They're not getting the sweet funding they used to so now they actually have to be profitable.
None at the moment, used to have a Netflix subscription but not even that now.
Even the bots migrated from Reddit.
That cash must have a lot to say...
One of my concerns is that a big corp adopts it, makes it popular and contributes to it so much that they might as well own it. For example, imagine a company like Microsoft or Google ends up making an instance and their own software like Lemmy or kbin. Since they have the money to develop, refine it and advertise, it could gain mainstream popularity and people start creating communities and content inside Microsoft's or Google's instance. If it grows to a point where 80%-95% of the content generated is from that single instance then what happens then? Sure we can still create accounts on Lemmy.world or kbin.social and see that content but we're relying on the content on their instance. If they decide to defederate then we lose all that content so then you'll have to create an account with them to access it (just like Reddit). And if we don't we'll have to start over again, at least when it comes to content.
I'm still figuring out how all of this works so I might be wrong.
Definitely. Plus, there can be more than one community for niches and that's alright, for people who don't want to use Reddit there's a community for them and for people who don't care then they can keep using the one over there. These new communities shouldn't feel like they "owe" something to the equivalent community on Reddit, the new ones are just as legit as them.
Me too, it happened to me a few times already. Also, sometimes it changes the whole post I'm looking at entirely but comments stay the same, wild. (This happens while looking at a post that I've clicked on.)
I'm not sure where to post about problems in the platform, if here or at lemmy.ml but there's a problem that's quickly getting annoying and that's the fact that whenever I choose All communities and choose anything other that "Active" the posts constantly refresh themselves rather than refreshing when I want. It makes it hard to browse and read things.
This is in the browser, mobile or desktop.
