The r***it neovim community is fab and taking part in the go-dark outage protest. I think open source communities are better served by open not for profit, decentralized community-apps like this. The corporaate ones always go bad in the end. Reddit and Github both allowed their data to feed the big tech power grab that is LLMs.
While i agree with the general idea of leaving reddit, just in two days Lemmy has had some major issues for me personally. Starting with the fact that accounts can’t be transfered across instances. I’d love to leave lemmy.ml to alleviate their stress and get a faster experience, but i just can’t. Signing up on another instance means none of my posts are asociated to me anymore and i’d have to resubscribe to all Communities. Lemmy.ml has been 404ing a LOT for me to the point where it’s close to unusable on the web. Jebora works, but that’s about it.
I’m also in the “official” Matrix Channel, but chat is so inadequat for the types of content we do here. Plus it’s not archival or searchable.
For now, i’ll be here. But i REALLY hope lemmy get’s some upgrades to make it feel more like a coherent Network and less like i’m investing in little islands that might not be here tomorrow.
In the grander scheme i truly believe Forums are where it’s at. It’s a space controlled by the community, can be Open Source and has all the benefits of archival and threads. I hate that every community is moving to Discord or other things where information just can’t be found anymore. If lemmy is any better in that regard remains to be seen. The name “Lemmy” is one of the worst they could have picked when it comes to searching though. Motörhead is just to big in comparison.
Riiiight, I didn’t realise you couldn’t move servers (I’m new to the fediverse and have mostly used Mastodon). I suppose you could set up a new user and post using that and leave your other account alive; that way you’re saving load on lemmy.ml and keeping your content available while using the new server for new things. Agree this fragmentation is not good though, and definitely Discord is not a helpful (and a closed) thing.
For me I dislike forums; I find them terribly frustrating in terms of extracting useful information - you have to read through pages of back and forth; people rarely summarise their findings wrt the initial post succinctly.
In terms of investment, I perhaps feel the opposite. I came here from Mastodon because I like the community-first approach rather than the individual-centred approach of mastodon. So I don’t massively care if I have one account for chatting neovim and another for chatting life as a queer person or motorbikes or motorhead(!) - on mastodon I feel bad if I post about one or the other and think that my ‘followers’ won’t be interested.
It’s fascinating to see how social media is changing, and agree the fediverse in general has a long way to go, but I’m enjoying finding out what works!
I could see user migration being nice to have, but as a stopgap you can put links to your other profiles in your bio section, if you want them to be associated.
Get donating brother, Lemmy is paid for by private individuals.
Yeah. Or host an instance yourself if speed and uptime is that important. It isn’t complicated and there are even ansible playbooks for it.
I don’t really get complaining that early stage software isn’t meeting the needs of a community that was on 15+ year old software. Features take time and if you want them faster, lemmy is open source, contribute the feature you want.
It also doesn’t sound like lemmy is missing any features, other than account portability which is something we’ve never had as users before and OP has only been on lemmy a few days, just start a new account, your post and comment history isn’t that valuable
PREACH!
I grew up with the phpforum model as well. It worked well, but I recall that there were reasons why it didn’t continue. I think spam was one issue, but there are still a number of successful forum boards.
When it comes to forums, who would be hosting them? My understanding is that the advantage of lemmy is that it is hosted on a distributed level.
I’m also hoping for the migration solution, someone already created an issue for it https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057