Well, that sounds kinda aggressive to me… But maybe not. Please excuse if I misunderstood your tone here.
I see it like this: With Reddit and other modern social media that works centralized and is seemingly “free”, the user is usually the product. Ads are served, there are premium plans, etc. With Lemmy, KBin and other parts of the fediverse, you are not the product and you also don’t have to pay anything to use our services. We run instances for free. Just for the sake of it to give back to the community. I do it out of my own belief that federated systems are the future. That’s it.
I personally think that people have no right to be oblivious about how this entire system works. They’re not entitled to anything here. And yes, I expect everyone here to at least somewhat understand that Lemmy doesn’t work in the same way Reddit works. And I also expect them to understand that there are going to be growing pains and other things that have to be ironed out. Every single one of us here, admin or user, is in the process of building a new, interconnected community.
I get that there are people who aren’t happy about the situation with overloaded instances, but the solution is right there: Have many smaller instances and not have everyone flock to one or two big instances. Bam. Problem solved.
I’m not trying to be aggressive, but short replies usually get seen as more aggressive than long ones.
We run instances for free.
For now, because the cost of serving is low. I already know of some instances that are taking donations due to rapidly increasing server costs. I don’t know if the donation model is going to be sustainable as more instances grow.
Have many smaller instances and not have everyone flock to one or two big instances. Bam. Problem solved.
It isn’t just about one of two instances. I won’t be surprised if the number of communities get locked down in instances as a way to control server costs. However, there is value in having groups of a certain size, and I think the Fedeverse isn’t at that size yet.
Well, that sounds kinda aggressive to me… But maybe not. Please excuse if I misunderstood your tone here.
I see it like this: With Reddit and other modern social media that works centralized and is seemingly “free”, the user is usually the product. Ads are served, there are premium plans, etc. With Lemmy, KBin and other parts of the fediverse, you are not the product and you also don’t have to pay anything to use our services. We run instances for free. Just for the sake of it to give back to the community. I do it out of my own belief that federated systems are the future. That’s it.
I personally think that people have no right to be oblivious about how this entire system works. They’re not entitled to anything here. And yes, I expect everyone here to at least somewhat understand that Lemmy doesn’t work in the same way Reddit works. And I also expect them to understand that there are going to be growing pains and other things that have to be ironed out. Every single one of us here, admin or user, is in the process of building a new, interconnected community.
I get that there are people who aren’t happy about the situation with overloaded instances, but the solution is right there: Have many smaller instances and not have everyone flock to one or two big instances. Bam. Problem solved.
Btw.: I do run my own e-mail server. 😅
I’m not trying to be aggressive, but short replies usually get seen as more aggressive than long ones.
For now, because the cost of serving is low. I already know of some instances that are taking donations due to rapidly increasing server costs. I don’t know if the donation model is going to be sustainable as more instances grow.
It isn’t just about one of two instances. I won’t be surprised if the number of communities get locked down in instances as a way to control server costs. However, there is value in having groups of a certain size, and I think the Fedeverse isn’t at that size yet.