It was broken before then, the whole distributed user and instances is hard for the average non techy. This is the same issue Linux has. People say “just install Linux” but when the person Google’s it, they get destroyed with 30 plus flavors and don’t understand what to do.

Shrug, my notifications always included it. Maybe the mod just banged you directly or something.

Yeah, that’s one thing reddit did right, ban/removal notifications included a copy of the comment.

Side question, how do you retrieve or see “removed” comments? I get some removed and I’m not sure what they were…

Why can’t it be both? It’s useful now for that reason and if it does grow they are in a position to kill it or absorb it.

Meta’s involvement is to “poison pill” fediverse if it really starts to take off. Or just outright buy the bigger/best parts and leave the rest wither…

As a newb techie back then. Using 4 of the ones you listed.

I never heard of XMPP and still don’t know what it was …

Do you REALLY think that will be their end game?

They absolutely CAN buy you though, they can buy individual instance owners. Maybe not the Lynch pins like .World but many others and cheaply.

It’ll quickly turn into shit storm, and the average casual use will give up and go back to Reddit or move to Threads, which is what they want

Lemmy got a HUGE influx of users from the Reddit fiasco. Of course, there was going to be a pull back.

What is going to determine if Lemmy becomes popular is if it has reached critical mass to start growing organically on its own.

as a recent refuge myself. Some random thoughts.

Things that will help, hobby groups moving here. And other interest groups. Not expecting everyone to code, be a privacy advocate, or a political extremist.

Solving some of the fundamental issues around “federation” and ease of use for the average user that just wants to post about cars, hobby, etc

Actually WANTING more users. There is a non small portion that activity is toxic to new users who came from Reddit just to escape.

Exactly, and Lenny world’s pockets are tiny probably

All you’re so cute thinking money doesn’t matter…

Google 100+ billion dollar company with lobbyists out the ass.

Lemme World

ROFL

The big issue with that. Is where the host instance is located.

If Lennyworld is located somewhere piracy will get them shut down. Federatng a pirate instance is a bad idea.