Coelacanth

They'll kill it by having the largest userbase, and therefore the most and best content, and then finally defederating and forcing everyone to join Threads. At least that's what they'll most likely attempt to do. It remains to be seen whether they'll be successful. The EEE approach has been used before and is well documented. Read more on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

One advantage lemmy.world has which led to many people recommending it early on is that Ruud is an experienced Fediverse admin (here is a summary of all his servers: https://lemmy.world/post/6441). This meant it was easy to suggest to early Reddit refugees since he's proven competent and reliable so it soothed fears of instances having poor uptime or getting abandoned and helped ease the transition.

More ambitious teams on the grid is always good, and a proper American team (sorry Haas) will lead to more engagement in the US which should help growth. I know the Americanization of the sport is a controversial topic and I too am dreading the Las Vegas GP (though the spectacle will probably be great the track looks dreadful for racing), but I think capturing the American market will be important for the big teams to stay committed to the sport. It would also just be exciting to have more than 20 cars on the grid again.

Now we just need to get rid of Alpha Tauri, though sadly the sale doesn't seem to be happening.

I think this is a backend feature and would understandably be a very low priority at the moment among memory leaks and performance optimizations but I really wish we could have flairs here on Lemmy.

While you're not wrong per se, having a massive instance like .world has enabled some much needed stress testing of the Lemmy backend in a way that really hasn't been possible before, which will help the Devs find optimizations and improvements that will facilitate future growth overall on all instances. The recent memory leak that was discovered is a great example of it.

Really testing the limits of scalability is important for the overall future of Lemmy. Doing it on a server whose admin already runs a large mastodon server and has proven to be trustworthy and reliable is not a bad thing so long as donations can keep up with server costs.

Finally, gathering on .world makes it easy for Reddit refugees to transition, which is actually valuable in reaching critical mass on Lemmy, though maybe that first big wave of people has passed already.

I haven't seen it yet but you can ask on Lemmy411

It doesn't seem like WefWef has that functionality but you can limit your search to within communities if searching from the regular Lemmy site in a browser.

Keep tabs on [email protected] as well if you're not already subscribed to it.

Yes, if anything the huge influx of users has been absorbed in a surprisingly painless way, all things considered. We haven't had any huge outages or downtimes, lemmy.world is still holding at almost 90k users and the memory leak was if not permanently solved then at least temporarily patched within what, 24 hours of its discovery?

I guess having Japan grouped with China and Australia makes some amount of sense but man is it going to feel weird having Suzuka at round 4.

It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don't. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.

There was a great breakdown by a Villa fan on Reddit but I didn't save the post. Apart from the obviously terrible results (especially compared to what Emery did with the same players) he also possessed basically every negative trait a manager could have (at least for his Villa stint, I did not follow him in Scotland). Alienated dressing room leaders for no reason, didn't trust the youth, poor communication with the players, miserable touchline demeanour, hostile towards both fans and journalists, overall negative and pessimistic outlook. I remember he told the media before a game that Chelsea should be coming to Villa Park and wiping the floor with them, for example, which understandably grated the fans.

This was in addition to the on-pitch issues where he put forth puzzling selections, didn't have a clear gameplan, wasn't good at using subs and also couldn't adapt to individual games tactically neither before nor during matches.