I guess this is a me trying to figure out how to grow lemmy or fediverse in general. Just getting frustrated and want to do something constructive and put idea out and have idea come in.

In me head I head this line of “will you after engagement grows will you improve a project or will you improve a project to encourage engage” to me the answer settled on keep doing what you can to improve project and kinda hope it increases engagement.

For lemmy it seems as though the technical side is solid it’s just building lemmy communities. Right now I’m thinking of building a Florida c/ but it would come off as a hard endeavor because idk what I’d do with it. Would I post random new stories in Florida would it be politics. Plus I’ve been told that posting links “clutters the Internet” and people would get confused as to where to find original links. Then there’s getting people to a Florida c/, do I just go into discords and tell people about a fledging group

I do want geographical based c/ since they are more personal to people and would increase engagement on lemmy but that small steps that need to be worked out.

I do wonder if it would be worth it do sneak content from reddit to relevant c/. I know they do it for NSFW subreddits, but it might be worth it for hyper specific subreddits just to have that content to engage with, but that could be viewed as an IP infringement

  • PixelPilgrim@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
    41·
    17 hours ago

    I’m say loops is fedi-washed like a reactionary. There’s no other instances, apparently it dies use the activityhub protocol.

    I will comment that the major corporate sites like reddit and YouTube make hard for fediverse platforms to take off because they’re hard to complete with. When they started out they didn’t have competition people would get bored and come to them, then they would build niche communities on their own.

    There hasn’t been a blunder for most of 2025. Id count the tik Tok ban generally being the last one to capitalize on (but I believe that loops project just didn’t bother to act).

    I’ll have to research that last paragraph

    • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyiEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      I’m say loops is fedi-washed like a reactionary. There’s no other instances, apparently it dies use the activityhub protocol.

      Loops is very new. Completely normal for a new service to have one main instance by the devs, you need an instance to test your stuff with real users. The server was open sourced in September and is now at beta6. There are in fact 8 loops servers in operation. This isn’t “fedi-washed”. It’s just very new. Give it some time and please be nice to people who build stuff for the fediverse in their free time. We need them.

      • PixelPilgrim@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
        11·
        9 hours ago

        Actually loops is 5 years old, but it seemed to have a big overhaul in the past few months as in it actually going through development and the source code is actually being published.

        Apparently the activitypub protocol was announced to be implemented in October of 2025. Which is kinda funny.

        Also I did hop to different instances looking for users on across instances and yeah I could only find 1 out of half dozen I tried. So I’m sceptical on activitypub protocol integration. It could be that they aren’t federated

        I’m actually impressed that there is 8 instances because I didn’t except there to be more than one this year

        I help dansup with loops back in February and January. I put some pressure on him for answers and well he folded and basically blocked me, so I got the impression that he didn’t have the temperament to develop loops, but I’m half wrong because well he did eventually make it open source.

        Also dansup is getting paid, he asked for grants and ran a fundraiser specifically for loops, so it’s not exactly “in their free time”

        • 73ms@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

          In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.

          Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.

            • 73ms@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.

        • Auster@thebrainbin.org
          1·
          6 hours ago

          About size, Lemmy and Kbin (RIP) were pretty slow 2~3 years ago. Now, even though I block most generalist, region-specific and news communities, I still struggle to keep track of my feed.

          And if someone tries to build something good as a job, I don’t think this job of his should be turned miserable either.

          • PixelPilgrim@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            I have no idea what turned miserable mean. I’ve been leaving him alone as best I can, I keep encountering him unintentionally.

            If you’re a backer (of any person or project) you should ask questions and expect answers. For me personally I’m forward with my project, that way someone can take it over or build on top of it

            • Auster@thebrainbin.org
              2·
              6 hours ago

              Sorry. I guess the miserable part sounded different than what I meant. I some times mix the meanings and usage of words, even in my mother language. That part was meant as an extension of the “be nice” part from a previous comment.

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Also an idea that requires more patience, share posts from here to your contacts elsewhere. That’s specially practical if it’s some image post (like memes) and the platform has good link preview display.

      Also also, not ideal and much more of a slow process, but if someone from your contacts is on Threads or Bluesky, respectively suggest to him/her to activate ActivityPub integration, and suggest to follow Fedi Bridgy. Both would be microblogging-oriented, but there should be some degree of propagation from threaded posts over to microblogging platforms.

      Also³, as I suggested in a separated comment, integration between ActivityPub-compatible platforms varies depending on each engine involved, so in Lemmy for example, if something is seen as a channel, maybe people could seek to follow and interact with it too?