The Lemmy devs honestly probably need a significant change in priorities or even a fork. They also seem to be ignoring relatively simple performance fixes that would have huge effects on the cost of instance hosting. If you think about it 60k users really shouldn’t cost that much to host. See @RoundSparrow’s thread about it here: https://lemmy.ml/comment/2971578
What’s the alternative? It honestly seems like a worthwhile way to do it for me. I really think there’s only value in following niche communities from Mastodon. Discourse like that found on politics and news is pretty plentiful (and often higher quality) on Mastodon as is, but the gardening communities make up an important part of my Mastodon feed.
That’s amazing to hear and I really feel like beehaw is exactly the sort of space that could pull it off. Y’all do great work over there
I’ll be honest a big motivation for posting this is to try to get feminist men active in a dedicated community on Lemmy. Currently there’s !mensliberation@lemmy.ca but it’s fairly inactive. Trying to give it a bit of a jump start so if anybody feels like that’s something they would benefit from please check it out! Also if anybody knows of a similar community with more activity please let me know.
This would be amazing. Huge opportunity here but of course some of the highest moderation requirements of any community. Near the levels required for something like r/ask_historians
I think it’s best acknowledged that FunkWhale is much closer to a federated Soundcloud than a federated Spotify. Still a very cool project.
As an example. This is the sort of post I’m talking about: https://tech.lgbt/@spaduf/110941439731236455
Already sitting at about 8 boosts and several favorites from some folks with a fairly large follower count. That means potentially thousands of eyes. I went ahead and put together a dedicated user as I think that may be more appropriate than spam posting Lemmy communities/instances on my personal account. Not sure when I’ll have time to flesh it out and make it active but I’ve already got a list of communities/instances and what groups I think would be interested in them. Find it here:
https://mastodon.social/@lemmy_for_mastodon