I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
Run by who, your friendly neighborhood local government?
No thank you. I think Lemmy is great. Hopefully it catches on sufficiently for niche communities to really develop.
The fact that it’s a teeny tiny bit more technical than reddit is a nice barrier against utter stupidity.
Governments are at least answerable to the people, or should be. Corporations are answerable to no one except their major stockholders.
As for the learning curve for Lemmy, I think that’s been overemphasized. People can learn. And at the same time feedback from the increasing number of users will help the devs to smooth out the rough edges, making Lemmy easier to use.
I remember when practically nobody knew what the internet was. Now everybody’s walking around with the internet in their pocket, using it all the time.