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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Another good point he made is about how he’s calculating this. He’s projecting current usage into the sub model.

    But he’s probably very right that casuals will probably leave and power users will probably pay. So it’s the Spotify problem, your power users use you more costing you more but they don’t pay more so you start going in the red. Considering relay is not a VC backed app or anything like that. One miscalculation and one bad month and you could see thousands of dollars in surprise costs.


  • I just had a Rollercoaster of emotions. I was sad and angry to see relay go be sure it’s been with me for idk how long (more than 10 years? Has it been that long?). But then losing relay would severely cut my reddit time and lemmy being a lot smaller meant that I could potentially kick this habit. So was kind of excited.

    Then I read your message that relay is not going and I’m like “fuck! My addiction will never be cured!” Then saw its a subscription model and now I’m really conflicted.


  • You don’t have to find an instance for X, just a community. Go to the communities tab and search for ‘plants’ and see what comes uob. It’ll show the communities in your instance and then in other instances. Click onntnem subscribe its all connected.

    Then on your Frontpage there is a tab on top between Subscribed, Local, All.

    Subscribed shows posts from everything you subscribed only. Local is posts from your instance only All is posts from all instances federated.


  • OK, on one side, 9999 is less than 10000 and it doesn’t make it any better. On another side, Microsoft is literally the one selling you the game. What the hell are they going to say? “Oh yeah, BTW, this is an unusable bug ridden fest! Hahaha! Bethesda right?”

    Next on the news, ExxonMobil says CO2 emissions are not that bad… Jfc



  • Yeah it’s there “This house is full, please go to another one…” but unless you know what’s up. That could be a huge deterrent to new users which I don’t think it’s the goal. I now know how this fediverse thing works and that it doesn’t really matter which instance I’m using. But for a lot of new users that concept doesn’t even register. So it needs to be more transparent from a UX perspective. Sure we could leave it as a sort of “gatekeep” and from a certain point of view it makes sense. It all depends on what the lemmy devs what to achieve.


  • I would go one step further that the instance thing should be transparent. Like when you sign up, some process could determine from a “neutral instances pool” which is the one you should join, then when you log in you’re in that instance but you don’t really know where you are. It just “works”. That probably requires a lot of rework and sharing login infomration between instances. But as a more “aspirational thing”