gandalf_der_12teJan 10

we need more users

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/52565659

Show threadmortoJan 11

I have been noticing a drop in post/comments diversity and quantity. The diminishing users is something noticeable and sad.

We’re in times where we need to seek alternatives to big tech more than ever, and yet, people don’t seem to care :(

Show threadgrepe
it’s not just not caring. lemmy is currently not a viable alternative for e.g. reddit (there are no active conmunities for any of mine hobbies and posting to any of those that are here doesn’t make sense - there is nobody out here who could respond to a specific question about analog photography or something similar). fediverse as a whole will never reach the momentum of old centralized social media - by design. it turns out that having many small servers with different moderation policies is great for resilience but sucks for bringing people together. i found out recently that my mastodon server is blacklisted on many of mainstream ones not because there is some bad content there but because it federates with some servers that mods somewhere else consider harmful… and so i am missing large swats of content from those.
Jan 11 at 5:39amWeb
Show threadTollana1234567Jan 11
i find out alot of people i blocked are the likely posters, yea thats probably why im seeing less and less posts now.
Show threadgrepeJan 11
I’m not talking about people I block (I am not exposed enough and don’t suffer enough harassment so I don’t block almost anyone)… I’m talking about about mods of the instancr that hosts people I care about suddenly blocking instance that hosts my account - not because anything we did but because they didn’t like that mods of my instance didn’t block another instance that has some weird (e.g. transfobic) content. I follow a friend and suddenly we are out of contact because some entirely unrelated drama. And that’s how fediverse works by design.
Show threadOpenStarsJan 11
Ah yes, cancel culture. The Left always eats its own (and btw the Right does the same, eventually, but usually waits to win against the Left first).
Show threadOpenStarsJan 11

i found out recently that my mastodon server is blacklisted on many of mainstream ones not because there is some bad content there but because it federates with some servers that mods somewhere else consider harmful

Genuinely, why would they do that? Like does Mastodon software work differently than Lemmy’s - is there some way that someone from one of THOSE places could post content onto your instance (I dunno, CSAM? or just some trolling or piracy or something that someone considers offensive), and thereby it could come in indirectly to theirs? It makes no sense to me, at least if we were talking Lemmy, but I am interested how Mastodon differs there.

Show threadgrepeJan 12
it’s activitypub thing so lemmy as well. you sign up on one server, subscribe to community on different server, mods of the different server will decide they don’t like your server for any reason (e.g. explicitly because nods of your server didn’t blacklist some other server) amd you are out of that community. it sucks. imho something based on the old news system would be better (i.e. community exists independently and servers just subscribe to them or not).
Show threadBlazeJan 12

there is nobody out here who could respond to a specific question about analog photography or something similar).

I’ve seen very niche questions answered on all kinds of topics. If there’s no active community for your hobby, just ask on a general Ask community