It's not a drop-in replacement by any means. It lacks all sorts of features, details, and community that I lost last month.

However, it does (mostly) hold the same place in my life. And having said that, I realize how pointless it really is if none of that really matters

There's plenty of good business reasons not to want to deal with these requests. Even if the first ones would be easier to just turn over, the 1000th, or millionth gets overwhelming

Child Sexual Abuse Material, basically the current term for child porn. Nepenthe@kbin.social is completely right on all of it. There is a missing detail that loli (along with a few other questionable/objectionable subs) were banned from LemmyNSFW, and went to a different one that promised to be less restrictive, and is widely defederated because of it.

(Side note: While it can be difficult/impossible to draw the line based on appearances, these were clearly and obviously meant to be depictions of children, and often very young children)

Thank you, I hadn't seen that yet. Assuming it's true, that's going to make their claims very hard to prove. It might even get dismissed.

Sounds like you joined one of the anti-porn instances. I can't read German, so I can only guess that the rules say that, but it's not obvious on Join-Lemmy. I really wish they'd include some meaningful detail on their standards for fed/defend, since that's what really matters. Instead we have that garbage about matching your values, and each one has a one-liner about who they are.

You are correct that there's overlap of users with lemmy.ml, but I don't see much of the offensive content coming from there. If nothing else, they put their masks on when on that instance. I'm sure there are people on EH with alts elsewhere, but they aren't given the free reign to cause the same problems.

Lemmy.ml is no longer a recommended instance, and probably won't be again. But yes, I agree with you that the confusion caused by defederation is a bad thing.

Does some of them being tankies have an effect on the code?

The NSFW stuff was/is a bit more complicated than it might appear on the surface. A lot of instances do not allow NSFW. No judgement, it is what it is. But people on those instances could sub to NSFW communities elsewhere, primarily LemmyNSFW. Less so now, but for a while it was common for those posts/communities to not be tagged NSFW, which caused them to show up on All for people that didn't want to see it.

Then there was the question about types of NSFW content. Even people that enjoy your standard porn categories had lines they didn't want crossed in their feed. Specifically animated/cgi CSAM and scat. The former is illegal in some jurisdictions, and caused a different instance (name withheld) to be widely defederated. The latter was more of an issue with limited tools, but the result was the same- either LemmyNSFW blocks that (at least until better tools are available), or they also get cut off.

It was posted in https://lemmy.ml/comment/1240593

Direct link: https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update

I just now noticed that these numbers are just for Mastodon.world, before they spun up Lemmy.world. But I also remember one of the bigger isntances posting about their massive server upgrade, and it was very much in line with these figures.

ETA: There's another blog post there with server specs: https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world

32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server.

Does LAMA still exist? They were literally the same release as Rarbg for a while, suggesting some alliance. Either that or stolen releases, and I don't know which is more likely

Most of what you said is valid and correct, but very little of it is a reason to stay on Reddit. Rather, those are deficiencies in Lemmy that should be addressed (and to be fair, most are in progress) in the code.

I do feel the need to point out that your first point is off the mark. In a way, due to federation, there are no admins. But in another, there are tons of them, with a team on each instance.

As for your second point, the very point of killing that sub (and similar actions on countless other subs) is to fight back against those singular admins of the first point. But at some point, these actions will stop organically. It could be on 7/1, it could be months from now. It could even be when there's a mutiny, or Reddit replaces the mods with scabs. But it will end, and a lot of people will already be gone permanently.

There is a risk that they start going the path of Microsoft's "Embrace, extend, extinguish". Although they probably wouldn't call an isolated instance "Lemmy", they could start as being federated. It might not even be obvious that it's run by Facebook.

But once they have a stranglehold on users/communities, they can pitch themselves as the "most complete" portal to Lemmy. Even if they completely defederate, they would have the instance people want to be on

I would also find it VERY strange that there wouldn’t be a backup controller.

I find a lot of people don't have a mindset of considering how things could go wrong. It usually works, and it's always worked so far for them, therefore it will always work going forward. Plus, it's just so convenient.

For example, there are people who use their phone as their car key. They simply don't think about what happens if their phone is lost/stolen, damaged, or even just out of battery. They may or may not lessen a lesson when they get burned by it.