I’d say this is impossible, by design. The main problem of corporate social media is that it is controlled by an oligopoly, and we can not get this much concentration of power in a system that is designed to be distributed.

The world does not revolve around you.

The problems of Corporate-owned social media affect all of society. We need an universal alternative that can be a real threat to them and alternatives like the Fediverse serving only the fringes do little more than act as a “managed opposition”.

I am building some solutions to these problems myself

No need to be coy. What problems are you tackling? Where is the code? I agree with pretty much of what you are saying, this is why I started working on Fediverser, how about joining forces instead of coming with yet-another plan all on your own?

How old is TikTok?

level-up zone seems pretty dead to me

It’s not dead, it’s in a catch-22. It’s not open to users, so there is no way (yet) for users to create communities there without going through me. I want to find a solution for this on this summer so that I don’t become a bottleneck.

there’s only one mod who I have no experience with.

That would be me. I’m the one running the topic-specific instances. Nice to meet you.

If ttrpg.network doesn’t seem suitable to you, I can create a community on level-up.zone and make you a moderator.

I’d rather have communities in instances that are topic specific, that’s all. It is easier for discovery and easier to explain to newcomers.

Still, which instance looks more adequate?

There is a whole instance for that at https://ttrpg.network/

A lot of your problems woild go away if you stopped browsing by all…

It’s not a federation issue, just that the community was running the alien.top mirroring system and I stopped it.

Regarding “why I do not join you instead”: Nothing against you or lemmy.zip, I just do not want to contribute to communities that are on non topic-specific instances.

I can give you all the moderation powers and full control over the community at the topic-specific instance if you want. Also, my ADAPT project is very close to achieve API-parity with Lemmy, and this summer I am planning to convert the topic-specific instances to it. This will mean I will be able to add new features and make the work for content curation and promotion easier.

Yes, it was one of the alien.top targets. Still, better to use a topic-specific instance that already exists for 3 years than bootstrapping yet-another community.

If you’d rather join forces, take a look at !watches@style.land

I’ll be interested in following this thread. Some customers of mine are tired of Pixelfed thousand little papercuts and are considering dropping entirely. Even one photographer preferred to run their own Mastodon instance to avoid dealing with Pixelfed’s eternal beta status. I might spend some time this weekend figuring out how difficult it would to deploy Vernissage.

Best person to answer this is @mariusor@metalhead.club

True, you’ll need an activity object whose actor is the same as the original post creator to indicate the answer is accepted. The point still stands, though: the ActivityStreams vocabulary already has what’s needed to enable this funcionality.

Ok.I see. Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea. It’s only a marginal benefit in terms of protection against data scrapers (you can also build that profile based on who they follow, or what they write about…) and it makes things more difficult for moderators and hides important information from other community members.

Stop thinking in terms of “votes”. Think of the activities as a “fixed content messages”: John liked this. Alice liked that. Bethany did not like that other thing. Each “vote” is a meaningful interaction. A server that says “2734 people did not like your message” means absolutely nothing.

This is not a political council nor a popularity contest. No one will make critical decisions based on the amount of worthless Internet points.

I do not understand arguments about privacy when we are talking about a public, social network. Social interactions online do not need to be that different from real-world interactions. if you are not willing to say “I did not like / I disagree with you” to someone personally, then you shouldn’t say it at all.

Sean proposed something more ambitious: identity-first onboarding, where you import your social graph and content before choosing a server. The idea: set up a “pre-identity” that pulls in your posts and connections from other networks, then pick a server that fits

https://fediverser.network/ has exactly this. The missing piece was (still is) that no lemmy admin that I talked to bothered to integrate with it.

I understand that coming from users, but not from the project developers. They know they’ve built a client for the Mastodon API, so it should be described as such.