Awesome! Themed instances are so important for the Fediverse. I wish you all the best :)
blue_berry
joined 1 year ago
What aren't they joining Mastodon and Lemmy? Or even Threads?
Yes, and if called out, they say it happens for freedom of speech, which is absurd given that the richest man on earth provides the infrastructure and has a large presence on the platform himself.
Yes, and if called out, they say it happens for freedom of speech, which is absurd given that the richest man on earth provides the infrastructure, (soon) influences the legislative rules and has a large presence on the platform himself.
Thats an interesting dynamic, which also influences the choice of instance: which instance gives my posts the most initial boost.
This also results in a soft network network effect between different fedi servers: servers with a lot of reach attract a lot of people because they have a lot of reach. Its necessary that the biggest instance implements counter measures here. Lemmy.world does that by selecting the all-feed as default in the UI. Threads doesnt.
After brooding for days, I finally came up with a witty reply: LÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖPS
Problem: even with discovery, if your friends are on Threads or X, you still won't find them on Mastodon. But its a step in the right direction.
Where can I find that option? Is it during instance-setup?
Interesting idea, thanks
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For me it was a german podcast about social media called "Haken dran". For a short time, they had a community on feddit.de, where the hosts also occassionally visited and sometimes they would mention "feddit" in their podcast, which got me on the hook.
Sadly, the podcast by now moved its community to discord.
Anyways, I do think metions in podcasts, YouTube videos, etc., matter. It raises awareness beyond the big companies fucking things up ... though I think the most effective thing to grow the Fediverse is to code better software.