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Sry, can’t open the link since I’m in Europe, but I guess the source is just Daddy Zuck then. Thanks!

Where are people getting these numbers from? I’ve seen three people so far each give a different number for day 1 signups (probably bc today is the first day), but I’d like to know the source, please.

Girl, it’s Twitter. Don’t expect much more than toxicity at best.

I get what you mean, but for that to happen, I would have to post about it under related posts which might turn people off for spam advertisement. It is what it is 😪

No, they don’t the Fediverse as a current danger but as a future one. They see the potential in interoperability so they won’t to crush it before it crushes their walled gardens. That’s why they’re acting so open and welcoming. I think I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending.

It’s great you did that because it’s a glaring issue on the fediverse in general. It’s hard enough having to find people/pages/communities and already, but the fedi adds another layer of complexity which is the domain name: multiple people can have the same user name but on multiple instances which makes finding the “real” person you are looking for even harder!

This is not just relevent for a new user that is looking for communities, but also for people who create the communities. I created a niche community for an artist I admire and I can’t figure out how to promote it or literally just make people aware it exists in case they would be interested. It’s at https://kbin.social/m/ethelcain for anyone that would like to check it out. I guess for now the only way to promote these magazines is by posting them in posts like this one.

The problem we have then is that search engines won’t change for the Fediverse. Maybe the SearXNG people could at least add the biggest instances as “preferred” targets in the search results or something. We probably won’t have a perfect solution for a while.

It doesn’t work that well since English seems to be the default and most people don’t change that default. There should be a way to report a post as the wrong language it is claiming to be, too.

No

Everything you’ve said is correct, however, there is an issue that the “this all just the fediverse” doesn’t address: when I’m looking for niche info about something, I usually add either “reddit” or “site:reddit.com” to the end of a web search, but with the fediverse, it’s kinda hard to replicate that. Adding “lemmy” or “kbin” to the web search wouldn’t exactly yield every possible result on the threadiverse since not every threadiverse instance uses those words in neither the URL nor the website itself. How would you handle that specific issue?

Yes, I think so. I have the same “problem” as you where I would much rather search for something than ask a question myself which in lights of recent events needs to change so that we can stop relying on sites such as Reddit asap.