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  • Potentially. Though Reddit claims that the vast majority (like 90+%) used the official app. Of course, if such was true then you’d expect they wouldn’t pull the rug out from under everyone.

    I can believe a majority used the official up. Maybe even a supermajority. 80% maybe.

    But throwing a fit over 1-10% of your user base and doubling down when that low percentage doesn’t agree? I dunno.

    It’s a big enough number that made them want to kill the third-party apps but it’s small enough that they felt they could survive the backlash.






  • Unfortunately, the reality is that it may become necessary.

    Donations can be a saving grace if enough people donate regularly. But such is dependent on people’s willingness, their own financial stability, and how stressed servers are (how much it’ll cost to upgrade and/or maintain infrastructure.)

    It’s great if it’s viable. Means there’s less outside influence. But that’s if.

    As far as I’m aware, Wikipedia has been able to maintain it purely off donations. But I’m not sure if Lemmy could.

    Maybe? One thing Lemmy does have going for it is that the majority of users seem to be aware how… Fragile? the fediverses can be. There’s arguably more passion behind the users and maybe willing to throw support out.

    But hard to say.





  • I think Lemmy’s biggest challenges are server stability, increased complexity to use (most don’t understand things like instances), and low awareness from others. I only learned about it a day or two ago. Signed up out of curiosity.

    But if Lemmy gets even more popular then the various popular instances are going to be stressed. It looks unstable to newcomers who go back to Reddit.

    I signed up for lemmy.world originally, constantly had Gateway errors. Lemm.ee seems more stable due to lower traffic.

    But others may not be able to recognize that. Even if they did, might not want to create new accounts for several instances and go back to starting from 0.