• unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    35 minutes ago

    I prefer phtn.app on desktop. IMO Voyager is themed too muck like an iPhone app even on android.

  • UrukGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    I think the issue is that there’s choice. People want the simplest, most streamlined route.

    If there was one signup that in the background picked your Lemmy World based on signup questions (IE location and Subs you are interested in), plus a main app to go with it, then it would be more tempting.

    Also, Lemmy also looks identical to Reddit which is great for people who want to decentralise. But to the majority of users…it’s just a Reddit clone with a smaller userbase. Why switch?

    Keep it simple, whilst introducing something fresh

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    1 day ago

    “Owned by its users?”

    Come on man, how many of us pay for the servers, and how many admins do we actually elect?

    This is another reddit, with the benefit that we can jump to a neighbouring clone to stop the admins from getting too uppity.

    That’s it, and I love it.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝MAEnglish
      11·
      19 hours ago

      Come on man, how many of us pay for the servers

      Depends on your instance. feddit.uk is 100% funded by donations, as are most medium to large instances that accept them.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I would argue that feddit.uk is still registered under someone’s name, and that the server is owned by someone. If that one person wants to sellout X years from now, they fully can

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝MAEnglish
          7·
          12 hours ago

          I was just talking about the funding. A number of users do pay for the servers, because of the relatively low cost of running an instance a small percentage of them cover all the bills.

          On ownership, that’s the way of the beast on what usually start out as hobby instances. I’m sure as things mature and grow a lot of us will move to establish nonprofits.

          Worth noting that, for feddit.uk, I run the server and GA runs the domains, so we’d both have to agree to a sell-out. Also we didn’t start the instance, just took it over when the original Admin went AWOL, so we’ve successfully transferred the assets before and, if Lemmy lasts long enough, we’ll do it again as we get too decrepit to keep things going.

          The funding is key to this as it is all done through Open Collective, so it isn’t in an Admin’s bank account and so changing Admins is straightforward on that front.

          • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            Oh, I have to admit that the OpenCollective funding model is a very nice way of keeping things level.

        • flamingos-cantMAEnglish
          5·
          13 hours ago

          That’s an inevitable part of community, it requires trust. Users need to trust admins not to mess around with the service and admins need to trust users to not make maintaining the service untenable.

          Federation also helps balance the dynamic here as admins can’t hold the community hostage like they can on closed systems.

  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    17 hours ago

    Ehhh… if you mean one can port their post and comment history to another instance, then, no [1][1.1]. If you mean one can port their account settings to another instance, then yes [2][1.1].

    References
    1. Title [Issue]: “Allow instance migration for communities and users” #3057. Author: Popkornium18. Publisher: LemmyNet/Lemmy. GitHub. Published: 2023-06-13T05:37:30.000Z. Accessed: 2025-02-08T02:35Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057.
      1. [Comment]: Author: Nutomic. Published: 2023-10-20T11:30:45.000Z. URI: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057#issuecomment-1772569725.

        This is implemented for users via export/import settings feature. […]

    2. Website: sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Accessed: 2025-02-09T06:18Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/.
      • Profile Menu>“Settings”>“Import/Export Settings”

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      51·
      21 hours ago

      The main point is being able to still access all of the communities if your admin goes rogue (similar to what Reddit is doing). That’s possible on Lemmy, you export / import your settings and you’re set.

      Keep the same username, add a link to your new and old profiles and the bio, and you just moved instances. You may have lost your comments history, but there is no karma anyway, so why care? And it’s still accessible on your old account.