Someone should probably jump in and explain what federation means.

Some of those channels have videos complaining quite loudly about youtube, some are tech channels that do talk about the fediverse sometimes, some aren't even aware of the fediverse but might be interested.

It might be worth drafting a message that explains that it won't cost them anything to just sign up to an instance mirror their videos to peertube as a first step. For more technical channels, they can setup their own peertube instance and mirror there - together or alone.

There might be more incentives, but that's for the community to discuss. What do you think?

I came across a post in r/RedditAlternatives inquiring about Reddit alternatives aimed towards women: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1jycxqr/do_you_know_any_reddit_alternatives_aimed_towards/

Any fediverse spaces come to mind?

https://piefed.social/f/forumverse

Here is the outcome from the brief chat I had here. (Reposted from Fedigrowth)

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in community placement, but I'm getting exhausted currently. Many communities on here are old, dead, tired. Some are new. Many categories are barren, some are overfilled and need more segmentation. I'm just sharing what I've built as I think this could be very helpful to community advertisement and exploration.

I'd like anyone who runs or knows of communities to let me know here, so I can add them.

And if anyone is interested, should I make a matrix or even lemmy community in aid of this?

If we want more people to migrate here from Reddit, we must make this platform feel sturdy enough to avoid the feelings of joining a fringe group. It also helps the apps avoid being buried under other ones with similar names in the results. Someone said they searched for the Thunder app only to find the vpn one, causing them to give up in joining in that session.

Also I saw someone criticize the Voyager app for only having 33 reviews on the appstore page saying they’re “unsure of using it” because of that relatively low number.

I have personally wrote reviews for 3 Lemmy apps detailing what I liked about them.

Reposting this here as the /r/buyfromEU post has been removed: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/

Hello everyone,

This sub seems to get some traction in the last few days, which seems like a good opportunity to present Lemmy, an open-source alternative to Reddit.

What is Lemmy in one sentence?

Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit, you can visit https://phtn.app/ to have a look at the content, and install an app using https://vger.app/settings/install.

The more detailed explanation

That was the very easy version. No need to understand federation, servers, or any technical jargon. If you are still reading this, this means you are interested about how things work behind the scenes. If not, you can skip to the FAQ section.

But as we are European, the servers question should be quite familiar to us. Lemmy works like email: you use a provider to get access to the service, providers are operated by different people, but still all

Hello,

I've been thinking of this for a long time, but have there been any serious attempts on getting the subreddits of your ethnic group / country on switching to lemmy?

Feels pretty lonely on lemmy, since there are only 6 (including me, and afaik) arabs/1 other person from my country. And i'm guessing it can feel barren for some in the same way.

Would it be a good idea to go on subreddits like r/denmark, r/estonia, r/arabs, r/kurdistan (for kurds), etc and promote lemmy? What do you think would be the response? What communities would we do? Is it a good idea?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60936421

Just got the email there (to see how bad it will be.) The full text is:

Hey.

You're getting this email because you were first in line.

Before the homepage. Before the platform. Before most people knew something was even happening.

So... welcome. You're officially invited to become a part of Groundbreakers, a small group of early supporters helping shape what Digg becomes next.

If you're just tuning in, here's the short version: Digg is coming back. Not as a throwback. Not as a museum. But as a reboot of the original social news site—rebuilt for how the internet actually works now.

And we want to build it the right way: with real people involved from the start.

We're gathering on Circle, a private online space where we'll share early ideas, rough screenshots, updates from the team, and weird internet energy in all forms.

👉 [Join the Groundbreak

I've been wondering about this for the past week and given the trouble Lemmy users have had with the Nicole spam, would it make sense for large Lemmy instances to switch to a whitelist approach for federation?

Instead of automatically federating with every new instance, what if we set up a system where federation had to be requested and approved? New instances could submit a request to federate, and the panel of federated instances could evaluate it before accepting. Any instance added to the white list would ideally be whitelisted across participating instances.

It might help with moderation challenges, reduce spam and bad actors, and give communities more control over the content that appears. BUT it adds unnecessary friction and turns the Lemmyverse into a closed space which goes against the idea of federation.

Curious what other people think and how we can brainstorm an approach for this kind of moderation issue long term.

Edit: please do participate in this conversation instea

Seems like it's an issue for potential new joiners

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1jv1usc/soon_we_will_going_to_have_our_own_social_media/mm6tiji/?context=10000

It's a website dedicated to searching alternatives for those unaware.