I find it interesting that you perceive this as venom.

User configured. Not company configured. If you want to die on a really, really stupid hill, then yes they are both algorithms.

I like that idea.

I’d also like to be able to set the balance of new/top/hot

Thanks that’s helpful to know. I’ll keep tinkering…

It’s okay for it to die down a bit after a massive influx like we saw from Reddit.

In the long run though, if it isn’t growing it’s dying. Lemmy is still small. If it succeeds at what it’s trying to do, it should definitely grow.

It’s a little worrying that we can’t grow faster than the novelty-die-off rate. But not cause for alarm as yet.

No, you don’t need to go around making other people agree with you, on the fediverse or anywhere, really.

But if you are going to enter into a mutual risk/benefit relationship with another party, it does help to understand what their motivations are, so you can figure out if they’re going to line up with your own, or lead to conflict.

My post is about trying to understand those parties’ motivations. Not make everyone agree with me.

100%. It boggles my mind that we’re even considering this.

That’s adulthood. Sorry. You gotta start paying attention to how the sausage gets made, or you may wind up in the sausage.

We need to think this through from the standpoint of an instance admin who is trying to figure out how to use Threads to make their instance grow. That’s really the only motivation I can think of to federate with Threads. Otherwise it’s just all downside. As a corporate social media entity, they are entirely opposed to everything Lemmy stands for philosophically, and their scale is a massive threat to the culture and operations of the much smaller fediverse. Why would anyone ever want to federate with them? Because they see it as an opportunity. To ride the dragon, thinking it can be controlled. This is madness. Choice 4 all the way and if it becomes necessary, 5.

Exactly. Well said. We have all the time in the world to grow. What we needed was a good start, and we got it. Just keep creating content, volunteer to mod somewhere, and don’t look back.

No, what we should be comparing is Reddit year 1 numbers with these. They’ve had 20 years to grow organically. I bet Lemmy’s start would look a lot more promising than Reddit’s. And Reddit also had much larger competitors when it came out, if you recall.