I first started browsing reddit in late 2011 and even by then it felt a little like I was arriving at a party that had already been going a while and people had their in-jokes and cliques (to a way lesser extent than today).

In the best possible way, Lemmy/kbin feels a lot like we all arrived early and the host is still running around trying to make sure everything’s ready.

Easy mistake.

Don’t try to log into lemmy.world - you don’t have an account there. You have an account at feddit.uk, so log into that and then search for the community you want through the feddit.uk search. Use the search term “!gunners@lemmy.world” if you’re struggling.

Basically, you’ll only ever sign into feddit.uk, but that can reach out to other communities(subreddits) on other instances.

RES is hanging onto life with its fingernails - it’s been in maintenance mode for the past 18 months or so with only 2 people actively working on it (at its peak in 2015ish, I think this was closer to 30).

By their own admission, they wouldn’t be able to survive any major breaking changes.

What’s your thinking there? Are you getting hay-fever symptoms just from being inside? That’s brutal.

I don’t think you’re technically wrong, but I think with the reddit migration it’s overall damaging to the concept of a fediverse to have a large instance defederate with two huge instances.

There are people who are just getting settled only to find out they now have to use two accounts to access the content they needed one for yesterday.

You seem to know what you’re taking about.

Why would the Beehaw admins make Beehaw a Lemmy instance? Would it not be easier to achieve what they want through an old-style bulletin board or literally any other forum software?

This feels very much like using a laptop as an umbrella. You can, but why would you?

I don’t necessarily disagree with your logic, but if I was a CEO trying to take a company public I wouldn’t loudly and publicly talk about how unprofitable the company was either (on the AMA).

Every day is a surprise.

Also, the backbone of federation gives additional possibilities to solve this.

As the technology matures, there’s no reason why gaming@lemmy.world and gaming@lemmy.ml and gaming@whatever.com can’t be combined into whatever we’re calling the equivalent of Views in SQL. Multilemmys?

Each individual community remains there in the background (across the whole fediverse) , but for reading they’re already curated into a combination by instance admins or users themselves.

This would also give UX continuity for users if any particular instance went offline or defederated.

I have been thinking this over the past week on reddit every time I see a “Lemmy/Kbin needs to sort out X, Y and Z otherwise it’s going to fail massively.” or “Lemmy/Kbin is impossibly hard to use/sign up for”. Usually with CAPITAL LETTERS and emojis.

Like… ok. I don’t think you’ll be missed with that attitude. At least for the time being.

That’s adding storage, which is comparatively cheap.

For more simultaneous users, you need more CPU/RAM. That’s where the monthly cost shoots up fast.