There are two types of people you can donate to. Many instances have a way to donate to them to upkeep and upgrade costs. Then you can donate also for development of the project here https://join-lemmy.org/donate

That's because the financial accounts are also distributed. lemmy.world is separate to lemmy.ml and every other instance, which is also separate to the core development project. Granted, the lemmy.ml admin are the core devs, and there are other users who span across borders, but it's possible for the instance people are faced with (eg lemmy.world) getting all the donations while the core back end development project does not.

You can open their donation links and sum the pledged amounts you see there. For full time devs, they are indeed extremely underpaid.

Specifically, what have I done that you take such issue with? Or if there is another admin you'd like to criticize, go ahead and speak your piece.

I'd hate people to get the wrong idea about Lemmy admins, whom I have found to be largely selfless and altruistic in their actions and motivations.

When I joined Lemmy, I was afraid the politics of the creators would be an issue. It turns out, they are amazing at separating that and their development and stewards of Lemmy.

I've found exactly the opposite. I essentially dismissed concerns about Lemmygrad and political extremism, now I've come to see it as the biggest threat to the fediverse.

I use it less and would be embarrassed for others to find out I use it in case they saw Lemmygrad/Hexbear content.

I feel the opposite. If a community is owned by shitty mods, there is usually an alternative with better moderation

The way I see it, the bigger the whole Lemmy community is, the more people can make smaller communities around niche topics. Steady, continuous growth is a good thing. What can be troublesome is rapid/inconsistent growth.

In what world is that a logical following of what the other person said?

Have them all in like a tag system. So I can see all subs related to technology, etc.

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

I honestly see this being a continued expectation to be a bigger issue. Two communities with the same name on different servers could be very different spaces. Giving users the ability to group them together homogenizes them in a way that is likely bad for the ecosystem overall.

I see the issue, but I still see the tradeoff as being worth it. Right now, if I want to browse technology commies I have to click into each one I'm subbed to. This means I'm going to go the to biggest one first, then second biggest, and so forth. This pretty much favors the big commies over the small ones because this is just annoying to the end user. Grouping gives those smaller ones a better chance of appearing in someone's feed thus spreading out activity over a larger part of the lemmy fediverse.

There’s a large population using Mastodon right now that could be participating in threaded discussions here, who are just totally blind to the space, and those that do engage have a super jankey experience.

I sometimes post to Lemmy communities from Firefish, and have Mastodon users replying. The interaction seems okay, there are a few improvements points but not so bad overall.

I wish scores were hidden by default. It'd prevent a lot of the band wagoning that is super prevalent on Reddit style sites

Not much lol

I like helping people and talking about things other people are interested in more than I like raising topics or asking questions. I feel weird about showing off a new thing, but am happy to talk about someone else’s new thing.

On that one, it's been under my radar for a bit. I'll try to post/comment more, but I also feel like I'm mature with my minimalism approach, so I don't need to question it so much anymore

I still use Reddit to read episode discussions of TV shows and such. Those largely don't exist here, outside of a handful of shows. And probably would struggle to take off even if the threads existed, as they need a lot of people and good SEO.

You won't have diversity of perspectives here... Entire instances are defederating rather than dealing with all the different opinions and the massive burden of moderating it.

But sure, you can still choose to be on some instance that allows all discussions, that's a plus of the technology. But I don't think people want that. They dont want to see what they don't agree with. This is why they downvote things.

Diversity of perspectives? This place is about left wing politics.

It'd be nice to have some good hobby communities, but lemmy doesn't want a diversity of perspectives.

I really wish we could share blocklists or something.

I clash with both but blocking all the Lemmy.ml communities was a good start of filtering a huge chunk of them out. Doesn't help that the mods absolutely do not care there.

MIAU

I blocked all memes except Risa..

Yes, it shows the same posts, but if I am interacting via a phone without a physical keyboard it is harder to make in depth posts and include things like links to external websites than it is with a phone. Basically a phone user is in general more likely to make shorter replies and interact with memes and short form content more. I guess I am assuming that phone users have a shorter attention spans since it often seems to be the case.

Not the guy you are asking but I think I could give some insight. I don't think it's going to "fail" in every regard but it's going to decline significantly and become an echo chamber for the extremeist types that are driving everyone away. After all the more reasonable and normal active types have left the extremists will likely turn on each other over very minute details that don't exactly correlate to their specific world view and it will likely turn into an all out brawl.

That being said Reddit is very likely to pull more stupid anti-user bullshit and send a few more waves of users to Lemmy and spike the numbers some more at which point hopefully has all their mod tools figured out and communities get solved to actually allow for niches to be usable.

The success of Lemmy lies entirely on a perfect timing of Reddit fucking up again before the infighting becomes too bad and people returning to Reddit warn people away from going to lemmy

I do see a severe lack of moderation in the Fediverse though. Everywhere are extremistic views being spewed by far right & far left users and mods don't give a shit, even after reporting those people. Insults stay, conspiracy bullshit stays, pure bigotry stays, the most heinous hate stays, and more importantly those corresponding accounts stay.

It really makes me want to use it less and less. I already blocked Lemmy.ml instances but it's such a widespread issue in many of the largest communities. If you combine that with the already pretty low engagement on those various platforms then I don't really see the point anymore.