Here is some feed back from my friend who is a social media user. I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.

I think the landlord part is a huge slopulism redflag. landlords have nothing to do with a social media platform bringing up that there is 0 here is dumb

I think there should be a sell that isnt negative. The fediverse isnt good because its less shitty. Its good because its actually cool in a lot of unique ways. Those unique ways are hard to sell easily but in my opinion the sell should be something positively cool about the fediverse. Personally I like the instance concept I think its what makes this place so great. To my friends I just say its a shared feed not controlled by any one entitiy.

There is a no politics rule but I see plenty of anti right wing, critical of tech bro and capitalism posts. The posts getting flagged are generally pretty low effort garbage.

Hacker news has been a nice place to browse. Yes a lot of the people are the most AI silicon valley brained ghouls but its offset by the entertainment of seeing them earnestly say the quiet part out loud. and because the forum has rules about sincerity thoughtful engagement you can open a thread and actually read a good discussion with intelligent comments.

What a solid pitch

get them to sign up to whatever instance you’re on and dont even bother telling them there is other stuff out there until they’re settled in.

After the reddit migration there was a sense of optimism and feeling that this platform could be something great. People were joking and interacting positively.

Then the I/P happened and agenda posting went crazy you had people attacking people where both people were on the same side of the issue. Its gotten consistently worse since then. I/p, Ukraine, Trump, AI its making people miserable and rightfully so. But I wonder what is needed for the path back to optimism and positive discussion.

Block users that seem extreme and it will clear up. Its like 10 people responsible for 95% of the posts.

All these countries have problems with long streaks of bad governance. They would suffer the same if not worse fates under an economic system where only the government drove economic growth.

This is creepy behaviour

You want to make a place that carves out crazies, good someone should do that. I believe a frontend isnt the place but i also think there is a discussion to be had and an approach where it could work. Most instances already defed these instances already.

You want to crash out and add a bunch of people to a secret blocklist, fine it kills the rep of your project but whatever people can stop using it.

You want to add malicious code to your project, thats disgusting and unironically you should be jailed. You cannot DDOS people because you dont like them. You cannot hijack peoples computers to DDOS. That is unacceptable.

I did not see that statement. Did he say it was people who disagreed with him?

Its probably more adding users that fight/ are rude/post extreme content rather than based off disagreement. I havent seen the dev getting into many arguments.

How many times has this been nationalised now? Also is this another Starmer W first rail now steel. Love him or have him the guy is getting thing done.

That was a wild paper. It was very worrying how close they put it to god.

How can we strengthen communities against these kind of attacks? Not just the blatant bot waves but also the subtle manipulation and influence. I swear I see it happen here where there will be a single account posting hundreds of low quality articles from the most random sites and all with extreme headlines and all the posts theme around 1 specific thing. Even though they sit there getting 0 engagement they are influencing the people who scroll by.

I think this is what the gaming community should be about. Its always peeved me that the gaming community on here and reddit are always filled with slop news and 0 gaming content.

A fun event I saw on a message board was a hotseat rimworld game. Someone started a world played for a bit then posted the save next person picked it up played it a bit and posted it.

It was pretty fun.

IMO its best to keep everything illegal to word of mouth you dont want to leave any traces. Hosting an online fedi platform would be putting up a beacon leading back to you with a paper trail of all people involved.

Oh this is super exciting.

I think you just got to pick a relevant ish community and fucking send it. A lot of the stuff is news posts so it can feel out of place but at the end of the day I think we all prefer discussion threads with humans asking and answering each others questions.