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If the company dies, could the service continue?

Is Bluesky decentralized in any meaningful way? If the company dies, could the service live on?

It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

I don’t see the benefits but I see drama this would cause.

There is visible growth in posts and comments, which is good. However, I’ve also started seeing spam posts.

The problem with Nebula is that it is a paywall, something that is considered to be the most evil by some on Lemmy.

At the end of the day, content is paid for by getting everyone to pay, asking some to pay, advertising, or the creator is willing to do it for free as a hobby.

Even at its smallest form, a federated instance hosting a community likely needs more than one person acting as admin and mod. It may not be a for profit corporation, but there needs to be some kind of collective organization.

But at least the tech community is rather calm. I can have a different point of view with them and have a calm discussion with them.

Other groups aren’t like that.

Just because one is open doesn’t mean it should be used.

I also think that, compared to Reddit, there should be a more collaborative relationship between the mods and the admins because mods can choose their admins.

They should make their own instance if they can. The devs cited Star Trek.website as the model for communities like fandoms. It is also cleaner as the instance can make several subs which have different rules and content.

The problem is that it requires money, either by the admins or through donations.

I’m happy my sub got another comment on a post I made.

Lack of posts is one thing, but lack of comments is something else. People seem to be engaging with the posts with the like button, but that is all that is happening for now.

Yeah, you need people to post and comment to develop a community. I’ve got one community where I post five times a week, but I’ve only had two posts from other people and only one person commented on a post.

There are a lot of parts of Lemmy that are rough around the edges or aren’t there at all. Hopefully it improves over time, especially as new front end apps can free developers to focus on the back end, but we’ll see.

How do you think I got so much karma on Reddit?

You also don’t have the content of Reddit. It doesn’t take too long to scroll through all top six hours and get to the single digits of upvotes.

It depends on the content.

Some of content really depends on OP being in the comments, like AmITheAsshole. Just reposting doesn’t give the kind of interaction that the original post would have.

Maybe, but we aren’t at the critical mass where downvotes posts and comments are routinely hidden. People will see downvoted content and interact with it.

You are also missing that the other site used karma as a way to judge if an account should be allowed to talk more. I had enough karma there so that I stopped getting the “you’re commenting too much” pause when commenting a lot. Some subs also used minimum karma points as a way to judge if someone was a troll or not. That doesn’t exist here.

It is good in that it makes Mastodon more useful. People can use Mastodon instead of Twitter to see BBC tweets.

And karma isn’t a thing here, otherwise I just blew a lot of it on North Korea.

The problem isn’t AI, but interest rates.

Silicon Valley lived for a long time with an investor market that didn’t really have anything better to invest their money in, so they would invest in a series of Internet companies with the hope that one of them would make it rich. Now that lending money can make you more money, it isn’t worth it to invest in companies or ideas that don’t make money right now.

The VC funding that Silicon Valley relied on dried up. If you are a startup, you need to be profitable before you burn through your cash. If you aren’t a startup, you don’t have to worry as much about new tech cannibalizing your core businesses, so they are more willing to cut product lines.