I could never get used to that sort of app. Be it Twitter, bsky, or even mastodon. If I follow people, my feed gets so much content that I consider spam.

Say, there is a person that is awesome and occasionally posts interesting things. But also posts random spammy stuff, like "just took a shower. I feel so clean!". Why am I wasting my time reading that sort of content?? I think there are 0 people in the world from which I want to read 100% of their content. Maybe very very very few. So, it doesn't make much sense to follow people, and then waste hours scrolling content about which I don't care.

I could follow tags, but they still get so much spam and so I still have to scroll and scroll..

It is just not for me.

I made a post recently, wondering what we could do to get a larger userbase on lemmy. Many people kept saying "why larger? This size is good", even though I stated my reason for wanting a larger userbase in the OP.

This post, right here, also shows a benefit of having a larger userbase and something I miss from reddit: actual research scientists coming to the comments explaining the paper and whatnot. I think decreasing the distance from research scientists to the general public is a good idea. And I want them on lemmy. I would love for lemmy to be a little bit less memes and a little bit more... Serious.

This is not really the question though. It was forked BECAUSE of the whole "fiasco". OP is asking what happened, as in, what made the dev give up on the project. This was a big topic back then.

A weird one. You create content and its shareholders buy new yachts.

Have you ever sold feet pics? You could probably make some money!

Lemmy is so much more performant than reddit.. It is crazy! Try going to reddit's deskop site and then go to a Lemmy site..

Also, reddit is now blocking VPN users, unless you are logged in...

And finally, if I use reddit, I am contributing to a rich guy buying his nth car/house/yacht.. On Lemmy, I am not enriching the wallets of the already rich.

What? You bring your ereader to the gym and read between sets? That's a new one...

Dogs that bark at people that are just walking on the sidewalk. It pisses me off to no end.

Cannot people walk freely on public sidewalks without being bothered by a fucking dog barking as if I am committing a robbery? Owners should train their dogs not to bark like that.

It pisses me off. Seriously. Just thinking about that, my blood pressure is already rising. Imagine if every house had one of those dogs. It would be fucking hell to go anywhere by foot.

It is still important to support the better project, be it with our attention, or with our money/donations. What "better" means here depends on the metric.

Again, in this time and age, specially with everything going on around the world, I would hope that there is more thought about using/buying something.

You seem to be hating on Europeans. I would practice some self enquiry.

Being this soft to literal fascism and fascists is not a good look. They are literally kidnapping children. Killing people. Blinding people. They are waging wars. Calling them literal nazis is appropriate. They are removing your healthcare or making it prohibitively expensive. They are stealing from you. Not only your health but also your money. Pump and dump schemes, etc. Last, but definitely not least, they are protecting each other. Each one of them is evil beyond comprehension and they are all playing together, protecting eachother. Your president is a pedophile. He is not only part but also probably one of the main people, of a ring of pedophiles.

Your hate towards Europeans is misplaced. All we want is justice and a good society.

I mean... You guys should really start caring about domain names.. That domain name is both hard to type and hard to spell.. Domain names are important people.

Since it is still in its infancy, I would suggest buying a proper name. Might seem harsh, but ya.

I don't want lemmy to be as popular as reddit as the signal to noise ratio was really bad.. Way too much noise.

I do want smaller communities that are on reddit to have a lemmy counterpart.

Yes, I use mullvad VPN on Linux. It works fine. You don't need their client, of course, but it is good.

I find Lemmy much more ethical. It truly is by the community, for the community.

On reddit, a select few are getting rich by the content YOU create. Seems a bit weird to me. You create content, they get to buy a new house/yacht. No thank you.

Any book recommendations for Degrowth?

I disagree with this take. The effects of climate change are not binary.

There is no doubt that we are feeling the effects of man-influenced climate change. However, that does not mean that we should just give up. There is a difference between +1.5c and +2.0c. It is a fight worth fighting for.

The reason why you don't pay attention to the topic of climate change is because you do not give 2 shits and/or are not willing to change your ways and make any sacrifice.

I am sorry but it seems to me that you are misinformed.

The issue is not about the survivability of the planet or of humanity...

This is very sad to see... Instead of improving things from within, you are trying to split the community.

Why is this better than NewPipe? I much prefer apps that focus on 1 thing and dont support 20 additional services.

Ya, this would be nice.. Were it open source, we could just check opened issues though managing issues would take a significant amount of time, time that would be taken out of actually developing the app.

Maybe just a stickied post would suffice.

Why is there no section for alternatives to reddit? We should really push more people into the fediverse.