rglullis

Forget all the draft analysts. Just draft/sign whatever QB is 28 by the end of regular season, win Superbowl, rinse, repeat.

These are for the people that just want to get access to the flagship servers and not worry about managing their own. Those that want to bring lots of users should look into the managed hosting packages, where they will be no hard quota, and they will only be limited by the hardware resources that will be allocated to them.

It's less than $2.50 per month, for 4 different services, and I'm also pledging 20% of the profits to go the open source projects.

I've been told by multiple people that I'm actually charging less than what I should. If you think that you can offer all of that for less, please go ahead.

The number of discussions about American politics are orders of magnitude higher than discussions about any of "other topics". This is more than enough to justify the use of hyperbole.

If one can pay $30/yr for basically a private social network that's garbage and advertizement free, I think that should be more popular. But to make that happen we need an even easier system to set up;

$29/year to have an account at Mastodon, Lemmy, Matrix and Funkwhale (with 250GB of upload quota to your personal library). No "setting up" required beyond downloading the clients. No ads, no tracking.

and we need the social effect.

Get the $119/year package for 5 people. Invite 4 of your friends. Tell them that if they like it they can split the costs with you or pay it forward by getting another 5-package for themselves and inviting more of their friends.

You want to use the extreme end of the distribution curve and make the argument that it is close to the median case. It is not.

Congratulations. You are bringing your dozen communities that only survive due to your incessant work, which kind of exemplifies my point: Lemmy has maybe a handful of communities outside of the politics/meta-fediverse topics.

If you care about American politics and being outraged at every and any thing thrown at you during the day, it is active enough. However you are SOL if are curious about any other topic that does not involve narcissistically talking about yourself.

Assuming you are invested enough to find or create a community for a topic you care about, be prepared to be talking to yourself for a long time and consider yourself lucky if you manage to get 2 other people commenting on it.

One more of these ridiculous "so you are saying..." comments, and I will start responding to you with Cathy Newman memes.

Definitely not arguing for a monoculture. You are overreacting and reading whatever you want, instead of what I've actually written.

I'm not saying "people should leave mbin and use only Lemmy as the end-all solution". I'm saying "those who are already on Lemmy should not be forced to adopt yet-another tool just because some other alternative fulfills one use-case better".

mbin might make some of what Lemmy does and it makes some of what Mastodon does, but it is not a perfect replacement to neither. There is always a cost to adopt any new piece of software (and I'm not talking about price, here). If some users are happy with it, by all means let them continue using it, and I hope it keeps improving. But to think that is reasonable to tell everyone "Lemmy doesn't do this, use mbin instead" is like saying "Linux is not good on the Desktop, use Windows instead".

Cool! Do you have any instances of your fork running? I am planning to open source the (django) library I am building to integrate the "main" webapp, but at the moment things are still too unstable to document and publish it properly.