I believe that I am, but it’s more important whether people around me think I’m a good person or not.

Not OP, but I’d say part of the question’s spirit is to define “good” yourself and answer based on that.

You can’t be an asshole and a good person at the same time.

My username says it

But I guess it sits at a weird crossroad of “it’s all over Instagram” and “most people don’t seem to like the taste”

appreciate your advice and willingness to participate! I agree and will do that.

Community growth can vary depending on available alternatives, discovery, and investment (whether monetary or directly with effort, like I am suggesting). Even Reddit publicly admitted that they created numerous fake accounts operated by a couple of people and created content with them to give readers the impression that the site already has users. What I am suggesting does not align with this of course, but the idea that being intentional about growing our community is a good thing in my opinion.

I agree. I personally believe that the fediverse has talented people who have the potential to create interesting content outside of technology and politics, but they feel discouraged being the only person to post in an otherwise deserted space. I believe that our concentrated effort will encourage these people to come out and contribute.

It is great to hear that communities for this purpose already exist. Do you happen to know the mods there?

I agree on letting people know on reddit and twitter. I added point #5 on that. Thank you!

You should see some of the pushback I get for daring to post popculture or feminist news.

Can you please share this with me so I can see this? I may end up running into similar challenges as you, so it would be helpful to foresee them.

The way we get more diverse topics is by gaining a more diverse user base.

I partly agree, and I think this initiative is partly aimed at making the fediverse more attractive to users who are interested in these topics that we will target.

Generally speaking, the existing members are very resistant to any topic outside of technology, politics, and gaming.

I personally have seen a lot of appetite from many users here for topics outside of these. I think the problem is that, those topics tend to be more scattered and there is less consensus. But the beauty of the fediverse, and this reddit-like format we have, is that topic-specific communities can thrive independently and we do not all have to like them.

I may end up being wrong and this ends up being a failed project, but I think it is worth trying. And I am happy and thankful that you are interested despite your skepticism!

I agree, and I specifically aim not to make this growth for the sake of growth. It’s an effort to increase diversity of content on the fediverse, and quality of communities outside of technology and politics. And we will only pick topics and communities that existing members are interested in improving.

Why would it get deleted? You mean by mods?

I think your client could theoretically back up all your posts locally. Should be easy to develop a client that does that. But it’s better to get in the habit to store your writings locally anyways. In a notes app or something.

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Can you give examples ? That’s partly why I ask this question.

I think having instances or communities dedicated to that would be wonderful.

I think having separate identity providers would work well with this. Those identity providers could optionally verify age and location, and your instance can just trust them on that to make it exclusive to certain ages or locations.

You can only filter and sort what was downloaded by the client. So that runs into resource constraints.

There shouldn’t be resource constraint issues in downloading new content Metadata from all your subscriptions

tags

When I say “standardize tags on all content”, what I mean is make it a standard to have the option of having tags on every type of content, and treat tags as a first class attribute of the content. The XKCD you reference is not relevant.

That’s more the ATproto/Bluesky vision.

Sure, they use it. But it is compatible with activityPub as well.

I’m so far paging, and it’s so annoying this isn’t the default design on the fediverse.

On 4, I also agree, but what’s the best alternative?

I think instance owners should retain the ability to make some blocks non-negotiable. They are responsible for the instance and legal implications after all.

I do like this, but it does require responsibility from the user to maintain their keys. I think having it as an option is great, alongside the identity providers I speak about.

That’s precisely why I call it necessary, you’re right!

Thank you for listening to my idea, and I’m glad you like it :)