No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

The challenge will be finding an actual traditional conservative instance that isn't also a pro-Nazi fascist shithole.

People are paid to work on it tho.

Paying people doesn't necessarily translate to what you might want from it.

No no no it's just China doing you a solid and backing up your sensitive information just in case you lose your phone. It uses Blockchain technology where if you ever need it back they just block you.

Yeah indeed, discoverability is lacking in Lemmy at the moment.

What I'm saying is that while tiny communities are great, the fact that they haven't moved to a federated platform yet doesn't really matter. Anybody, including yourself, can start up those communities on the Fediverse and curate them if there is enough of a reason to do so or just continue to engage them on Reddit too.

It's debatable whether a lot of these smaller communities really provided much value outside the tiny userbase they have.

Besides, if someone wants to pick up the mantle on Lenny they are more than welcome to as well.

I'm happy with the amount of users and activity Lemmy currently has. It doesn't really need go grow though any means other than organically imo.

What you need is medication, not food.

Get a bunch of laxatives, stool softener (if you need it juicy) and even some lactaose and senna if you're real keen.

Then eat a shitload of greasy food and you're set.

The fact that this approach was the sensible, default logical one any rational person would attempt first and they didn't do it highly suggests ad revenue wasn't the motive at all. Otherwise, Spez is so out of touch with the community he's orbiting a planet in a distant galaxy.

Notice how Reddit haven't engaged in any positive damage control at all? It's just been hit pieces against devs, an AMA with completely canned responses and unprecedented wide-spread hostile action against it's content creators/power users/mods?

Reddit is in full-blown sell out mode right now and nothing but money matters anymore. It's all down hill from here.

I'm looking forward to June 30 so I can delete RIF off my phone and be done with the joint.