What if they need to hire to fight spam? What if they need to pay for legal?

Just saying, it can get complicated real quick.

I would agree with the second half. I see a lot of insane takes on economics that are driven by hopes and dreams rather than reality.

The real advantage is I suspect if I reach out to an instance owner about problematic material on their instance they will address it whereas Reddit has gone out of theor way to make it harder to let reddit know about problematic material eg non-consensual sexual materials.

To me, one of the really big issues with Reddit is moderators/admins on power trips who randomly ban users for no clear reason.

Sadly, this is very much an issue on Lemmy too. Just read a post about some dude who got banned from some community for downvoting the wrong post.

But at least you can always create a new account on a different instance.

Not exactly cheap for a project without intrinsic funding. From what I can tell, all funding they have is donations.

I doubt they're crawling stuff over AP, you usually need a HTTP signature for that, and no bot is going to bother with those.

Most crawling would just be spamming the web interface.

The main problem with Lemmy, is I see the same 20-50 posts for 3-4 days until there is a new front page...

I fucking hate Reddit, but the front-page is always fresh, so I always end up going back....

Nah, Reddit front pages didn't few fresh since 2021 for me, and recently it became worse by the bots posting the same post i saw 5-10 days early again.

Has anyone come up with a name for the corner of the Fediverse that includes Lemmy, mbin, and PieFed?

Sorting by top day and hiding read posts gives me more than enough "fresh content." If you're craving more, maybe that's just the Reddit addiction.

If by HTTP signature you mean an SSL certificate signed by an authority, those do not present a burden for bots to obtain any longer.

but we can be successful collectively

that's the spirit!

I do not, ActivityPub uses HTTP signatures to make sure messages and requests from other servers are legit,

Essentially, it adds a "signature" header which contains a link to a users public key, a list of headers in the message and a signed hash of all the headers and the request.

There's a better explaination here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/

A delicated bot to scrape ActivityPub posts is possible, but generic bots shouldn't work. If a delicated bot is made, people can block its keys or server anyway.

Yes, "threadiverse"

Sorry, forgot to whom I was speaking.

...same-same

I throw lemmy into the discussion like we matter with zero explanation.

"BROS, DID YOU GUYS SEE THAT SHIT THAT BLEW UP LEMMY AND REDDIT?!"

no, what was it?

haven't heard, do tell!

In my friend group that might work but my family, not so much.

Collectively, they're part of the Threadiverse, which is a subset of the Fediverse that focuses on threaded content. Technically, though, Mbin is not strictly a part of the Threadiverse, as it also allows microblogging.

That’s the beauty of it - it doesn’t matter, since it’s all the Threadiverse. Lemmy, Piefed, mbin, whatever else may come along. As long as they all use ActivityPub, they’re all interoperable, and people can choose whichever one suits them best. Afaik, though, Lemmy is still far and away the most popular right now

The c's? (for the /c/ links for the communities here, and it sounds like "the seas")