A collection of tools to navigate the fediverse in general would be nice too A way to discover other instances, see which instances are communicating with each other, that sort of thing. But yeah being able to filter out specific instances would be great there's a lemmynsfw instance that I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't want to see that kind of content.
blackbelt352
joined 2 years ago
On Reddit, I always had fresh content, which I'm not really seeing here
Eh That comes with time, I'm sure there were people back during the Digg exodus that complained Reddit didn't have as much content. It's all user generated stuff, so more users, more content, best we can do is step up ourselves and get the content going.
Once you get a hang of how the fediverse works in general, it's pretty good so far. Using mostly mobile atm, nice and clean, functional pretty similar experience to reddit. Aside from a few features missing like search, I'd imagine there is plenty of room for moderator tools too, and the occasional error codes, I'm loving it so far. No ads, just content, and while it's not the firehose that reddit is/was, if this keeps getting popular, I could forsee just as many communities popping up across instances as there are subreddits.
I'm sure with the influx of users from reddit, especially the more technically savvy mods we're going to see a lot of good tools made for the app and with it being open source, I imagine the devtimes are going to be even quicker than dealing with an ok API.
Going dark fulfills a whole bunch of objectives, filling up with trash is one of them, it's fewer eyes seeing ads because less content keeping people scrolling, people subbed to subreddits that went dark are getting a stream of messages saying the execs at reddit fucked up and are providing alternatives like discord and Lemmy, and anyone who even dabbled with fediverse relates stuff like mastodon are getting messages and emails capitalizing on the mass Exodus saying hey come to lemmy, we're like reddit but decentralized.
I'm working on it! I just got here! Still learning the ropes and which communities are here or not.
For people putting their time and hardware on the line for something like this there's a few orgs we could look at as guidance, someone already mentioned Wikipedia collecting donations, they also open up to volunteers to to maintain the site.
There's also the Blender Foundation. They make a FOSS 3D software with no royalties, no payments to use, no subscriptions, anything you create is yours to do with as you please. They are funded through donations big and small, but they also foster an extremely active community, making tutorials, creating plug-ins and addons often for free or super cheap (especially compared to paid software), and officially support various plug-ins made by the community. Because blender doesn't have an explicit profit motive, the last few years since their 2.8x releases and into the 3.x era has made huge developments across their program that other paid 3d animation software companies are picking up and adding to their platforms.
From what it looks like to me in testing, in any given instance All is any other instance that communicates with said instance, Local is all communities within an instance, and Subscribed is just the communities within the instance you have explicitly subscribed to.