We became more active as inactive users returned to the site to discuss a major global event, which is a cycle that was common on r/cth as well. I haven't seen any evidence of sustainable growth in the site since it began, really.
Federation won't help immediately, since we outsize all the other Lemmy's, and the rest of the fediverse is very anarcho-succdem, but we're pretty short on options for exposure. I don't think there's an immediate danger of the site shutting down, but it needs a pipeline in the next year or two, if it's gonna have a chance.
Related, I can recommend this place to like 2 people i know IRL, and even then it's just shooting them the occasional link rather than a real invitation. A more liberal leaning instance that works as a Reddit alternative would be much better for pipelining those sorts of people. Federation keeps other instances available to those who are interested, but at arm's reach.
A final reason that the reintegration is important in general besides federation, is that there is no development base remaining for our custom codebase here, it will be much more difficult to add features without being able to integrate changes to mainstream Lemmy.
honestly federation is a double edged sword, especially when lemmy has very limited user controls in place (from what i recall you have to completely trust the federating instance)
They've been including new moderation features in more recent releases, but yeah it still has a ways to go. I don't think the "other edge" of the sword would affect Hexbear too badly at first, since we would immediately be the most active instance (unless GZD fullly migrates over).
Does any hexbear user even care about that?
Yes, this site will die without federation, or some other way of creating an inflow of new users.
We grew a bunch recently? I don't think federation will help tbh.
We became more active as inactive users returned to the site to discuss a major global event, which is a cycle that was common on r/cth as well. I haven't seen any evidence of sustainable growth in the site since it began, really.
Federation won't help immediately, since we outsize all the other Lemmy's, and the rest of the fediverse is very anarcho-succdem, but we're pretty short on options for exposure. I don't think there's an immediate danger of the site shutting down, but it needs a pipeline in the next year or two, if it's gonna have a chance.
Related, I can recommend this place to like 2 people i know IRL, and even then it's just shooting them the occasional link rather than a real invitation. A more liberal leaning instance that works as a Reddit alternative would be much better for pipelining those sorts of people. Federation keeps other instances available to those who are interested, but at arm's reach.
A final reason that the reintegration is important in general besides federation, is that there is no development base remaining for our custom codebase here, it will be much more difficult to add features without being able to integrate changes to mainstream Lemmy.
honestly federation is a double edged sword, especially when lemmy has very limited user controls in place (from what i recall you have to completely trust the federating instance)
They've been including new moderation features in more recent releases, but yeah it still has a ways to go. I don't think the "other edge" of the sword would affect Hexbear too badly at first, since we would immediately be the most active instance (unless GZD fullly migrates over).
The occasional iFunny-esque watermarks aside, there have been no real attempts at marketing, so this doesn’t surprise me.
I’d agree that re-forking is important, but we should be taking advantage of access to paid advertising on other platforms while we have access.
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