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I'm actually a fan of the service you offer, but yeah, you suck at execution.

First of all, what you offer is a hosting service and that's very different from a cooperative. A cooperative is however many people with equal ownership and obviously equal managerial oversight. This, what a cooperative is, is emotional involvement.

Your hosting service for example, is, essentially you saying asking people to pay you so they don't have to worry about anything. Problem is, outside of guilt/a sense of responsibility, what's the benefit? What does anyone get that they can't get for free elsewhere?

Even with the servers you offer, you've made some tragic decisions. Like main@topic.tld. That's just a basic mistake. It's confusing. Main/Meta are always reserved for Meta discussion, so already you're creating friction and learning curve where none needs to be. selfhosted/selfhosting/selfhost@selfhosted.forum is far more clear than main@selfhosted.forum and actually inspires people to have a look at the topics. We also have to ask, what makes your one better than others? What are your community ambitions? These are the type of questions that need to be asked. Recently, you were tagged by blaze in a topic where he asked your thoughts about hosting the euro24 communities over on soccer.forum and you totally, at least when I checked, didn't respond. Now if you had spoken up, perhaps you could've had more people posting on your instance and once they're there, they can see sidebars talking about paying for the Fediverse suite. But going back to selfhosted, when I posted about creating a new one, you said we shouldn't fragment the conversation. Where what you should've said is that you have a community that does things differently. I'm very vocal about the fact that I feel having so much of the community centred around Lemmy world is bad for Lemmy and bad for the Fediverse. Not because they're bad, but because centralization is bad. We need more decentralization and we need to get more people used to traveling off server and curating their subscriptions, that's not going to happen with people like yourself trying to herd people towards federation. Going back to the football stuff, have you even messaged the mods of the football communities and offered to host them? But yeah, if we're talking just hosting, you need to figure out what makes you special and content/communities is a good place to start.

I know it sounds harsh, but honestly, I bothered to write all this because I'm rooting for you. I want to see a sustainable Fediverse.

Well there you have it. You are the blueprint!

I keep coming back to the idea of cooperatives. If say me, you and three other people all use Lemmy and Mastodon, what's to stop us putting £10 into a pot monthly to pay for hosting and the domain. I don't think the problem is the willingness, I think its just the culture. We need to build the culture up of people investing in their freedom and autonomy. We need to build the infrastructure for cooperatives to thrive.

I also like think we should have governments donating towards hosting and teaching people about self hosting. Whether on a VPS or in home.

We do need to create a culture of donations within the FOSS community. But we also need to get real with our expectations. People don't realise how much time and effort has gone into Lemmy to where it is. People think that creating an alternative is quick and easy and it's not. Honestly, for more people, their time would be better invested in creating an alternative front-end rather than a whole new piece of software. A one person development team just isn't sustainable for 99% of projects. New software takes a lot of time to get to a state where it's ready.

I'm sorry, but this sounds… you are aware you're asking people to run a social network just so you're not inconvenienced, right and why would the developer just relinquish control of their flagship to appease you?

I just don't understand how you got there ahead of finding another kbin instance, switching to mbin? Switching to Lemmy?

Just looked it up, it doesn't seem to be available yet

I honestly don't think you're a bad person, I just think that you're blinded by a red mist right now. You'll think back to this later and laugh about it, I'm sure. Have a good day.

IIRC, Spotify added FLAC recently

I'm guessing you haven't had your coffee yet, because I blatantly said

You and I know that this is programmatically simple and should be the default behaviour, however in this age, at least according to marketing, it's AI.

If you want to fight for the sake of fighting, please go find someone else. It's too early for this stupidness.

Lidarr also supports Usenet

I'm sorry, but you're being ridiculous. Why should it be an add-on to say merge two identical rows from a database query?

I mean the address bar. If I type in a port which I know something is on locally, it shows me five different entries pointing to the same thing. I'm saying they should be merged. You and I know that this is programmatically simple and should be the default behaviour, however in this age, at least according to marketing, it's AI.