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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • To be fair, often times that question is code for “how can someone contribute to that platform while also paying rent, feeding their kids, etc.”

    I think that’s a fair question and IMHO, for a fedi project to succeed, we need some people who can get paid a reasonable wage to focus their full attention on the work.

    We’re likely going to continue to see folks who ask for Patreon donations and set up fedi hosting businesses, like Ruud at Lemmy World. We’ll also probably see more folks like the Tapbots gang selling fancy clients for a price.

    Individual people will make money so they can live life, but cash cow corporations likely won’t be a thing.




  • Hiding subscriber counts is intentional at join-Lemmy.org. They were being displayed about 2 weeks ago, but new users saw them, viewed actively as a form of social proof, and only signed up with large instances.

    Problem is, those large instances are starting to break now. They can’t scale fast enough to meet demand.

    Moreover, if you signup for a small instance, you can still subscribe to communities from another instance. Communities are shared between instances.

    IMHO, we should be displaying stats like response time and integration with the federation network. That’s what is actually important for most folks. If you only focus on local activity, you’re going to have a bad time.