HobbitFoot

It depends on how you read posts on Mastadon. I can see methods of developing ways that read Mastadon posts that can hide ads in it.

I don’t see the benefits but I see drama this would cause.

There is visible growth in posts and comments, which is good. However, I’ve also started seeing spam posts.

The problem with Nebula is that it is a paywall, something that is considered to be the most evil by some on Lemmy.

At the end of the day, content is paid for by getting everyone to pay, asking some to pay, advertising, or the creator is willing to do it for free as a hobby.

Even at its smallest form, a federated instance hosting a community likely needs more than one person acting as admin and mod. It may not be a for profit corporation, but there needs to be some kind of collective organization.

What kind of internet connection do you have?

Yeah. I would pick karma within the community as a rough basis. Even then, I would keep the karma limit low to prevent a MeowMeowBeenz issue. It just shows that you’re a participating member of the community.

Mods can alter who becomes qualified.

But lets face it, there are already a ton of reposters here already.

Part of what you would need to create is a qualified voter system.

For a meme sub, maybe the qualified voters are known participants in the community over a period of time.

For a more technical sub like what AskHistorians is on Reddit, voters are those qualified to answer questions.

It doesn’t have to be open to everyone, just the interested.

And you keep coming back to the federation model as a way to keep this in check, but it is still a dictatorial model and the only answer to dealing with a bad head mod is to destroy a community and lose the history of that community.

I’m on an incredibly small instance that self reports costs at about $18 USD/month, which is above your costs.

Beehaw reports costs at over $500 USD/month.

I would imagine lemmy.world is in the thousands.

I know the idea is that there should be more instances, but we are already beginning to see server costs that are higher than what you think. User numbers seem to be settling down now, but who knows when the next spike will happen.

You have different levels with guild defined titles and privileges. Some privileges are effectively mod abilities, but others are more enhanced user abilities.

The idea is that a sub could assign mod ranks in a more transparent manner while providing means to kick out non-performing mods easier.

You could also have a selected user base be able to vote on policy so that mods have a better understanding what the user base wants.

It isn’t a perfect system, but better than the first system we have.

One of the major complaints on Reddit was the mod governance structure, with rank dependent on who showed up first. On the roadmap, do you see implementing other ways to govern mods, maybe something like how a lot of video game guilds govern themselves?

As some instances grow, server costs are becoming significant. Right now, servers are only funded through donations. Do you see the development of anything else to help fund server costs?

There has already been jokes of AI being used to create well crafted correspondence, then another AI translating that into a short summary.

I think you are going to see AI as something people lean on more to talk to others, and that is going to create its own language where AI talks to AI.

Defederation was always going to be at risk when you have different user bases with different values interacting with each other.

Look at email. The standard is open, but servers won’t process email from different domains because those domains are known to be spam only. I expect Lemmy is going to be similar.

I’m just not happy about the being forced into a new skin eventually.

That’s great, but why couldn’t that be a part of Windows 10?

I don’t get why they had to make 11. 10 was good enough with improvements, and it feels like Microsoft should have learned their lesson from 8.

Isn’t that like a lot of older television shows? Lots of shows are lost as no one wanted to pay for tape storage.

I’m fine with ads in my RSS. Content creators need to get paid.