I joined to make silly comments and hang around y'all. And I'll post in the unlikely event I find anything worth posting.

I count it as a success if the fediverse grows organically.

I've been scheduling posts fairly regularly on my non-admin account. When I left Reddit, I started following a number of RSS feeds and newsletters, so there's always one or two things each day worth sharing (and usually more when I skip a few days).

Otherwise I'm hoping to spread more of the positivity that I got when I started out here :)

I intend to use either Lemmy or PieFed, or some equivalent, to do a self-publishing site:

you know how some communities are "locked", such that only the moderators post, but everybody can comment?

An author's site, like that, but in-depth writing, not just links to for-profit-site's articles, see?

Rendering "Medium" and "Substack" and all the rest of the "if you want to be a writer who is known, you have to be within our platform" cartels irrelevant..

Income through Ko-Fi, FundRazr, etc, instead of their paywalled-"garden".

If many authors were to do that, then:

1. authors would have DIRECT COMMUNITY, & feedback
2. the damn "IF you want to be a writer, THEN you obey OUR for-profit platform" paradigm could permanently go eat rocks, &
3. since federating is voluntary, spontaneous this-author-federates-with-that-one networks of writers can emerge, thus replacing the publishing-cartel's oldfangled newspapers, magazines, book houses, platforms, etc.

Book-people who understand digital-community are likely to understand this paradigm,

but the people who hold that there is ONLY 1 use for Lemmy/PieFed: that is where ANYbody can submit articles, & author-instances simply aren't tolerable, because they aren't "anarchistic" enough .. well, they can do their best to prevent this diversification-of-the-fediverse that I'm going to be doing, & hope others will, too.

I want as many competing against me as possible, see?

More fun!

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PS: managed hosting is a requirement for the paradigm to work: I've ZERO interest in SysAdmin either as a profession or as a hobby ( those days are .. last-century, for me ).

Just adding that so that any other who's interested in the paradigm will know what to find, to make it work for them.

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I am lately pushing PieFed (and Lemmy) by posting a lot. Posting also a bit on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@rom255) and Loops (loops.video/@ordos). Furthermore trying to spread the word about LibreOffice (libreoffice.org), Wero, OSM.

No.

I just hope to promote/comment and upvote interesting thoughtful content which I see here. Sadly however, as the months go by I see less and less of it and more straight up hate speech, insults, and ragebait. Today alone I was insulted and called stupid/dumb/immature multiple times by people spouting ignorant hate filled nonsense as if it was a fundamental truth of the world.

Fedi really is starting to grow and sadly all the negatives of that growth come with it. Been using it for over 2 years and the first 1.5 years were mostly chill. The past .5 years have exploded my block list from a few people to 100s.

I want to bring over r/dragonsfuckingcars community from Reddit. But the chances of it gaining it's previous glory are nonexistent, and I'm no moderator.

Started a vodcast fireside fedi, followed by a nonprofit BTfree.org, followed by a peertube general purpose platform tubefree.org . And hopefully MUCH more in the future!

And I am grateful for everyone on the fediverse. Posts like this on how people are helping is absolutely incredible! Together is how we'll make this last forever.

My goal is to abolish all Linux and star trek talk, I plan to have this be a desolate ghost town by mid 2027

I schedule a post every day on peertube. I want to grow fedi videos. And a good way is to post interesting things. Seems to be working! Views and subscriptions are up across the board.