Hiding subscriber counts is intentional at join-Lemmy.org. They were being displayed about 2 weeks ago, but new users saw them, viewed actively as a form of social proof, and only signed up with large instances.

Problem is, those large instances are starting to break now. They can’t scale fast enough to meet demand.

Moreover, if you signup for a small instance, you can still subscribe to communities from another instance. Communities are shared between instances.

IMHO, we should be displaying stats like response time and integration with the federation network. That’s what is actually important for most folks. If you only focus on local activity, you’re going to have a bad time.

Weird, I saw this on Lemmy.world. Did something change?

What is Yew Tube?

That said, BDG… so, upvote?

This NSFW protest was the perfect funeral for a website that became famous with the jizz box, poop knife, etc.

I was pretty sad to see a platform I loved die, but sadness was replaced with laughter over the past few days. Seeing middle aged dads posts their hairy buttholes out of anger. 🤌😘

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I generally reserve my downvotes for three things. People being jerks, people dishing out incorrect information, and reposts.

But I’m also a beehaw main, and downvoting is disabled for the entire instance. I only downvote on my lesser used accounts for other instances.

Some instances have downvoting disabled. Beehaw.org for example.

They’re trying to encourage positive communication, so they have it turned off. Upvotes only.

I wonder how much of this caving in was, because a lot of lame mods were worried about losing their past time and or control over large communities.

There are a lot of little Lukashenkos out there that will immediately cave to a bully as long as they’re allowed to remain in control.

Not news? IMHO, it’s obviously news. Enough people noticed that Google’s search results were popping the bed that it got picked up by Reuters, NPR, CNN, etc.

That said, the News mods could’ve merged all these stories into one sticky thread. A lot of other mods did that.

Umm. Overwatch 2 PvP has always been free to play. Only thing they could’ve ever purchased was cosmetics and add ons for the base free game.

100% has this happen today. Wanted and answer, the only answer was on Reddit, and the Google link was busted.

Makes sense. Windows kind of felt like it was built by a lazy person in the 90’s.

Step 4. Delete your lifehacker page that mentions you once had a Reddit account.

I wonder what is going to happen on Lemmy when we don't have reddit stories to rant about

True, but it will make home for people who are subbed.

If anything it fucks up their SEO.

As for capitalized, I would 100% pay for a well crafted client like Apollo again. That was reasonable.

If my money is going to allow someone to focus on the product development, I’m fine with that.

If the user isn’t the priority, then I’m out.

But if it’s still a fediverse site, would it? It would still play with Lemmy.

That said, I agree, forking isn’t a great idea. But I’m looking more at the lift required to organize people to contribute and maintain the code.

Some sort of Destiny + Dinosaurs?

I don’t buy the libertarian thing. I used to listen to his political podcast on the regular, it was pretty clear that he was no fan of right wing politicians.