lemmy is pretty decent for reading long form content, haven’t found any good blog to test it with yet though

I wonder in enough platforms outside of mastodon decided to follow the spec instead of whatever mastodon does, maybe we could peer pressure it back into normalcy?

No, for the same reason forums can’t replace reddit. Self hosted wikis have been around before and after fandom. The reason it became popular was giving you all the fandom wikis together, one account, discoverable, user friendly so regulars can contribute. If I have to sign up to every fandom wiki I can contribute to, learn a new interface (likely something old and not mobile friendly) and rebuilt up any reputation to gain extra editing rights… I just won’t.

Ibis then in theory allows you to use one account, federate your reputation, use one interface, with lots of third party options if you don’t like the official one (if lemmy is any indication) and have discoverability of new wikis.

what is stormfront

Yeah I think that’s where the potential is, not Wikipedia

I think it solves the problems of Fandom, but yeah Wikipedia is good

At this point, most of the solutions the ecosystem has relied on have been third-party tools, such as db0’s fantastic Fediseer and Fedi-Safety initiatives. While I’m sure many people are glad these tools exist, the fact that instances have to rely on third-party solutions is downright baffling.

I’m not sure I see the issue here, what’s the point of an open ecosystem if you don’t make use of any third party tools? Fedi-safety in particular feels like it should not be part of the core project

Feels like a lot of recent complaints about lemmy come down to a funding issue; the main reason things aren’t accepted is the devs are too busy.

Love it, saving that one for later

I honestly hate that xkcd now because people overuse it to shutdown any new development

No, peertube is way more complex and as the name suggests, peer to peer. This still relies entirely on the server.

I believe image proxy and caching is in the works, but no proper duplication. Same for vids.

or (ex)twitter

We can view users, but not follow them. @ing is definitely a non-solution.

Problem is, so many communities are on .world now, so it hurts even from another instance

Ruggus (a former reddit alternative) and outages.

It was perhaps the single biggest unifying meme among it’s user base that their backend was an absolute dumpster fire ™

They’re defederated with many of the instances though

It would be a good solution if peertube was growing at a decent pace. But it’s not so it ends up just dragging it down

YouTube pays its creators in peanuts

I mean they get 55% of ad revenue and 70% of subscriptions. Even if youtube started running as nonprofit tomorrow, they could only pay creators a tiny bit more.

Matrix is federated, but only within itself. The realtime messages would flood the normal fediverse.