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• mayonesa@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Without downvotes there isn’t a good reason to use Lemmy over Mastodon with groups.

  I like the Fedoraverse, but it has a weakness: it is focused on the method of communication, not content, so good stuff gets ignored and it cannot retain users. It's not going to beat Twitter ever. On Twitter, the crowd raises up favorites; on the Fediverse, they get ignored. This is its fatal flaw.

  Removing downvoting is actually in the site config and easy to do. People massively complain about sites that do that.

  Probably just the usual highly vocal minority of super-lusers.

  Branding is something I want to work on.

  Might help to separate the anarchy forums from the conservative and libertarian ones. Otherwise the place just stinks of libertarians, a.k.a. people who know the conservatives are right but aren't socially bold enough to state it.

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  • masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I like the Fedoraverse, but it has a weakness: it is focused on the method of communication, not content, so good stuff gets ignored and it cannot retain users. It’s not going to beat Twitter ever. On Twitter, the crowd raises up favorites; on the Fediverse, they get ignored. This is its fatal flaw.

    These are good points. I think if we can get a celebrity to endorse one it might help. Having communication platforms that are censorship resistant by design gives users the faith they need to invest time in it. Its like windows VS Linux. Yeah there are fewer desktop Linux users. But without making Linux open source Linux would not have been the success it is today. It still hasn't "beaten" windows at the game of desktop, but by every single other metric it has beaten windows. Its slowly chipped away at server, phone, and embedded space to where the desktop is the only thing windows still succeeds at. And windows desktop is a horrible experience IMO these days so even that is in danger from Linux, Chromebooks, and macs.

    I think libertarianism is the best political bias a site admin can have. Its about maximizing freedom for all. Conservative and Liberal types are all about which rights to limit for a better society.

    More or less.

    Reddit started about with a libertarian bias then went as you know to be what it is today.

    In the federated world it might make since to have a conservative instance because we are less likely to build up a mega site by nature.

    Its not like left wing people have no where to go.

    In general, I looked at the available options and non existed that could fit my needs. Ruqqus was doing well before they started to ban everyone.

    We might have to play the long game. Like piratebay did. Be consistent. Never have downtime. Slowly add new features. Some users will come and go but over time will will grow in usage. Build up name recognition.

    If I can cause any pain to big tech. If I can take any of their power to censor away I will consider this platform a success. Its not about money, although if I could quit my day job I would have a lot more time to improve this place.

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    • mayonesa@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I agree heartily:

      We might have to play the long game. Like piratebay did. Be consistent. Never have downtime. Slowly add new features. Some users will come and go but over time will will grow in usage. Build up name recognition.

      However, I think it also helps to have some branding.

      Reddit started about with a libertarian bias then went as you know to be what it is today.

      Yes, which is why I think something more ideological, like resistance to centralization as a philosophical pursuit, is important.

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