Ideally, if you create the communities and post questions, wouldn’t those that can answer then show up?

I wonder though if at this stage, it would be better to make a more general “What is this?” community, where you can post anything you’re hoping to have identified.

Haven’t had much need for it here.

On Reddit, I use it on those things that actively take away from the conversation. Trolling, pushing obviously wrong information, blatant racism/sexism/other-ism.

But, as little as I do use it, I find it supremely important to have. Trolls get downvoted out of the conversation. It’s a way to fight brigading. It’s the only easy/consistent way to give input as to what content doesn’t fit into a particular sub. Downvoting can be problematic, but it’s less problematic than those sites that try to be all warm/fuzzy and only allow positive input.

Pretty sure FB can handle losing 10% of part of their business.

I agree that Facebook being the gatekeepers is bad. However, you’re going to need more than just “Facebook bad” to get people to use something else. The bulk of the population just doesn’t run the same calculus in regards to privacy vs convenience.

I’m just trying to wrap my brain around what the use case for this is. I see the author referencing that it would be good for text only things such as poetry and recipes, but why would it be -better enough- for those things that users will use it over (or in conjunction with) http? What’s going to bring users over to Gemini aside from curiousity? There’s nothing that says a web page can’t be straightforward text, and switching to a new protocol that requires an entirely different browser is only reducing your potential audience.

I want to grok the why of this, but I feel like I’m missing some key bit of information.