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There are a couple of principles to ensure an activity drive like this is successful:

• You need a significant number of contributors acting under agreed upon guidelines. The contributors will give you reach and the guidelines prevent singular actors from ruining momentum by taking counter productive actions with good intentions.
• You need lead-up time to gather contributors and establish guidelines. In this case you would probably want some Reddit mods sympathetic to your cause so that it doesn't sound like the initiative is from a purely external group.
• You need to leverage bandwagon effects. In this case those Reddit mods are critical to giving the impression that there is already momentum in this direction.
• You need a well formatted landing page to establish initial impressions. A lot of folks will click on exactly one link before giving up on an effort. You need to make that link count.

I'm working on compiling guides and establishing a community to organize initiatives like this over at !digitalcommunitybuilding@slrpnk.net. The project is in very early stages but the hope is to ensure your digital activism is actually effective.

All that said I would strongly recommend against this approach unless you can make a BIG push and that takes time to organize and a lot of one-on-one conversation.

From what I hear these are surprisingly close and some idiot is absolutely gonna try to drive in them. Given that I bet we'll be there in just a couple of iterations

Pretty sure it's because the title is wildly misleading. They moved the release window to accommodate additional demand. They absolutely sold out of what they had originally intended on manufacturing.

Yeah pretty sure the only reason they "didn't sell out" was because they moved the release window to accommodate the extra demand. For all intents and purposes, this product sold out.

I've used it daily and never had a problem. What did you experience?

I agree with your sentiment, but that is not at all what this article is about.

I just want to take a sec and say it's really cool if you to talk about changing your mind. I think that's a really important part of making this sort of social less toxic than the old form so props to you.

This is not an appropriate community to post this.

A groups rework is currently on mastodon's roadmap as inprogress. We've not heard a lot of what this will look like but it's very likely it will solve issue 1.

2 is related to how Mastodon handles the ¿page? object in the activitypub spec. I believe Mastodon prefers notes but could implement dedicated handling of it and probably will at some point.

3 is actually just incorrect. All you need to do is mention the community and it will post.

Hell I think there's a solid argument to be made that it's not even a sustainable model for the biggest players. As it stands they're offering remarkably little functionality for how much it costs them. On the other hand, mozillas work in this space up until now has largely been on bringing previously unimaginable functionality to locally hosted open source models and datasets. And that does look to be a sustainable business model.

Valve becoming a coop is the only way I could envision them avoiding a worst case corporate scenario.

It's been getting some traction over on Mastodon too. Wouldn't be at all surprised if they've restricted signups.