Creesch @ Creesch @beehaw.org

Hi! I am Creesch, also creesch on other platforms :)

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Just to double check, are you trying to login with your beehaw account on the kbin website or trying to find the community through beehaw.org?

The reason I am asking is because accounts aren't transferring to other instances. It works the other way around, through your fediverse instance (in this case beehaw) you can access other federated instances and communities.

Normally, you should be able to go here and find other communities of instances that beehaw has been federated with. Or you can access them directly as well.

Having said that, I couldn't find the specific instance through search and the direct url (https://beehaw.org/c/magicthecirclejerking@kbin.social) also doesn't seem to work. This might have something to do with the character length of the community.

Neat! This also reminds me of this task manager app I saw a while ago that basically tries to gamify stuff by turning everything into some sort of RPG. Let me see if I can dig that up as well.

To get back to GoblinTools, the first impression is pretty cool. It really manages to break up a big abstract task in smaller managable tasks.

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Habitica is at least one of such task managers I have seen in the past. But I also seem to remember there being an open source self hosted alternative.

As is often the case there is more nuance to this. As others have pointed out, it is still possible to run your own mailserver if you really want to.

But, there are also other options that aren't google, microsoft or any other service.

I personally have registered my own domain and have my mail hosted by mailbox.org. If I am ever dissatisfied with them I can simply pick a different mail hosting provider and move my domain there. Other privacy minded providers can be found here: https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-email

And there are also more options if you just want reliable mail and care slightly less about overall privacy. Fastmail for example is a popular choice.

Yes, these are not free. But neither is hosting it yourself as that costs you the VPS/container to host it and a bunch more time and effort.

What it does provide you with is the ability to no longer use big tech while allowing you to mail with people still having their mail hosted there.

Today I saw that my countries government has started a mastadon instance, which is pretty neat. Previously they've used twitter for some communication but they got some flack for that recently.

This is such a cynical take. Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of moderators do care about their subreddits or else they wouldn't be volunteering their free time. The allure of the power to remove some random person's post on the Internet, or to ban them just so they return with another account, pales in comparison to the thrill of watching your community grow and people having fun because of it. And it's not this weird selfish, hey-look-at-me-I'm-so-successful kind of thrill, it's like you joined this thing because you are interested it and now all these other people who are also interested in it are there talking about it. That's what's cool, you set off to make this place where people can talk about this thing that you think is cool and you get to watch it grow and be successful over time. Some of these communities have been around for over a decade, so, people have invested time and effort into them for over a decade.

Moving to elsewhere isn't really as easy as people make it out to be. At the moment "moving communities" means fracturing your community as there is no unified approach to doing this.

The operative word being "unified" which is next to impossible to achieve. If you get all mods to agree you will have a hard time reaching all your users. This in itself presents the biggest roadblock, ideally you'd close up shop and redirect users to the new platform. Reddit will most certainly not allow this, their approach to protesting subreddits that were not even aiming to migrate made that abundantly clear.

So this means that, at the very least, you are looking at splitting your community over platforms. This is far from a unified approach.

This isn't even touching on the lack of viable long term platforms out there. I'd love for people to move to Lemmy. But realistically speaking Lemmy is very immature, instance owners are confronted with new bugs every day, not to mention the costs of hosting an instance. That also ignores the piss poor state the moderation tooling is in on Lemmy. The same is true for many of the possible other "alternatives".
All the new attention these platforms have gotten also means they are getting much more attention from developers. So things might change in the future for the better, in fact I am counting on it. But that isn't the current state of the fediverse. Currently most of the fediverse, specifically Lemmy is still very much in a late Alpha maybe early Beta state as far as software stability and feature completeness goes.

And, yes, the situation on reddit is degrading and this latest round of things has accelerated something that has been going on for a while. But at the same time Reddit is the platform that has been around for a decade and where the currenty community is. Picking that up and moving elsewhere is difficult and sometimes next to impossible. I mean we haven't even talked about discoverability of communities for regular users.

Lemmy (or any fediverse platform) isn't exactly straightforward to figure out and start participating in. If you can even find the community you are looking for. Reddit also hosts a lot of support communities, who benefit from reddit generally speaking having a low barrier of entry. Many of those wouldn't be able to be as accessible for the groups they are targeting on other platforms.

If you were trying to manage a server with 2k active users 7 mods isn't all that much. Assuming for a moment this was a little while ago (discord did release some pretty nifty mod tools over the last year or so) and you had not set anything up in regards to third party bots.

With the newest discord modtools in addition with third party bots discord is in my experience very good to manage for a chat platform. Certainly much easier than IRC ever was and still is for that matter.