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  • I still don't understand why they aren't just utilizing imgur and that catbox hosting service exclusively. Plenty of image/gif hosting options.

  • It'll be a lot harder for them with federated software, and when the free instances are all solidly established

  • Barely active, a 100 upvotes and ten comments on most posts isn't sustainable and won't attract interest from niche communities who can just make a discord/subreddit/threads page. Attracting the masses is how reddit got where they were, and while they birthed /r/dankmemes and /r/whitepeopletwitter, it also made it popular enough to have an active subreddit for almost literally every niche interest hobby and game you could imagine.

  • Eh, seems pretty dead comment wise. Only 100 upvotes on each. Not sure that sub is enough for most people to move over for

  • I read your edit, you make very good points there and here. We really should leave the power in the hands of users/sub/community mods to decide what they want, rather than instance owners acting like sub mods and making blanket decisions for all their users. That's the reddit model.

    I assume filtering requirements requires changes to the Lemmy code base, which if they don't already exist is surprising.

  • Well just look at what happened with XMPP and google: https://lemmy.world/comment/906346

    And even if we don't defederate, I doubt anyone in threads will notice us local instance users and contribute at all to our growth. There are 30 million+ of them backed by Instagram and like what, 10k of us? They just have too much weight to throw around.

    Hell I'm not even convinced reddit is going to die and Lemmy is going to continue to grow. Just look at their front page. Absolute nonsensical drivel still gets several thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments, while any Lemmy instance is lucky to get 100 upvotes and 10 comments on a popular post

  • Yeah it's called curl lol