You absolutely need an external crawler for all the instances. Realtime queries don't really scale to thousands instances. In fact, I would like to know whether current federation can deal with that. It's a solvable problem im principle, see e.g. ipfs.
Consider that slight entry barrier to be a feature. Do you really want the Fediverse experience to be a 100% copy of Reddit?
The content won't drop. Especially if we create new homes for the refugees to come. As always, scratch your own itch. Don't assume somebody else steps up to the task. It might be work, but it's only once.
The barriers to entry aren't sufficiently high to keep these who are really interested out. I also expect it to become easier with time as tooling improves.
If you browse the community lists on bigger instances there are already lots of diverse non-technical ones. Will also get more ineresting there over time.
No problem. Most lemmy instances currently experience some growing pains due to sudden influx of new users. Meanwhile we have to be patient and use e.g. https://lemmy.world instead of the mobile app you are using. Or try a different app, I personally am looking forward to Slide for Lemmy.
You are probably on Jerboa. Either downgrade or use the web UI interim.
I've been more active on Reddit than in years. Need to assist people with their exits and preparing mine. The mobile hammer drops in a few days, and I expect to be completely wiped before old.reddit.com is dead.
It's the other way round. I think there are a few people on the user/dev Matrix channels who do that.
I actually think there are now enough, and we could rather do without memes and consumers of them. It would be more useful to bring the niche technical communities over.
So just recreate those you care about, prime the pump and invite the key contributors over.
Google and Microsoft broke email interoperability. I absolutely would have wanted open source hosters walling off from them. Now it's too late for email. It's not too late for the Fediverse.
My answer was stopping modding, stopping posting and now a data takeout and GDPR deletion request (and a complaint because they will fail to honor it) on the way out. I would have done it years ago if there was a place to migrate to.
I unsubbed there yesterday. When you got the message, hang up the phone ;)