I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.

Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

Edit: I didn’t expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you… I can’t reply to everyone. I’m an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I’m really sad too, but I’m finding that lemmy has most of the content I’m looking for, just needs more comments.

The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.

  • Isaac
    1•11 months ago

    Fragmentation is, in my opinion, kind of the point.

    I think we lose sight of the fact that the Fediverse is new, and conveniences and comforts get added by developers after users have a go at it.

    Lemmy is very usable right now in its current form, even if fragmentation makes it a little inconvenient here and there. The fact is, for popular communities, there will likely be one big community with kind of satellite communities that are run slightly different or allow more memes, etc.

    Once developers find ways to improve cross-posting and multi-instance feed integration, I think fragmentation will mostly be a background, unnoticed, thing.

    I think it keeps mods more honest, because they know anyone can jump ship much easier to another established community - even if it’s smaller.

    I’m not saying there aren’t downsides, but I do believe the upsides outweigh it, and it will only get better over time.