It’s very early. I have a prototype backend server and I’m currently starting work on the frontend. If you have any inputs on features, UX, UI, or anything else that you maybe are missing from existing fediverse apps, I’d love to hear from you, as some preliminary feedback. But again, it’s early so there is not much to track yet. But thank you for the interest :)

But you’re not saying it’s just “precursors” - it sounded like you were saying the fediverse will never become mainstream. Never is a long time, I would say.

Propaganda is definitely not on the list of planned features, haha :)

Appreciate the sentiment, I hope it will one day be worthy of donations :)

Don’t want to shout too much about this yet as it’s still super early but I am actually working on a new fediverse app that I plan should be covering the same sort of use cases as Lemmy, Mastodon and Friendica, all in one application. With a big focus on user friendliness, easy onboarding and such.

It’s still super early but drop me a private message if you’re interested in helping or just hearing more.

I don’t think that’s true. That’s just defeatism talking.

That is, in theory. In practice, it can make a big difference. Source: Worked professionally with large services built in Python and Rust.

I meant more like trust in communities and admins. If you can trust that the admins and moderators will do their task well, you shouldn’t have to worry about keeping track of these users yourself.

Karma in the style of reddit is not and has never been a great proxy for whether a user is “good” or “bad”. It mostly just says something about how active a user is and for how long they have been active, and how much they agree with the hivemind. Agreeing with the hivemind is not necessarily the criteria you want, as that just leads to more echo chamber situations.

Sorry, Shaun who? 😅

Trust built up over a long time through well moderated communities is my bet.

Not sure I like this though. That kinda stuff can just as easily be used to enforce echo chambers and censorship.

This depends on the settings of the other instance. Some instances copy images, others don’t.

actually starting a new instance on the same domain name would be… very weird, potentially extremely problematic. The system would not be able to tell apart users from the old site and the new site.

On the other hand, as far as I can tell, they only called for new admins/mods 4 months ago and not since then. I agree that if you care about something, you should support it and not wait until they cry for help, but there is also a matter of being proactive and transparent about how volunteer recruitment is going (well or badly).

I don’t believe admins should voice their opinion in this way

Why not? Not every instance has to be neutral on all points.

That is a terrible and wildly inaccurate analogy. Running an instance is not comparable to a nature reserve

Don’t feel bad, it’s not like it’s your fault. Just keep it in mind for the next instance you join, if they seem to be struggling or call for help.

I think they just mean that it’s heavily moderated and principled. Which is fine and kind of the point.

A lot of those people would be correct :)

I think you’re retroactively reinterpreting your vague phrasing, but whatever dude. I don’t think that particular post has anything to do with it.

That’s four months ago. Unfortunate that they didn’t call for more urgent help after that. But I suppose it’s too late now.