good meme

Literally this.

reading

hilarious that you’d post this on Lemmy too!! the fediverse really is incredible

AAAAH!! Yes, that makes sense, thank you~

I don’t understand what this means.

Well, that’s all great. But the big problem with these kinds of platforms is always that hosting all this data (especially videos) is extremely expensive. It’s not necessarily impossible that donations+ads+subs can cover all the infrastructure costs, but generally there’s a need for some sort of big capital backing. Open Source is not something that gets that sort of private investment.

But hey maybe. I’d absolutely love that.

The model is pretty successful anyway, some people here have mentioned Pixiv and Nebula.

Oh wow OH WOW I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS!!! Yes!!!

If there were ever a way to more easily migrate communities, I will also consider this down the line.

Ah that’s a great point actually, and I believe it’s in development as we speak. A lot of people have asked for that feature.

I don’t really like the country analogy but I do agree with your overall point. I think, as Lemmy gets bigger, more people will actually look into different instances and join the ones they relate to or want to participate in the most.

As you said, it’ll take some time, but I do think it’s only a matter of time, if that makes sense haha

Hmm…

IDK, I think a big thing with federation should be communities being spread out, instead of centralized in one instance. I totally get why you would want to move away from lemmy.ml, both on account of the Mali government and feeling like it doesn’t fit, but why not move to, say, Lemmy.zip or Derpzilla.net, since they’re tech and gaming focused instances? I get discoverability, but on the other hand, wouldn’t being on an instance of people that are more likely to care about a certain topic be better for discoverability too?

IDK, just saying. Hope all goes well with your community!

wait what, what are you talking about?

Only OW2 for now, hopefully HS soon though.

oh I thought you bought a portal gun

it’s clickable on web at least

GOAT behaviour, I’ll bookmark it!

Oh, thank you for the link. I will indeed check it out!!

Oh so this is kinda like Wikiwand for Wikipedia?

YUP!!!

I use FMHY. It’s a listing of a bunch of sources.