Yeah, it's bad. I'll probably be looking into hosting my own kbin instance on principle soon.

be the change you want to see in the world

The feeling of ownership, of oh I can go host an instance at home and knowing that you aren't at the whim of corporate admins or a company's poor fortune, is so incredibly cool. I really hope more decentralized/selfhostable alternatives to major services start to take off.

In other news, VPN services have increased sales by 200%

You're reducing load on the bigger instances by not using them directly, which is giving something back

Reddit’s popularity will slowly fade

Reddit definitely screws things up often enough for regular waves of recruitment lol

The high number of users on .world is because it still has open registration

I wonder if accounts on certain servers will be "prestigious" one day lol

no summer lemmy until the kids figure out the fediverse

Problem is that 1) this will drastically increase the centrality of servers Jerboa chooses 2) if Jerboa treats all servers equally when choosing to avoid point 1, well, all servers aren't made equally. What happens if someone's closest/optimal server is one that some guy spun up temporarily and takes down next week? How many users would leave immediately and have the wrong impression of the fediverse forever if they joined through Jerboa and then got dropped into the likes of Lemmygrad or Yiffit since it's the nearest server to them lol...

Given lemmy is federated it's probably going to be significantly harder to search. I'd imagine if you went looking for "lemmy" content you'd be a lot more likely to get lemmy.world or lemmy.ml rather than sh.itjust.works or beehaw content for example, since those have "lemmy" in the domain name.

Better is the truly important part, and if it doesn't feel like a psyops campaign we're already winning