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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think it's a symptom of Lemmy's core premise - where do I direct funds as the "common" user (read as less technically sophisticated)? To access and engage with Lemmy I...

  1. use an app...
  2. that channels a specific server....
  3. contained within are individual mods that maintain communities and curate content...
  4. and all of that lives within the larger "world" of Lemmy as an idea

There are many hands in that chain. Your dedicated users can handle negotiating that decision maybe, but the "common" user cannot - and this post is trying to discuss Lemmy at scale, so you're talking about that "common" user.

Again, it's counter to the founding spirit of Lemmy, but we're missing a centralized path to supporting all of the distributed hands doing work on this idea. Not an easy problem to solve, but one that should be acknowledged.