It's an interesting point, because I wouldn't see this as Lemmy losing users just because you're on Friendica. We are interacting just fine, and neither site is trying to hoard users to make money from, so I say neither loses!
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I'm no expert, but my understanding of the AGPL license of Lemmy code is that any modification is legally required to display the modification's source code prominently online. So if I'm not mistaken then they can't close source the code, so long as the devs are willing to threaten legal action (like Mastodon vs. Truth Social)
We don’t have videos hosted on lemmy yet though, and honestly maybe we should never, because it’s a huge strain on the servers
And maybe also to encourage cross-use of PeerTube. No need for Lemmy to re-invent video hosting, I'd say!
There was a recent post on reddit's /r/mastodon, where someone was foolishly asking how their clients can (exploitatively) advertise on Mastodon, and a reply mentioned that a HUGE amount of mainstream webdev and server load is dedicated to serving ads.
Take away the stuff the users don't want and the whole thing is much lighter!
Honestly, some of my favourite sites are niche interest groups. One I've contributed at lot to (even creating a magazine for) has between 5 and 10 active users in total. They're just so comfy.
And yes, some of my favourite sites are the ones you may look at and declare dead :)
Yeah, although I regret not being more active in calling out people parroting reddit's culture. With a lot of people joining at once, it's easy for the local cultures to be overwhelmed and become much like the place they left.
Well, more than that, I'd say it's even become a designated scapegoat for a (nonsense) conspiracy.
Great to see you here!
To expand on morrowind's answer, here's the long response about not being a flagship: https://lemmy.ml/post/70280
Well, if we decide we like the official name, we call communities "communities". Hence the /c/ in "https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy" and the link up the top.
Yep, we saw this in practice with the Wolfballs instance, which eventually ended up defederated from most Lemmy instances before finally shutting down early this year.