How are PeerTube instances funded? I’d imagine that the cost of running an instance is significantly higher than a Lemmy instance.

True, but in order to make it a healthy viable alternative to centralised platforms then there needs to be a financial incentive for creators to use peertube. I guess any creators who give a shit about this kind of thing could upload their content to both platforms, but doing so could have an impact on their YouTube earnings.

Early youtube was beautiful precisely because it was normal people making videos as a hobby, not trying to earn money.

It was also a novelty as it as very new, but the quality of content being put out now is significantly higher than it was in 2005.

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I’m not a mod of the feddit.uk equivalent so it’s not up to me, but I’d be cautious about doing so. I have lemmy.ml blocked so I can’t see their posts or comments, but I’m a bit wary about their users, it would be like redirecting a unitedkingdom community from hexbear or grad.

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Yeah we can reach out to the mods there and see if they’d want to redirect to us.

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I mean after that, once the server is shut down and hosting bills are paid.

What will happen to the remaining donated funds once everything has been settled (assuming there’s funds left over)?

Sounds like it’s not the technical side that’s too difficult, but managing the users.

Sorry, just realised you asked about linking to a post and not a community!

I actually can’t remember how that works on web, on the app Voyager that link works fine. Will check it out when I get on my laptop.

You can use the [email protected] syntax :)

You only need the one account, you don’t need to sign into other instances.

There can be some weirdness on the web version where if someone uses the wrong type of link then you maybe redirected away and can’t interact as you’re not logged in.

For example:

✅ [email protected]

❌ https://feddit.uk/c/casualuk

The admins have a long history of banning people across the entire instance who are critical of China, North Korea, Cuba etc. That said, you should be fine and if you’re happy with the instance then there’s no reason to move. Some users like to make a bigger deal out if it than it really is.

The “ml” in the domain is supposed to represent “Marxist Lennist” which the ideology the instance is aimed at.

In that scenario there would be one post with everyone commenting on it. What I think we’re saying here is that it would create a new post every time a mastodon user would “join t conversation” by tagging the community.

Yikes

So if there’s 50,000 users in a conversation and they all keep “tagging” the community instead of a hashtag, then that community would have thousands of new posts?

I really hope there’s better handling of Mastodon user comments on Lemmy, because all the comments tagging other users are an absolute mess. Are Mastodon users doing this on purpose or is their client tagging the users automatically?

If this were to become more common I’d probably just think about find out a way to block Mastodon users so I don’t see their comments.

According to Google translate, “sopuli” in Finnish means “lemming”

“You can access all content from the Lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn’t matter which you choose” 1. not strictly true and 2. if it doesn’t matter why make the choice?

This is a great point. If it doesn’t matter, why not randomly assign you to an instance? The reality is that it does because some instances are political, and some federate with other instances that could give a negative impression of Lemmy. By people recommending particular instances to sign up to, shows that there’s an element of calculation as to which instance to pick.

Onto your second point, your impact would be negligible. I wouldn’t worry about that scenario.

People always use the email comparison but it’s really not the same, it’s more complicated than that. We know it’s not too much of a big deal but it is when you don’t know what it means to be on a server.

I remember being presented with a choice of servers myself and wondering what on earth it meant, and just wanting to join the “default” one. Ultimately it doesn’t matter too much but at the time it feels like a big hurdle.

So that basically just leaves lemmy.world :|

I guess the question is: what’s more important: trying to avoid putting most users on a single instance, or just accept that people are going to see some hexgrad nonsense in their feeds?

It would be nice to have thriving communities for niche things. That can only really happen when there’s decent numbers though. I do understand the hesitation though.

A much larger userbase will bring its own problems for instance admins, where I’m sure it’ll start turning into full-time jobs to keep the lights on.