Yeah this is incredible actually. This technology could become very popular with just a few simple changes to signup flows and user interfaces, and I see what's needed, but on the other hand, I actually don't want too many people to join us.
It's good with a bit of a barrier right now so we don't have to deal with moderation issues caused by people who just want to cause conflicts.
Sure but look at some of the discussions in the US...they are also completely convinced that the US is the best country in the world.
It's something with certain human beings it seems, that makes them want to join a team and defend it, no matter if it has flaws and is obviously incorrect at times. They connect their self confidence to their country I guess.
Even if that is true, it shouldn't bother you I think. You have to let people have their convictions. The alternative is The Ministry of Truth. :)
Very much so. It shares the load, both from a technical point of view but also from moderation and maintenance point of view.
It's actually pretty great, all of this.
The database is the heavy part from what I hear. You could probably run an instance for yourself on the orange pi though.
It's not possible to transfer accounts to different instances. You have to register from scratch and follow communities from scratch. But it takes like 5 minutes once you are approved.
You can actually follow hashtags on mastadon, which is a lot easier then knowing users. :)
And the url to them shows up if you click on the community name, then Sidebar.
I think it would actually be a better user default to be included in the most popular communities so they see a lot of posts. Otherwise if you subscribe to a instance with not many of their own communities, you will think there is nothing going on.
I was thinking to write a guide for this. Users need to go to search, pick All instances and then search on something. But that's not easy to know on day one.
Why would you work for free to help reddit, when you know what they are? Is it because you still have hope the site will go back to how it was when you started?
I have more posts than I know what to do with. I have subscribed to a lot of communities from a lot of different instances so it's a lot of activity.
I recommend everyone to do this and then later turn off some if it becomes too much. But being able to see most of the posts and contribute there will help Lemmy take off. :)
Very good. People have had enough.
If you want to, sure. I haven't used Google for many years but others seem happy to continue using them.
I think a lot of people have given up on privacy but it's not too hard these days to get some. You just can't get perfect privacy. Then you can't even own a phone or have a credit card.