Huh? It’s just greedy owners. Don’t overthink it
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This is the huge problem with Masrodon imo. Twitter has all kinds of crazy algorithms, often bad and leaning towards hate/fear. Mastodon seems to be on the far other end with very little to drive engagement.
This is why a Reddit-type use (Lemmy) is perfect. The algorithm is mostly human driven with upvotes/downvotes.
Mine got blown up a day or two ago before I had enabled Captch. About 100 accounts were created before I started getting rate-limited (or similar) by Google.
Better admin tools are definitely needed to handle the scale. We need a pane of glass to see signups and other user details. Hopefully it’s in the works.
This John Hussman, the guy that continually predicted a crash during the strongest bull run in stock market history?
2010: “Investors dangerously underestimate the risk of an abrupt and possibly severe equity market plunge.”
2011: “the expected return/risk profile of the stock market has shifted to hard-negative.”
2012: “The present menu of investment opportunities continues to be among the worst in history.”
2013: “stock returns prospectively are very low.”
2014: “What concerns us beyond valuations is the full ensemble of overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions.”
2015: “Exit now.”
2016: “current extremes imply 40-55 percent market losses…. These are not worst-case scenarios, but run-of-the-mill expectations.” 2017: “the most broadly overvalued moment in market history.”
2018: “The music is fading out, and a trap-door has opened up in the floor, but they’re still dancing.”
2019: “a projected 50-65 percent market loss over the completion of this cycle is actually somewhat optimistic.”
The GitHub repo will be focused on software-level initiatives, whereas I’m talking more about product-level.
If the team is that small, then they need more people involved in product ownership, which is what I’m interesting in contributing towards (as others are too, I assume)
Keep in mind that moderation is always going to be handled locally by whichever instance the community is on.
In this case, this community is hosted on Lemmy.ml. That means that moderation is up to them, and will align with their specific views.
You can and should use a community browser to search for communities, and subscribe if they are on servers that align with your views.
The issue with that approach (too busy to build structure), is that it’s a never ending battle. There is never a good time. It’s an easy trap to fall into.
The best way to be successful with products like this is to invest time early in building out the team. By doing so, you’re multiplying output and limiting tech debt.
I would even be happy to help with helping build out the team (identifying gaps, key roles, volunteers) as that’s something I’m experienced with.
I wanted a server that had fast posting and browsing
Then I learned that some of the larger servers aren't federating with each other, which made me happy I went this route
https://wirebase.org, FYI
There is unfortunately not a good tool to help with what you’re looking for.
The best way is to browse to a few servers and see if they feel snappy. You can click through without an account.
https://wirebase.org is ours, which is hosted in the US
Craigslist’s competitive advantage has diminished to the point where people that I know don’t even use it anymore. Not a great example.
They went over a decade with basically zero innovation. Facebook Marketplace and OfferUp happily waltzed in and took a huge amount of market share.
I do agree with your main point however, that Lemmy/ActivityPub needs clearly communicated strategic vision to avoid being overtaken by corporate interests etc.
thanks for using Leebra!
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