We could have a constellation of smaller service providers, like we do for email nowadays. Everyone talks about Gmail+Outlook having 80% of the market, but we all forget that the tail still exists and that is made of hundreds of independent companies which make a healthy living charging $20-$50/year.
rglullis
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Ok. I have to ask: how many instances will have to go down before the majority of you drop the "you can always hop around to the next one" mentality and start thinking about ways to make the whole ecosystem more mature and professional?
What is your definition of "too many resources"? Because running a Lemmy instance surely takes less server power than something like Mastodon, and you can find managed providers for Lemmy for ~$10/month.
There are some RSS readers that will download the actual URL and apply "reader mode" on the page to present the full article. I think FreshRSS has such a plugin.
how do I add stuff like whether the community is 18+?
The over18 information is something that comes from Reddit and/or Lemmy directly. This is why there is no option for users to add this.
And I categorized a Reddit subreddit but the corresponding Fediverse community remains uncategorized.
The categorization is independent, so if you want to categorize the community you need to go its page. But you do have a point, perhaps I can set things up in a way to auto-assign the same category when the alternative is already accepted.
Thank you for the feedback. I'm pushing now the fix for the typo. I will take a look at the issue with casing now.
If hardware is your thing, there is a whole instance for you at https://hardware.watch/communities. :)
I’ve put in a lot of effort in !hardware@lemmy.world to switch.
This is a textbook example of the sunk-cost fallacy.
Don't worry about "wasted effort". That's in the past. It would be better to look forward and see the potential growth that can be had if we work together.
I really wish that we stop creating/promoting communities on LW. It's just too much happening at one single place. I feel discouraged to participate in any nascent communities there.
There is also !hardware@hardware.watch , which has been inactive but I am expecting to start seeing more activity once more people start migrating through Fediverser. If you want to try it over there I'd gladly make you a mod, and could help you with new posts.
Thank you! It was nice to wake up this morning and see like 3 different people adding a bunch of changes to the database.
You are right about the bug. It seems that depending in some cases the list of subscriptions is not pulled.
Mostly, culture. Everyone hates ads and corporate controlled networks, but almost no one wants to pay for a commercial service provider. People say that donations is an acceptable alternative, but no one pays enough for admins and developers to make a living out of this.
I can tell you that if if that I had 10000 paying customers for my commercial offering ($29/year for Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix and Funkwhale), I'd be able to pay myself a good salary, support the developers (I pledge 20% of Communick's profits to the devs) and hire a couple more people to help me. It is not a lot, and a lot less than Facebook extracts from each user by exploring user data.