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What hosting do you use? You can easily host it using docker.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

I've never had any problems with low speed. Maybe it's hosting provider?

If you are a company looking for a forum, you want to be able to control it. Unfederated means you can control account access and don't have to worry about someone going to All and seeing porn etc.

We're talking about Reddit. It's one of the biggest porn sites out there. If anything, it's way easier to control what your employees see if they are on a company instance.

Also, which company uses Reddit as their forum? Most of the ones I have seen use Discourse, which is open source but unfortunately not federated.

Federated could work, but you need to make it clear that it's just a community on a platform.

We're all a big community. I think people get this quickly.

And still is Reddit by far the biggest. How can we change that?

Yeah but that isn't the greater population, unfortunately. What can we do to make the Fediverse more interesting for people?

Fun is always great to capture the masses!

Sorry but this sounds like a skill issue.

Why does it need to be unfederated?

larger population seems hopeless.

But what is the barrier? We have a functioning infrastructure. We need to solve the last piece of the puzzle.

People need an easy way to join!

Mastodon has already shown that this works. Even if they aren't as big as others yet, they still make up about two-thirds of the Fediverse. Now we need to replicate this for Lemmy, Pixelfed, and so on, and share our findings along the way.

Forums lifespans weren't all that much anyways.

Couldn't this be much different if "web 2.0" hadn't taken over?

Most sites that were hosted before 2010 are gone now.

Many of them are still alive but don't get the exposure they deserve because of centralized networks.

The real downside to everything being on StackOverflow, Reddit, Discord, etc is that it has made it easier for big tech to run their shady data collection and analysis schemes including AI Training.

Right. But what can we do to get people to switch to the Fediverse and put an end to this?

How about strengthening the Fediverse and Lemmy?

Let the internet burn in Reddit/Discord/SEO hell. Maybe we can build something from the ashes.

So basically, let the world burn? Because that's what it looks like we're heading toward right now because of big tech.

Maybe we can build something from the ashes.

The big question is whether it will be us who do that.

That's why we have to strengthen the fediverse!

They are both trash. How can we get more people to join Lemmy and the Fediverse?

Have you ever tried DuckDuckGo or Qwant? They have better results in my opinion, as long as you don't care about the business snippets.

How do we get them to switch to something like Element?

Is it? When was the last time you googled something and the first website that came up didn't spit out some SEO or garbage content?

None of the moneybags will listen, unfortunately. But I'm with you. The rollout of AI was extremely irresponsible. Just to make it profitable as quickly as possible.

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