sorry mate that was a joke, not a literal statement

I disagree it’s fun, at this rate by 2035 we’ll need to pay users to use lemmy

ngl same :|

For me Mastodon and Lemmy have shown that the general population have absolutely zero interest in decentalisation, they just don’t care

Like a hive mind they simply go where other people are, if there are two crowds of people, one with 5 people and the other with 50, they will go to the one with 50, regardless if the 50 users are mingling with people like Musk and they hate Musk and don’t want to support him in any way

Just posting that made me think, if people simply go to where people are, having lots of small servers instead of one large one is actually a turn off for most people

As explained by the user below

capitalist growth-focused approach

Communities growing in size is for capitalist pig dogs!

We here at the communist-iverse prefer to die slowly with brief spurts of new users when a more popular platform makes changes before they leave again

Up the top it has software filter, if you select lemmy:

At this rate by 2035 the lemmy userbase will be depleted

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i was thinking you could do ads for people not signed in, then no ads for people logged in

then for people logged in/signed up you could do discord style nitro benefits, fancy name tag, just extra stuff that supporters can get to show their support for the place

but in isolation no good because what’s to stop another instance just giving it away all for free? it’s like the place is self undermining, it’s the most cut throat environment to be in while being worse to work for than any it slave pen, at least at the end of the work week you get paid, here you’d be expected to work for free :\

He missed a bit:

they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance … or go somewhere else entirely

then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve

This is the natural end result of every volunteer run instance, you don’t find it odd that over the last 40 years of the internet not one fediverse like server or community has survived or even been mildly popular?

I’ll repost this because for some reason the other post got deleted, it was regarding lemm.ee shutting down, they were concerned that one of the largest Lemmy instances is shutting down and the future of Lemmy:

You’re 100% right to be concerned and to be honest I have doubts lemmy will ever crack more than a few million users, the same thing happened with Mastodon, something that relies so heavily on volunteers running the infra almost inevitably results in burnout because the fediverse works on a disincentive basis:

Basically the more popular a server is, the more funding it requires, the more admins it requires, the more work it requires, and all of this is on a slim margins or more likely requiring on people to donate time/money/effort ‘for free’ is a huge ask.

The supply of people sitting around doing nothing all day who care enough to dedicate their time/effort/money to running a social network… for free… is a very small group, almost as small as the amount of people who are willing to donate every month to a social network.

You can find mods of communities are usually fans of the communities they mod, it’s a topic they enjoy and so the incentive for them to invest their time is to keep their community clean and great. But running a social network which has hard costs not just time is a whole other thing

This is opposed to a regular website or social media network, where as it gets bigger, it makes more money through ads/subscriptions, the incentive is to get bigger to make more money

And then they can simply pay for the hard costs like hosting costs/bandwidth and people to do the shit no one wants to.

The reality for me is that the money has to come from somewhere, you can do a paywall like newspapers do or beg for donations every page visit like the guardian/wikipedia do, or the usual suspect allow advertising, but the money has to come from somewhere.

Thus the fediverse has a disincentive to growing larger, it is simply easier and more sustainable to remain small

What did Cloudflare do?

The court ruling has been pretty clear that Google can’t fund them anymore

? Where are you seeing this?

I get the feeling they’re starting to bunker down in case google stops funding them

welcome to mastodon

then you need to decide your instance

Just use mastodon.social

If you feel like you want to join a more specific community then you can

Probably best asking this in https://discuss.online/c/localllama@sh.itjust.works

mullvad

60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity

Where did he get this number from? (please don’t say something like his butt, genuinely curious here)

Is it because Googlers are supposed to be high performers who are highly motivated and well paid therefore can do the 60 hours without dipping in productivity?

How do they measure productivity at Google? surely it wouldn’t be lines of code written?

perfect is the enemy of good

itt: people genuinely think this joke is real

reverting main back to master

again user issue, no ai trash in my playlists