I know all of us would be happy to have more people to interact with on content. The idea of limited federation came up a bit recently too, and I mentioned that we are open to it.

The reasons we haven’t been federated have nothing to do with not wanting to open up to the rest of the Fediverse, and everything to do with the drama that comes with federation. Specifically, we don’t want the dodgy porn that other instances get bombed with, the endless political fanatics who poison every topic, the admins who want to impose their views on you, the constant screeching and demonizing, etc. The overwhelming majority of all Fediverse content is hot garbage, and having to store that bloat for nothing is also a huge turn-off.

On the other hand, I think we can all agree that it would be nice to have more people to talk shit with, and federation is an easy(er) way to achieve that. Our current thinking is that we’d like to selectively federate with instances who tick off a few requirements:

  1. No porn or loli shit or pedo apologists or anything like that
  2. They require registration applications (this one’s about spam)
  3. Their admins aren’t missing in action (also about spam)
  4. Their rules don’t sound like something Stalin would’ve come up with

The requirements above are just a way of me saying I don’t have time to deal with this shit if it became high drama and high maintenance, so I’d like to avoid that if possible. I really don’t care about political lean or anything like that.

Alice compiled an initial list:

What are your thoughts?

Edit: Updated list

  • Lovstuhagen
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, you should do it. Totally.

    With Wiggle gone, the place has slowed down dramatically.

    I have contemplated leaving permanently - with great sorrow, of course, but I just sense a certain futility and purposelessness. It needs some new life.

    I love you guys but like… What am I doing, really. That’s hwo I feel.

    • Owner_of_donky
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      9 months ago

      Where did Wiggle go? Did he just stop posting suddenly or I missed something

    • AliceMA
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      9 months ago

      Fair. You post a lot and it’s appreciated and definitely seen. You add a lot here so thank you for that.

      I know doing this will help and see more activities and interaction. We’re finally on the join lemmy page and I feel that helps with exposure.

      What new life are you hoping to see ? I’m curious to how people from instances will be with us. Not thinking bad stuff.

      It’ll just be interesting because we’re the opposite of how most instances are

      • Lovstuhagen
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        9 months ago

        I’d like to see more memes and more people bringing in discussions… Ideally it’d just be hundreds of people commenting daily and I would often need to browse here first to see if what I’m posting has already been up

        And just have this feeling like if I stop posting for a few weeks it’ll go unnoticed.

        That’s the end goal I guess

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          9 months ago

          Hopefully we’ll get there, I think this is just the natural state of having a few hundred active people, but getting there is hard.

          Hopefully federation will generate more engagement on stuff you do post at least in the meantime.

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          9 months ago

          we want ruqqus back… like those levels of activity lol