@sfu I’m surprised to know that there is a small ActivityPub community from this school!
Although tiny, I am curious though. What would you guys say is the audience primarily in respect to this school, and what do you think is currently stopping this from growing?
I missed this post!
Probably the fact that the existing communities serve the existing demand is the hardest hurdle to overcome. It’s very difficult to convince people to move unless there’s some critical reason that effects them.
Nerd reasons like “The API has been rate-limited to prevent 3rd party clients” isn’t a great selling point, even though it directly impacts the long-term sustainability of Reddit and is a concerning signal of incoming enshittification.
My feeling is that in general, you build out a community, and you’re in place and ready if and when the unsustainable is unsustained.
I think that unfortunately Reddit has a lot of network effect associated with it, and that means that they can abuse and monetize their users just up to the point where they won’t leave. If $1.01 of flesh will make you leave, they can and will extract $1 out of you and put up with the bleating of the sheep while they’re sheared.
Ditto Facebook, Twitter. They will harvest every cent of value out of you that they can, right up to the point at which people start to leave. If they miscalculate and unsustainably harvest their users, then they die.
On Lemmy and the wider Fediverse, we tell the shepherds to go fuck themselves.
