A few months after Rexodus, Kbin.social shut down, and even before that dmv.social running Lemmy software did as well, due to the waves of CSAM (just prior to the automated protections) - here is their goodbye message. For non-technical people especially, it can be really worrisome to potentially lose out on everything that they have built when a server chooses to go down.
It’s not just that though: if you consider the needs of an actual content creator, even if not fully a self-styled “influencer” but like a step or two towards that I mean, they want to retain a method of keeping in contact with their followers. i.e. they want an address that people can bookmark and share with others, where they can remain reachable. Especially for X/Twitter migrating to Mastodon or Bluesky, but also for Reddit to Lemmy as well.
Coming to the Fediverse for them means having to learn how to self-host their own space. Which creative people tend to not want to do, even as technical people tend to be less creative in turn:-).
Ofc I’m not saying that Discord is a good answer to that issue - it’s decidedly not in fact, as it is not discoverable or searchable by the internet, and far worse in fact in requiring people to create an account and join a server to even see the content (iirc?). But I can see why they would at least consider it, when Lemmy’s stability is questionable to them.
Perhaps the best answer then would be to trot out the top 10-20 instances and report how many years they’ve remained open. Reddit itself was newer at some point, when people first switched to it.
A few months after Rexodus, Kbin.social shut down, and even before that dmv.social running Lemmy software did as well, due to the waves of CSAM (just prior to the automated protections) - here is their goodbye message. For non-technical people especially, it can be really worrisome to potentially lose out on everything that they have built when a server chooses to go down.
Yup, that’s why we guide them to better practices, or try to. Back-up, back-up back-up.
It’s a legit concern, but one with a legit solution.
It’s not just that though: if you consider the needs of an actual content creator, even if not fully a self-styled “influencer” but like a step or two towards that I mean, they want to retain a method of keeping in contact with their followers. i.e. they want an address that people can bookmark and share with others, where they can remain reachable. Especially for X/Twitter migrating to Mastodon or Bluesky, but also for Reddit to Lemmy as well.
Coming to the Fediverse for them means having to learn how to self-host their own space. Which creative people tend to not want to do, even as technical people tend to be less creative in turn:-).
Ofc I’m not saying that Discord is a good answer to that issue - it’s decidedly not in fact, as it is not discoverable or searchable by the internet, and far worse in fact in requiring people to create an account and join a server to even see the content (iirc?). But I can see why they would at least consider it, when Lemmy’s stability is questionable to them.
Perhaps the best answer then would be to trot out the top 10-20 instances and report how many years they’ve remained open. Reddit itself was newer at some point, when people first switched to it.