There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion. It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.
  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Here is a highly relevant conversation: https://lemmy.ca/comment/21065449. This link is to one comment but also check out the OP that it is in.

    Everything comes down to moderation. Lemmy’s moderation abilities are extremely primitive - though notably the upcoming additional functionality to send mod reports to users on different instances than the community will help a bit. People get burnt out and can’t keep up with the flood of negativity, so stop their volunteer moderating activities. Remember that Lemmy itself got started when its devs got kicked out of Reddit for being too toxic - and likewise many of its initial membership. As for the rest of us, this was the choice that we made - even if for some of us, only after Kbin died (forked into Mbin now).

    PieFed offers substantially improved moderation abilities - especially those reducing the need for moderation in the first place, by placing more power into the hands of the end-user by democratization of the moderation work itself. Edit: e.g. someone wanting to avoid toxicity could leave enabled the functionality to auto-collapse or even auto-hide comments that are below a certain up-&-downvote threshold, while others who have thicker skins can disable those hand-holding options and decide for ourselves what we want to see - all without the need for moderator intervention, instead using the preferences of the community as a surrogate moderator in that case. However, PieFed as a the software platform lacks a great deal of polish in its UI compared to Lemmy (though 3rd party apps are catching up to support its feature set offered in the API).

    PieFed is the only thing giving me hope for the future of the Threadiverse & Fediverse right now.