Thank you for all the work you guys do! Glad to see server expenses are coming in under budget of the donations!

All the small things…

I would be willing to bet a lot do not even know and/or care about Lemmy

If you find a decent offline map program for Linux, be sure to let me know. This seems like something that could be useful.

Right? That didn’t long.

If anything we should block them just for having a stupid name

This is not the worst idea I have heard. I think it would be really cool if people could get local instances going for their cities. Then have the communities be based on topics relating to said city.

How much power does it take to run an instance? Not planning on hosting my own, just curious. I read stories about people being able to host a Mastodon instance on a Raspberry Pi.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting your post but what’s the point of having an instance if your only users are the mods you appoint? You’d just be creating your own personal echo chamber. The whole point of a site like this, at least as I see it, is to bring in a wide variety of users with different opinions. That’s a big reason why Reddit was so successful in the early days. I know that everyone is anti-Threads and Meta, but clearly @ruud@ruud@lemmy.world knows something we don’t. I think being federated with Threads could be a good chance to grow this community and bring more attention to the Fediverse as a whole. If you see something from a Threads instance that you really don’t like, you can always block and/or mute the account. On Mastodon, you can block entire instances from showing up in your feed. I’m not sure if that is a thing with Lemmy or not, but if not, it might not be a bad thing to implement later on. Sorry for the wall of text.

It’s not the worst idea for instance admins to consider, maybe just with better execution.

You know something? Until you mentioned it with this thread, I hadn’t even noticed that karma wasn’t a thing here. That is how useless the karma system is.

I say let the community mostly manage itself through the voting, so the mods can only step in for the really bad stuff.

You are right. My bad. Still getting used to the fediverse thing.

Unless I’m mistaken, I believe even Reddit has/had a policy that allowed users to take over abandoned/locked/banned subs as long as the new owners took it in a productive direction.

Having a rule that no one in the fediverse can do something is going to be unenforceable.

That’s a really good point.

I think the deciding factor is simply which one becomes popular.

This is the way. Competition in the marketplace is actually a good thing because it generates new ideas.

Exactly. That’s 19K people who are now shit out of luck unless they want to make a brand new account on a different server and start the whole process of building cred over again.

Okay, I’m sorry, I may have misinterpreted your post a bit because I read too fast. So what you’re saying it they basically buckled like a belt to the r/android mods without showing an ounce of backbone?

They should have stood up for themselves and kept their space open. Did the r/android mods at least give them any kind of authority or say over the new space being as they already put it in all that work?

I don’t think that’s fair at all. Lemmy is still in it’s infancy and completely autonomous from Reddit and it’s mods. If they want an Android sublemmy on a different instance, then that is their right and their prerogative, but they have ZERO authority to step into an already thriving community and try to take it over or shut it down.

I’m trying to get an AskLemmy clone off the ground right now, and if an AskReddit mod stepped in and told me to close down, I’d politely tell them to stick where the sun doesn’t shine.

Me too!

I love it!