Coelacanth

Exactly. It’s harder than it sounds to ask the right “why”.

The thing to get across to people is that you don’t need to understand it to use it. Hell, that goes for most things. The average person has no idea how an internal combustion engine works but can drive a car just fine.

Search-Lemmy is under development for this.

Not really. Also by your logic you can’t trust anyone ever because there is always a risk they turn bad at some point in the future. All we can do is evaluate what we have in front of us at the moment. Current evidence suggests Ruud is trustworthy, committed and capable of running a large Fediverse instance.

Well, this was in regards to the Devs of the actual Lemmy backend.

If you’re worried about where your money is going you can use Open Collective to donate, which provides transparency of where and how funds are used.

Well Ruud who runs .world also runs Mastodon.world which is a fairly large mastodon instance, so he is somewhat of a known quantity and has experience running large Fediverse servers. His mastodon server has handled a large population and donations happen through Open Collective for transparency as well. He also runs Calckey.world though that is much smaller.

The danger in randomizing servers is that some smaller servers not only have less than 99% uptime but are also just run by random regular people who couldn’t handle the increased load and/or have no desire or ability to keep the servers running long term. It could maybe work if the randomization occurs from within a vetted list.

Account migration is a feature that has been noted for the future and would indeed be very important since it would essentially make the entire network bulletproof. Being able to move instances and/or link accounts across multiple instances would create the necessary redundancy and reduce fears of choosing a smaller instance as home.

Yeah I see a lot of good things about Kbin but the terminology is not one. I don’t even think calling communities Magazines and threads Articles makes a whole lot of sense. Does anyone know where that comes from?

Right now though the two most pressing issues are the poor notification alerts (very slow, sometimes doesn’t work and defaults to off) as well as the super slow federation sync with Lemmy instances. Those two problems combined makes participating in conversations very hard, and almost impossible if trying to cross the border to Lemmy. I’ve also had issues where posting on a Kbin magazine from a Lemmy account, the comments don’t show when viewing it from the Kbin side.

Just gonna say real quick that Disco Elysium is a very special experience that I highly recommend. It hits you hard and can be very cathartic, especially if you have any personal experience with depression, addiction, failure, nostalgia, loss and/or regret.