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I would instantly put it as the default for my server

The feature my company uses is the future of the field I work in. Not saying they are wrong, just that it’s not really news that they have that opinion.

Yeah, it’s bleeding over to lemmy too when you browse by new.

Life’s all downtime when you look at it.

I swear I’m not refreshing lemmy every chance i get…

Sounds like it wouldn’t be a bad thing archiving it somehow. A lemmy archive of sorts. For preservation. Not saying my instance has a lot of value, but linux questions, fixes for games etc on the lemmyverse as a whole. It could be text only, so it doesn’t have to take up an exorbitant amount of storage.

Federation is a double edged sword imo. The data might be valuable to some in the future, like reddit is if you have a problem, there often is a thread about it. But being that most servers are self-hosted, the data can dissappear more easily than a big corporation hosting it. But I rather take it. For the support Foss and for cutting ties to big corporations.

I’m not sure if, for instance, I stop hosting my server, if the community data is archived on other servers. I’m not a programmer.

The value of information or entertainment might not seem relevant. Though the spreading of information or entertainment might.

It’s all personal. A datamining company like Google holds value in it by presenting you ads that are relevant to your interest. Considering that Google holds little power in the fediverse, the value does not come from there.

The value of spreading information or entertainment is subjective, though sometimes quantifiable in that people might buy a product because of a post. I know I bought a few games thanks to lemmy.

I short: not usually financially. Maybe mental value.

If you’re into comics, Marvel’s Wastelanders is a very good one too! Every season follows another character until the climax season.

The critical mass of Reddit was many years after the Digg debacle.

That’s why I populated /all with Lemmy Subscriber Bot