Delayed response, but there’s a few that I’m aware of that may roughly fit this interest.

[email protected]

Same idea but different instance:
[email protected]

Lastly there’s [email protected], but this is more for seeking product recommendations rather than providing reviews of products. However currently there’s nothing in their rules prohibiting product review posts, so you could always DM the mod to see if they’re open to them.

Edited & crossed out first couple communities as I reviewed the original thread and saw they weren’t what you were after. I also see that you’ve made a community tailored to what you were looking for via [email protected], which is apt. Best of luck with it!

This is buried toward the bottom of the release notes so I’m bringing it up here:

Added instance-level default sort type

Any admins out there considering changing their instance sort settings or asking people on their instance if they’d like this changed, given that we can individually set sorting anyway? Taking into account the inclination of people to never adjust default settings (I remain deeply curious about this tendency, as an aside), I think it might be worth at least bringing up to one’s instance community.

If they decide they want it to remain the same, all good, and even better, it raises some people’s awareness that they can change it themselves.

I am very good at being online so I am definitely not just getting around to mentioning that I cross-posted this to our peer community [email protected] where some others have responded with some of the active communities they’ve found: https://lemmy.world/post/14734186

If you’ve any you’d like to add, comments are open here as well!

Linkblocks definitely sounds interesting. I’ve never gotten into social bookmarking (keeping bookmarks on another site/platform…?), but I can see the draw for building knowledge-bases this way.

Commenting to indicate my shared interest in this (despite the other comments suggesting the unlikelihood of such an option emerging).

For posts in this vein, I think maybe [email protected] or [email protected] may be to your interests around Lemmy. Particularly the second as it’s specifically focused on Australian environmentalism.

Although it may be better to ask about ways one might get involved in helping environmentalist groups there in their existing efforts than proposing new ones that may be kind of a tossup in whether they help. Also in future, if you’re discussing activity on Reddit, I’d advise posting to [email protected] instead, and for any moderation issues here on Lemmy, either reach out to the community moderators or perhaps post to [email protected].

For the moment, a lot of the fun on some of the federated platforms is behind several steps of effort that many of the corporate platforms have streamlined people out of being accustomed to taking, which is part of why they’ve kept their larger audiences. If a single click/tap is too much, that’s enough to keep some people away from here.

It’s not a matter of laziness either, it’s more of, how much effort do I want to put into something that I’m using for casual entertainment? For many people it’s minimal, but many federated platforms currently don’t really work like that. They’ve arguably thrown the baby out with the bathwater in an overcorrection away from commercial algorithmic feeds since existing platforms have conditioned people to not have to put effort into finding silly/fun content.

The types of people to post won’t be as inclined to post if they find their posts aren’t reaching people because people mostly have to actively seek them out to engage with them at all. The types of people to more passively engage won’t be able to as easily as those posts they might engage with may never reach them because they mostly have to actively seek them out. The end result of a lack of feedback and content for both types of people, despite there being a possibility and existence of both for them, results in this recurring sense of dissatisfaction.

Note that this is written largely with Mastodon in mind, and to a lesser degree Lemmy. In Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin/PieFed/Sublinks’s cases I think they’re potentially better off in terms of structure and offering different ways to sort one’s feeds, but it’s a matter of more people joining to round out communities and discussion more.

A literhythm, I follow

listening to interrogations for whatever reason

I keep wanting to think this is a typo, but the very end tells me it really isn’t. I suppose they may have a similar cadence to some styles of podcast or the like, so makes a sort of sense.

Sometimes it’s writing or trying to make things or taking a step back and simply taking stock of things for me. Putting my stuff into more perspective sometimes help make it less overwhelming and scattered about.

Thanks for pointing this out! It’s interesting seeing another view of the discussion with some different responses.

Kind of hard to say given the structure of it. Going off the approximate data from FediDB’s charts, we may be looking at around 2 to 3 million more user accounts (around 8 million to 7.25 million), as compared with data from Stats for Bluesky of 5.24 million.

Although I’m not sure how each is measuring this, a better point of comparison may be active users and daily posters. FediDB uses the former, and shows about 940,000 to 920,000 active users, compared to Bluesky’s about 220,000~215,000 to 190~195,000 daily posters. The latter is honestly being kind of generous, as going off the data there posting has been declining. Interestingly liking has stayed somewhat higher, hovering between 240,000 to occasional peaks of 260,000 recently.

According to their CEO just before they opened registrations they had 1.6 million monthly users, so maybe if you run the numbers differently it looks better…But the raw stats don’t paint a great picture, at least as I read them.

Going off Join Mastodon’s servers page (under network health), we see a figure of 942,000 monthly active users, which would suggest Bluesky should arguably have slightly more activity going off the monthly active users figure, but… 🤷‍♀️

On one hand, I appreciate this a lot as it’s been baffling to me that this aspect of Zot wasn’t adopted during development of ActivityPub. On the other, I kind of feel like some of this forgets or overlooks the benefits of running fully separate identities.

I recognize that the article points to this easing that process in a way, but it’s pointing more to facets of a single identity, which benefits from some degree of interchangeability depending on those facets. This is clearest in the notion of retaining one’s connections with minimal disruption should one facet’s instance/host go offline for some reason, but also in it being relevant to maintain the same content between facets.

This has sort of also been the issue some see with the idea of federation and the fediverse itself. Some people enjoy the different styles of posting and interaction across different non-federated/linked sites/platforms, yet in some ways federation tends to blur or break those distinctions and try, sometimes clumsily, to blend it all together. For those all in on the idea, that’s a major bonus, but for those not sold on it, it’s a major pitfall.

In some respects I think this may kind of help those wanting to maintain different identity facets around here, but may also create a potential tripping point for those trying to more easily maintain distinct identities depending on implementation.

This is only somewhat related, but posting without a language selected may help across Lemmy at least. Defaults should allow seeing all languages, but for those trying to curate their feeds more to the languages they know, having a language selected that they’re filtering out means lower visibility for your posts.

Also, at least in this post’s case, the language selected doesn’t match, so it doesn’t make much sense anyway. 😅

More to your point, however, I honestly don’t know. There has to be an interest from those for a different community/online space to go to, and then it has to meet whatever they’re interested in posting and discussing. I kind of think more topic-focused or themed communities/instances might have more of a draw for some people, as something more open-ended may leave them at a loss of what to post about and discuss. Whereas, something a little more focused that they may know about, want to discuss, or ask and learn about, might provide an easier orientation/onboarding experience.

Simple examples being like communities related to sports, games, tv/movies, books, music, events related to each like upcoming sports events, concerts, awards shows, etc. Keeping in line with what I mentioned above, you might make these related to those in your country, letting federation take care of seeing and keeping up with international sports, media, and events, providing your instance with more of a distinct local feed that is genuinely local.

Barring weight and health concerns?

The dream buffet is the dream buffet, so absolutely!

How do you stay in the know about this kind of stuff? I’m curious about all the cool stuff out there I wouldn’t even know I’m curious to find.

I was going to mention YaCy as well if nobody else was, so I can chip in to this somewhat. My method is to keep wondering and researching. In this case it was a matter of being interested in alternative search engines and different applications of peer to peer/decentralized technologies that led me to finding this.

So from this you might go: take something you’re even passingly interested in, try to find more information about it, and follow whatever tangential trails it leads to. With rare exceptions, there are good chances someone out there on the internet will also have had some interest in whatever it is, asked about it, and written about it.

Also be willing to make throwaway accounts to get into the walled gardens for whatever info might be buried away there and, if you think others may be interested, share it outside of those spaces.

As I understand it so far:

I’m still not sure what I think of this to be honest, but I appreciate some more detail on how this is designed to operate on the frontend and the backend, e.g.

In the AT Protocol network, various services, such as the PDS, Relay, and AppView, have ultimate discretion over what content they carry, though it’s not the most straightforward avenue for content moderation. Services that are closer to users, such as the client and labelers, are designed to be more actively involved in community and content moderation.
[…]
Infrastructure providers such as Relays play a different role in the network, and are designed to be a common service provider that serves many kinds of applications. Relays perform simple data aggregation, and as the network grows, may eventually come to serve a wide range of social apps, each with their own unique communities and social norms. Consequently, Relays focus on combating network abuse and mitigating infrastructure-level harms, rather than making granular content moderation decisions.

(Emphasis mine.)

Not worked overnights, but had close to’em, so I know the feeling. Here’s to hoping you find time for yourself after the errands are done!