Just wanted to say thanks for telling me this! Solved my issue and I wouldn’t have thought of it straight away at all.

The exposure is still greater than the zero that currently exists. If only 1% see the stuff from the smaller instances and figure out what’s up, they’ll jump. That’s better than the current near 0. There’s not really a scenario where it reduces the activity here any further, only improves it.

EXACTLY! It only benefits us because it hugely increases the exposure of the fediverse to the outside world so people who ARE interested can merely jump over. It makes the fediverse more interesting for people like me who can “live” here and access the content I want.

Glad you said this. People demanding large instances like this one defederate from stuff they don’t personally like are, frankly, very mislead and trying to be little dictators. That’s not their decision to make.

Another similar question: why has executive pay skyrocketed when it’s exactly opposing to (most) companies best interests? Also, you could merely hire a qualified candidate from within the company who is already familiar with how things work and pay them still six figures, but not millions or billions. It seems kind of insane that one person is “worth” that much to a board.

Square Home is utterly fantastic. For those that have a Fold like me, it’s compatible with that too :D I made it look a lot like Windows Phone because I loved that vibe.

What are the potential downsides to this? In other words, why isn’t it like this stock?

Unfortunately I do not :( it was on a discussion from an article about Reddit standing firm on API changes iirc

Potentially worded a bit abrasively but…kinda yeah. They rely so heavily on fomo, gacha, and other skinner box tricks to keep you playing other than FUN. Just remember what happened to Titanfall 2: "ohhh it was SO FUN it just didn’t have the events and grinding and stuff I wanted >:( "

I think for now it’s so early it doesn’t matter all that much. Just have fun! You can make multiple accounts so why not

Ah, a shame but reasonable. Worth a test :D

I have a small contribution: another kind user I have since forgotten (rip) recommended Jerboa for Lemmy as an Android app to use. It’s much nicer than the web browser experience IMO. I heard there’s also a good option on iOS, so feel free to chime in if you know what that is. I heard on HackerNews that some people plan to make their own Lemmy instances effectively private so they can simply use it as a personal feed and go anywhere they please. Sounds like a great idea, honestly. Imagine an IowaMan instance, for example, and I would simply control it however I want. Not sure what the reqs would be tho.

I want to see them try!

Good luck doing that for 8000 subs

I really appreciate what you’re doing, but I’m worried how this instance will continue scaling. What happens when it gets to 1 million users? 10 million? We can scale vertically only somewhat, but horizontal scaling seems to be limited to “just join a new instance 4head” and that just…doesn’t have a good experience.

It was a huge source of troubleshooting and solving really niche problems. Lots of people know about appending site: reddit to Google searches as a result.

I am still furiously trying to upvote you but alas, the server will not let me >:(

Well…that’s not very helpful imo

Sorry, my brain isn’t parsing this well. Can you elaborate? Does report mean “comment” in this instance?

Yeah, it is often “undoing” my upvotes and spamming “report created” when I’m hitting upvote…I wonder what’s busted now.