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What will it take to grow open source Lemmy, ActivityPub, ATProtocol, & other platforms/apps/websites? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Curious what you all thought for what things like Lemmy, Revolt, Mastodon, PeerTube, Bluesky, Flashes, etc would need to be able to grow fast and well to get many users joining up

Because it's high time everyone drops all the way less than ideal platforms/apps/websites/news sources

I'll add on too:

Content creators that are engaging, clear, & entertaining explaining things with great videos showing Fediverse, etc stuff will help in various ways

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As someone who doesn't know the first thing about bsky, IMO as long as they're centralized and closed source, it's not possible to call their algorithm opt-in, nor configurable. You simply can't know how they've arrived at the content they are (or more importantly, are not) serving you.

But yes, I do think lemmy and ActivityPub services in general need to prioritize user control over custom "algorithms" for filtering and prioritizing content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah it def is opt in. The only two default feeds you get are literally an algo free timeline and discover timeline, it defaults to the algorithm free timeline iirc.

Sure, their discover tab is closed source algorithm but you don’t have to use it. In addition, you can create and import your own algorithms (which becomes necessary because you can’t follow hashtags, which is frustrating)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

But how do you know the "algorithm free timeline" is algorithm free? Are they just in chronological order, and it never leaves anything out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh wow, that's refreshing haha. Hope it can stay that way.