OH! LOVE THIS! Thank you KAGI!

Never stop learning! Never stop growing! Never stop evolving! We’re here for a short time, keep moving forward in whatever that is to you. :-)

And I think that’s what we should do. Or even ask the question, search it on Google, and answer your own post! :-) We need to foster the Fediverse by existing in the Fediverse and stop depending on Big Tech or using them to help build OUR internet. :-)

Love this! Thank you so much! :-)

SearXNG is a self hosted search. Basically you go to your SearXNG instance, put in your search and it pulls from all kinds of different search engines to give your results.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng

Awesome! Glad to know it works so well! :-D

Feel free to message me directly if you’d prefer. I’m here.

Dude, you never need to justify why you do things. Your life is your own, no one fully understands it but you and even YOU might not understand it. I say go for it. Grow your community!

Agreed. And even if 1 instance goes down, if another instance is following, it’s still there. It’s potentially the strongest off site backup ever.

Sending best of vibes to you.

Best way imo is to talk to folks. Find a mentor. Even folks I never thought would know about X had thoughts or suggestions. Hell my wife just helped me with a thumbnail and she’s not an artist, but she’s been doing school presentations and had massively useful constructive criticism. :-)

Block them. I can’t do anything about the bullies, I won’t bully anyone and if it comes off as bullying, maybe there’s a misunderstanding from me.

We can only build our communities how we want them and ignore the rest. Bullying is going to happen sadly, but we have the opportunity to push that shit away and build a welcoming and wholesome community.

We’ll disagree sometimes, but we need to do our best to be as respectful as possible.

I’ll say this, Owncast has quite a few streamers into music as well. A lot of folks looked for alternative music making platforms during Covid, because as Gabe Kangas told me, Twitch was cracking down while everyone was home. Maybe check there as well for a community?

I agree! <3 :-) And it’s our chance to rebuild the internet!

Preservation is so MASSIVELY important imo atm. With Internet Archive under fire, Reddit and Twitter closing APIs, Google shutting down fucking everything, we need OUR internet, not theirs and we need to protect that which is precious to us.

100% more humanity!

That’s ok! It happens. maybe fokls don’t know it exists! Are there other communities that align with beat making? Maybe start there and talk with folks there?

I don’t want 500, but if I had a choice between finding it on the Fediverse or Reddit, I’d prefer the Fediverse personally.

Let’s DO IT! :-)

YUP! Just spoke on the SearxNG Matrix folks: https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org

And you CAN do !bangs for the Fediverse they said. !lemmy or !mastodon for instance. I didn’t know that! I’ll be posting more about this.