From a developer role, Lemmy is going to need to figure out a way to scale up development.

No they don't. The platform is open source, so the more users they have, the more of those users will become contributors.

That's cool, but OP is specifically asking about finding things on Google.

I enjoy writing comments, but not so much making posts. Does this make me a "partial" lurker?

I'd rather people not delete their content at all, tbh. Imagine all of the Google searches that would be borked by it.

This is a pretty nice app! I especially like that it shows me content from multiple Lemmy instances, without my home instance needing to federate with them!

I have some feedback, though: when I see content from lemmy.ml, the app should use my lemmy.world account to vote and comment, as if I were viewing that instance through lemmy.world. It really defeats the purpose of federation if I can't use the same account, after all.

That is absolutely not "fine".

Asymmetry can be hot. Observe:

So, is anyone gonna mention the elephant in the room?

As long as that's optional. I'd much rather know exactly which community I'm looking at.

Not only that, but Meta is even claiming that they don't have any former Twitter employees. Sounds like Musk is projecting. Either that, or he's grasping at straws.

He already publicly admitted that Reddit isn't profitable. I'm sure that inspired tons of confidence in investors.

I was thinking about the multiple accounts thing. Maybe the concept of an "instance" needs to be separate from the concept of an account? Like, it doesn't matter what service you choose for your email account; you can email anyone from Gmail, and anyone can send email to you. The only real difference is that your email address end in "@gmail.com" instead of "@comcast.net".

On Lemmy, though, the place you make your account matters a whole lot. It determines what content you're allowed to see, and who you're allowed to interact with. If the instance you're on gets federated, you need to migrate to a different account on a different instance. That never happens with email!

A lot of users have been managing this by creating their own instance, with the sole purpose of hosting their account and nothing else. Maybe that's what we need: a set of "instances" that only host accounts, and a set of "instances" that only host communities. You could then use that account to subscribe to communities from any instance. That way, Beehaw could block content from instances they don't like, without cutting off all of the users who happened to choose the wrong place to sign up.

Actually, under that system, there wouldn't be a need for instances to federate content with each other at all. Users could just subscribe to communities with their account, and then the users would be the ones in charge of what they see, instead of their instance choosing for them.

I am super duper excited!

Yeah, the last thing we need is for Lemmy to be only about Reddit

That sounds like a huge oversight, if so.

This was an entire month ago

Yeah, there needs to be a way to toggle this.

That would just make them go downhill further.

It still affects you, just in subtle and insidious ways

When content gets federated to another instance, who does the advertising money go to? Does it go to the instance the content came from, or to the instance the content was viewed on?