Don’t talk about the high concept of federation, talk about the community that the different services offer.

The classic misstake is to oversell and miss the point that the other party is focusing on.

Don’t: “Lemmy is so awesome, it can’t be shut down, it is federated, you can even run your own instance and have total control”

What the other party hears: “Lemmy is awesome, and you have to do a lot of stuff to join.”

Do: “Hey, have you heard about Lemmy? It is a Reddit clone with a much calmer community, I have had a lot of interesting conversations over there”

This puts the focus on the community rather than the service, people join social networks for the interaction, not the tech.

I would recommend actually asking a question if you need help.

The main issue I notes about this is that, if I wanted to set up I Lemmy system, I would go for Lemmy itself, not another tool that I then had to configure to work as Lemmy. Same goes for a microblogging service, I would set up a Mastodon service, not a service that needs to be configured into being Mastodon.

As for it being used to develop mockups for new Fediverse experiences, I don’t think it will do that either, since if you are doing a mock-up, you are looking an not only how a possible new design would work, but also the backend, to get a sense of what is needed in terms of storage, compute and other software layers.

A system this diverse will be very dificult to reduce the complexity and give a good idea of what kind of environment is needed for someone to invest.

What it could do is serve as an inspiration tool for students, it could absolutely serve as a technical demonstrator of the ActivityPub as the teacher can build simple systems and show what parts of activity pub they use.

I remain skeptical of the future of this type of system outside of the classroom environment, though I do wish the developers all the best

So it will never be anything.

I am sure it is fantastic in every way, but when I read that it “lets you tinker with every little bit of it” I read “requires you to tinker with every little bit of it”.

Do you really compare someone cancelling their pateron and a company taking all the money that customers have paid from the artists they want to support?

Sure, the payment would be skewed, but that is easily remidied by not having pop music on the plattform.

This is a bad idea, I would never work for someone who openly admits that they will only make arbitrary payments to me based on nothing but a whim.

Nah, payment needs to be consistent and based on the number of times an artist gets played.

He thought he was funny, he repeated what the above poster said to repeat.