Deebster

I don’t think you can count the sites that just mirror Reddit comments.

Searching on lemmy.ml shows the top being several !news@hexbear.net megathreads with comments in the thousands, then that !asklemmy@lemmy.ml post you highlighted, more !news@hexbear.net threads, then a !meta@lemm.ee megathread about Hexbear’s federation. I guess we can see who comments the most.

I liked this !imageai@sh.itjust.works post Your username is the prompt, what did you get? which has 1618 comments.

Yeah, that got old very quickly, although things like the old Reddit switcharoo* always got an upvote, but the original comment needed creativity and the stock reply needed to link the the previous example. It was cool that it was a different experience each time and that the network grew, occasionally branching, and had maintainers that made sure you could follow without hitting a deleted part dead end.

* after half a year I had to use a search engine to get the name

But here I wrote all of this, instead of just the word “This”

My point is that social media management tools already exist, so why do you think the Fediverse needs to “consider it”? I don’t understand what you’re expecting.

This isn’t a Fediverse-specific topic, that I can see. This is something that’s fairly trivial to do - there’s already services that will post to multiple channels (“social media management tools” seems to be best search term). In these ten months you could have written one yourself!

Also, the main point of POSSE seems to be that you control your own domain and space online, and everything else points back to that. That assumes that your main way of communicating is via publishing chunks of content, of course, which is patently not true. It also assumes that everyone’s way more technical than they are - plenty of people call their browser “the internet” and would glaze over the second you started talking about domain names, etc.

Absolutely, now is the time to fix a few things at the design level:

• Accessibility (let’s get affected users involved, starting with asking for their feedback and current pain points)
• Semantic markup (helps with a11y, SEO, plugins)
• Internationalisation (had anyone thought about right-to-left language support?)
• Usability (also for power users? E.g. make RES-style keyboard shortcuts an option or just the default)

I think the whole Fediverse is struggling with Reddit and Twitter sending a lot of new users their way.

I joined too early and stopped looking as there was so little content. In fact, when Lemmy started becoming well-known, I forgot I even had an account and made a new one elsewhere. Luckily, my password manager has a better memory!