You have a point but maybe the gatekeeping is a good thing?
Average user doesn’t care about federation would translate to the average user doesn’t care about this community. Maybe?
It’s like how some old forums would charge for an account. Kept a certain low effort person from signing up. Sure it might turn people off but if you do enough work to understand how to get in then there’s a level of buying into it that might make you care more.
Just some thoughts.
Reddit used fake accounts from the beginning.
If we want a real space it’s going to feel “dead” compared to that anyways.
So yea, I agree.
Must not be that. I’m still here.
I have no idea why anyone would ever think Donald Trump of all people would ever want to do that.
I think most people that get w2s can use the money and that’s how they get em.
Oh hey I’m not shocked at all by this.
I think the future of obvious ads are Ai, but the future of ads are your own family members and friends hawking dish soap for 1% commission rates on their social media.
Oh shit where do I buy?
I’m hoping the last iphone I bought will last until we get entirely new communication devices because the way this bs is going is bleak as fuck.
My pixel had massive problems with the cherry being when its modem went out when I was on my way to my first vacation in near a decade. Just… stopped working in my hands 1 month outside of warranty. I didn’t drop it, nothing.
It. Just. Stopped. Being. A. Phone.
Never the fuck again.
The big answer to that is creating value on the site itself, no?