this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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Its so weird how aggressive people are against lemmy. People don’t want this entire platform to exist, not just lemmy.world. Like lemmynsfw has had people try to suspend pretty much all their payment processors and hosts repeatedly
I think you underestimate just how bored people can be and how just innately some people are driven to just start shit for seemingly no reason. If there's a good thing and a new idea to spring up, there's always at least one person to try and wreck it for everyone.
Granted though, if Reddit is paying someone to basically cause chaos here in some way it's honestly kind of appreciated. Thank you kind strangers for stress testing the platform and making it more robust and encouraging other instance admins to coordinate with one another.
Oh no, I do think it's a huge threat. The fediverse in its entirety is horrifying to so many large companies. That's why facebook is desperate to try and step into the fediverse and is getting more and more pissed off as people are going "nuh uh!"
Mastodon is good, but lemmy does have the most potential out of most fediverse projects to become truly really really big if done right. It's like activitypub was made for this kind of platform. Having to just pull entire communities rather than specific users is a big step up from mastodon and reduces the complexity that bars a lot of people from joining mastodon
I don't understand what one thing has to do with the other.
No one should voice their concerns with the direction of the instance? Everyone should just be silent because the community is run by volunteers?