RadDevon

If we defederate now, is it possible/does it make sense to re-federate with those instances when the moderation tools have matured?

You’re taking a lot for granted here. Most cookbooks tell you what to do but don’t teach you what to do. If you already know how to cook, a cookbook can teach you how to cook X, but they don’t really teach you how to cook.

To follow up on the original commenter's advice, an audience that includes everyone is not what you need because it's unreachable. You don't know how to appeal to them because they collectively have nothing in common. There is nothing that would appeal to all of them. If you try to talk to everyone, you end up talking to no one.

I would try getting really specific about who you want to make videos for, and then make videos that will make each one of them feel like you made the video just for them. There are lots of people watching videos on YouTube, so you can make videos for a very specific audience, and that audience could still have tens or hundreds of thousands of people in it. You don't need to try to go after everyone with internet access in order to be successful.

I think the whole idea is wrongheaded. The community is what's special, not the content. If the content is non-native to the community because members of the community didn't choose to post it, it shouldn't be here.

Archiving is a noble goal, but it shouldn't happen inside an active community. It would be like opening a graveyard inside the community center.

Ha ha! Just noticed that you are the author, seemingly. If that's the case, thank you for the awesome resource!

I love this and check back in on it from time to time since the author does a pretty good job keeping it updated.

It was Quake, but I didn't have the money to actually make it happen. That would come years later.

I pick up something new almost every time I watch Memento.

Reddit can't be divorced from the leadership. If you hate the direction leadership is taking Reddit, how can you still like Reddit itself? What is it apart from that?

This argument makes more sense to me with Lemmy. Yes, if you hate the direction one instance admin is taking their Lemmy instance, it doesn't make sense to hate Lemmy as a whole… but Reddit has only one "instance," so if you hate the "admin," you hate Reddit.

Lemmy.world seems to be frequently under attack

You've seen for yourself that it does have a significant effect. You may not want the largest instance because that paints a big target on you. You also need to pick an instance with admins you can trust, or at least reconcile yourself to jumping ship to another instance if they do the wrong thing.

I started on lemmy.ml about a year before the reddit exodus. It was fine, and I didn't use it much because there wasn't much activity. I started using Lemmy more heavily when everyone came over… but at the same time, performance at lemmy.ml became horrible. They also disabled community creation because "(they) have enough communities." What does that even mean? I still haven't created any communities, but I would like to be able to if I choose to.

I ended up jumping ship to another instance I'm happy with so far… but I almost went to vlemmy first, which no longer exists. That would have had an affect on my experience.

If I were evaluating an instance today, I would start by scrolling to the bottom of the page to see what version they're on. Is it the latest? That means the admins are engaged at least enough to keep the software updated. If not, you should probably move on. Are they on a pre-release version? If so, are you comfortable with a little instability to have bleeding edge features and fixes? Then, I would just poke around a little to see how performance is on the instance before creating an account. Is it acceptable? Read the server sidebar. Are you OK with the rules? Last, I would find the support or "meta" community for the instance. See what kinds of discussions are happening there. Are the mods and admins active and are they philosophically aligned with you? Are problems being fixed? What are the big announcements? Does the way the server is being managed make sense to you?

Amsterdam made the transition away from car-centric in a much shorter time.