maybe it would be simple to fork this source code and form your own community

The network effect makes this extremely difficult, even with the source code, it’s basically starting from scratch again.

Space Quest Historian, for adventure games https://spectra.video/c/spacequesthistorian/videos

if an instance has no users and only communities, then it’s less likely to be defederated by anyone, and easier to manage

I do the same thing (also because I don’t want to pay for tons of storage space lol) https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities

I think when you give the invite don’t say “Lemmy” just say the name of the server

Nobody is going to wait for an invite when they can just join any server.

well if they look hard enough to realize this then that’s a good thing, so I think it works out

You hacked a government system from your home connection?

It’s universally stupid, man! https://youtu.be/ADfL9g3X-DA?si=Q6qHAkQZhToVHX9a

“or else”

https://youtu.be/dlyMZNURdmc?si=15hACE--mnt369oq

yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it’s the main way to use the platform

they seem to only give accounts to creators

Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.

Keep that up for a few more months

I’m not confident that the internet’s attention span is that long, unfortunately

To view a link on your own instance, paste it into your instance’s search.

Example with a link to a similar discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/38173834 (paste that URL into your Lemmy’s search, like this)

(edit: I’ve been told that Lemmy is a bit smarter than I thought when doing those searches)

the difference is the level of control

X and Facebook are closed source, so you can’t review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don’t like and we can’t revert

they also control the servers and don’t let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there’s nothing we can do

and they also horde the content so you can’t get it from somewhere else, which means you can’t just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)

over here if you don’t like the devs then you don’t need to donate to them, you don’t need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)

you could try following people from here: https://fediverse.info/explore/people?t=photography

Pixelfed is growing like crazy (as always make sure to read the Y-axis labels)

https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Hopefully they get good integration with Lemmy and get some of that content showing up over here too lol

is there something like this for Mastodon? I think microblogging really needs a content discovery algorithm for the mainstream audience

For a comment it’s a lot yea, especially since the thread was still pretty new. It was the top comment in that thread by a large margin.

omg the top comment just got deleted with over 500 upvotes

I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website

I still see the comment on Spaduf’s profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

I think maybe the link to lemmy.world is what triggered their filter? because that was edited in

On another note, don’t you think it’s a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances?

Where is that comment? I didn’t see it. Maybe they’re thinking back when it was really hard to get new communities federated, but it’s not so bad these days, and even the medium sizes instances already have tons of communities already federated.

anyways I think we should’ve give people too much trouble as long as they’re joining the Fediverse lol, they can move instances as they get a feel for it

yea it should just be a matter of searching your username, but you need to be logged in to search remote instances (they don’t want anonymous requests spamming the network)

what’s your Pixelfed username? I can pull it up if you want

the bridge is pretty nice, I would recommend everyone on compatible platforms to use it (Bluesky, and probably any AP microblogging platform, but I’ve only tried it with Mastodon)