You don’t have to spend this much time getting them to defederate. This is lemmy.world. Just mention there are LGBTQIA+ communists, and it’ll be defederated before you hit the post button (see Hexbear for more information).

(Obviously this is a legitimate defederation request and needs to be taken seriously).

I resurrected: Degoogle!degoogle@lemmy.ml and have been trying to grow it a bit.

It was on 3.56k subscribers and 152 active monthly users on 21/7/23. 117 posts.

Now 4.54k, 333 active monthly users, 135 posts.

Best techniques I found was reach out to larger subs in a similar area with similar interests, link to their communities in your description and ask if they could do the same to help users find what they like. Also crossposting is great from larger areas. You can see crossposts from the main post and it’s easy to click and deep dive into there. Crossposting about 3 posts which resonated with the users did most of the heavy lifting.

Signal for personal. Discord for gaming. Element/Matrix as much as I can.

Yeah, I was thinking collaborators.

You have a point. I’m wondering if we’ve been in echo chambers too long, and federation gives the opportunity to challenge nonsense, and take the edge off fringe opinions.

I thought I’d get a bit of a wishy washy or non-answer. Conservatives have unwavering support for Israeli treatment of Palestinians, but have a hard on for China, so can only focus on trying to shut down 1 form of discrimination.

You don’t want to shut down support for atrocities, you want to shut down support of one atrocity, while others are fine.

That’s a really good idea.

Out of curiosity… What do you make of Israel and their military operations in Palestinian territories?

Tankies suck, and Conservatives suck imho. They may share shitty views, which is complete nonsense, but I’m finding it a wee bit weird that a Conservative, who I’d assume is all for freedom of speech is trying to shut down speech. I’ve been here for days now, and I’ve not seen anything from Lemmygrad. I know it’s there, and I don’t want to dip my toe in and it’s not being thrown down my throat. It’s pretty obvious what it is from the name. If I want some weird alt right nonsense, I’d check out truth social or telegram. You know what you’re getting.

“Let’s get away from the reddit top down control, and implement top down control here”. Hmmm…

That is a fair point and something I was thinking about. The heading definitely threw me off that path “average lemmy posts per day”. With that. it would be around 1/30th, but considering activity was low at the start of the month and higher by the end, it would be hard to get accurate numbers for that. The average went up 30k in 1 day to yesterday. 30k a day, is 900k total. Which makes this all the more confusing… :)

Another thought I had was some of the Active posts here get around 1.5k to 2k upvotes. Often on reddit, that is around 20-30k. So Lemmy could be around a 10th of that size.

Potentially in terms of activity, there is the passive consumption side of reddit (which is massive), and the active contributor side. Even if Lemmy is doing well in terms of the active contributor side, that is very useful to draw in the passive consumers. Potentially many want something known and trusted and maybe are less tech savvy. They may follow good content.

Here here! For all it’s weaknesses, I’m learning to love Lemmy and it’s strengths.

It couldn’t be collusion, could it?

Most ofthenm haven’t worked a real job in their lives. Their policies come from their donors. Big business. If this succeeds, all workers start asking for it, and directors have to give “free time off”.

They’re trying to go the legal route. Let’s hope they are bluffing and have nothing.

They don’t want it to succeed. Their buddies want folk in the office 5 days a week.

Imagine getting schooled on his to run your social media compant by Elon Musk…