vote manipulating alts
The nice thing about open systems is that votes are public. Go check out who is voting down your comments before making baseless accusations, please. Or don't and continue grasping at whatever straws you can find to justify your hate.
The bots have been disabled for over a month now. lemmy.world is been long defederated with it (which means that you don't see it) yet you continue to think this is a problem...
alien.top has registered 1.18M users, but pretty much all of them are (still) bots and not count as active.
Servers that mirror Twitter users (like bird.makeup) don't inflate Mastodon user count because it reports itself as a different software.
Running a VPS does not disqualify as self-hosted, but I do agree that this type of question is not really on-topic.
@Mateleo@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you'll be better off by asking on some other community on programming.dev or !pro@selfhosted.forum
Sturgeon's Law applies: 90% of everything is crap.
Reddit's value has never been in the "average redditor" or the "popular subs". The real value is in the niche tail of communities and the fact that they have such a massive amount of people that even if "only" 10% of their users were decent people, it still meant that they had enough decent people to talk with something to contribute.
All in all, this is just to say that our problem should not be about "Reddit users". Our problem should be with Reddit management. The threadiverse is still incredibly boring. Things here are mostly meta-conversations and there is little to no original content here. The way to solve this will be by bringing more people here. A lot more.
Their goal is to lure (probably former reddit or twitter) users to Threads
Their goal is to take users from Twitter, and by doing that they are opening the opportunity to get users from Twitter to the Fediverse.
There has to be at least one major news org who is looking at this and thinking "well, if Threads does bring a few hundred million people to the Fediverse, we'll be able to drop Twitter and integrate our CMS with the Fediverse like Wordpress."
The fact that you missed the sarcasm and doubled down by leaning on your credentials is a-do-ra-ble.
For someone with so much time to go to classes at community colleges, surely you can spare some minutes to run your own instance, no?
Here you go. Go create your own instance and show us how it is done.
If the "vast majority of lemmy users" start demand things from their admins while excusing themselves from contributing in any meaningful way, yes, I'd disregard their opinions as well.
"Skin in the Game" is important. If you are not willing to risk anything for what you believe in, then how do you expect anyone else to take you seriously?
So, you have absolutely nothing to offer but somehow you think we should be giving any weight to your opinion?
Nothing ever stopped you from creating you own instance. With blackjack and beers.
There is no problem is having business offering hosting services, and if we want to have more users we will need professional support.
IOW, the problem is not with "capital" or "the profit motive", but Corporativism.