This seems interesting, but I’m assuming it would only work for users on PyLova, right?

Yes, now we are talking! These are all great ideas and even something that I could get to work on the topic-specific instances. The only current limitation I see is that nor Lemmy or Piefed work as OAuth identity providers, so there is no way to, e.g, allow someone to allow to a custom frontend with their Lemmy handle and federate events from these other features.

Match threads are a good idea, but it’s the kind of thing that can be hard to do properly on a certain scale in AP, especially if automated. Imagine a basketball/volleyball/tennis match that has many score updates per minute. Each update will mean sending out potentially hundreds/thousands of new messages to the servers around the Fediverse.

Buddy, who said anything about making bot posts?

It’s the second post where you show up with some bs condescending commentary and assuming the worst about the poster. Do you talk with people like that in real life, or are yiu just this grating online?

i don’t want to speak poorly of other communities, but the lw community has been pretty low on content, even during the season. I think that !nba@nba.space has been getting more traffic nowadays… They are now planning to move the community elsewhere, and I asked if they wanted to join efforts and got largely ignored.

There needs to be a critical mass of people otherwise it will be just a random handful of people screming into the void. I was posting almost daily on football and basketball communities since the reddit diaspora. So far !nba@nba.space has 2 or 3 regular contributors. The other basketball communities are even worse.

I follow some accounts on sportsbots, but it’s not the same. AFAIK it’s only mirroring Twitter accounts. Also, if there is a lesson I learned from building alien.top is that excessive reliance on bot accounts to bootstrap communities also make organic adoption more difficult.

I still need to go to Reddit and YouTube to get basketball commentary, and popular hashtags can get pretty overwhelming and targeted by spammers - try following #football on tags.pub and you get repeated posts from different sources about the same news and very little commentary.

There are plenty already…

That’s essentially what I was doing with the “Community Ambassador” feature on fediverser. They could define all types of RSS feeds as sources of content, and there is a button that lets them select and easily create posts on the Lemmy communities.

The problem with relying on bots for that is that if they post too much content they end overwhelming the members and bringing “organic” output down. Any bot would have to be set up so that it never gets to post more than any “real” member.

Don’t think of these efforts as some form of central planning, but as a simple catalyst.

I’ve tried that with the “Community Ambassadors” idea where people could get content from different sources to help bring content to the curated communities on fediverser. It went largely ignored.

I’m more than willing to try again, however I am tired of instance drama and the tribal mentality that makes people associate a community to “their” instance. So I am not interested in supporting this in any instance that does not have a specific topic or interest group behind.

You did not need to disclose AI usage. The writing style sucks so bad, one can tell it’s AI from the headline.

Now, can you tell me why the person running you decided would be a good idea to have this type of analysis? Did they reveal their motivations behind these instructions?

Of course it does. You just need to change your resume to say you are looking for a software architect position. Chances are you are going to end making even more money.

Look, I really want LinkedIn to disappear. But please, please, please don’t focus on building/porting another “platform” to ActivityPub. A client application that can interact with C2S servers would be a thousand more times more interesting, for users and companies alike.

ActivityPub already has an API. Let’s just use it.

Thank you! At least I don´t feel so alone now. :)

we’re way past the point where reorganization into a structure like that is feasible

I am still optimistic about it. It will be impossible to make one huge push in this direction, but slowly people will come to realize that this is the most sensible approach. For example, I’ve noticed that !nba@nba.space started to get more activity because !nba@lemmy.world is considering moving out of LW, but are spending a lot of time debating over a lateral move. If only they had accepted when I first invited them to join as mods from the topic-specific instance, this would’ve never been an issue.

Look into tags.pub. You can follow hashtags and lets you find things according to the topics that interest them.

Vote it down and move on? Help fund the development of a client that can deal with these things for you? Run your own instance where you can set your own blockloats?

You have agency. If something bothers you, take initiative instead of putting the responsibility.on others.

f AI gets to the point where it’s all pervasive (…) I’d honestly probably just stop participating socially in public internet spaces

I think you are missing what I am trying to say: there is a significant probability we already are at this point, and I don’t think we can beat this cat-and-mouse game. If you are serious about you mean, then the only reasonable course of action is to get out of the race entirely. If more people think like you, then the scale will tip even further in favor of the bots.

All of this to say, if we are so AI averse that the mere possibility of having AI around should be enough for all of us to drop this whole thing here and go back to connection only in the physical world. In a way, I wouldn’t be against the idea (maybe because I look at the internet as a source of utility and not to fulfill any emotional/social need) but on the other hand it would suck precisely because the internet can be quite useful as a tool, but its utility depends on having people around participating.