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be the change you want to see. offer alternatives to subs pissed about over moderation, ads and bot activity. some instances still let you create your own communities, like mine https://moist.catsweat.com/

id go a step further and say you need to draw a sub to a specific community. its hard moving users though when reddit actually attempts to prevent it by banning you for trying.

its a religion created by a sci-fi writer for monetary gain. he told everyone he was going to do so, and then did it… but just as with every religion once there is a critical mass of idiots, people think it’s “real”.

dude, youre still alive? congrats

naaw rollerblades are too easy. get him some quads. chicks dig the quads

A firehose relay takes TB’s of storage

which is similar nonsense which ActivityPub has with replicating whole datasets everywhere… cept its one company controlling the whole shebang. its a failure of design.

ive been asking about this for a long time. ive yet to be presented with a non-bluesky controlled relay instance. this is a lynch-pin of the protocol and prevents true federation.

happy to be proven wrong someday, but bluesky is just twitter with user-contolled nodes. they can decide to remove nodes at their whim.

mbin does this by default;

does it really matter?

they wanted at least some feature parity with twitter in order to draw users expecting that environment.

ive never lived in a house or apt without one. they seem ubiquitous to me. seems weird there wouldnt be one.

i used to call the micrblog stuff the ‘twitterverse’… and i kind of still want to. I may edit my mbin instance to use that term, and i also hate ‘magazine’ in favor of ‘Subs’ or ‘Community’

to me all of these server products are federating media servers with varying access to those 2 pieces. the underlying software should be nearly irrelevant except for them.

the ‘community/magazine’ is the source of the data and ‘remote’ servers cache that data. when i post to tenforward im posting to the source@itshomeinstance and my server receives a copy… a locally cached version.

my server still has a ton of kbin.social content for example despite that server being doa.

i refer to my instance, at the moment, as primarily an ‘onramp’ server. my users utilize it to access remote content almost exclusively as you point out piefed does. But, my server also caches a huge amount of fediverse data… both from all the lemmys and major microblog platforms mastodon, threads, and universodeon among others.

the specific platform lemmy.world utilizes should have no impact on me or my users if they do things correctly.

the threadiverse is a subset of the fediverse (microblog + threaded forums)

forumverse isnt a bad suggestion… doesnt seem to roll off the tongue though. im going to use threadiverse as its the value i want to see and i dont give 2 shits about meta.

users dont block incoming IPs for instances.

this is useless advice for op.

talk to the admin

https://kbin.melroy.org/contact

mbin only. i prefer the threadiverse

sounds like a lot of conjecture to me. i think there is hope in groups owning, operating and funding their own instances. software platforms will get better over time. funding pathways will get better over time.

i dont think we should just toss our hands up and say ‘nope, too hard. only jerks need apply’

agreed that we need to work on scaling out horizontally. i think that ironically poor moderation will help with this over time. it took reddit 20 years to get where it is.

i agree. bending over for people butthurt about meta seems like a great way to limit your market artificially.

then again, i named my public instance moist