Especially given that Meta needs federation to comply with the Digital Markets Act.

Have you considered a feature like “sibling community”?

What I mean is, for example, car community on server 1 marks itself as a sibling community to a car community on server 2. Similarly server 2 marks itself as a sibling community to server 1, ie it is two-way.

When communities have been linked bi-directionally, any post and comment are shared between the two sibling communities.

This would allow bigger communities to form out of smaller communities, thereby preventing discussions from being fragmented and showing the true size of Lemmy, across servers.

Yup, fully aware. I guess what I was trying to say was that there is a way to get rid of a CEO - own a lot of the business.

Shareholders can.

Don’t forget, FaceTime will be an open standard, aaaaany time now https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/apple_announces_open_standard_facetime_video_chat_for_iphone_4

I think it’s also valid to ask people to participate here. The fediverse is what we make it; without people talking, opening up new communities etc., there won’t be the content for others to feel the buzz. Reddit can be a lean back affair, but the fediverse can’t yet IMHO.

I found the same when I moved to Mastodon from Twitter - it took me a while to find good people to follow on Mastodon and for new habits to form.