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Thank you for writing this. Small typo: focued (focused).

By permitting advertising.

Reaches for pitchfork.

TL;DR: be careful what you wish for.

Puts pitchfork down, embarrassed cough.

More people would be great, especially for niche communities.

I don’t see #2 as that big of a problem. Do we want people who won’t expend any effort to join? I guess everyone sees the line between accessible and “dumbed down” a little bit differently. I’m not saying #2 is great. I recognize it is an obstacle. But it’s also kind of the point of Lemmy…in the sense that this is not a monolithic corporate one-size-fits-all kind of endeavor. In a way, the obstacle also serves as a teaching moment, if you will, of how this thing even works.

Item 4 seems a bit chicken-and-egg to me. But my guess is, not being able to find those communities isn’t nearly as big of a problem as those communities not having any content / participants. I can see the argument that one causes the other, but I haven’t found it very challenging to find those empty places. It’s just not much fun to hang out there by yourself.

I love that.

True, but I’ve also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they “it works, and if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

The CADT model…that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people’s code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a “maintenance programmer” which was something of an insult, but I didn’t mind.

Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else’s code, think others’ code is “garbage” (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it’s a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

[email protected] is another one

Niche <> bad.

Lemmy is missing:

• Bots
• Karma farmers
• Ads
• Insane mods
• Fucking Spez

You know you’re right, we’re nothing like reddit!!

Doin’ muh best to shitpost.

You’re all welcome, citizens!

Heroic Trumpet Music

Farting sounds

Sure, but I’m thinking they’d make some noise on their own, and/or infiltrate other instances en masse (potentially).

Would be entertaining to watch it unfold. I’m sure team 45 would try to horn in if it happened. Might bring a massive influx of users. Mixed feelings. But a good writeup.

The way our judicial system works:

• You rip off working class people = Have fun, you spicy job creator, you!
• You rip off wealthy people = You’re going to jail, boy!

And here’s a new scandal to throw on the pile:

https://lemmy.world/post/13678760

This one is several years old, but is the version I could find. I think it got updated but not sure where that one is.

https://np.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/5lauzk/facebook_2016_year_in_review/?context=3

The one I’m thinking of was on reddit, and unfortunately I did not save the link. But I’m sure others have posted similar.

Years ago, back before it was totally shitty, someone on reddit posted a gigantic, comprehensive, well-sourced list of all the horrible shit Zuck / Meta have done over the years.

It’s unfortunate that long lists of damning facts can’t seem to move the needle very much. People don’t seem to care unless directly impacted.

I hate seeing Meta dig its tentacles in. Thanks for posting this.

There’s a few weirdos, but overall much better than reddit. And blocking is your friend.

Thanks for posting. I’m going to go down the rabbit hole and explore the numerous links provided by the article. And then probably share some of them with my friends. There’s neat stuff out there. Finding it is the challenge. Sending texts is one way to spread the joy.

It’s frustrating how many non-joiners are completely turned off by the part where you hunt for an instance to join. They act like it’s super confusing and scary (when in fact it’s ‘super easy, barely an inconvenience’).

Meanwhile these same people will scour the internet looking for a recipe or bootleg movie or whatever.

It’s really frustrating when you remember what a huge PITA it is to get your account going on reddit. Sure, the first part is easy enough, it’s just registering on the site. But then you find you can’t do jack shit because you don’t have enough karma and every sub you visit has 10,000 arbitrary byzantine rules to deal with because the mods got picked on in high school.

Lemmy is actually EASIER than reddit. But here we are.