If they’re not happy, they can always go somewhere else.

You can’t please everyone.

Horrible idea. Let people share what they want and give the means for individuals to hide content they don’t want to see.

We shouldn’t be deciding for other people what they are allowed to see.

The next generation of internet users should really look into the Streisand Effect. You’re only going to drive more people away from your cause when you try to control what they get to say and what they’re allowed to see.

I’m already abandoning the left as quickly as possible because I’m sick of yall’s censorship and propaganda tactics; this is just another one of them.

For me it’s independent or bust. You can thank all the brow-beaters, tantrum-throwers, useful idiots, and mod-abusers for why I’m no longer loyal to their side. These kids need to grow up if they want more adults to take them seriously.

Hard disagree. Just like when people in the fediverse tried to block using certain words across the entire medium, this is going to cause more harm than good to appease people who can’t think for themselves.

I swear, the brow-beating crowd really has had free reign these past few years. It’s time to rein them back in and watch them kick and scream like the tantrum-throwing children they really are.

Not everyone succumbs to peer-pressure like you do.

Good on them. People like you need to understand that brow beating is not the way to get what you want and doesn’t make you right.

And honestly it does look dodgy, lemmy.com would be great.

This only makes the problem worse. We need to expose people to other TLDs and subdomains so they can see for themselves how expansive and adaptable the internet really is.

Reddit is a censorship hellhole.

The modlog is one of the greatest features of lemmy.

Fuck censorship.

Really shows the average intelligence of the average internet user.

As I get smarter, they just stay the same!

I don’t have any issues with the lemmy interface.

I’d rather they don’t mess it up to appease people who prefer reddit’s interface, old or new.

There is not a single Mastodon &server out there that have increased donations or reach a sustainable level after they reach a few thousand users.

Are you referring to active users, or just accounts-made? If you’re referring to active users, then can you point to any Mastodon instance with thousands of active users and the donations they receive?

If you’re referring to accounts made, then you don’t really have a point because thousands of accounts are unlikely to substantially increase server costs unless they’re all active (see above).

Also, there are not enough admins around “doing it because they want to” if we want the Fediverse to grow a few millions users.

Are you joking? There’s no “shortage of instances” going around. As more people join the Fediverse, more admins will start instances. This is a non-issue.

In fact, I’d wager the vast majority of instance-owners are bored, twiddling their thumbs due to their lack of users.

Instagram has 2 billion users, Pixelfed largest instance has less than 200k active users. We would have to get 10 THOUSAND admins in order to compete with Instagram.

See above.

This is a great question and something we shouldn’t shy away from considering.

As far as hosting a mastodon instance? That’s something that should be done for free with the only income being donations.

These people do it because they want to. It’s not necessarily “work” for them, which is why they do it for free anyways. It’s also sustainable. As more users join their instance, costs for hosting will increase but so should donations. It’s not that expensive to host servers, despite what some conpeople and their useful idiots may have told you. (don’t assume you know the costs of hosting if you’ve never done it yourself.)

Admins get a lot of power that they have no problem abusing, either. This alone would make me a moron for even considering paying them for it.

“Yeah bro, I’m gonna pay you to host your instance where you have absolute control and can censor anything you don’t like.”

This is fun for them. That’s why they do it.

good things cost money most of the time.

I’ve found it’s the exact opposite: the best things in life are free.

It’s actually built-in to your argument. None of this would be possible without free protocols that are accessible to everyone.

Err… what?

Care to explain what that ‘other interpretation’ is?

We still shouldn’t be doing the dirty work of rich people for them.

We should all be promoting Mastodon over the centralized and corporate-owned bluesky.

Not based.

Why bluesky instead of mastodon? It’s like saying lemmy.world is going to replace reddit instead of the Lemmy platform.

Are you just commenting how the people who use something like twitter are eager to be herded like sheep into the next walled garden?

Are you part of the bluesky viral marketing campaign to make it artificially seem like it’s “already won”?

We can and we are.

It’s just that useful idiots have been convinced that nobody does anything because they actually want to do it.

To them, the only reason to do something is to make money from it or distract them from bigger issues. It’s why their lives only consist of working and playing video games.

OP does have a point.

This isn’t really helpful.

This is usually where these apps stop for me.

I genuinely don’t care about what other people have to share.

Do you think saying women can’t think for themselves is “hate speech”?

Both.

Peertube made this asinine decision to make federating opt-in, so most instances are just places where the owner can jerk themselves off for excluding everything.