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this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
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I've been around the block a few times, so maybe I'm just jaded.
My take is that it's a proprietary platform, siphoning user data/content to redisplay and monetize.
Additionally, my gut feeling is that they don't care about the community at all, and are just trying to leverage it to make money. They want to be the next reddit, and think the fediverse is their ticket. And I don't think anything I've seen so far indicates otherwise.
We block Threads, and I think we should block this, too, immediately. If, in the future, the situation changes and they actually "give and take" rather than just "take" , then it should be simple enough to refederate.
My 2c.
Hi there, I am creator of clubsall. We absolutely do care about community.
There were many discussion few months ago. There were also private discussions with some admins. Because we are not lemmy based, so our development takes time (plus my developer left, plus we were trying to move to sublinks which itself has federation issues). So federation for us is not a config setting. Also, we are a very niche site with almost no traffic.
Additionally, different admins feel different rules are fair, so it is hard for us to know how to be good community members. I request a common set of rules, preferably based on traffic, so any newbie can get the breathing room to develop and participate. Does that sound fair?
You can say that all you want, but actions speak louder than words.
You launched what you apparently considered to be your MVP, and it's a one-way leech of fediverse user content.
The fact that you were willing to launch without federation in place signals, at least to me, that you care far less about community participation than you do about the content the community produces.
Welcome to the fediverse, where every software stack works a little differently, and every server has its own rules.
You're asking for someone to give you a set of common rules across all instances? For unpaid users and/or volunteer admins to spend their time compiling this information just to provide it to you?
No, actually. To me that doesn't sound fair at all.
If I wanted to start another Reddit, this is what I would do. Hell, siphoning content from Reddit is still done in many places on Lemmy to stock the pond. In this case, we have the opportunity to stop it before a competing platform takes off. If they’re not going to play by the rules of federation, they don’t deserve the bounty.
Hello @baggachipz@sh.itjust.works are there some documented rules of federation that I am missing? Please point me.
If you federate content in, federate your own content out
This is based on what feels fair to you and not a documented rule. The issue is that everyone has their own version of what is fair - federate out, self hosted, open source, attribution, usernames shown in particular way, exemption (or no exemption) for smaller sites based on time or traffic and so on.
In any case, this is a goal we are working towards. As we discussed before, this will be done before ClubsAll has any meaningful traffic.