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Upload them to YouTube or Bilibili. Japanese music fandom tends to archive everything that not available anymore on YouTube and rarely get taken down.

That way, newer generation can discover them. Just like city pop.

Bad example. There are plenty of non-profit FOSS services that do well and serve the community.

Lol they need to shut down in Indonesia as well Twitter regularly accept censorship request from Indonesian government

One common problem for fediverse is that most of them are Western-oriented, hard to find people with similar interest and common topics.

Lemmy so far is replicating Reddit, which is tend to one-size-fit-all community. Gaming community? c/gaming is de-facto. Linux community? c/Linux is de-facto. And so on. Sure there are other server, but the one with most active community wins.

I usually use Facebook Groups with hundreds of thousands of people. It's nice to see groups of really small niche, like "local fried chicken seller," "temple research South East Asia," or "Singapore-only comic collector", etc.

There are plenty groups with similar topic, but entirely different culture. For example general gaming group:

1. Gaming group which predominantly SEA people where mobile gaming is common.
2. Gaming group with mainly Western people where mobile gaming is considered lesser form of gaming.
3. Gaming group with audience where anime-manga-tokusatsu and other Japanese pop culture are mainstream. (Taiwanese, Indonesian, Korean, etc)

Another example, healthy food groups.

1. Healthy food groups with people from area where vegan food is common without labeling (e.g. India, Indonesia, Myanmar, East Timor).
2. Healhy food groups with predominantly Westerner that try to replace all food to vegan food.
3. Healhy food groups that revolves around local food, which its recipe are only suitable for certain region.

All these communities might be same, but the entire vibe are different. One might more welcoming, other are full or rough jokes, some are okay with multilanguge post (not English only community).

Unless fediverse is able to replicate this, I don't think it will reach full mainstream, especailly for people in Africa, Middle East, or Asia.

Edit: I also want to see Misskey Channel interoperability, as it has the closest vibe so far with Facebook Groups.

You should read Thunderbird donation statement.

They got 6 million USD of donation back in 2022.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/

Oh, being annoying to casual user makes them anti to whatever we promote.

The keyword is being moderate and helpful. Not forceful or annoying.

The reality is GaaS is exteremely hard to success. Every one success GaaS, there are probably 20 or 50 failed one that we even never heard.

Most of actively maintained extension are from Keiyoushi, which is open source and community maintained.

It has 1300+ extension from various sites and platform across diverse languages.

As much as I love Linux for mobile idea, it doesn't have a lot of apps that people rely, like banking or government related stuff.

Misskey, which is Japanese-made ActivityPub-enabled social media software, has option to enable ads natively for instance admin.

In most cases, the ads are just non-tracking community ads, like promoting YouTube channel, indie animation, pop-up cafe event, or server hosting service. Usually the ads are matched to instance theme.

People realize that running instances needs money and letting the instance admin to make living from it is acceptable. Having monthly patron oftentimes not enough.

This is different case and country. There are plenty of dead fedi instance from Southeast Asia because the donation itself is not enough as the culture of donation is not the same as Western countries. Most people will just simply use free social media and thinking ads are good tradeoff.

It's just your average cultural clash.

Most people on internet are accustomed with English naming culture. Meanwhile when people from non-Western (mostly US) making name that seems cool in their culture, it often lead to cultural clash. This also applies to symbol, gesture, etc.