I don't use mastodon. I think my naming suggestion still works best for tagging on mastodon though. It is still more visually appealing.

But ya, I still see naming on Lemmy as one of the big hurdles towards getting a bigger userbase. There is just some annoying friction that pisses me and I am sure it pisses newcomers even more. Instances with names such as lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Another thing I hate is that the UIs don't show the true name of the community but their alias. For example, we have a community called climate here on slrpnk. However, UIs (both mobile and desktop), show the name "climate - truthful information bla bla"... I find that to be horrible UI. It should show that the post is coming from "climate@slrpnk.net". I hate hate hate that.

I left a comment but it didn't go through for some reason. Here it is again:

Sorry for the late reply. I don't know what a style guideline would entail, exactly. The only thing I can think of is in the naming of communities. And that can be explained in one sentence.

Communities should be named in an easy to write way, and easy to read. For example, lunar_punk should be LunarPunk. Say there is a community called word1word2. That should be Word1Word2. It is easy to read, thanks to the capitalisation of the words. It is also easy to write, since there are no underscores, just normal characters and one doesn't even need to capitalise the words for it to be a valid URL.

This is not really the question though. It was forked BECAUSE of the whole "fiasco". OP is asking what happened, as in, what made the dev give up on the project. This was a big topic back then.

Yes, I use mullvad VPN on Linux. It works fine. You don't need their client, of course, but it is good.

Have you ever sold feet pics? You could probably make some money!

Lemmy is so much more performant than reddit.. It is crazy! Try going to reddit's deskop site and then go to a Lemmy site..

Also, reddit is now blocking VPN users, unless you are logged in...

And finally, if I use reddit, I am contributing to a rich guy buying his nth car/house/yacht.. On Lemmy, I am not enriching the wallets of the already rich.

This is very sad to see... Instead of improving things from within, you are trying to split the community.

Why is this better than NewPipe? I much prefer apps that focus on 1 thing and dont support 20 additional services.

What? You bring your ereader to the gym and read between sets? That's a new one...

I disagree with this take. The effects of climate change are not binary.

There is no doubt that we are feeling the effects of man-influenced climate change. However, that does not mean that we should just give up. There is a difference between +1.5c and +2.0c. It is a fight worth fighting for.

The reason why you don't pay attention to the topic of climate change is because you do not give 2 shits and/or are not willing to change your ways and make any sacrifice.

I am sorry but it seems to me that you are misinformed.

The issue is not about the survivability of the planet or of humanity...

A weird one. You create content and its shareholders buy new yachts.

I don't want lemmy to be as popular as reddit as the signal to noise ratio was really bad.. Way too much noise.

I do want smaller communities that are on reddit to have a lemmy counterpart.