Indeed, for this kind of service users attract users. I’ve been checking in on Lemmy periodically for years and the content just wasn’t there (for me). But now, with plenty more users, I’m seeing a lot more value in spending more time here.

But has no plans to pay its posters, commenters and mods.

Not requiring a login

Add in some Apple goggles and you may as well just pop on Darth Vader’s helmet at this point.

I’m also in favour of a higher human-to-bot ratio, which a small hurdle should help with.

YouTube is a tough one, because it actually pays content providers. Of course, I’m all for places like Peertube gaining popularity.

This is the way.

Nice, hash the nodes of each tree, to minimise traversal when syncing trees.

Maybe it’s just me but Mastodon seems still way friendlier than Twitter, I guess partly to do with the people but also the platform structure that seems to have less incentive to attack people. Hope it’s the same for Lemmy.

Yep, ‘back in my day’ you could finish reading everything posted that day. I’m glad it’s kicked off!