i do agree with the sentiment, but i think we're largely okay on that front:

among the big problems with reddit for the past, say, 10-ish years, was the consolidation of subreddit moderation in relatively few, extremely influential mods. some of which where widely known to be assholes of one kind or another...

the very design of lemmy provides a kind of natural resistance to this phenomenon by spreading communities over many distinct servers, with distinct admins and moderation teams.

it's by no means perfect, but the simple fact that communities can choose to leave servers that have become unsuitable to hosting them (like we've already seen with some of the star trek comms leaving .world...i think that's the server they left?), it becomes more difficult for power tripping admins or mods to utterly ruin communities. it still causes major disruptions, of course, but i think it's a decent trade-off!

having already seen that part of the design in action; I'm really not that worried about lemmy turning into reddit.

what's much more concerning is eventually being overrun by sophisticated, hostile discourse manipulators like bot and troll farms. (if we ever get big enough to attract those...)

while decentralization provides resilience against enemies within, I'm not so sure it does the same for enemies without:
coordinating bot defense and using proper authentication for end-users to ensure that the people talking are actually, you know, people, is probably going to be extremely challenging... eventually, at least...

That is a naive point IMO. I have a 50+ word long block list, and I'm still getting US politics, tankie propaganda or climate doomer post on my mainly meme feed. I haven't figured out how to properly filter them out, but at that point the platform would look almost abandoned from the perceived lack of posts.

It peaks around 110k and 65k, respectively, and the bottom is thankfully 0. A grid would help too.

If your model depends on users coming from lemmy, you're going to run out of users just the same.

You are presented with a tool to make the social media you want to see and instead you're just complaining that it isn't in your perfect picture. All the while, not really posting much yourself. You just want more people to post and people like me to post less but you won't do anything to make the social media you want to see. Seems like this is kinda all on you here. You refused to make your bed. Lie in it. Because you know the social media I wanna see? One that attracts people. That's why I post a bunch. To fill the space because people like you just complain and don't do anything.

So honestly? Just put up or shush.

Of course you don't. But the rest of us kinda do with you using ableist slurs, trolling and rejecting the basic rules of most communities to simply be respectful.

Well said

How is calling out lies and hypocrisy against the rules exactly? If you'll look again, you'll note that I'm never the one that starts hurling insults. Yet their insults never lead to bans. Funny how that works.

Their behavior does not excuse yours. You still did it. Also, again, ableist slurs and trolling. You guilty.

Edit: lol. Lmao even.

I certainly could spend my time shitposting and making things worse for you guys, but unlike you I don't actually think that every news article from newsweek or the daily beast is worth regurgitating.

I am commenting on what would make it better and in general bring up the level of debate, even if i have to act Devils Advocate in every single thread it seems.

Then post what you think is valuable.

You've really got this all or nothing mindset, huh? "I HAVE TO POST EVERYTHING ALL DAY SO THEREFORE I POST NOTHING"

K. Whatever you say, sweetie. Have fun with that

Edit: lol

Who is the real competitor? The people who are fed up with Reddit, where do they go to for discussions?

Or “windows sucks, yay linux!“

The issue is there just isn't as much pull for the European/Canadian/Asian communities yet.

Every now and then I check to see if any activity has upticked in any of the UK subs yet, but the first post is always like a month ago. What can ya do.

Fr. I shared a meme the other day and was staring at New for about 10 minutes to see if it would get removed... then I remembered "This is Lemmy" lol

You could try to upload a pic on r/Pics and it would get autoremoved for "Having the wrong amount of pixels", and if you fixed it and messaged a mod they'd tell you "Actually we no longer accept .jpegs or .pngs. WebP only. Also, this is now considered a repost." I'm barely exaggerating.

If we factor all these softwares in together, the user amount might be steady or even climbing upwards. While this curve in OP is currently going down.

The European communities have some activity.

No. It says Lemmy only.

Oh no. Do i have to go to internet prison? For these horrific crimes that i have forced you to endure.

Here's a thought. Perhaps limit yourself to one really good post a day rather than the 20 or so gargled garbage you send every day. K thanks.