That sounds like a good approach. If you can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.

This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.

ISBN Search is a non-monopolist source of the same information.

All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.

That’s what resonates for me.

We don’t have email instances, and email providers similarly block un-desired content, but there’s not a big fuss about missing out on specific types of spam. Lol.

Similarly Internet service providers actually also block big blocks of malware providing domains, and accidentally sometimes block some great piracy resources. People who care learn to use a VPN or switch providers. Everyone else doesn’t have to think about it.

I’ll argue that The Fediverse also carries extremely similar switching cost as an email or Internet provider. For an average user, “Let folks you care to inform know where you moved, and maybe copy over some favorite bookmarks.”

Sure, different providers do try to bring different lenses on the same federated content, but most people aren’t served well by thinking about it on day one.

I think shifting to the term provider is a lot more honest to the user about what to expect.

That’s fantastic. Provider avoids the mostly baseless FOMO (fear of missing out) that instance can invoke.

I think provider more clearly communicates that the majority of the desirable content is going to be available the same through any provider.

Open source projects aren’t doomed to lousy UX forever.

Shoves GNUImp behind a desk with a foot.

Just look at recent releases of Gnome and KDE. We can have nice things, it just takes time.

You’ve nailed it. That’s the key bit that organizations of all kinds are going to figure out.

Any profit goes back to employees and paying users.

You just described a normal non-profit, but doomed. Lol.

Organizational committment to remaining non-profit seems to be critical to the recipe.

I think we will see this continue, but with federated product search, soon.

Small business vendors cannot afford to continue to leave their search results to Google and Amazon to control.

Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.

Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!

This is hilarious, but I need facts.

All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).

There’s been talk of linking Luanti servers with Stargates. I’m not aware of anyone having a working mod for it but it should be doable.

Yeah. This guide is going to make some rounds in my peer group. I’ve got a lot of dissatisfied friends who just need an easy guide to remind them what to try. Very cool!

Mastodon seems to be filling this niche (professional networking and job seeking) at the moment. I’m curious if something more targeted is emerging yet as well.

Yeah. I think we’re waiting for the kind of installers and updaters that WordPress achieved before we see typical businesses running their own Mastodon server.

But I do think many organizations have got the risk/reward wrong, by underestimating the risk, at the moment.

Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.

Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.

In theory, yes. But what early switching folks are reporting is that the total impressions are much lower on Mastodon, but the total engagement is much higher, for the same effort.

Which is confusing unless we factor in what we know about Twitter farming bot account on purpose to create an inflated appearance of success.

Of course, there’s still the matter of Twitter genuinely has orders of magnitude more users. So as an either/or proposition, no way does it, yet, make sense to ditch Twitter for Mastodon.

But for the value-to-reach ratio, with the same effort applied to both, anyway, Mastodon is actually already a better value than Twitter.

All that to say, yeah, Twitter is better, purely due to the user base, and Mastodon’s algorithm actually treats creators better. Which we kind of already knew, as it was created by people fed up with Twitters abusive algorithms.

I don’t think there’s anything in the Fediverse meant to support the family updates use case.

We use giant SMS text message threads for that.

For more privacy, we get everyone to use Signal or XMPP with OMEMO.