FYI: https://academy.garden/ is meant to be a science-focused instance. I will try to put up a website to let people recreate/import communities there.

I am the admin of the instance. I don’t think the posting is a problem.

Holy crap, I am sorry you have to deal with this.

The more I hear stories like these, the less I believe that social media can ever be a net good to society.

I want to believe that the Fediverse could be a healthy alternative, but damn why is it that this place gets to be so much smaller than the corporate networks and yet feel just as toxic as them?

I started working on the Fediverse because I believed that normies could benefit from social media that is mot controlled by any corporation. Now I am starting to feel like the only winning move is not to play.

No, I would be fine with some alt account that would be willing to talk about why and how they are doing the bots.

That seems like a problem of the application, no? If the workloads have memory leaks or are too eager to get memory to itself, then no cluster will be able to make it perform better.

This is totally a display of form over function.

The main issue for newcomers is the paradox of choice, and unless you are some exceptional case you’ll end up clicking more than one of the options and be facing a wall of options to choose from.

Also, what is the use case for recommending Emissary?

For the while, yes.

FYI: there is !toyota@gearhead.town. Maybe it would be better/nicer to use that one instead of being too specific?

I can make you a mod there too if you’d like.

I will take a look at the login issue. Seems like I need to update alien.top to a more recent version of Lemmy.

If you already have a Fedi account and just want to help with the community mapping, please take a look at https://fediverser.network/. The “fediversed” instances (like alien.top) can update their own mapping based on changes from fediverser.network, so any on one place can be used by admins elsewhere.

Nothing can be easier than going to https://portal.alien.top/, signing up with your Reddit account and seeing your account already subscribed to communities corresponding to your favorite subreddits.

I just want to tag @sam@endurance.racing because I know that he is also looking to build a community of racing enthusiasts.

I have to ask, then: what motivates people to do it?

If mods are not financially compensated for it, the only rational explanation is that they are either getting some form of benefit (soft power, access to privileged information) or they are getting some pleasure out of it, i.e, power tripping.

Thank you. I wouldn’t take it hard evidence of anything, but I did miss the part where he was actually a mod on Reddit as well.

That is what their mod was accused of having done

He was accused of lots of things. But was there any concrete evidence of that? All I saw was a comment from reddit where he said something stupid.

AFAIK, it goes something like this:

1. One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.
2. Someone on Mastodon found “bad” posts from said moderator.
3. The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.
4. The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.
5. Regardless of actions and reactions, the mob now successfully tainted the name and reputation of the instance.
6. Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.
7. One of fosstodon’s admins (the author of the blog post) is now saying “Screw you guys, I’m going home to Bluesky”

EDIT: There’s more to it. Seems like said mod is also active on Reddit (https://lemm.ee/post/60365167)

I’m having trouble parsing your sentence. Do you mean that the mods/admins of fosstodon were using their position of power to suppress anyone?

• Sign up to Fediverser
• Search for communities for your interests.
• The community should be associated with a subreddit. If it’s not, you can make a suggestion for the change.
• Apply to become a Community Ambassador. I’ll approve it. Once you are approved, you will be able to do the following:
  • See the posts from the subreddit that is associated to the community.
  • Send DMs to people on Reddit, inviting them to join Lemmy and your community
  • Add other sources of contents (RSS feeds)

There were more things that I had planned, such as the ability to do one-click repost of interesting links, but I didn’t get to it because that would mean effectively that I would have to turn the fediverser site into a an alternative Lemmy frontend.

I really wish more people had taken on the “Community Ambassador” work that I’ve done for https://fediverser.network/. It could be really helpful in creating a focal point for everyone that wanted to help the migration of people interested in a specific niche.

She touches on the aspect of monetization and claims that “you could save money by being on the Fediverse”.

Yes, in theory it is possible. In practice this is something that only is available for the already-famous journalists who have enough pull to move their audience from Substack to their own property.

For everyone else, the Fediverse is (a) too small and (b) too “anti-money” to encourage professionals to even try making a living here. They stay on Substack for the same reason that video creators stay on YouTube: it’s a horrible master, but at least it lets them pay their bills.

57k for a junior was “decent” in Berlin 10 years ago for anyone that could spell Javascript. Nowadays it falls squarely into “I’ll take this job because it’s better than nothing” territory.