Welcome !

Not sure a.gup.pe groups federate probably

There is !palest

I’m very doubtful too. I look at “active users” stats, and for every sub at every time it never goes above a few hundreds.

The millions subs numbers are bs

Feel free to report this on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Also !globalnews@lemmy.zip

Sad to hear.

But I don’t think mods needed to involve.

I think they should to an extend, especially if the topic is Apple, being Apple to like Apple products seems like an evidence.

Then there’s the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.

Those should be locked, and redirect to more generic active communities for the time being.

Any example in mind?

Feel free to advocate for your vision as much as you like, but it seems the audience here isn’t very receptive.

By saying that you are covering the cost of the hardware, you are basically saying that the work of everyone else is worth zero. This is downright offensive.

I’m going to add to your list the time of people posting content and animating communities. I am happy to freely dedicates some of my time to it, and if someone would show up and say “community animators needs to be paid for their time”, I would suggest them to go to Nostr, which seems to exactly address this issue, rather than here, where most of the people volunteer with their free time.

A comment from the Mbin lead dev yesterday (https://kbin.melroy.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/444176/-/comment/3956532 )

I also asked among the contributors if you should accept any form of money or NLnet funding or anything in that regard. Our common conclusion was: NO. Because we are doing it for fun, asking money will only create a situation were you might even feel more obligated.

No, not really. At the moment I am more upset about the fact that you are one of the most active users here, that you jump instances every two weeks or so and yet you seem to think that contributing $1/year is “enough” to support the work of everyone involved here.

Based on the other thread, it seems to indeed cover the costs. I usually give 5€ per year for an instance I use a lot. Still much cheaper than the 30$ for your bundle. It’s a free environment, people will go to places using the donation model they prefer.

Imagine going to a farmer’s market and saying “how come do you sell those eggs for 10€ a dozen, you can feed 25 chickens for a whole month with that, if they lay 1 egg per day you are getting 750 eggs, so I don’t see why I should give more than 12/750 euros per egg.” and tell me how well that’s going to go.

Imagine opening a restaurant serving soup next to a kitchen soup where volunteers make and serve the exact same soup as yours, and tell me how that is going to work.

Second and most important: the $29/year is supposed to buy you peace of mind.

See above, peace of mind is similar on lemmy.dbzer0 for instance, and their admin still said

I would still fund this instance even out of pocket, but I really appreciate you all for assisting in this way.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21873104

They provided the CSAM detection tool and Fediseer. Those project have donations tools, but I’ve never seen their creators threatening to stop developing if they don’t get enough money the way you are.

No, I’m not. I’m saying that I can still manage it if needed. My proposal would be to donate the instances to the team to get rid of this “single point of failure” that you are holding me against.

The single point of failure still stands as of today, and on top of that, the lack of organic content and communities creation on your communities is probably why you are not having as much users as you would like to.

You are saying that my work is not worth the price that I am charging, yet at the same time you think that others will not be interested in doing because it takes time and expertise. Don’t you see the contradiction here?

It’s not a contradiction. To come back to the volunteer kitchen soup above, it would be similar to donate 50 delivery trucks to a kitchen soup that does only manage one. They would need to park them, manage their insurance, broken tires, oil, etc, while they are doing fine with one truck, and that’s how comfortable they are operating as volunteers.

If your idea of “growing the network” is to keep waiting to get more enthusiasts who are willing to sacrifice their time and sanity to serve 1-2 thousand users at a time, you are going to wait for a very. long. time.

LW host 18k monthly active users. Lemm.ee host 3k monthly active users. The issue is not with the number of instances, it is fine as of now, the issue is getting regular users.

If everyone keeps treating this as a mere hobby, and if users keep thinking like you and refuse to pay for the professionals what they are worth, then the professionals are simply going to go work somewhere else. If you don’t believe me, just look at what is happening with Mastodon and Bluesky.

Your perspective comes from someone who does not currently have a job and try to make the Fediverse profitable. Restaurant vs volunteer kitchen soup situation again. The vast majority of instance owners seem to indeed treat this as a hobby, hence are okay to give their time for free, and appreciate if donations cover the hosting costs.

Have a look at the other thread, there was only one other admin who shared your perspective.

I said it already, I’ll repeat it: you have a much higher chance to get another source of income with another job than expecting people to pay 30$ a year for a bundle of Lemmy/Mastodon/Matrix.

There’s less than 20 mau, but I pay close to $400/mo.

Wait, what?

I’m on the cautious side on this one, seeing the cat vegan foot debate is still getting comments a week after, I expect the potential of reports for memes talking about such dramas to be quite high 😅

switch app

Boost and Sync are available here as well

If you’re not a programmer, or a linux user, or have techie interests, it’s not the platform for you.

There is a group of people who created a community here because their sub got banned. They cannot be more far from linux or tech, still they do well, their community is active and they are able to discuss.

Sometimes I feel like the complexity of Lemmy is exaggerated. People ask you about it, “go to Lemm.ee, use it the same way as Reddit. And as Reddit, don’t hesitate to block political communities”

That needs to stop. Did the moderators jump in?

Good to know, thanks!

If you are interested, there is !linux@programming.dev and !opensource@programming.dev for linux and open source communities which are not on .ml nor .world

2.39K monthly active users

4th most active instance (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/ )

Hosts 10 of the 100 most active communities (https://lemmy.ca/post/26878531 )

Indeed 😄

Disabling uploads might be an option. You probably just need to announce it to the people beforehand, but I see most of the people using image links from other sites, so that might not be an issue.

Thank you!

On that topic, could limiting the posting of pictures and asking people to use external picture hosts help with that?

So perhaps we aren’t watching Reddit die. Nor we will, in the future - because Reddit is already dead. What we’re watching instead, with morbid curiosity, is a headless chicken running around, while we place some bets on when it will stop moving - so venture capital can have its dinner.

Well put