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Naive question probably - which of these platforms would get a new creator the biggest audience?
I don't know if its what you are looking for but futurology.today is the fediverse sibling (same Mods) as r/futurology on Reddit.
(Disclaimer I'm a Mod on it & the subreddit)
I know the de facto attitude in the fediverse is to slag off Reddit, but I worry that they have a target on their back now. They are one of the last few big places online for Americans where left leaning and progressive thought predominates. It won't surprise me if Ketamine Nazi/Trump and the MAGA crowd make them a public enemy soon.
would it be enough to have those rules in place, and when reported actively remove the content as a mod?
We're pretty good with daily moderating of content on futurology.today, so I'd be confident we could cover that aspect.
However I'm wondering about federation issues. Are we liable for UK users who use their futurology.today account to access other instances we don't mod?
I'm surprised there isn't more movement to just completely ban building in these areas. Getting everyone else to cover the cost of their predictable destruction seems very unfair.
You circumvented their TOS, by using an alt account to evade a ban on a subreddit. That's why they banned you from Reddit itself.
Great info. Out of curiosity what does your hosting setup say about visitor numbers? Futurology.today uses Cloudflare. They give a figure of about 10k per day for what they call unique visitors. That seems unduly high when you look at how busy our lemmy instance actually is. We have just short of 1K subscribers, so I would assume visitor numbers would be lower than 10k per day.
Ukraine deserves to be in the EU, but they've a long way to go, and its not just the war. They have a vast corruption problem which needs fixing before becoming one with the other EU nations. The EU should start a process that ties progress on that, to getting nearer to EU membership.
Shame nothing works the other way around yet. The only option Lemmy seems to give is to DM a mastodon account & even that doesn't seem to work (at least it didn't for me).
Thank you. This is very helpful. Someone else questioned why we are even using email verification as they said few other instances are using it.
We'd assumed it was important from the perspective of bots, trolling, spam, etc But it seems to be at the root of the problems we've been having.
I agree, there is no reason for most of them to. Why leave a place full of conversation to join somewhere where there is hardly any?
That said, many people want to to abandon traditional social media sites like Twitter/X and Facebook - Bluesky has been a huge beneficiary.
If it did things differently, there is every reason to think the fediverse could benefit from that transition. This trend of turning against the old social media , especially as it has aligned itself with the far right, is only going to accelerate.