Platforms like Reddit and Tumblr need to optimize for growth. We need to have growth, but it is does not be optimized for it.

Yeah, things will work like a little elitist club, but all newcomers need to do is find someone who is willing to vouch for them.

Would you like to bring this to https://nfl.community? I was thinking of having separate communities for highlights and memes as well.

Not all crypto is Bitcoin, and not all blockchains are based on Proof of Work. Ethereum's Proof of Stake consumes less electricity than all the power used by PlayStation consoles at idle.

I just created !jellyfin@poweruser.forum

What I am thinking as a possible solution would be to have some type of "community server", akin to email list servers. The admin of the server becomes a "mere" service provider, and those that create communities are then responsible for moderation and that content being hosted there.

I believe that this would be perfectly possible to implement with Lemmy, so much so that I will add some of this functionality to Fediverser as part of my NLNet grant. The question is: who else would be interested in hosting these fediverser-enabled instances?

Speaking as someone who just received a grant from NLNet: I'm glad such a thing exists and I'm grateful for the funds I'm getting which will allow me to pay my bills for a couple of months. But if you told me 5 years ago (when I started working on Communick) that to make a living as a software developer I'd have to depend on the whims of bureaucrats who are playing with money that is not their own, I'd just go apply to Google or go back to my Big Corp.

Centralized economies do not work. Like everything else in the world, the best measure we have to determine if software is "good" is by putting a price on it and seeing how much people want to pay for it.

Also, it's important to point out that this does not mean that we need VC, big corporate structure or any corrupt institution to work. There are indie devs making a killing (50/70/100k€ per month) on their own because they are building something that is valuable and are not shy from charging what they know what their work is worth.

Correct, so when I post my song I created to Funkwhale, it’s then federated across the fediverse, living on other servers and able to be downloaded.

AFAIK, the songs do not get distributed across the Fediverse, only the link to the original server.

Someone in the fediverse likes my song and they download it. Who then protects my license and attribution rights beside myself?

How is it different from you hosting your songs on your own website?

How is it different from songs you made available through Bandcamp? Does Bandcamp go chasing people pirating your work and/or using in unlicensed cases (e.g, playing in a commercial setting)?

Sounds like something that could be useful for Lemmy itself, no?

I mean as a non-admin. Users on Mastodon are at the mercy of the instance owner. On Bluesky (and nostr) they are not.

But the protocol is the least important thing, it's the applications that come out of it.

Granted, I think it would be an improvement if we didn't have to care or think about what server you are using and people could keep their same identity regardless of the application they are using.

Yeah, it would be nice if I could keep my "communick.com" handle everywhere, but my usage and conversations on Lemmy are different from when I am on Mastodon. The audiences are different. It's a good example of The medium is the message.

You are doing nothing but a strawman. Lemmy is developed by shit-for-brains tankies, yet there is no denying that their work has brought progress to the distributed web.

Same thing for nostr. Whether you like it or not, nostr "cryptobros" have shown a bunch of things that need improvement on the Fediverse and they are backing their words with actions and working code. You on the other hand have nothing but smug, pretentious bullshit to throw around.

I'm doing that for 4 years already and I'm arriving at the sad realization that no, not enough people care about "sustainability", "privacy" and even less about the actual benefit of using a social media platform that doesn't exploit user data and their attention.