From a content UI perspective I guess this is why I would lean in preference towards Lemmy. It’s pretty quick to figure out how to locate and browse similar content.

That said I will be up front about not having dived deeply into Sharkey to figure out all the potential that’s there to make it do things in a way I’d prefer. Though perhaps that’s a point against it as well, since it may take more work to get it functioning like that.

Depends on what you’re making. There’s nothing worse than under seasoned dishes. Freshly ground black pepper is a versatile ingredient that compliments many other flavors, but it’s hardly a requirement for everything. I keep two spice mills on the counter, one with black peppercorns, and the other with white, because there’s many things that can benefit from one or the other.

I appreciate the link. I tried seeing if anyone had forked it at some point but my lack of familiarity with navigating Github likely prevented me from locating anything.

As a user it sucks, but it’s not surprising.

Hopefully some other person/group will take it up/fork it/etc.

I think this would be a fair change and compromise.

Because logged in users can toggle both the NSFW Blur and the Auto Expand in their account settings it doesn’t seem as if it would significantly negatively effect current account holder users.

I suppose if there’s a userbase that utilizes the site without an account or without being logged in on a regular basis this could hamper their experience, but I guess that’s where the big question is. Would such a change effect the conversion of non-account holding users to account holding users on a positive, negative, or neutral basis?

I’m no marketing or analytics person so I wouldn’t know what sort of data would be needed to determine that, and if it’s even available in the current site version, but either way I don’t think there’s any way to tell other than making the change and seeing what happens.

ASSTR used to be my jam.

The site went through a big crash a bunch of years ago, and then apparently suffered more subsequent technical issues afterwards. The couple times I’ve been there recently, it’s been like doing the internet equivalent of urban exploring a mostly abandoned city.

There’s some things still functional, some people still active there and eking out an existence, but lots of the site structure is broken and a lot of the collections which aren’t being maintained are partially or totally broken.

Good on them, especially with Utah being one of the states that’s passed statewide laws to impose hurdles for any community wanting to build out a non-privately owned network.

A bit ambiguous due to the painterly nature of the image, but I believe the beige shape on the left side is another guy, just the edge of him from ankle to mid/upper chest (so presumably his arm is out of frame above) and there is another guy, his torso and right arm visible, behind her left hand’s peace sign.

A bunch of years back (likely 10-15) there was a radio interview on a discussion program related to some sort of internet topic. One of the topics that came up for discussion was online piracy, and as part of that one of the points expressed by the guest was in regards to monetization. He believed that creators were at some point going to have to potentially embrace a reality where only a subset of folks consuming content are actively funding it, but that funding could be enough to create the content and keep the cycle going.

While the discussion above was about a subset of consumers purchasing the content (and the rest presumably getting it for free in various ways) I think we’ve seen that general methodology really starting to come to pass in the “creator space” with patreon and similar mechanisms. I’ve seen it gaining traction in more traditional web spaces, like small topic focused journalism outlets. That sort of direct funding has been around a very long time but I think consumers are more widely willing to chip in vs in the past expecting everything to be 100% free in exchange for more passive types of monetization.

I don’t think it’s a universal solution applicable to everything, but I do think it’s a viable model, especially around smaller, focused web spaces, especially if they can create some sort of genuine “community” where enough people involved will feel enough obligation to pitch in a little.

You’re never going to get 100% of people to care enough to pay 100% of the time, and there’s no guarantee it would be sustainable for a specific creator or project forever, but I don’t think there’s going to be any sort of “one size fits all” method going forward either.

However I do believe this sort of direct funding method (whether very directly or done through a service like Patreon) will continue to be viable even as the big companies go through their cycles of rising, falling, and merging, but never really quite dying.

Around the time of the reddit protests, was looking at one of those “reddit alternative” posts that referenced Lemmy. One of the links given was to a list of servers with a short blurb on them, which included Burggit, the blurb of which made it quite clear what sort of community it was which caught my eye. I didn’t have time to explore much of anything right then but a few days later when I clicked through a link in a different post to the same list, I noticed that Burggit had been removed, which had the effect of making me go out of my way to find it again (since I didn’t remember the actual name).

I read some of the public posts at that time, and re-visited a few times (not having the time to figure out the whole Lemmy thing right then) to keep tabs on developments and liked the basic premise behind things and the directions things were going.