StarManta

With that in mind, apple_enthusiast seems to have an order of magnitude more users than this.

So that one entity doesn’t control the entire platform, mostly. With different instances, it’s difficult or impossible for a rich jerk or corporate ownership to make unilateral decisions that make the platform unusable. That could happen to any instance, sure, but there’s a lot less friction migrating to a different Lemmy instance than finding a new app entirely.

It also allows different people to join instances with policies that match their preferences. If I want porn I can go to a porn-friendly instance that won’t ban NSFW content; if I want piracy I can go to an instance that allows that; but neither of those would threaten a different instance who wants none of those things, and can freely defederate from the porn and piracy instance.

That feels like self-selection bias to me. The most vocal people with opinions leaning the other direction, have already left the platform.

Autocorrect is the cause of many of my typos

I take issue with the next part of the quote: “it’s a symbiotic relationship”. No, it is not. Reddit gets value from the moderators, but the community the moderators have on Reddit could be anywhere.

In the sense that there no longer appears to be a core business model yes

Your second account (created over there) would have no effect on this account.

Yeah, the way Lemmy is supposed to work is the way the website works. Requiring accounts on other instances to interact with content in those instances is, in the context of Lemmy, fair to describe as a “bug”. I hope it’s uninetentional and will be fixed soon - if it is a design choice that the devs are committed to for some reason, that alone makes this client not worth a lot.

The data they’re looking at when they make this decision is”people aren’t using our app as much as I’d like”.

I don’t think there is a clear and consistent answer to this question. Like asking a conservative what “woke” means, it is used to refer disparagingly to a wide variety of people that a given person doesn’t like.

And also the other 14 typos in the title

What server?