If our content gets federated to threads then it just means that google results will point to it first rather than to us, they will probably have better indexing and search features than the fediverse. People will also probably think the content originated on threads too (since that’s where they see it and threads could easily obfuscate info like that) instead of who actually made it.

It could increase the short term engagement but in the long run, it will just serve to make threads better.

I was really hoping there was something like hamachi/xfire/garena from the old days but modernized and more stable 😅 I just assumed it’d be a solved problem by now.

I’m not giving up on tailscale yet, I’ll try the funnel feature but yeah… seems a bit troublesome for sure

Thanks for linking that, seems like a great resource! Seems like there’s a few that support UDP although I’m not sure if they will work with a CGNAT setup, also their setup seems a bit more complicated and technical than expected but I need to look more into it tomorrow. If everyone else needs to have this installed then that might be an issue

🤷‍♂️ Downvotes are meaningless, I’d rather see them give an actual counterargument if they have one but im used to it from reddit

That’s not really a good solution although it is a temporary workaround.

• Many users won’t know this is a feature they can use, or how to set it up
• Some users use alternative instances that federate with lemmy which might not have this feature
• Content still gets copied and hosted on this instance which might not be desireable

Besides, at the end of the day, shouldn’t the admins and mods here curate the content according to the community’s guidelines and spirit? If someone started spamming undesired content on a forum you’re administrating, the answer wouldn’t be “all the users can just block it if it’s an issue”. I don’t think it should be the answer here either

This whole fediverse feels very shaky tbh, we have this issue now but as someone who is usually on kbin there’s been issues like these from the start - posts not getting propagated to other instances, mod actions not being sent or updated, missing entire domains because of the bugs in the filter, etc. Add to that legitimate choices like defederation and domain blocking, it just feels fractured and nonfunctional because I still need a separate account on every instance to actually participate on it.

I know it’s a FOSS project with no guarantees and everything these people do is in their free time but I really wish stability and basic functionality was the first thing they focused on, otherwise everything else is in vain since it’s on top of an unstable foundation.