Someone should compile a directory of every forum out there, and share a widely and updated every 3 months. Having some creation to say that this one is a good car for him that one’s good for this Etc it help people if the process. Go sift through the net and find the best stuff and Elevate it for people
I agree with this. Have like 50 or 20 and have the mod screen be part of the experiment, and once they hit a certain threshold number of users they are removed to help encourage diversity
If communities get big enough people will sign up because a particular instance is a community where they want to be and then they can discover federation on their own time.the problem is that we’re still small enough that there’s only barely enough to see in the first place and instances are thus far mostly interchangeable.
Corpo social media has the no mod feeling. They only really moderate to avoid lawsuits and things like harassment are rampant
Reddit was great back in 2012 when I first joined, and it slowly got worse over the years as my patients gradually dwindled down the third time I was banned I didn’t go back. I’m glad that Lemmy is busy enough I can come daily now and not run out of new posts to see.
The electoral college was an 18th century compromise to slave states. The US constitution is showing it’s age and the whole system is broken now
Yeah it’s really not fit for purpose, I have every server I’m in muted
I kind of don’t ever want a family or a career because it seems like you lose out on the ability to do anything fun
Xenforo seems decent but it’s proprietary
Why do we need companies running things?
Little awareness
I think a lot of them have never known that it was possible, and things up until recently where at least tolerable. But as interest rates stay up of zero and things continue to degrade eventually more and more people will leave. The people with the most technical skills are going first and the cool people will follow and then they average people follow the cool people
I once had my account banned because I was a member of a server that was banned in that hugely discouraged me from using it for that purpose. I might be in the half dozen servers at the moment none of which I’ve looked at save for two in the last year and I primarily use it for offsite DMs and even then I strongly prefer signal for people I know.
We have to fight back since the commercialization of the Internet by refusing to use corporate systems. Old school forms are great although I will say the friction of having to sign up for a new account just to post is a pretty big deterrent, being able to just subscribe to a new subreddit makes it easier to explore very wide range of topics all at once, and to have all the newest post brought to you in one place you can check on your work break.
Maybe a hack with RSS or something could have worked but we all use those platforms for a reason, back when they were objectively much better
It seems so innocent at the time we didn’t know it was going to get this bad. At least there’s broad consensus nothing’s going to fundamentally change. We’re already taking first step. I’d like to see old school style forums, and also a focus on atemporality. Being able to have conversations with people over different time zones or even different months is extremely useful and something basically you need no internet conversations that we should really lean into the ability to do that. We need to get rid of the culture of shaming people for responding to old posts
and maybe bring back some of the old personal touches like forms signatures but with Federation so you can just make one account and do everything through it if you so choose. Reddit was kind of sort of system that worked like this and let me is now but the feature set was Bare Bones in comparison. We can do better we just need to develop the software
I’d like to see fedi software evolve past just cloning twitter and reddit into more diverse offerings, like forums
This is true. I like being able to talk to people on the internet down hopefully make a friend somewhere along the way. The fact that this is still hard is something we really need to work on. I’ve just never really felt the need for a personal website, I’m not into blogging or I can probably already have one. I just don’t write enough of that level of substance to build myself a Blog of any sort and I’m not really interested in the attention that publishing seems to imply. I like things a bit more casual.
IRC has always been kinda clunky. I’ve never been able to get into using it and it’s always a pain when I find myself having to. Thankfully chat infrastructure is advancing but it’s been a step by step process. Making E2EE work right is still not smooth or a guaranteed feature
Honestly I don’t think many people are naive they just went to where everyone else went en mass after musk. There’s no advantage besides userbase size at the moment and arguably some fedi servers have BSky beat on features already
At some point so much right in the actual social guide to using the internet
I feel like the way Society is built makes it impossible to have a family and have fun in your life, and careers are basically dead. We have to figure out how to make it work because I’m certainly in no hurry to make raising kids the only thing I do with the rest of my life