This has been rethreaded so many times I feel like it deserves an entry in knowyourmeme. Opinions are like asses, everyone has one, everyone things someone else’s stink, in the end, what matters is you can support Lemmy without actually supporting the developers (eg.: support your local instance).

The blockchain is always a scam.

Heck, the way people are being nowadays, it’s “read” that’s doing the heavy lifting.

Still better investment than putting your money in, say, Felon or Trump stuff.

To support development financially, the first best way is to donate to the devs, for which people have already posted links.

The second best alternative, in particular for the people who are butthurt about the devs having their given political position yet hypocritically continue to fund or promote things like iPhone child labor, Amazon, Walmart, corporate backing of Israel military, or US taxes, would be to financially support the maintainers of the Lemmy instance(s) you are in. Most instance have their own “donate” / “support” link somewhere. Check yours.

(another advantage to supporting the instance you are in is that you would, usually, experience sooner or larger improvements in return for your investment. Better storage or network plan for your instance = better speed or uptime for posting lolcats)

Third best way, probably, is to finance public or state-level advocacy for Lemmy and/or Fediverse general. Alas I don’t know what if any organizations exist there nor how are they taking money (and report on its usage).

Nah. But if what you want is to prevent rather than palliate or delay (AIs will get throug Anubis, in fact from what I read some of them already do), then pretty much your only option is real-person authentication, so that if stuff does get leaked, you have a discrete list of people who to hold accountable.

0.- Take it out of the public.

And even if it won’t, there’s still the benefit of some variety in communities so that people can choose.

Eh, it’s not like they are going to somehow get better at it without practice…

If MySQL is more robust than SQLite of all things, something is going seriously wrong.

Then again, it’s 2025. I no longer bet on what to expect from reality. Next someone points me to a mail indicating linux kernel will move its bookkeeping to MongoDB.

Doesn’t Forgejo support SQLite as a backend?

lemmy is dying

[citation needed]

Not really conductive as long as most funds are siphoned by the C-suite ranks. Get rid of the C-fat first, maybe even turn Mozilla into a co-op, then have the People fund it.

False dichotomy. Lemmy is already usable, and the decentralization is not that high that you can’t tell where to post. But if you were posting a more proper form of the question that is not trolling, maintaining a decent level of decentralization is higher priority, as it is one of the foundationally selling attributes of the Fediverse. You can add connecting tissues and UX improvements over that, but if you abandon that you are not too different from Mozilla, and become not too different from the anti-social networks this was born to serve as an alternative to.

No thanks. This is a dark pattern towards centralization. Just go back to reddit.

Exactly! And that’s why the choice in the UI is important. My understanding is previous versions of PF at least let your viewers know you offer salads. There’s no (good) reason why the very minimum useful version of that can’t be maintained. Comaps and OSMand for example are map applications, but they let me know when a given location has an associated Wikipedia article for example. They don’t even need to implement something like a Wikipedia Viewer itself; just offer the links. Links are cheap, and are the foundation and backbone of both the internet and of any useful concept of a “fediverse”.

so, an old style BBS?

I’d be all in.

Because PixelFed is purposefully hiding the salad option from them. Which is what we are complaining about: it’s lying to our potential customers about us. Note that it didn’t do that before.

This is great yes and IMO how it should be done. It’s not necessary fr eg.: PixelFed to implement themself all the functionality to process forums, videos, cooking recipes, Pokémon boxes, microblogging, macroblogging, nanoblogging, femtoblogging, nanopicturing, macroboosting, etc. Just one: linking (and, well, properly announcing the link is there).

You sly dog you made me open my network tab to see if there actually was an image there! (there is, it was just being blocked because of my uBO setting for fetching remotes).