As for Reddit, go away from the main subs

unluckily niches are not yet developed enough but still better than nothing and you can help with posting

It costed nothing to say Kenya instead of Africa and Solar power revolution instead of solarpunk

While the funds pour in, yes, startup are so nice, let’s see this fully integrated vertical stack with sensor for remote shut down how evolves with time…

The same article could be done with the fediverse “solarpunk is already happening on the internet” or whatever good thing is happening in the world

Sorry I just feel like the author is sugar coating a startup, a bit de-politicizing solarpunk and looking down on Africa complexity e_e

Still an interesting read

well, it depends on the culture of the commune but let’s skip this and i’ll just focus on commune as a tool

if it’s used as a tool for escapism, good but it will never scale and ‘‘everyone should be in one’’ it’s just impossible

if, like i dream, it’s used as a tool to offload work of a group of people to allow them to make better politics because being much more resilient to capital swings, cool af u.u

obviously it’s not binary and what i described it’s not even a model with 2 opposites, but i wanted to focus on these cases

weird in betweens like project kamp are very interesting but I still think they focus too much on the being indipendent rather than using the commune as a tool for “greater” scope.

Not having admins spamming would already solve half of that issue lol

To use bonfire, to be even more local (me and the other admin actually live in the same province) and because apparently my social circles are too attached to telegram to post in the open web questions that they can make in our shared groups

Oh and because the main community that should have moved changed idea, so no more being the focal point for political organization in the Italian landscape

Also there is a bug in my ear that keeps repeating that we should just embrace this dark forest internet moment and hide in chat groups like everyone else

AniSocial got the same issues as EuropePub: ton of noise, 0 purposes and discussion.

Even just having the thread to discuss latest one piece chapter would be enough

I made a telegram group to have similar results but it’s still a bit annoying that no one in the open social world wants to fight the trend of hiding into chat groups e-e

yep, we have tons of news posting but few discussion i agree

Adding servers is not going to help the signup issue, it will just make it worse

Other similar servers yes, more themed ones i don’t think so…

what marketing?? there is none for the fediverse

Ye that’s a problem. Marketing as in market of mental space not as in ‘‘buy this one’’

someone jumped the gun on community creation

Yep, exactly why i feel hesitant partecipating in some subs :o

You are right that problably there is not enough interest, but not that someone shouldn’t try anyway u.u

Kinda agree but I’m not so sure about the egg or the chicken first

Belonging is very important and there is clearly a dominant techie culture in generalistic instances right now

slrpnk is a themed instance 😃 (also lemmini, even tho we may close it soon and then make a very local one)

I made the list for “hey look there are opportunities if you want the threadiverse to shine”

No pressure

No but forums work (or don’t if not shared enough) because they have a purpose

With too many generalistic instances you get:

• login paralysis not knowing where to sign up
• bad “””marketing””” because it’s harder to differentiate
• kinda flat culture? I mean every generalistic instance right now it’s mostly techies…
• centralization
• lack of curation because no sense of ownership and belonging

‘‘about’’ is usually always ‘‘about us’’ innit?

btw on the homepage you also got screenshots

the thing is, bonfire is not a single software like mastodon or lemmy, ideally is more like wordpress for platforms

Then someone could say that foss is too much, better go open source and then the environment will have to take care of the stuff that basic licenses won’t take care of

I’d rather strive for the better and look for copyfarleft licenses

I agree with some of the points of the original thread:

• having Twitter clone or Instagram clone but decentralized kinda sucks no matter how you put it and it’s probably not mass sustainable

On the other hand… Lemmy is just a forum that can connect to other forums. You don’t find cool subreddits searching for them, the good ones are the ones recommended by other people, usually not by search. The fediverse actually suffers from having a big user base that wants Reddit/twitter/insta but decentralized instead of having small forums/microblogs connected to each other. Also the reason why you see me often advocating for less “generalized instances” and wanting more vertical focused ones. This is easily possible with lemmy dividing by topic and with mastodon dividing by localization.

If you want the fedi to thrive, build lemmy instances focused on being a stand alone forum first and mastodon ones focused on being local first (same for mobilizon)

Ye I was not finding it but it’s probably because maybe without federation the setting doesn’t pop up :)

Yes… But where u.u

I’m gonna quote myself from another comment

In order from little to bigger:

• any ssg like Zola or Pelican
• mataroa.blog
• writefreely
• ghost
• gotosocial
• lemmy :)

Y’all need to learn to read between the lines

Maybe y’all need to stop reading different cases always with the same lens.

Altman is a social climber and even if he is playing to kick out all the people against him, openai is still a no profit. They probably will manage to change but it’s such a different scenario. ChatGPt is the golden goose of the moment in their eyes, no one will give billions and billions of euro to proton just to enshittify

If you think some bad takes make a person, again I think you are the one who should read between the lines and using less the cynism lens

“corporate parasite”

That’s the thing, they are a foundation. Proton is now fully owned by a foundation…

Right now I have no time to watch the video, do they talk about the fact that foss is not enough because it’s still easily co-opted by capitalists?