I donate through opencollective to lemmy.ml, hope that’s also supporting development if even indirectly to server costs.

NodeBB and other forum software have added activityPub integration on their dev roadmaps, so you might see it become a thing again. Personally I don't want to create a new forum account for every thing I'm interested in.

I agree. But candidly I feel like there are bots that contribute to the voting.

How do you see Lemmy working with duplicate communities on different instances? For example if Lemmy.World and Lemmy.ml have a PersonalFinance community, are people expected to cross-post? Or have you conceived of a system to allow people to find the right community efficiently?

Civilians

It will take a couple years in my experience. I stopped using WhatsApp except for business related transactions and told everyone I use Telegram. People at first didn’t get the app but eventually of they wanted to contact me would install it. And then they started using it with their friends because it’s a better app. Lemmy nice communities will take time but the model is so much more sustainable.

It’s here unfortunately, but unlike reddit, opposing opinions aren’t modded out.

I don’t think there’s any advertising budget being spent on these fedi platforms, which makes it impressive they’ve grown so much from media exposure and word of mouth.

No it’s not, I read down the thread further and found lemmy.ca devs saying it’s hosted in Quebec on OVH. Something about CloudFlare redirect.

Hosted on a dutch server.

This site is full of neolibs posting propaganda on the World News sub. It’s annoying.