Well, it’s one smartass that spun up his own system and that reports 39m users.

A different kind of spam, looks like.

• It may be counting Threads / Bsky participants
• More likely fediverse broke through to the awareness of bit fleet maintainers…

So as long as you got yours, everyone else can get bent?

There’s Marxist-Lenninists, and there’s Lenninist-Marxists, and both groups hate each other… Much like the Monty Python sketch…

Capitalism is relatively good, gives performance & frugality incentives. Unrestrained late-stage capitalism… not so much. Think of it like oxygen. At 21% you’re great (and need it to live), at 90%+ you spontaneously combust.

In part you can see this already - there are a bunch of servers that most lemmy instances have defederated from. In these cases information flow is one way - f.e. lemmmy.world doesn’t get any updates from foo.baz, doesn’t provide search results, communities, etc.

Subscription would make sense when the added value you provide is 1) availability guarantees, 2) performance guarantees, 3) membership guarantees, 4) moderation / content filtering options

I’m not a fan of the idea of safe spaces

You probably haven’t been in a space where you haven’t felt unsafe.

I like the wild and free frontier internet, and Lemmy was feeling like that.

I would disagree somewhat. Lemmy right now has the same feeling as Reddit during the Digg exodus, but the unwashed masses have already started the Eternal September.

I mean, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4 has its roots somewhere …

More like, they de-federated because the moderation load became extreme, so they’re now disconnecting and reasessing.

But they’re much better than the ads and SEO spam in the first page of search results…