I think people will vent and quite a decent percentage will return to reddit eventually. Like it happened with twitter since Elon did his thing.
But lemmy will stay. It has been here before all the people migrated from reddit and the fediverse in general will keep having a right to exist. And it will.
The CO2 comes in returnable metal bottles which get refilled after you return them. There's almost nothing disposable at play. If you buy the recent and more expensive models, you even get glass bottles, so less plastic, too.
I'm afraid it doesn't work this way. Developers generally don't have a shortage of ideas or problems to solve.
People suggest ideas all the times. Usually they have no idea if it's super difficult to implement or already a solved problem. And if people do the programming in their spare time: They need to be involved or personally motivated somehow. So you need to find people who also want it.
My advice is: Find out where those people mingle, who would have some personal motivation or involvement with your topic of interest. That is the right place to ask.
My personal oppinion: Feel free to also spam the internet and places like this with your idea. I'm a proponent of "Don't ask to ask, just ask". People can always not read your post or can guide you into some direction. It's probably okay if you do it a few times too many. Just don't ask in a hundred places at once and then don't read the replies. If you're better than that, you're fine.
Yes. And i'm always stunned by how many people buy loads of bottled water at the Getränkemarkt. Just drink it from the tap or get one of those machines that make sparkling water if you like that?! There is no chlorine in ordinary german water and it tastes just fine.
These are all cosequences of a federated approach.
Also we absolutely need moderation tools in the internet. There are way too many jerks out there. Fortunately people like to stick together with like-minded people and form groups. Especially after they've been shouted at, banned, etc. the jerks will find their own instance and we can cut contact to all jerks at once.
I like defederation for that. However, it is the deliberate act of destroying the one thing you've invented the fediverse to do: to 'federate' with other instances. If you do that too often, you kill the idea and the spirit of the fediverse. Probably followed by killing your platform, community and the mood of everyone involved.
We need nice people. Good people pushing the buttons in the backend. Diversity. And a healty way to communicate and moderate.
One thing is: If i run an instance of something like lemmy: It's my decision what to do with it. I bought the server. I pay the electricity and internet bill. I face the consequences and get nasty mail by the police if someone does something illegal with it. And maybe i invited my friends to join. It's the same like inviting them to my barbecue party. I don't want them to be shouted at by some right-wing nuts, there.
There is one simple consequence that is important to know for the user: Chose the right instance for you! Diversity is a great thing. And we all know it's too difficult for a new user to also know which instance to join. But it's absolutely necessary to put some effort in. You need an instance that federates with like-minded people and which owners are aligned to your own morale and ethics. You can't join something else and the complain. That way, you'll probably be lost for the fediverse, after too many negative impressions.
I'm not sure they are. I bet lots of them use Linux servers, Solr, several open source databases and so on. I think it's mostly the small and medium companies who are afraid of missing support and stuff.
The big companies just don't like selling open source to their customers. Or getting them too close to the concept of it.
Just ask someone from there on day one. They can obviously tell and i think this is the best strategy. I bet it's safe like in most parts of middle and northern europe.
Sure. I'm always kinda uncertain why people ask for libre software and then not want it for the same things i like about it. If you want something plug and play and decentralization isn't important to you: Maybe you don't need an alternative and Discord is the right thing for you.
Otherwise it's not the software (architecture), you just want to go to an existing instance and let someone else do the self-hosting for you.
Fast growth is always messy. Time will tell. Other than that we of couse need to do the right things now and steer into a healthy direction. But don't expect this to happen without major hiccups. It'll settle down eventually.
Ähm, man trifft überall Deutsche. Die lungern überall herum. Im RL in anderen Ländern auch. Trifft man natürlich im Urlaub im hinterletzten Kuhdorf auf einem anderen Kontinent ein paar Menschen mit ordentlichem fränkischen Akzent, die schon drei Tage länger dort sind. Auf den großen Internetplatformen fühlt sich das genauso an. Aber ich zumindest habe dieses Gefühl nicht nur bei nerdigen Themen.
In der FOSS-Szene lese ich regelmäßig auch noch Französisch, und ich bin auf Peertube zumindest auf sehr viel Content in ganz vielen Sprachen gestoßen. Da z.B. auch Spanisch aus Südamerika etc. Gerade bei nicht-kommerziellen Plattformen sind die 'Algorithmen' auch oft nicht so poliert (oder überhaupt vorhanden) und schließen einen deshalb nicht so in der gleichdenkenden und in der gleichen Sprache sprechenden Blase ein. Leider spreche ich nicht besonders viele Sprachen. Neben Peertube was ich ziemlich multilingual finde, gibt/gab es auf Mastodon-kompatiblen Servern auch eine größere japanische Community.
Ich denke deutsch sprechende Menschen sind nicht wirklich überrepräsentiert. Davon gibt es nicht soo wenige und die Überlappung mit amerikanischen Plattformen, Themen und kulturellen Dingen sind groß. Den Rest bildet man sich wahrscheinlich ein. Allerdings sind z.B. Menschen aus Indien und China definitiv unterrepräsentiert. Entweder liegt das daran, dass viele Leute (in anderen Ländern) auch andere Probleme haben als viel im Internet herumzuhängen... Oder sie sind aus welchen Gründen auch immer auf anderen Plattformen unterwegs und damit zumindest für mich unsichtbar.
I think people will vent and quite a decent percentage will return to reddit eventually. Like it happened with twitter since Elon did his thing. But lemmy will stay. It has been here before all the people migrated from reddit and the fediverse in general will keep having a right to exist. And it will.