jgrim

Oh, nice. So it wasn't sucking up your life? So no real major change...

What are you going to do with all your time now :)

If anything, it's opening the doors to other things. Lemmy may not be the future... but Reddit certainly isn't.

I think there is hope. But Lemmy is still very new and in beta. It has a lot of maturing to do to take on the general public. I think it's also related to the issue with flooded servers not taking load and setting bad first impressions.

I just mean they suggest something like, "We're overflowing with users. Checkout some of our partners here: [blah blah]". Nothing unexpected.

Yeah, another option is for larger instances to stop accepting and send people around.

I think one of the problems is that they're showcasing large instances on join-lemmy. It'd be nice to have a rotation of smaller instances to spread the load out.

There is a plan for the front end to change how it works to remove live reloads. I'm not sure exactly when. I've only heard that it was coming. I bet you'd find it if you searched github issues list.

The cost will be spread out, and people can monetize how they see fit. I'm wondering if there will be additional benefits you can add to your instance for a charge that people might be willing to pay.

I'm considering offering an Element server and maybe email on mine with a shared username for each service. That's going to take time to setup, though.

We must prove that it's valued and let the monetization come later. I'm working on this in my spare time. Once I can grow, maybe I can put more effort into it. I think it'll be a lot of people like me for a while financing it out of pocket.