ericjmorey @ ericjmorey @discuss.online

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People here are satisfied with using the ActivityPub services and content with slow growth of a now sustainable but relatively small user group.

The people who want to use bsky just want a better Twitter. And bsky has delivered that. If that's temporary, it's better for them to use it while it lasts because Mastodon is absolutely not what those people using bsky want. Mastodon to them is technically worse than Twitter but something they may settle for if bsky wasn't an option.

How do you obtain materials for knitting? Your choice is political.

Why did you choose to participate in !crochet@lemmy.ca? That was a political choice.

Unfortunately everything is inherently political, but I can see the value of an instance that favors mainstream low controversial content.

Federation and decentralization is not what the users of bsky want. It's (for some) a nice to have thing but way down on the list of what they value.

Were you able to implement it?

Not that I can tell.

Lemmy needs to allow communities to ignore the votes of non-subscribed users. It should be the default setting that a community owner can override. But it will never happen. So the lemmy ecosystem will remain not very diverse in its user base unless there are multiple clusters of federated instances that are not (widely) federated with the other clusters.

Hopefully Sublinks can get to production and implement this.

When I want to have back and forth between people on a regular basis, I choose chat apps. Mastodon feels like it's trying to be a poorly designed chat app.

I do worry that they’ll run out of money before they can do the work to let the ecosystem become sustainable by itself.

I'm mildly concerned about this as well.

You don't need to access information via the relay. You can have a client get information directly from PDSes or Appviews that don't get their information from the relay.

I'm in favor of defederation from hexbear.

Just about anything related to moderation tools.
Dealing with the All feed properly.
Users being able to configure default sorting on posts.
etc.

Lemmy needs to mature on a technical basis. The Lemmy service itself is still lacking significantly. But it it progressing.

Outside of technical limitations, focus on communities. A few good ones are better than many mediocre ones.

I hope they start supporting people who want to run an indexer. Right now they just point to their source code and say, "if you can get this largely undocumented complex service running on your own, you can run a indexer, but don't ask us for any help".

I'm not entirely confident that it will happen before their only funding source decides to cut off the cash flow.

https://feddit.org/post/2600584

Interesting comments there. Thanks for the pointer!

This is great! Thanks!

there are distinct cultures between different instances and it is a strength of the Fediverse that instances are not just faceless pieces of infrastructure, i.e. pipes to content, but rather thriving communities with real people behind them.

Yeah, that deserves emphasis.

That instances are the interconnected nodes that make up the network.

I would even just use the word "parts" instead of "nodes".

A bot shilling for Musk or a person shilling for Musk because they bought the hype are basically the same thing.

It's the scale that changes. One bot can be replicated much easier than a human shill.