The problem was that they launched with barely any mod or curation tools, and haven’t really added anything since. Rimu, just one guy, should not be having a better development cycle than something like Digg after launch - especially when most of the things they need to add are pretty basic.

Yes, it’s relaunched.

Piefed doesn’t incorporate any of this into an algorithm.

This is just in fundamental contradiction to how the Forumverse works. No content regarded as highly relevant and interesting can be filtered via your system and sorting by /new/ on a wider scale just means that a new post you make can be completely missed if no-one notices it.

They are in /hot/, which is likely to be vastly more common than scaled.

They seem to have pulled the room.

Right, but Matrix has been around for a while and yet its only use is to be a hub for tech-related projects and support rooms. How would you propose we somehow get people using it?

Because no-one is using it

Honestly some good posts on any relevant community on Reddit have been very successful. Piefed saw a huge boon because of this at the beginning of February. The trouble is you can’t keep spamming it. Reasonably so.

I was referring to Stoat there.

No, by the same logic you should consider leaving lemmy.world.

Well tbf idk what you expect people on other instances to do about it lol

Yeah that means that he’ll be degrading his own income down the line lol but it does give new self-hosters the same tools to collect income which, like it or not, is necessary.

Idk how the pricing model works down the line when federation is active, but yeah.

Yes they have. It is third in their priority list.

But a centralised system based on a service hosted in the UK?

Stoat have ruled out federation. They are also UK based too. Not good long term.

This is a different aspect of privacy here. People otherwise are thinking about E2EE, and verification - not specifically public logs of public activities.

Yes, but it just isn’t used in more casual ways. If I wanted to sit in Fediverse meta chatrooms and chatrooms for a bunch of clients and open source projects then Matrix is for me, but that’s not what people want out of Discord alternatives.

Did he just not want to bring it back up when he returned?

I am still on hold.