Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

If you're in control of your feed, and your feed is filled with noise, I wouldn't call that a Mastodon issue.

This makes me wonder:

1. Are those counters outdated/not live, or does the main lemmy instance really struggle with just 1.3k users per month?

2. Even if the counters are stale and the current numbers are much higher, the thought that a community with just 1.3k users will be able to handle a sudden influx of millions of new users without falling apart seems insane from a moderation/content point of view (even if the servers can handle it)

I don't use reddit, but I would love to see a mass migration away from them to a competitor, as that type of competition is the only thing that can prevent corporations from exploiting customers in the free market. But I have doubts about Lemmy being the answer here.

The last time I remember a mass migration was when Voat was a thing, although that was mostly nazis/assholes nobody wants to talk to anyways. Voat wasn't federated or anything, but IIRC they managed to scale up and survived for a couple of years. Idk if the site operators found investors or anything like that (unlikely due to the user base), but I think that centralized approach is the only way you'll be able to make a lasting dent on a site like reddit.

Imagine if Twitter decided to do a 180 and embrace third party apps and launch their own reddit competitor, to steal third party reddit app users. That would be awful and funny.

For the same reason that landlords have to continue housing people doing things that the landlord disagrees with. Because they took what was their private dwelling, offered it to the public as housing, and invited in a new party that has their own rights.

I don't really have a dog in the "deplatforming" fight, because I think the sooner we move to decentralized protocols the better. It's just utterly disingenuous to pretend that corporate property deliberately employed to perform services for customers is exactly the same as individually owned private property.

IMO the better way to do the same thing would have been to write a post specific to each tool addressing how it could integrate with Lemmy.

One of the maintainers just arrogantly wrote something like," only the official way is supported". I was following what was written on their documentation. But you can neither have a version installed and compiled by you, or a docker managed service without all the other services of compose. e.g. no local non-docker database.

For me that's a red flag. Ignorance and arrogance. But they want my resources so they can federate content in my hardware on their site. I don't think so.