Trying to sanitize the internet? Good luck with that.

I could switch but I don’t see any need to. The lockin from apple apps and google play apps is far stronger.

Laziness or not giving a damn is a choice

Me but reddit comes up in searches and I still have to go to it for things like local postings and gaming stuff

Alfred E Oliver

I have mixed feelings about this. I’d fire many of the bullies.

The ghost of Alex Trebek has entered the chat

“Lemmy, what do you call users of Lemmy?”

“Lemmings” is the obvious answer

I’m still struggling with it. I clicked on a post that looked interesting and it took me to a server I didn’t have a logon to. I wanted to leave a comment but I couldn’t. Was I banned? Nope, I finally realized I’d been directed to a different server. Now imagine someone with zero IT background trying to deal with this. They’d probably just quit it.

It is interesting to be on the ground floor of something new though.

1. We already have a solution for this with tcp/ip with resiliency in the communication chain. Make the communities duplicated across servers and any server has a copy of the community.
2. This is definitely an issue but maybe a mod would only be able to control via voting with other mods for that community across servers? Make it more democratic than autocratic? Mod actions should be public too. No working in the shadows allowed.
3. You see this in gaming. People looking for interaction all swarm to the busy servers and you’ll see dozens of servers all barely in use. Maybe your login should be load balanced and redirected to low use servers.

Agree it isn’t simple. “We want control without control”

Yes, the world fracturing creates a bunch of duplicate islands. They need to overlap.

Some sorting would be good. I’d also like to be able to hide posts without having to block the poster. Right now there is very little user control.

Still better than dealing with reddit mods

I read that it was a DDOS but I wonder what the motivation for doing that is? It isn’t like you can extort any money out of lemmy.

It temporarily goes down when the laptop gets moved to another Starbucks location.