Do you happen to know the mods there?

If you’re on topic and don’t break the groups’ rules, I don’t think you’d need privileged contact to the moderatos. Maybe make a post every week for things like community spotlights, community revivals, engaging topics, etc.?

Also, the more people interact, the more contents propagate, kinda like an algorithm but more analogical. So engaging more should boost organic growth.

And there being people from different places in here, betting on one type of content is imo risky. Better I think would be to just post what you’d like to see, and other like-minded folk may notice.

Now, on what Die4Ever said…

Also if we’re focusing on growing a specific community we should probably also try to let people outside of Lemmy know about it (Reddit/Discord/Twitter…)

Something that hadn’t crossed my mind but that was noted to me when I gave a similar idea is that doing so against direct competitors could be seen as sabotage, and moderator action would very likely come. Not in those words but in this idea though.

Better I think is to prioritize the fediverse in a passive or at least non-antagonistic manner.

For the Instagram people, if they’re also using Threads, poke them to enable ActivityPub. Several medium/large instances defederate, but it’s an entry point for them.

Also, don’t be forceful and try not to pass a sense of superiority. Apply pressure when you see opportunities, such as if they complain of a platform, how a given alternative solves that, but know your boundaries. And all the while, be patient, for it could be a years-worth endeavor.

Not familiar with moderation capabilities on PieFed, but something that can aid when moderating is having RSS tracking your communities. Even if the post gets deleted, if the RSS reader fetched the post in the time frame before that, it gets stored in your reader’s (preferably persistent) cache.

Screenshots maybe.

One of the originals I looked up at random has the photographer’s watermark at the bottom, past where the image here at the post ends: https://x.com/okirakuoki/status/1978302262804963728

Besides, and related to “not being a platform”, it helps break the idea of everyone having to share the same space with everyone. If two groups can’t have a healthy relationship, it is healthier for them to cut ties with each other. Meanwhile, the oligarchic platforms being as big and with barely any internal borders makes for the toxic environment of places like Reddit and Twitter that predates recent polemics.

Something though, I think it’d be better to have a cut-off of MAU or some other relevance metric, as otherwise smaller instances defederating from major ones may sneakily make the major one seem more isolated than it really is.

A bit scarier than the previous one at first glance, but the single line explanation including everything needed to understand makes it easier to read.

If Wafrn has hardcoded search links, maybe follow a tag from Mastodon with RSS, and set links to redirect to your instance’s search?

An analyst I follow says if you can’t see logic in a move, chances are you aren’t looking with the right premise. Trying to go by that, at least to me, the only premise that matches their behavior is that they want to destroy their own brand.

But if that’s the case, the whys still evade me. Are they “burning books” so the only truth is of the AI they’re formally feeding? Or perhaps being an open forum, it is a problem with Wiston Smiths about for a while trying to rewrite history? Or perhaps it’s a way to tarnish the image of something that despite its flaws, used to work minimally? Or is management of the company a bunch of trend-chasers in damage control mode?

God I hope the fediverse gets bigger than it is now

Haven’t checked your post history so saying that generically, but hope must be accompanied by action. So to those that have the same feeling, I invite to look for ways they can help.

I get the same impression, generally chill people.

Seconded! Also should help with discoverability overall, still one of the weaker points of the fediverse.

I guess it’s one way to induce community engagement. Though an idea, don’t overpost if you do it yourself, first for the risk of being ignored, and second to not burn through ideas too quickly.

Also, if you want ideas for filler community games, there’s always some popping up at GOG’s general forum.

Retroarch for example comes with a dot-starting folder where data is stored.

Can’t check now, but if there aren’t forks named like BookTale and BookStory, I’ll riot.

Jokes aside, if the license he used allows forking, dude’s tripping, and could even get sued depending on the country for false accusation of crime.

And ah, Discord, great for nuking inconvenient chats. Imagine if it had happened over at a public forum so people’s reactions could be backed up.

And dunno where I’d draw the line, but 20k lines imo is a bit past reasonable. How would anyone audit that many in a timely manner? But with the “dev” doing that daily, that’d be hard to even pretend.

the sun

Jokes aside, most of what I’d use in a baremetal installation, I can also do in a VM. The few things that don’t work revolve lack of proper hardware acceleration for XP/Vista games, of which I have some.

Adding to that, about the “stealth merge”, couldn’t it be just the rollback? Don’t change what works, as the saying goes.

And expanding on the meeting or post mortem idea, take this time not to fix the code, but to make an essay showing what broke, how it broke, and how it could be avoided in the future. Also preferably not letting your tone getting acid or those hearing from the company could instinctively refuse to listen to you even if your points are solid.

Also about Moltbook, paraphrasing an older comment of mine, social medias run by AIs are like Computer vs Computer battles in PS2 games - it’s fun to watch only for first one or two battles.

Had forgotten Moltbook was a thing. Or maybe it was something else with the proposal of “social media for AIs; humans optional”.

Reminds me of some news about Meta pushing LLMs in the comments of Facebook, and also about the zombie profiles where those from dead people would keep posting through LLM mimicry as if the person was alive. I wonder if Meta is hellbent on making the dead internet theory real.

it’s just the tip

Portugal’s current government is pretty unstable in these past few years from what I check every now and then, so I wonder if they’re trying to make it amid the confusion of political shift, “as the lights are turning off” as a local saying goes, so no one notices as dust settles.