Thx! Really appreciate it, and I'm glad someone thinks its worthwhile work we're doing.
Who controls this universal community name system?
It'll likely continue to happen organically: niche communities on reddit will keep getting fed up with the changes, and migrate to lemmy.
I don't know if we'll ever reach a tipping point, because redditors have shown that there's almost nothing they won't tolerate, but its also likely they still don't know that alternatives exist. There's a general conspiracy of silence about most fediverse software. Even with all this recent reddit drama, not a single article bothered to mention lemmy or other alternatives. The info is out there, but interested people have to go out of their way to find it.
We've also added a scaled sort to boost posts from smaller / less active communities, so that should help some with discovery. It'd also be nice for instances to use the sidebar, pinned posts, or site taglines to highlight smaller communities to help them grow.
What is your opinion on Bluesky being more popular than Mastodone because it is easier for most?
It shows only that like most open source tools, US media institutes a general conspiracy of silence about platforms like the fediverse, and mastodon (or lemmy). Not because they're not user-friendly enough, but because ultimately it's not something the US can control. Bluesky is really just a rebranded twitter, founded by the same people, but with owners more friendly to the US democratic party, as opposed to musk who is more friendly to republicans. Both are US corporations subject to its laws and beholden to push pro-US foreign policy lines.
I hope most of the world will choose to escape all these monopolistic US-controlled platforms, and for countries to fund open source, and encourage their own citizens to use community-run alternatives.
Lemmy won't become bluesky, because we're a community/topic-focused link aggregator, not a person-focused microblogging platform.
Yes I'm very excited about the growth of other fediverse software, and a lot of the cool new features they're adding. Its a great eco-system where we can experiment, be creative, and learn from each other.
Having distinct communities is a feature, not a bug. If two cities set up their own lemmy instances, say lemmy.sao_luis.br, and lemmy.lagos.ng, they can each have a news community, without them overlapping.
Do a search for metroid, and subscribe to whichever ones you like.
No seriously he's retired and cooks his brain watching fox news all day. If he got off that drug for even a month he'd return to being a sweet and caring person.
Not bad, the swiss chard and spinach I planted recently are sprouting, so that's got me excited.
The way to solve the database problems isn't to keep throwing more and more money at powerful servers and scaling. Its to fix it at the root: lemmy's unoptimized database.
@dullbananas has done invaluable work in making our DB better (and all of these will be in 1.0), but I'm convinced that if we had even 1-2 more Postgresql experts do a pass over the DB, and ideally one full-time expert, all of these problems could be solved.
The anti-communist witch-hunters are extremely peeved that they can't remove our communities like they can on reddit. Overall it doesn't bother me because I don't work for them, and they can always go back to reddit where their views are already dominant.
Anyone trying to make the world a better place, will always be hated and hunted by some people; it's a fact of life, and the sooner we accept it, the better.
Once its mature, I personally wouldn't be opposed to moving issue tracking off github and into a federated one like forgejo.