Fediverse

Having not yet used this service, I can't comment on the service itself. What I will say is that it sounds interesting, until I realized one VERY important detail.....

Content.

This service is designed to bring you all the content that you feed data locations to pull from. Ok, that's all well and good, but the problem is, there's such a lack of content on the fediverse that it's not overwhelming right now to just log into Lemmy, see the 3-10 replies per day. Log into Mastodon, realize you're following like 6 accounts and 5 of them are bots, with the 6th one barely posting.

This service is like a very useful water pump to pull water out of a body of water, and distribute it to a more convienent tank........and then you place it's input in the middle of the Nevada desert. Doesn't mean the water pump is faulty, or not expertly designed. Just means it needs water to pull from.

That seems to be my frustration with the fediverse. There are very few content CREATORS, who don't revolve around a few basic topics. Politics, Technology........and that's it. And yes, I'm lumping video games, linux, computers, all that into technology. If it's something you need a screen for, or connects to something with a screen, that's lumped into technology.

I mildly care about politics. Under normal circumstances I don't care at all. I usually say "let other people worry about it." But these last 8 years have been just a constant barrage of bullshit, that it becomes necissary to care, as everybody is going to get fucked over otherwise.

Technology I have moderate interest in. I wouldn't call it the most important thing to me, but I wouldn't say I have zero interest either.

But then what......

Sports talk among locals is practically non-existant here (except for the Baltimore Oriols, who have a surprisingly strong community).

There's a pro-wrestling community which seemingly has 4 active commentors, including mods, and 2-3 other people who pop in from time to time.

So I try to do my part to write at LEAST one entertaining post per day. Some days I write more. Most days I have half a dozen smaller bite size posts as little jokes or whatever. And then I try to post SOMETHING that people are going to disagree with. I feel like THIS post is that post for the day. Mostly because nobody likes to take responsibility for a community, and nobody likes being called out as being just a consumer, and not a producer of content.

And PeerTube is pathetic. Lemmy at least has some degree of variety. It's not much, but it tries. Peertube on the otherhand is "EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!"

I can't say I produce any video content, but with a linux only content platform, I can't say I even consume either. It's a service I want to like, but they make it so damned hard.

And Lemmy is easy to keep track of everything, and I run out of content usually within an hour. Even though I log in several times a day. It's like drinking water from a shotglass when you want a galllon.

So I don't see much use for this new thing. Not because it's not a well made product, again, I have no usage experience, but because the sources it's pulling from are barron dry.