Fair point.
There's nothing wrong with Lemmy growing in an organic sustainable way, but I dislike the attitude that lemmy ought to be a reddit replacement or that lemmy should grow from the ashes of reddit.
Lemmy should be it's own thing with it's own culture and history and communities.
I get a bit peeved when lemmy users (not necessarily you) get a bit obsessive about transferring communities to lemmy from reddit. Just focus on creating good content for Lemmy and forget about the rest.
I’d like to see a sudden growth in Lemmy and fall of Reddit, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near
I don't. Let the idiots stay on reddit. Leave lemmy how it is. Is it so terrible that one might have to visit reddit to find some niche communities?
Wasn't there like a bot defense team that published a ban list or something but they just gave up during the exodus?
Yeah 100%.
Imagine around the advent of readily available photo prints. People might have been thinking "this is terrible, someone I don't know could have a photo of me and look at it while thinking licentious thoughts!"
Yeah it's a poorly considered generalisation, but the point is you're not going to be getting emails from your service provider.
Yeah a lot less for a lot better.
Also, people paying for Usenet subscriptions since forever.
Or hosted / managed next cloud + onlyoffice I reckon.
People in AI images of real people are real.
People in AI images of fake people are fake.
He's got a higher IQ than every man alive.
I really disagree that the expectation is that communities will consolidate.
I think many users including OP overstate the problems of "split communities" and understate the advantages of having similar communities on different instances.
Having a /c/opensource on both lemmy.world and lemmy.ml doesn't meaningfully "split" the opensource community. Users can subscribe to all, some, or none as they wish. So what if you see the same post twice - it'd not ideal but not really a detractor. It's not the same as say, forking an opensource project or having discussions on both IRC and matrix.
Because it's true.
Playing sounds? sure.
Rearranging keys - hell no.