After vlemmy.net went bust, I suspect that users will increasingly choose well-established instances:
Is your instance hosted on a computer in your home or at a hosting company?
As I understand from your description, your host will act as a "mirror", so no communities will be hosted on the server. Is that why your instance doesn't have any clearly written rules or values?
I noticed this at my local Loblaws. At first they only had one to two lines open and they were extremely long. Now they have several lines open and it's very fluid.
What I do is deliberately go to a cashier, even if the line is extremely long, and I see more and more people doing the same. This forces more lines to open. One time they asked if I could use the self-checkout to speed up the process. I replied that if the items were cheaper at the self-checkout, sure, otherwise I'd stay in line.
Look, Lemmy.world takes the rational way where it says there is no use to panic. Let's be rational and analyze the situation rationally and go from there.
I support Lemmy.world. Let's see how the situation develops and let's make a rational decision with cool heads.
And I would like to add to all the answers. Instances are like countries that have their own values and rules. For example, technology@beehaw.org will not be the same as technology@lemmy.world. Beehaw is a heavily moderated instance, while Lemmy.world is more "free". What can be posted on technology@lemmy.world will not necessarily be the case on technology@beehaw.org.
I was a computer scientist, but now I have done a complete 180. But I'm still a nerd at heart.
Yup, I'm a Linux user.
But we have to understand that Lemmy/Kbin are still babies, they've just started. And I really believe that it will continue to grow and get better at accommodating users who are not tech nerds. But it will be an organic process.
The more Reddit gets worse (no more moderation bots, no good moderation tools from Reddit, etc.), the more people will migrate to Lemmy/Kbin. This migration will force the community to adapt and make it easier and easier for users to integrate.
I don't agree with the author's conclusion. I believe that Fediverse and FOSS software will eventually become better and less daunting for users to use. They will eventually rule the social scene.
Why? Enshittification. Capitalist platforms objective is to make money. As long as that's their objective, they will always become worse. FOSS projects are truly social project where the ultimate objective is to create libre software for the sake of human connection. Money is not the ultimate leitmotiv of FOSS.
I'm late to the conversation. Yeah, that's what I hated about Reddit. I've been using it since 2009, and I noticed that it got progressively worse the moment they introduced karma.
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The advocates of small government only change their tune when they are hit by a real crisis. Then they realise that government is a good thing.