Some thoughts from this Loops user on why the Fediverse matters. I've seen some people push back on the idea of "It's like email, but for X", but that way of explaining it really makes sense to me.
I agree with the thesis that centralization is bad. Centralization breeds concentration of power, and power corrupts, or something like that
In general, I think communities shouldn't splinter until there's a need. IMO both efforts should just use !fedigrow@lemm.ee, and title posts in a way that makes the distinction clear. They're both about growing the Fediverse in the end. If and when it becomes too much to keep in the same comm, then you'd split it up. That's just my opinion as an internet rando though 🤷
I'm not saying that leaving an instance unblocked means you're in favor of them, to be clear. My response was only addressing the issue of achieving a "normie" experience.
Kind of a silly question, but asked honestly: How much do you think the name "communick" matters when trying to convince "normies" to try it out? Would they see that, read it as a play on "Communist", and assume it's only for extremists or whatever?
At a minimum, you'd want to find an instance that blocks lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. lemmy.world already blocks both of those though. The next instance you'd probably want to block is lemmy.ml, which not many other instances do. beehaw.org does, but also blocks lemmy.world, which cuts out a lot of the threadiverse.
If you felt like it, you could explain how to do instance blocking on your user profile. That might be too much for people that don't really care either way and just want stuff to work, though.
@Blaze@feddit.org might also have opinions on this, having spent a lot of time over on Reddit convincing people to try out Lemmy
I have standing orders to invade the Hague if ever tried there
There's a sudden influx of users from instagram and tiktok and whatnot because of the ban, zuckerberg fellating Trump, and all of that stuff going on. So the answer to "What's getting posted?" is "everything"
Signal has a lot of overlap there. They've got disappearing messages and Stories
Source hasn't been released, but the dev has said it will be and there's no reason to doubt that IMO. Same dev as pixelfed which is open source and federated
Looks like it's still a load thing:
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/113840500857115930
Pixelfed is seeing a surge in popularity. Anyone that's currently running one, have you run into any roadbumps, or have things gone smoothly? pixelfed.social has had scaling issues, but maybe it's easier if you're just federating to that instance instead of handling the load from user logins?
Reminder to donate if you're using one of those servers btw:
https://mastodon.world/@paulschoe/113837760503316512
That #Pixelfed is now in the Top 10 of most downloaded APPs in the USA, also means that we, as a Fediverse community, have to come together.
If you see a link somewhere, PLEASE support your PIXELFED server. Even when it is just with $2, $10 or $50.
Their operational costs are surely skyrocketing and we have to make sure that this does not become a Fediverse debacle but a Fediverse success story.
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https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project
These are two similar sites:
https://fedidb.org/
https://fediverse.observer/stats