Cheers for that 🙂 If you ever have any suggestions on how to get people more involved in the community I'm always interested to talk.

Ooh, lots to respond to here!

First, cheers mate. I won't lie, i feel a bit lonely posting in this community sometimes. Hut theres usually a few other posts, commenta and upvotes to let me know I'm not posting to no one, which i genuinely value 🙂

But yeah, its an odd little milestone, thats definitely had an effect on the way I live and view things.

I've not been tracking MAU that closely, interesting about the porn thing, not surprising though. Its a shame that we're shrinking here on Lemmy. I've recently joined Mastodon as well, and the place is very active, the 'firehose' is quite cool. Lemmy is more sleepy, but that could be fine if its users like that style, not all sociall media needs to be up to the minute, changes every second.

I think what needs happen is not on here, we need physical community outreach. QR codes on traffic lights, flyers in second hand shops and libraries, education on why using X and Reddit are part of the problem and that there is an alternative.

Okay so this is my thinking exactly. Only, I thought Lemmy was relatively stable not shrinking so I didn't really have a sense of urgency.

On the issue of the wider society having no idea another option even exists, I've been acting.

I have set up a working group, on Matrix Chat, with the aim to launch a Social Web Foundation to support the development, expansion, and public relations of the Social Web (fediverse, et al) in Aus, NZ, and the Pacific Islands.

Currently its mostly me just working on the project with some support from a few other users here I invited due to me understanding that their values aligned with the project.

Because its going to be a foundation, I eventually need at least six other (but the more the better) people to join me to file the applications. So I concluded I'd need a 'brochure' style website to link to, that is available to explain in detail the work and ideas behind the foundation proposal.

So I'm finding my way about Wordpress in order to build a website. Quickly after starting that process I realised a good logo would be effective from the beginning. I've spent a bit of time working that out and now have it with a logo designer who I'll be working with over the next four weeks or so to deliver a logo I think is becoming something quite unique.

So my timeline currently looks like this,

1. Matrix Chat Working Spaces (complete)
2. Logo (in process)
3. Website (beginning)
4. Member Drive
5. File Foundation Application
6. Start Supporting Social Web in the Australia/Pacific region

I don't know if you're from this part of the world, i recognise your username though, but if you want to join me in this project I'd be super excited to have you, let me know and I'll private message you an invite. 🙂

I'm also quietly emailing organisations about the social web, as I see opportunities. Its mostly independent news-media to try to get their attention on the Social Web as a functioning and valuable entity for them to use and refer to. I see a lot of complimentarity in these two entities. This hasn't delivered much interest from those orgs yet though.

Anyway, this is all apart from the subject at hand, its a whole other thing. They are related in the way that if we have an interesting and active community in places like this, when people come to try it, theres something here to engage with. 🙂

Also as I am new here. With fresh eyes. It seems to me it’s got a few issues with the mobile presentation. I have found opening posts with media a hit and miss affair. So still a bit clunky. But other than that. It’s a lot like the reddit of 2000’s. IMO anyway.

ha ha, thanks MisterFrog. But now I can never meet you, because my horrible eye for fashion will give the lie to the trend setter business.

Thanks, I wasn't sure, and I can be very forward in my opinions, here and IRL, and sometimes it comes across more like brow-beating without me realising it. Yeah, I think there is an 'attraction to activity' aspect people like to be amongst something. And it can be a bot "tumbleweedy" here.

Thanks 🙂.

I'm slowly working on a more direct action approach as well. Building and waiting till they come is enough for some people to find these places. And if it was just c/perth/westernaustralia on my mind, I'd be happy to sit in this happy little corner with whoever comes along.

But I see the fediverse/social web as an incredibly valuable tool for average people to carve out their own spaces without the overwhelming dominance of a few 'cultural elites'. (I hate that I used that term, but I can't think of anything else). See one of my other comments in this thread for more of an explanation.

Out of interest, how have you found your way here?