I get the feeling but you will need to build some patience here.

It’s really hard to move people from social media and they have to do it willingly otherwise we just create a ghost town here. What I do is try to share links when I see something someone might enjoy so they see there’s other social media and sometimes I got asked like: “what was this social media like a twitter alternative?” And then you explain because they are interested but even then, the majority of cases they won’t switch just because of that.

The only thing we can do is keep using it, keep improving it and when things get even worse than they are on monopoly land, we will be ready to take them :)

I mean the decision you are doing of leaving reddit and joining the fediverse is a political one and people who joins here is not because there’s more people or something like that so this means there’s a bias in the community towards caring about this things, and it will be like this until the fediverse doesn’t become the default (if it ever happens). So just take this into account, as people say, use less the all if that bothers you.

This is like saying that playing lottery makes you lose money and you say: then how do you explain that this person got rich?

This studies talk about statistics and there can be outliers and is not a contradiction :)

I follow some channels from lemmy and you see the videos as of they were posts.

This issue happens regardless of your way of dealing with it. If you have instances that don’t allow AI content, how will they identify when someone breaks the rule?

That’s precisely why AI content is so dangerous in the first place.

Oh it didn’t occur to me to check it on gitlab! I was afraid of being abandoned or something but it seems it’s active and seems a good one. Hopefully more people discovers it since I think it deserves more attention!

Thanks for that reply! That was a great explanation :)

I was worried the project was being abandoned or something but seems it’s not. I’ll definitely use that then! Hopefully more people discover it and gets more attention!

Yes

I think he has two channels and maintains only one or something like that. Try to follow this one: https://tilvids.com/video-channels/thelinuxexperiment_channel and hopefully that works better!

I follow the linux experiment on Lemmy and it shows up fine too!

I didn’t knew about Bridgy Fed but isn’t that kind of creating a bot and duplicating profiles? I guess is better than nothing but it reminds me a bit of the app Surf which connects the fediverse with youtube and other stuff and while sounds good in practice I wonder if it makes people less willing to switch to the Fediverse because you don’t need to anymore.

Aah I didn’t knew this issue from Lemmy, really interesting. Creating a decentralized platform raises many new challenges that are hard to solve!

Now I get why piefed approaches moderation in a different manner and tries to be more resource friendly.

Thanks for the info! Really interesting stuff :)

Yeah one has to be careful with statistics and I couldn’t find the whole Lemmy in one place so it’s also not representative of the whole Lemmy.

I thought ActivityPub did scale well and was ATProto (Bluesky) which had a lot more issues. I mean I can comment on Peertube using my Mastodon account meaning the whole Fediverse is properly connected and we are 1M MAU so I would say it already scaled good.

I don’t know how to check for the whole lemmy but seems it’s growing a bit but the MAU dropped a bit probably because of august: https://fedidb.com/servers/lemmy.world

But the fediverse in general doesn’t grow too much except when a scandal happens.

Yup indeed!

I think talking openly about the issues to people and explaining there are better ways that exist is the way to go. If they are in with the idea entering the Fediverse is a no brainer.

For me it’s crazy how many public institutions are on private social medias and not open ones where they can set their own server and rules. It’s also crazy how social norms have been decided by the top private companies in the world, if that’s not a distopian I don’t know what is it.

Great news!

There’s no easy or hard way, if they are willing to join they will.

Why are you in Lemmy? Explain your reasons to them and why you decided to join and hopefully they understand and join too, that’s all you can do. Forcing people into the Fediverse won’t make them use it of they don’t believe in it.

If you follow a generic hashtag it quickly becomes too much, what I do is follow people and very niche hashtags that I know it won’t bring that much content into the feed but that I’m interested in.

If you really don’t care that much just go to Mastodon and leave bluesky as there is a better decentralized place already. If everyone on bluesky went to Mastodon instead the Fediverse would get a lot more attention and get better too.

Specially seeing you in Lemmy, why did you leave reddit then (I’m assuming you did sorry if it’s not the case)? For me was precisely to not give that much power to a single company and this applies to lots of things not just twitter. Centralizing power is bad and bluesky is exactly that at the end.

I want to support people that really tries to solve this issues and not just people who takes this as an opportunity to be the next Elon Musk, ups I mean twitter.

They are still testing it and it’s not open source yet so no, no one can open instances. You can join the queue: https://loops.video/ but the android app has to be side loaded.

But before saying to people I would wait until it launches officially.