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  • You won’t be making any changes to Lemmy source code itself, that’s what I mean. I wouldn’t count adding something that is independent from the service as “customizing it”, but if that is what you meant, fine.

    That setup required an additional server for AZ

    What I had in mind would be to run the relay myself, and you would only have to set up/manage an extra service that could run along your Lemmy process.

    You seem to think (…) we’re willfully not taking an action that we should be taking.

    Well, yes? You have the possibility to take the initiative and mitigate an issue that is affecting your users, and you can solve the problem independently of the third-party’s cooperation. Why put yourself at the mercy of others when you have enough power and agency?





  • the Lemmy devs are funded by NLNet donations and user donations, no business LW, lemm.ee, lemmy.zip, all of the top 20 or 50 instances are funded via donations

    You are looking at this super-tiny space of “the Threadiverse” and taking it as the whole “social media landscape”. This is textbook example of selection bias.

    How much do you want to bet that we will see a Reddit-like alternative built on ATProto by the end of the year? Which one do you think will have a better chance of success: the application that is starting of a potential userbase 1M MAU or the one with 25M+? How was Bluesky funded? Was it via donations?

    Network effect can’t be fought by money

    No, but money can buy infrastructure and development which is sorely needed. We are not limited because people don’t want to leave the walled gardens. They are eager to leave, but we keep failing to offer them an usable alternative.

    The reason that Fediverse doesn’t grow is not because of any single particular feature of the other alternatives. It’s quite easy to say “Bluesky won over Mastodon because it has better content discovery” or “Matrix is not a good alternative to Discord because it is slow and has a moderation problem”, but all of these tiny things are not fundamental issues. They can all be fixed, but they just don’t get fixed fast enough because these organizations are lacking in resources compared to the VC funded alternatives.

    Funding is like oxygen. Organisms that do not have circulatory systems can only grow to the size of insects. If we keep constraining ourselves to only these very limited sources of funding, we will be forever bound to this tiny insignificant niche space.








  • I am interested in system administration

    Yeah, right…

    What upsets me in this whole thing is that you present an impossible dilemma: if I run the instance, you won’t participate because you think it is associated with the money-making business. If I say “okay, then you go find an instance that is topic specific and and only for groups”, you find any possible reason to balk.

    So here we are: you want to have someone that can focus on instance administration and you want to focus on building communities, but God forbid you even consider doing it a way that is only tangentially connected to a commercial venture. That is the part I don’t understand.


  • lemdro.id also has communities like “Microsoft” and “ChatGPT”. “Linux” is only tangentially related to programming.

    wouldn’t it also be nice if you volunteered some of your time to keep your communities and instances active

    They are not “my” communities. I started the topic-specific instances as a way to help the general ecosystem and to have a destination for the alien.top posts. I was hoping that would help bootstrap more usage outside of the larger instances. I may post from time to time when I find anything interesting, but I do not hold any pretense to keep all 15+ instances and 200+ communities fresh with content all the time.

    As stated above, I’m as interested as sysadmining than you are in community building

    I am interested in the community building, I am just not committing to do it for hundreds of them on top of the work of running the instances and on top of developing tools in the ecosystem.


  • Geographical distance between Europe and Australia

    Only because aussie.zone is relying exclusive on waiting the data to be pushed. If they pulled the data in bulk, latency would not be an issue and the problem would be immediately solved.

    topic-based instances hosting the following communities

    Aside from mander.xyz, the other instances are not topic-specific. They have communities which are focused of a more general scope, and its users are not focused on conversations around an exclusive topic.

    Anyhow, the point is: as of yet, there is no one running an instance focused on Fediverse news and discussion. Wouldn’t it be nice if you, I don’t know, volunteered to do so?

    Ah, sorry, I wasn’t complete above: I meant a diverse set of mods and admins

    I am sure you can find people to help you co-admin the instance as well, if you set one up.


  • The only instance having delays is LW.

    It’s not a problem with LW but aussie.zone taking too long to respond to the data being pushed. There are instances on the US that fixed this by taking initiative and setting up a system that would active pull the data from LW to keep in sync.

    Why would I?

    Because you are the most invested in getting people out of LW, and because you don’t trust other people that set up topic-based instances?

    diverse set of mods with good track record.

    Why wouldn’t this be possible in a separate instance? Is the motivation to volunteer to mod in a community attached to the instance where it’s hosted?