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Rimu.

There was a shit storm recently where they had a big rant about contributors on piefed.social somewhere, and were deleting responses from those contributors trying to express their side of the story.

Pretty ugly really.

The quokk.au admins have forked the piefed repo, and pushed some features, so that might be a nice alternative in the future.

You’re on a piefed instance, so theres some other guy, but he’s also… controversial.

Of course we have them, but the ratio will increase as user numbers rise.

Federation does not protect us from these issues in any way. In fact it’s very susceptible to misinformation through federation.

More users also increases the appeal for bots, purveyors of misinformation, trolls, and assholes generally.

Yes but more users doesn’t necessarily make a spoon collecting community more viable.

Am easier pathway is to encourage existing users to visit this type of community.

Additionally, consider carefully whether the fediverse can support a spoon collecting community, or perhaps you should just post about spoon collecting in the general “cutlery collecting” community.

More users is not necessarily more better.

… but I do agree there are very few active communities.

The focus should be on making the fediverse the best it can be, rather than focusing on attracting users.

Nah, it’s way easier to just make up profound sounding pronouncements like “the water wars have already started” than to actually read something or challenge your misconceptions.

You’re right of course. People have been fighting over access to water since forever.

Backyard chicken wranglers hatch lots of males they don’t want.

Post in fb chicken groups saying you’ll have them.

Go to chicken auctions and buy 6 for $1.

I’ve found myself using this a whole lot. It really is great for finding foss and / or non-US alternatives.

Revenue model. If they have enterprise & community, then how good are the docs for community.

There’s this specific issue, which is critically important, but also just content management generally.

I think micro instances are a real target for people with nefarious intentions - whether it’s porn, trolling, spamming, fascist groups, whatever.

The hardware and software aspects should be relatively straight forward. The real difficulty will be monitoring new communities, and users.