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That’s pretty good! I’ve used larger – not counting elephant garlic – but that one’s up there among some of the greats!

[email protected] I will give it to dansup, Pixelfed is really well done. Easy to use, very inviting, not particularly bogged down by trite engagement features nor people clutching at pearls over which server to join. You upload your pictures, post them, and the comments and likes roll in. It’s a really solid UX, with a very supportive – if not overly chatty – user base. I’m not at all surprised that it’s managed to maintain a significant audience.

JohnnyEnzyme No, I just believe that hosting a site like this is a responsibility, and that responsibility extends beyond keeping the hamster alive. If someone wants to run a hobby site, they can run a single-user instance.

JohnnyEnzyme What I mean is curating their communities, ensuring they have mods for them, shuttering any that are inactive, and finding other sites they can partner with to split community loads.

You know, actually taking responsibility for the social network they’re running, rather than treating them like some sort of natural phenomenon that just suddenly sprung up on domains they purchased.

Kierunkowy74 Ok, but why does that make them not part of the threadiverse? “They don’t universally participate” is also true of, well, Lemmy-based websites.

Kierunkowy74 > technically Friendica or some NodeBB users can take part in discussions with their users too, but…

But what?

Blaze (he/him) Comment consolidation really isn’t a solution, and is an amazingly short-sighted fix. It works to prevent the establishment of local community or server cultures, and presumes the end-point of the fediverse is a more complicated, less well funded version of centralized media. That the “fediverse” is out there, and that any particular website is just an empty vessel to access it.

This actively works against everything we need to actually create a space that appeals to people who aren’t here already. It cuts us off aat the knees before we’ve even stood up.

Like, imagine merging politics on Midwest.social and politics on lemmy.ca…

Pandantic [they/them] Or shuttered. Site admins need to be actually managing their websites, not just keeping the server online. Behaving like corporate social media operators doesn’t provide a meaningful difference from corporate social media for most people.

[email protected] Yeah. Controlled growth is important when you’re trying to grow a forum. Especially when you’re trying to grow a forum that is aping someone else’s UX (and doing it kind of poorly). But, of course, there’s an option in the server settings to limit who can create new communities, and seemingly no site admins have chosen to use it.

But the other thing is just… you can’t advertise “Lemmy”. This has been the problem with everything on the Fediverse. Everyone is trying to sell the server software as the experience. It’s like trying to get people to your blog or whatever by selling them on “Wordpress”.

The issue is, people keep trying to treat this space like Reddit, a website with multiple orders of magnitude more users than the entire Fediverse.

We need to grow things out in a more controlled manner. Broader topic spaces that can house discussions of of families of niche topics. Themed servers.

Meaningful attempts to advertise these spaces outside of fedi, to people who are interested. And that means selling them on something other than “Lemmy”, because “Lemmy” isn’t a selling point to basically anybody.

[email protected] What about Bachelor Chow?

FauxPseudo White pizza usually uses a garlic cream sauce as a base.

[email protected] Did you want to see the phrase “hotdog melt” today? Because I didn’t. But you had to be a pedant about things.