• Sign up to Fediverser
• Search for communities for your interests.
• The community should be associated with a subreddit. If it’s not, you can make a suggestion for the change.
• Apply to become a Community Ambassador. I’ll approve it. Once you are approved, you will be able to do the following:
  • See the posts from the subreddit that is associated to the community.
  • Send DMs to people on Reddit, inviting them to join Lemmy and your community
  • Add other sources of contents (RSS feeds)

There were more things that I had planned, such as the ability to do one-click repost of interesting links, but I didn’t get to it because that would mean effectively that I would have to turn the fediverser site into a an alternative Lemmy frontend.

I really wish more people had taken on the “Community Ambassador” work that I’ve done for https://fediverser.network/. It could be really helpful in creating a focal point for everyone that wanted to help the migration of people interested in a specific niche.

She touches on the aspect of monetization and claims that “you could save money by being on the Fediverse”.

Yes, in theory it is possible. In practice this is something that only is available for the already-famous journalists who have enough pull to move their audience from Substack to their own property.

For everyone else, the Fediverse is (a) too small and (b) too “anti-money” to encourage professionals to even try making a living here. They stay on Substack for the same reason that video creators stay on YouTube: it’s a horrible master, but at least it lets them pay their bills.

How many of these bots existed on Twitter and were used to illustrate the point that the API being open was important to have a thriving ecosystem?

But this is not even why I am calling out the parent. I just find it ridiculous that OP brings a whole list of more-than-reasonable issues with Mastodon (and by extension the Fediverse):

1. Federation does not work (Federation is the wrong governance structure for decentralized social media)
2. Account migration does not work (Coupling of identity to server)
3. Direct messaging does not work (Messages are not really private, and Mastodon pretends to make them so)
4. Content moderation does not work (Relates to #1)
5. Live feeds do not work (Much like “browsing by all” in Lemmy, it’s a really bad execution to try to solve the issue of content discovery)
6. Mastodon development does not work (Slow, opinionated on the “wrong” things, failing to respond to user’s requests)
7. Mastodon culture does not work (The stereotypical user is just anti-everything, most instances are full of school-hall monitors, reject anything that resembles mainstream and end up becoming incredibly reactionary, boring people cross-playing as armchair revolutionaries)

And to all of that, the first response that we find here is some completely irrelevant pontification about how one “shouldn’t be using a microblog to send notifications”?

Like, really? This is the type of things that we should be concerned about? What’s next? People shouldn’t write a match threader bot because “following sports updates is not the place for a discussion forum”?

For crying out loud, have we completely forgotten how to have fun here?

Good Lord, you must be fun at parties.

No need to comb anything. Instance admins get to see who voted on any item, right in the UI. And it’s been going for months: if I have a comment or post with a single downvoter, 90% of the cases it’s my friend here.

Once again, @catloaf@lemm.ee is to be found on the list of downvoters. So, it’s not just what I say or do, even when someone else talks about my project, they are there.

Seriously, what is the problem you have with me?