In another thread, I read a user’s comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.

Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it’s changed?

  • @A_Random_Idiot
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    1 year ago

    classic Open Source software problem.

    “Can we have one big community where we work together?”

    “NO, FUCK YOU, GOING TO GO MAKE MY OWN FORK/INSTANCE, WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS!”

    repeat ad nauseam until the population/manpower is stretched so thin as to be beyond the breaking point.

    • @hperrin
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      1 year ago

      If it’s all federated, then making your own instance doesn’t take you out of the community, you’re just in charge of your own little part of the community.

      • @A_Random_Idiot
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        31 year ago

        being able to post to other communities, and actually doing it, are two entirely seperate things. I’d wager a lot of lemmy posters will stay confined to their own instance.

        Especially if they end up following a post to a very problematic instance