If they’re really just after data at all costs, they could easily spin up an instance that has no apparent link to threads and federate secretly. I agree with other arguments about not federating with them but idk, all these data privacy arguments against federating with threads are so dumb. If they want it, they’ll get it because getting it is so absurdly easy.

Not sure what you mean. They can already pull any public data on lemmy, as can anyone else.

There are plenty alternatives which is great. I think it’s just an absurd take to bash a solo dev who is working on an app as their full time job for trying to make money.

This is such an unbelievably naive take. People’s time is worth something. Relying just on donations from a small percentage of users here and there is not going to cut it for someone who is developing the software full time.

The image is just a screenshot from this site: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90

I don’t know anything about licensing for use on wikipedia but maybe you’d want to reach out to the site’s devs?

Yeah I do miss the activity on my frontpage on reddit. I find myself browsing all most of the time here when I don’t remember the last time I looked at /r/all on reddit. Sync and soon Boost coming out is going to be great in potentially bringing more people over.

I’ve heard good things about sh.itjust.works too

Downtime depends on your instance. I switched from lemmy.world to lemm.ee a little while back and haven’t had any issues. Seems a lot more reliable.

It’s kind of hard to have thriving discussions on niche topics as one person, unfortunately.