Another data point in favor of supporters of Dead Internet Theory .

Also, this is one more example of why it would be better if instances charged a little bit from everyone: spammers will rather run things from their own machines (or some illegal botnet) than paying something with a credit card.

At the moment of writing this there are 90 comments, none of them even considering the idea that this whole Fediverse thing is never going to be a worthy contender for a healthier Internet if we keep treating it as some hippie, amateur, "community is all you need" project.

"You get what you pay for" is still true. If the thousands of people using kbin contributed with $10/year, you can bet that the developer wouldn't be in this situation.

We might come up with all the schemes to try to mitigate the issues and warts of federated software, but it would help a lot more if most people understood that software developers and instance admins are still professionals who still have ambitions and would like to be paid for their work accordingly.

Works with Jitsi just fine...

Doesn't "the only thing that the Fediverse has over the alternatives is the ethical superiority" answer that?

I am here because I want it to succeed, not because it has.

caddy can serve the files and deal with SSL certificates in case you put this in a public domain.

One account that just does everything.

And to do this it introduces yet-another non-documented, non-specified, non-ActivityPub compliant API to make the lives of client developers even more difficult.

No. You are thinking of Discord.

There are vulnerable groups of people who have a harassment risk against them.

People that are at risk for what they write on the public internet should be protected and empowered by having better privacy tools, not by pretending that they can have a "safe space" on the public internet.

There is no such thing as privacy on the internet. The Fediverse makes it seem that it mitigates the surveillance problem by spreading the information around and not having it under the control of one single large entity, but the truth is that the Fediverse makes it actually easier for dedicated malicious actors to collect data and reach their targets.

So every user that decides to get notified will add a comment to the thread?

If 100 people trigger it, 100 comments will be the exact same response?

Also, if people end up "deleting the comment to keep the thread clean", will they get purged as well?

Do voters count as active users? I am somewhat confident that the user count is just related to people who posted or commented on the community.

I'm yet to understand why people downvote comments like yours. Your answer was on-topic, provided a reasoning, was well-written... even if I haven't fully recovered from the trauma of having two wordpress sites hacked, I still think your comment has merit.

Matrix is your best bet.