Also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

Shouldn’t it be more or less the same with lemmy? We have a few major instances that are in sync with other instances, so indexing either of them should cover different sites.

What are we going to do about it?

Nothing. People move to reddit and discord for a reason. If forums were worth saving, this problem wouldn’t have existed.

by ditching the Karma farmers

How, exactly? Decentralization aside, lemmy is a reddit clone, but on a smaller scale. The same human psychology that drives reddit also drives lemmy. I think your assessment is more applicable to mastodon because there you really have to figure out how to fill your feed with content.

A couple of Sony games because they don’t want to sell them in my country 🤷 They leave no other choice but to pirate them.

I allow notifications from my email provider, my bank, and IMs - although I disable group notifications. Everything else is prohibited.