Not for nothing, but pork bun has been great for me.

I don’t know that much about aether, but I have a hard time imaging a voting system of governance that can’t be gamed.

True decentralization is nice but not a big deal for me. Given the open nature of Lemmy, the bar to moving instances is significantly lower than leaving Reddit. It would of course be very inconvenient, but so, it sounds, is aether.

Ultimately, to be accessible to average users, you need some amount of centralization it seems. Everything else is pretty science-projecty.

If you could migrate a community from one instance to another and have subscriptions update automatically, it makes the rogue instance admin a little less scary. But still a risk of course.

Isn’t aethers big thing that everything is ephemeral? If you look at reddits value from my perspective, it isn’t that.

It’s that there’s a huge amount of actual human experience and information available to me through google. Sure there’s a lot of astroturfing happening, but if I wanted a quick glimpse of what people thought about a product, my google search was “$product Reddit” to get a pulse. And then join those communities if I bought the product.

I don’t care about censorship resistance. Though I think the governance model improvements are a great thing that Lemmy could implement.