other existing solutions are capable of making game-specific environments already. The main problem is having enough volunteers to painstakingly run, test and submit the exact dependency parameters for each game that makes it run correctly. Same will be the issue even if we shift to Nix or anything else. The problem is manpower scarcity, not lack of tech.

The difficulty is not in using it, the difficulty is having people use it. Social network platforms matter jack shit when the ones you want to actually follow aren’t on it.

People should stop having such high expectations for similar # of users on Mastodon then if it is not competing with Twitter.

Most people used Twitter and Facebook not as a social network but as a pastime. They didn’t create or post anything, but simply lurked and browsed random stuff on the platform to amuse themselves and keep up with trends. The random content in feeds that articles like these complain about were rather the main feature of those platforms for many. And this is a feature Mastodon fails to provide for its own good.

The fact that WhatsApp is so crucial may very well be the reason. In India and places in Europe, WhatsApp is literally a direct replacement of texting, which means it contains communications from practically everyone and everything - your workplace, your local government, your grocery store, your gym, your friends and family, public services, etc. And since your chats themselves are E2E encrypted, the background usage data Meta can extract from users will be too dirty and unmonetizable.

Their interactions on Facebook and Instagram - now that’s rich data. They get to know exactly where and with which people your preferences and interests lie.

Then the platform will probably not get far…

Honestly, it doesn’t need to. “Getting far” right now means polluting the platform with mass-produced junk content instead of genuine discussions and interactions.

The platform and its current rate of organic growth is perfect as it is.

Just replace “medium.com” with “scribe.rip” in any medium url and you are good to go (for now).

I agree thoroughly. The main reason me, you, and the majority of people moved here was to catch a break from the barrage of monotonic, brain-rotting content on mainstream platforms.

@SDF@lemmy.sdf.org Would love to know from you, what do you plan to do?

What is the SDF’s current attitude to Threads?

Word.

Btw is there another Android app for Lemmy other than Jerboa? It feels like one of the biggest victim of the Material You template’s drawbacks.