Yeah, it’s bad. I’ll probably be looking into hosting my own kbin instance on principle soon.

fork run by non-idealogues when

be the change you want to see in the world

The feeling of ownership, of oh I can go host an instance at home and knowing that you aren’t at the whim of corporate admins or a company’s poor fortune, is so incredibly cool. I really hope more decentralized/selfhostable alternatives to major services start to take off.

Reddit’s popularity will slowly fade

Reddit definitely screws things up often enough for regular waves of recruitment lol

The high number of users on .world is because it still has open registration

I wonder if accounts on certain servers will be “prestigious” one day lol

no summer lemmy until the kids figure out the fediverse

Problem is that 1) this will drastically increase the centrality of servers Jerboa chooses 2) if Jerboa treats all servers equally when choosing to avoid point 1, well, all servers aren’t made equally. What happens if someone’s closest/optimal server is one that some guy spun up temporarily and takes down next week? How many users would leave immediately and have the wrong impression of the fediverse forever if they joined through Jerboa and then got dropped into the likes of Lemmygrad or Yiffit since it’s the nearest server to them lol…

Given lemmy is federated it’s probably going to be significantly harder to search. I’d imagine if you went looking for “lemmy” content you’d be a lot more likely to get lemmy.world or lemmy.ml rather than sh.itjust.works or beehaw content for example, since those have “lemmy” in the domain name.

Better is the truly important part, and if it doesn’t feel like a psyops campaign we’re already winning

Reddit content quality isn’t nearly this high

It doesn’t have to be a main instance if enough people come into the other instances, and there’s plenty of content elsewhere. I don’t interact with lemmy.ml at all personally.

There’s a large overlap between people who are sympathetic to terrible dictators and people who would be happy to be dictators

The idea that anything that doesn’t reach Twitter scale is a failure is annoying as hell

Can’t expect the millions of people who don’t even understand what an API is to care about the API changes. Hell, I didn’t use a 3rd party app or really care about the API changes but I’ve wanted to get into the fediverse and disliked reddit for a long time, so it’s as good an excuse as anything.

Servers that just host users also seem like way lower liability for the hosts than servers with content. If I host my own instance, it’ll probably be like this.

It’s definitely not “communist”

wow what a centrist username I truly believe this comment

rather than leaving the platform, find or host yourself an instance that blocks the tankie instances… I’m loving sh.itjust.works so far, which blocks lemmygrad.ml - that’s the beauty of federation

On the other hand sending people to a list of servers that includes stuff like lemmygrad and yiffit pretty high on the list is… a potential turnoff