this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I think this is an unpopular stance here. I'm not certain how else admins keep things running, but my limited time on Lemmy suggests people are hostile to ad-influence on how things run.
Ruud also runs Mastodon.world which has 160k+ users and manages to survive on donations alone. Not sure where the cutoff point is for when that is no longer viable, if there is one. Mastodon.social is huge and takes sponsorships and also gets some grant money I believe. They don't run ads per se though and claim all sponsors accept contracts stating Mastodon is not going to be run in a way that is influenced by sponsors.
Just stop accepting new people
There's no reason to not push them towards other instances
I'm beginning to feel this way too. We need to distribute the load, especially at this early stage.
What is also missing from the big picture is a dedicated "About" link in the navbar of Lemmy instances, providing users with a statement of detailed information on the people/organizations behind a given instance, its location in the world, its hardware, etc. A byline in the front page sidebar isn't enough.
I hate to be the one to say this, but yeah, there's a big reason why they shouldn't be pushed to another server, at least not right now at this switchover from Reddit point in time.
Most normal everyday people don't even know what federation is, and tend to not like it when they find out, as it causes extra work on their part.
They just want a central location where everyone is socializing together, and don't care at all about the fediverse, except as maybe an escape hatch if some c-suite type goes evil.
There's already a hurdle people jump over on change in general, so we should minimize the effort of that change and coming over to Lemmy from Reddit.
Edit: typos
I created an ~~instance~~ user on programming.dev and have had almost no issues seeing other posts.
You don't need to understand how it all works to use it
with this pace of growth i wouldn't blame them it they got advertises. and i believe that most people here use adblock anyway