I’m mixed on her articles. Is she a journalist or is she just posting fediverse circle jerk on the fediverse? She writes well but feels like pretty much the same article every time

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm actually a fan, but I get what you mean. I feel like she just writes what's on her mind, when she's writing for her named website. Her writing for The Index is a bit more by the books internet journalism.

And yeah I agree sharing this on here is a bit of a circle jerk, but articles like this get shared around in the mainstream and show people still captured by the big platforms another way. I've definitely emailed a couple of her articles around to friends, and I can't be the only one.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago

I liked her enough to follow on Mastodon so I’m with you there. Thanks for explaining that. I didn’t realize she had her own site and her own publication.

I didn’t mean just sharing here but she frequently writes on exactly this topic then shares to mastodon then here. Almost like all the HN posts sharing their own blogs about why blogging is good, lol. Which I still enjoy.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am a hostage that has been set free from a prison camp. Thank you Fedi.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (20 children)

The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it.

Part of that is making it monetizable. Influencers can build huge followings (and make some cash) because existing platforms recommend their content to other users.

Mastodon devs have chosen not to provide recommendations and quote posts. That's reasonable, but it reduces the utility of the platform, and it cedes space to Twitter & co.

To my knowledge, the only creator that's exclusive to Lemmy is the unix surrealism author. Until it's easy to monetize content, we're gonna have a hard time attracting creators, and a hard time attracting users.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I feel like this is comparing the mall to the park.

They both attract people, but not always the same people, or for the same reasons. And that's OK.

I get what you're saying though, because I've felt this way when trying to come up with reasons for people (sole proprietors) to get with the fedi, but maybe this place is just not for influencers - not like the corp platforms, anyway. I think the fediverse will attract more and more people with its network effects, but probably never all of the people all of the time.

My modest hope is that the fedi bleeds the big platforms just enough to put them in their place and keep from enshittifying to infinity.

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Don't let the grabbing hands grab all they can.

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ho does one even use mastadon, it seems to require a login on every instance?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You navigate from your local instance. So like you just use hyperlinks (like here on lemmy, I'm clicking around, but my URL still shows slrpnk.net/... - yours probably shows sh.itjust.works/...), or if you try to do something like follow/reply/boost/etc on another instance, it'll prompt you to connect from your own.

pop up modal prompting for username@instance

So like here I'm looking at a post on mastodon.social, which I don't have an account on. If I just type in my home instance in the pop-up modal there, then it'll complete the action from my home instance. If you're already signed in on home instance with a cookie then it'll to it automatically.

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