Okay, that gem made me laugh.
Well, that sounds kinda aggressive to me... But maybe not. Please excuse if I misunderstood your tone here.
I see it like this: With Reddit and other modern social media that works centralized and is seemingly "free", the user is usually the product. Ads are served, there are premium plans, etc. With Lemmy, KBin and other parts of the fediverse, you are not the product and you also don't have to pay anything to use our services. We run instances for free. Just for the sake of it to give back to the community. I do it out of my own belief that federated systems are the future. That's it.
I personally think that people have no right to be oblivious about how this entire system works. They're not entitled to anything here. And yes, I expect everyone here to at least somewhat understand that Lemmy doesn't work in the same way Reddit works. And I also expect them to understand that there are going to be growing pains and other things that have to be ironed out. Every single one of us here, admin or user, is in the process of building a new, interconnected community.
I get that there are people who aren't happy about the situation with overloaded instances, but the solution is right there: Have many smaller instances and not have everyone flock to one or two big instances. Bam. Problem solved.
Btw.: I do run my own e-mail server. π
Yes, I'm in the very same boat. I spun up my instance and people are coming, mostly as lurkers, though. Which is fine for me.
However, I also don't plan to shut down my instance for years to come, as long as Lemmy (or forks of it) is going to be supported. Should I fall ill or get sick of hosting it, my plan would be to hand over control to someone else.
I also run regular off-site backups, etc.
I personally use a userscript in the browser to avoid that. But for the normal user, it's probably an issue, yes. But honestly, I don't have to do what you describe all that often. I just find what I'm searching for using my instance's search feature and all the "action" from other instances appears in my feed just fine and I can interact with it, as if I was on that instance the action is happening on. I do have a seeder script running on the server, though. It periodically searches for trending communities on the larger instances and pulls that in. Pretty much the same thing that'd happen if a regular user on my instance would look up communities on other servers.
Yes, that's true, as well.
Most internet users that started using the internet in the last 10 years or so think a centralized internet is a normal internet, they think domains rule the world. We need to teach them how this really works and how we donβt need to bend knee to people to communicate.
Which is funny, since federated systems have existed for a long time. Prime example would be e-mail. And people seem to mostly understand that.
I don't get why lemmy.world doesn't close signups until they ironed out the issues. In the last 2-3 days, my feed was pretty much full of people whining about "Lemmy performance" and almost everyone was from lemmy.world.
Why not just sign up with one of the other instances? I said it and will say it again: This is a federated system. It doesn't matter much which instance you register an account with. I run my own public instance and I see all the content without having issues at all.
join-lemmy.org should be revised to not suggest big instances all the time. It should be shuffled. This will cause a bad user experience for everyone and people will think this is Lemmy's fault in general.
I'm not a coffee drinker, but I think that your app looks pretty good and well polished! Thanks for telling us about it.
I don't get it.
Organic Maps has a more simple approach and is more like Google Maps. OSMAnd~ has a much broader feature set.
I run an open instance for everyone. The name (FOSSware) suggests that it's for people interested in FOSS (free and open source software) only, but in the description, I specifically mentioned that it's an open instance for everyone, just like with lemmy.world and other popular instances.
I'm running this instance, because I love technology and I'm hosting a lot of stuff for my family, friends and I, as well as some public facing things already. It's a hobby.
Another reason why I'm doing it is that I just want to give back to the community, as I strongly believe that decentralized tech is the future. We were proven time and time again that centralized approaches, where only one entity is in control, is really bad for the userbase.
"Karma farming" isn't even possible on Lemmy. There's literally no total of up- and downvotes displayed anywhere. And having a meme artificially pushed to the top without reason seems to be nonsensical to me.