It’s not social media that did it. It’s monopolistic, unregulated, greedy, giant tech corporations that made the internet shitty.

No. In fact, ActivityPub has no general mechanism for even knowing where content has been distributed to. So when you ask your instance to delete something, it can’t actually know what other instances to ask to delete the mirrored content.

Mastodon tries its best by sending deletion requests to all known instances, in the hope that that will reach all instances that have fetched the content. But in fact, instances that are unknown to your own instance could have the content as well, though this is probably a very rare occurrence.

Bottom line: Don’t write anything on the internet that you don’t want publicly displayed. Anyone can save it and then you can’t force them to delete it. That applies to the entire internet. It also applies to the fediverse.

Yes, but that doesn’t scale. If there are thousands of comments being submitted constantly, the All feed would just be a new page every time you refresh for the new comments sort. It would be chaotic.

It should instead be based on a recent rate of comments for instance. Much like normal votes but comments instead and not based on the age of the post.

Sort of, but doesn’t it just sort by the latest comment? I.e. any thread would be bumped to the top by a single comment? I might be wrong. But that makes it kind of less than ideal if true.

The solution is not to build this yourself. If you are sitting and building features yourself for search, stop. Use a dedicated search database instead.

I honestly personally preferred Reddit’s sorting algorithm. Lemmy’s algorithm is a bit too slow to update for my taste. This is kind of part of Lemmy’s design though. My problem with Reddit was never it’s sorting algorithm (honestly that was a big part of its strength!), it was just all the ways they enshittified later on.

Yea, the best solution is:

• Keep votes “semi-public” (visible to mods/admins) to aid in moderation and avoid vote manipulation.
• Make it very clear to users that votes are not private.

As long as users know that votes are not private, it should be okay.

Well, that’s the nature of link aggregators. Lemmy’s and Reddit’s style is a link aggregator, not really what you would consider an old-fashioned forums. It’s a different sort of use case with different pros and cons. A con is that you don’t get these super long lived threads cause they disappear in the stream of new threads. A pro is that… you don’t get these super long lived threads cause they disappear in the stream of new threads. :P

I suppose this community is as good as any. But it’s difficult to talk in general about this as each fediverse app has different performance needs/characteristics, so I’m not sure if you can extrapolate anything in general. But perhaps?

Why shouldn’t the donation model keep working? Wikipedia works on donations, why can’t the fediverse?

Feddit.dk is not a huge Lemmy instance but I’ve managed to not have to pay anything so far due to generous user donations. It works quite well I think. I think Mastodon is just not quite as effective in gathering people like this to donate, that’s my guess at least.

Trust built up over a long time through well moderated communities is my bet.

I think you’re retroactively reinterpreting your vague phrasing, but whatever dude. I don’t think that particular post has anything to do with it.

That’s four months ago. Unfortunate that they didn’t call for more urgent help after that. But I suppose it’s too late now.

Because a couple weeks ago, the lemm.ee crew made a post asking for donations

They didn’t, that was a post asking to donate to lemmy, the software.

You cannot possibly convice me that didn’t somehow influence this decision to shutdown the instance.

I can because it’s completely irrelevant, and what stopped this instance seems to have nothing to do with the development, but rather to do with the amount of volunteers and their work load.

No, that post is a request from the lemm.ee admins to donate to Lemmy, the software. Not to donate to lemm.ee. You’re talking about the same post.

It’s possible that lemm.ee grew too fast for its own good. Also possible that it lacked an “identity” as it was very general purpose. Certain instances attract users that behave better. Perhaps lemm.ee did not (no shade on anyone, just speculating).

I don’t think it has to be like that. We can discuss things while still being positive. Ideally discussions aren’t about disagreements only, but understanding, seeing things from other’s perspective, finding middle grounds and so on.

I would hope that the users would not go immediately to lemmy.world, but rather other instances. But you may be right unfortunately

Sad to hear of your problems, but thank you for the time you did put into it! Nothing lasts forever but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worthwhile.