I think it is more important to have a non-commercial tag/license added.

_{Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)}

It isn’t loading for me.

Can’t all vpns do this though?

Yeah, I just realized I was trying to reinvent the wheel. Whoops.

You know what I agree with you. I should work on my tone more and try to contribute at the same time. Thanks for the feedback.

I like being direct. I don’t have all the answers (no one does) but I think asking people to think about solutions when they offer criticism helps move the conversation forward.

Yeah, maybe there could be a website that helps people find these alternative sites so they don’t need to rely on Amazon as much.

Okay, so what is the solution you are advocating for?

Personally, I am more for voluntary association than increasing government power but I agree that important systems should be under public control.

Okay, so your potential solution is to build a robust and effective reputation/reporting system. I like the idea. There are a few different projects that have to deal with the same problems so maybe we can learn from them. As for logistics I am trying to think about if there is a way to make that system better in a decentralized system.

Ok, you don’t think that decentralizing is the solution. If you consider Amazon and eBay to be a problem what do you think might be a potential solution?

Ok, then what do you think could be a potential solution?

How would you improve the idea?

I still don’t think this solves the problem that you posed on emotions but thank you for at least proposing a solution instead of just pointing out a problem.

Since I don’t see what you have suggested as a problem I don’t think I have much more to add.

Are you advocating that we move back to Reddit? I am not going to do that.

And if you aren’t advocating we move back to Reddit how do you want to solve this perceived problem?

(I am saying perceived because I don’t see it as a problem because with the fediverse you have a choice about where you can be and what rules you have to follow, unlike Reddit. Meaning that there are still consequences if the users decide to leave.)

I just wanted to thank you for giving actionable advice to them and having a pleasant tone.

No centralisation means there’s no canonical single source of truth.

I don’t think this is a bad thing. Having centralization leads to one narrative taking over the post. With more decentralization, there is a natural way for different kinds of conversation to take root.

Also, this is going to occur much more when people get the ability to block instances anyway.

I agree with you. What do you think we as users could do to make this happen?

Also on a sidenote has anyone thought of creating a publicly owned instance before? I wonder how that would work.

Yeah, I was thinking of scraping the active users as well but from what I observed when trying different instances, the active users aren’t counted separately by instance so the active users would just be all the active users on that community no matter where they are from. That info is already available on lemmyverse.net so I didn’t want to copy it.

I bet there is a way to do this with the Lemmy API but I don’t have a good understanding on how to use it so I am just waiting for someone more knowledgeable than me to try this again but with more care.

Edit: Unrelated but I went through the subreddit stats for a bunch of subs and it seems like posts and comments for a lot of them have dropped off after the API changes so that seems bad for Reddit and good for us.

Thank you! The !technology@beehaw.org chart is surprising. I think what you suggested is the most likely reason why that’s happening. Also maybe later I’ll put up the code that I used to scrape the data so you guys can double-check if there were any bugs.

Edit: wording