yesterday .world had to turn off sign-up and even shut down shitposting community.
This is basically the front-door of Lemmy. And as others are starting to notice, 60K users after all the people seeking better and trying out things isn’t that many… And there are seemingly a lot of people who use multiple servers given the technical instability of Lemmy’s code… I am one of those people who spends 10 minutes a day on 4 servers, but I’m cutting back because content just isn’t there and it’s now often gaming topics and news making the rounds as duplicate stories over a 2 to 4 day period (besides memes)
Social media in general… there was so much Facebook hate for the past 8 years… but not much betterment came of it. Today looking over Reddit, it hasn’t really changed that much in the past 4 months… there was a group of dissatisfied people who don’t seem to want to actually build something better - just want to protest Reddit.
YouTube and TV advertising - that’s a huge topic. YouTube does have a lot of small-time original creators, but is the money the reason why? You can’'t make money on Reddit or Lemmy unless you have a business shop or something related to specialty topics (such as auto repair in a discussion community about same).
looks like other servers shut down image hosting
https://lemm.ee/post/5839513
“It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.”
yha, moderation isn’t just for posts and comments, and per-community moderation probably doesn’t work so well when new communities can be created easily (the mod being the creator who puts in offensive material). And let’s be honest, a lot of what has become routine shitposting and memes is “funny” because it tries to be offensive. Without Lemmy’s technical growing pains, that might be able to fit in the puzzle, but now it’s just people trying to normalize offense to keep new people from joining and roots from growing.
Reddit had built a ton of IP address and other fingerprinting even 13 years ago - being on an advertising network with partners like Google probably helps in identifying the same computer with multiple accounts…