Yeah, I also noticed a couple of times where kids passed me by on a bike with the alarm beeping.

Not necessarily “Lemmy matures”. It could also be:

• ActivityPub software starts supporting DID to allow migration of identities.
• ACtivityPub adopts some ideas from nostr and turns the server into a simple message relay.

Which then could let the lemm.ee admins to bring back the server - or offer a way for users to checkout their actor keys, etc, etc…

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.

I will paraphrase my father: “it doesn’t matter how much money you are making if you are spending most of it. If you want to build wealth, you need to look at how much you can set aside every month”.

what would you expect the percentage to be?

A lot less. When I was single and sharing an apartment, I’d pay 600€ on a ~4000€ netto salary. 10 years, a marriage and two kids later, our place is about 1400€ even when our combined income was 3.5x as much.

Not so much of a good measure of how you live but on how much (or little) people are left for other things, including saving/investing towards their own homes.

Generally, because I think all server-centric AP software is broken and I want to see a client-first application to browse the social web.

Particularly in relation to piefed: it seems to be focused on the exact opposite (giving more power to the server admins) and it takes a good page of social engineering / “nudge theory” principles to guide its design. Much like Mastodon, it seems to be strongly opinionated about how people should behave and it kinda gives me an icky feeling about its culture.