this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It doesn't need to provide value to everyone. That would be nice, but I don't mind it just being a smaller amount of enthusiasts. I've been having some really good discussions here lately. That's the value I see at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I love that idea so much. I wasn't a Twitter user, so Mastodon kinda felt a little off. But I definitely was a Reddit user, and I am so happy to participate in the Fediverse now. It's pure joy.

I wish at some point contributing to the fediverse will be as simple as plugging a Raspberry Pi and forget about it. "Here is some bandwidth, some storage and some compute power. Do whatever you need."

This is the future I want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My biggest fear is always bots and astroturfing. We need some tools or methods that will reliably stop this. And we need it to be implemented ASAP. I honestly wouldn’t mind paying $1 a month for this, or some kind of rolling human tests to continue posting and commenting. PLEASE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

100% this, bots and astroturfing was the reason I stayed off of Reddit after the blackout. I love how Lemmy feels, populated with real people, who reply thoughtfully. I very much hope some kind of anti-bot measures can be taken to help keep it this way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think there should be a middleware layer for posts and comments, where you can write a number of custom routines.

func onNewPost( (user, post, commitFn, rejectFn) => {
   if( user.karma < 100) {rejectFn("Not enough karma to post here.")}
   if( post.length < 100) {rejectFn("Post is too short.")}
   commitFn(user, post);
});
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is a great start. I think a first goal should not be to replace big tech, but the create thriving alternatives. You should not have to feel that you are missing out by not using facebook, twitter, instagram, reddit etc. And with Mastodon/Lemmy/kbin we are getting there even if it is very very early still.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So...instead of Web 3.0, we're at Web 1.0 2.0. All right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Get grandma on here and you're on to something.