@dansup love it!

But why remove the content? This doesn't feel like it serves a useful purpose. It's more like a major inconvenience. In VK you could add stuff to a public group without even joining it. On Smithereen you can also post on a group's wall regardless of your membership.

@dansup this kind of features is a carbon copy of centralised platforms! You prevent users to take responsibility for their actions. It's (at best) a paternalist approach, at worst a way to lock users into YOUR platform. I'm following your toots for a while now, and you are copying all the worst lock in systems developed by gafam. Such a pity to take them as an example and bring this ideology into the fediverse.

@dansup as others have said, this sounds like a reimplementation of Lemmy. To me, one of the nice parts of the fediverse is being closer to the Unix philosophy of do one thing, do it well, and communicate with an easy/open standard so others can do complementary things.

Pixelfed is for photos. Lemmy (and the others) are for groups.

@dansup who uses Facebook nowadays 😂

@dansup I'm sure you've done the right choice, but have you considered Mobilizion ?
https://mobilizon.fr/

@dansup
Have you considered making poll-creation (and other non-mandatory/basic features) an exclusive 'pixelfed-pro' feature for people paying 1$ a month which could make you and others work on pixelfed full-time?

@dansup have you seen related work by @grishka on #smithereen regarding polls?

See: https://mastodon.social/@grishka/106734240955029955

@dansup an idea: could it be combined with a picture for a given context? 🤔 or it's just text?
That could bring a new level of interaction 😊

Glad that I don't have to figure all this out alone any more, you're welcome 😂
We should make a group to discuss it!

Actually I don't allow admins from other instances right now because I have no idea how to federate things like name/description/etc changes made by a remote admin. Update{Group} and diff it on the receiving side? Invent a new activity type for this particular case?

@dansup out of interest, was #mobilizon one of those? Seems a logical choice since groups are at the very foundation of what they're trying to do...

Here have one.

@dansup is there currently an option for users to set that on a peraccount basis?

@dansup Sooo, new feature drop in 6 days?

@dansup Also, "13/8" for the other 6.7 billion people on the planet who aren't from the US 😅

@dansup

august is also the month when i have my birthday.

and by the way, @pixelfed #pixelfed is promoted in my first FOSS exhibition for almost 1 year in berlin / germany.

Technically there's nothing stopping you from specifying an arbitrary collection in to/cc, instead of followers.

@dansup We came very close to making it work, but there was some showstopper that halted the progress. Don't remember what it was though cc @Claire

Oh hi, been doing this exact thing for a while lol

@dansup soooooo. Question. If I paid for the hosting costs, how much for you to assist to administrator a pixelfed?

like, I really want to host the Australian aus.pics or something but Pixelfed docker image seems to be DED. so I need help to maintain a long term instance.

@dansup You might as well post a screenshot after this post 👀

@dansup This shows the need for the Fediverse to scale by adding new instances, and getting places like #mastohost and others to make it easy to do without being a more serious admin.

@dansup I use Mastodon more than any of my other social networks. It's as if I've completely abandoned them in favor of this one. I believe there is a better community here that isn't trying to constantly sell me something.

@dansup what is the current state of #misskey?

@dansup I wonder if there are ten thousand active instances with at least one user?

@dansup Interesting numbers...