The problem was that they launched with barely any mod or curation tools, and haven’t really added anything since. Rimu, just one guy, should not be having a better development cycle than something like Digg after launch - especially when most of the things they need to add are pretty basic currently.

@[email protected] This would have been a rimu decision.

Yes, it’s relaunched.

Piefed doesn’t incorporate any of this into an algorithm.

This is just in fundamental contradiction to how the Forumverse works. No content regarded as highly relevant and interesting can be filtered via your system and sorting by /new/ on a wider scale just means that a new post you make can be completely missed if no-one notices it.

They are in /hot/, which is likely to be vastly more common than scaled.

They seem to have pulled the room.

Right, but Matrix has been around for a while and yet its only use is to be a hub for tech-related projects and support rooms. How would you propose we somehow get people using it?

Because no-one is using it

Honestly some good posts on any relevant community on Reddit have been very successful. Piefed saw a huge boon because of this at the beginning of February. The trouble is you can’t keep spamming it. Reasonably so.

I was referring to Stoat there.

No, by the same logic you should consider leaving lemmy.world.

Well tbf idk what you expect people on other instances to do about it lol

Yes? USA is the least likely to do this. Porn laws in various states don’t apply to social media.

Other attempts have been stuck in legislative hell, been unenforced or have court cases challenging their legality (Mississipi)

Wikipedia took UK to court over the fear of being targeted, it was dismissed purely on the basis of “Well they haven’t done anything to you yet”. And Ofcom clearly hasn’t got the balls to do it.

I just think this is a logistical dead-end for regulators who may rely on the chilling effect of the thought of being targeted rather than actually being targeted. Unless the Fediverse somehow becomes massive, I don’t see that it’ll ever enter their eyes. Especially as many places will be based in the USA who is the least likely country to implement these laws, and the most hostile to any threats from foreign regulators (see again the 4chan example).

Do they? There’s one thing to make it law, another thing to enforce it. OSA in the UK has been around since last July and managed to do nothing other than pick a fight with 4chan and get nowhere. I seem to recall someone mentioned Lemmy to Ofcom in a discussion regarding OSA and they were literally like “What’s a Lemmy?”

How on earth do you imagine a regulator is going to work out how to deal with 50+ federated instances (for instance)?

Yeah that means that he’ll be degrading his own income down the line lol but it does give new self-hosters the same tools to collect income which, like it or not, is necessary.

Idk how the pricing model works down the line when federation is active, but yeah.

Yes they have. It is third in their priority list.

But a centralised system based on a service hosted in the UK?