I agree. If lemmy continues to grow, inevitably some servers will be shit, but I imagine there will be other non-federated or less-federated instances. beehaw has already started down that path.
Trolls are generally looking for maximum carnage, so I imagine there's less incentive / reward posting somewhere like lemmy.
This is happening all over reddit.
Mods are posting all over the place saying "I have to bend over for the admins because if I don't they'll find someone else who will".
You do you but honestly I find this a bit weird. As an unpaid volunteer you don't have to do anything. Just resign. Reddit's not about to die but it's best days are in the past. I wouldn't want to be a part of the future of reddit.
They would have to show their books as part of an IPO anyway, and everyone already knows its not profitable. It's not like he accidentally dropped a big secret here.
Hard disagree.
Getting over-run by blog spam is entirely foreseeable.
With a single dead mod it's entirely foreseeable that we would have to relocate at some point which could be devastating when trying to preserve whatevers left of the community.
Looking at the list of instances there doesn't seem to be any really perfect options.
Honestly I would be most comfortable with an instance administrated by several people. It just increases the odds that admins will know what they're doing and not lose interest.
This is as good a place as any to ask... where should we set up shop? This community's sole mod @Zoe8338@lemmy.ml doesn't seem to be active.
A number of different self-hosting related communities have popped up in the last few days. I'm concerned that without a single focal point we won't hit a critical mass.
This is my take. Reddit has been on a trajectory towards enshittification for a long while. The API thing has created a focal point where a lot of people are passed off at the same time.
Well yeah but they're two different things.
Lemmy is a forum like reddit.
Mastodon is microblogging like twitter.
Not really. It's incredibly frustrating and I've def lost some faith in humanity.
I thought /r/selfhosted would be ready to jump but everyone is like "but there's no users on lemmy" and "you'll split the community" and "we're going to go dark for two days - that will teach them!"
Consequently there's been no support for any single refuge.
Additionally people have set up several communities here with similar names in the past but now mods aren't responding so it's all a bit of a mess.
This is true, but of course individuals can choose to move.
This may not be a warm fuzzy thing to say, but I don't feel much of a "community" in reddit subs.
What I mean is that to me, 100 people reading a sub on lemmy once a week is just as useful as 1000 people reading a sub on reddit once a month. As in, I don't really care if the specific users from a reddit sub are here, just that there are some engaged users here.
The reluctance of redditors to move to lemmy always amazes me.
Not surprisingly, there's a lot of posts in a lot of subs about the recently announced changes. In every post the same pattern is repeated ad-nauseum:
This is the case even in the subs I would have thought would be really keen to jump ship, like /r/selfhosted
I think this type of approach is the right idea though, a better ecosystem can only be good.
The bulk of reddit has already gone back to reddit.
Don't get me wrong, lemmy is great just the way it is. We don't need a continued influx from reddit (although lets see what happens on 1 July).