Alphane_Moon

I hope they are able to get 25K pre-orders and expand their geographic sales coverage after that.

To be honest, I would say moderation problems are between LW and ML are not comparable.

I would even argue there isn't any instance-specific issue with LW for new users.

Yes, waiting for more migration features.

I've moved a small community over. For Hardware, I am waiting for programmatic migration tools.

Lemmy, once you get past the landing page that looks like it's selling server storage, half the subs are devoted to things like Marxism.

))) The tankie reputation (even though it's not justified at all) strikes again.

A lot of the "less active ones" are completely dead. Many mid-tier topics (not niche, but not "meme shitpost") have a sea of dead communities and 1-2 active ones and it's difficult to find them without actually clicking through the full list of results.

Doesn't this also connect to Mastodon?

Also funny how every instance seems to have furry/anime motifs. Nothing wrong with that, I am a big fan of some 80s/90s and early 2000s anime, just thought it's funny. :)

Might be worth trying:

https://piefed.social/user/settings -> UI -> Themes.

Yes, I personally like Piefed better (as I said, I keep this account to mod !hardware@lemmy.world).

I know. I moderate !hardware@lemmy.world which I joined initially when finding out about Fedi. I actually started posting/modding there because the only other tech hardware community was on ML. I otherwise I use Piefed.

I am talking about people in general who don't know the nuances of Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin and the Fediverse in general.

The lead developer being a fake communist (based in America no less 😂) and supporting russian genocidal imperialism is not a good look for an alternative social network (more so people for living in Europe).

The fact that Lemmy devs are genocidal tankies (and manage two of the three tankie instances) is a major issue if you are from Europe and you don't know about how Fedi functions.

The staffing and funding is the real difficult part.

Agreed. I will also add that a lack of leadership and gumption is also a challenge. You need commitment and inspiration to successfully execute such a project in a democracy.

I am not technical enough to evaluate whether what I am saying is correct, but my concern with using AOSP is that such a decision will result in 2nd tier clone apps.

It seems to me it would make much more sense to leverage industry policy (technical requirements, grants for developers) to develop a "clean slate" solution.

I had a Nokia N900, it worked pretty well for 2010 (apps weren't as big then and mobile web worked surprising well). I am done with Android and American corruption. I am not buying another Android phone; looking forward to getting a Jolla device once they add support for Ukraine (even with no official support).