So, I got curious and set my feed to all. Wow, there a lot of arguments about defederation due to the Beehaw decision. Many Many people positing on “the death of Reddit” and the refugee crisis. I get some of the concerns about moderation and ideology but the amount of navelgazing is unreal. Ill just stick to local for a bit until things settle down.

So, how are you finding the big, wide fediverse outside of our pleasant little pocket? With all of the thinkpieces being posted about how Lemmy is never going to work, I wanted to see some fresh takes from the good folk at midwest.social.

  • prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I’m not local to midwest.social but I was just thinking of unsubscribing beehaw for a while because of this! It’s very reminiscent of the big surge of folks onto Mastodon last year - lots of “Fediverse can’t work because it isn’t the large corporate entity presently having a meltdown” and every other post is about whatever’s going on at Reddit.

    • Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]@midwest.socialOP
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      I’ll never fail to marvel at people who believe the only way you can provide a service is via a massive corporation. The myopic nature of people assuming that just because we are doing now means that it is superior to other ways of operating. What they always fail to notice is that the massive corpo entity usually smothers things like this for market share (i.e facebook)

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        I was wondering about what would happen if you started a nonprofit and ran a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and charge like 1 or 2 bucks a month. So if it gets flooded with users you have money to scale it up. And hire admins and such. You get the stability and centralization of a corporation but no profit motive

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          my home instance is hosted by sdf.org, a 30+ year-old non-profit org that is sustained entirely by voluntary donation (as in membership is free). You should look them up.

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            I had a shell account there many years ago didn’t know they had a Lemmy instance thanks for reminding me about them.