Whenever barrier to entry is discussed for lemmy, and reducing confusion for different servers is brought up, all of the isolationist comments come out of the woodwork.
Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?
We have a platform that seems to be working and slowly growing. Shouldnt we want good defaults in place to give the best possible experience with minimal user effort?
I think we were growing and then the election cycle happened.
Kind of wish lemmy happened a decade earlier before all the constant rage.
A decade ago I don’t think the circumstances would have allowed lemmy to exist because reddit was still in its growing phase and it was not as commonly known and appreciated as it is today.
It would have been cool to develop lemmy like that but I think now is the right time for people to realise why lemmy should exist.
I don’t think this is the case. Judging by the statistics, we’ve peaked in 2023 and we’ve been on the decline since. And now we’ve pretty much homed in somewhere between 40k and 50k active users. But that’s way too early to be connected to the election cycle. But good question what would have happened if it had been around earlier. I suppose the Fediverse isn’t even that young. We had predecessors of the current platforms in the early 2010s already. And it’s been roughly 10 years since Mastodon got launched and ActivityPub got standardized.