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tthis is much bigger than reposts. Lemmy has a pile of structural problems that make it hard for normal users to trust or stick with it:

• Instances have disappeared with user data because admins had no usable backups.
• You often have no idea if your home instance has proper backups or is one disk failure away from disappearing.
• Media uploads are ridiculously constrained on all instances. literally all. Tiny file limits mean you can’t even upload normal modern photos, GIFs, or videos. 5Mb limit on lemmy.world - and thats the largest instance.
• Admins can ban you after 10 posts because they decide you “look like a bot.” No warning, no conversation, no chance to adjust. (honestly - seems to me they just dont have hosting money and thus have to ban everyone posting more than 10 posts a day) thanks sopuli.xyz and lemmy.zip for banning me after 10 posts
• Admins can ban you after months of posts too. Just because - they didnt know hosting can get expensive. Months of contributions can disappear with the account. (already happened to me )
• Quadruple moderation: community mods, home-instance admins, receiving-instance admins, plus a public modlog that follows you around. Most people just want to have fun - and moderation at every corner is not fun. Waay worse than even reddit which bans for other reasons. (thanks sopuli.xyz and lemmy.zip for banning me new accounts after 10 posts - everyone welcom you say? stop saying that, admit you have no hosting money)
• Defederation can suddenly make you invisible to entire groups of users.
• Many instances have no sustainable funding model and admins personally eat the hosting costs. I think it comes down to this - they ban you because they have no money on hosting, they should just frigging say so.
• Users usually have absolutely no idea what infrastructure they’re trusting with years of their content.

And then we’re obsessing over whether bringing filtered, highly rated content from elsewhere is going to destroy Lemmy.

^ I really don think me posting content is the problem. Anoter big problem is - lemmy cant afford to have it.

Lemmy is sitting around 35k MAU. Maybe the problem isn’t that we’re making it too easy to participate.

Data loss, tiny media limits, fragile hosting, instant bans, quadruple moderation, empty communities, and no meaningful appeals process.

There’s a lot more standing between Lemmy and mainstream adoption than somebody reposting a meme from Reddit.

tthis is much bigger than reposts. Lemmy has a pile of structural problems that make it hard for normal users to trust or stick with it:

• Instances have disappeared with user data because admins had no usable backups.
• You often have no idea if your home instance has proper backups or is one disk failure away from disappearing.
• Media uploads are ridiculously constrained on all instances. literally all. Tiny file limits mean you can’t even upload normal modern photos, GIFs, or videos. 5Mb limit on lemmy.world - and thats the largest instance.
• Admins can ban you after 10 posts because they decide you “look like a bot.” No warning, no conversation, no chance to adjust. (honestly - seems to me they just dont have hosting money and thus have to ban everyone posting more than 10 posts a day) thanks sopuli.xyz and lemmy.zip for banning me after 10 posts
• Admins can ban you after months of posts too. Just because - they didnt know hosting can get expensive. Months of contributions can disappear with the account. (already happened to me )
• Quadruple moderation: community mods, home-instance admins, receiving-instance admins, plus a public modlog that follows you around. Most people just want to have fun - and moderation at every corner is not fun. Waay worse than even reddit which bans for other reasons. (thanks sopuli.xyz and lemmy.zip for banning me after 10 posts)
• Defederation can suddenly make you invisible to entire groups of users.
• Many instances have no sustainable funding model and admins personally eat the hosting costs. I think it comes down to this - they ban you because they have no money on hosting, they should just frigging say so.
• Users usually have absolutely no idea what infrastructure they’re trusting with years of their content.

And then we’re obsessing over whether bringing filtered, highly rated content from elsewhere is going to destroy Lemmy.

^ I really don think me posting content is the problem. Anoter big problem is - lemmy cant afford to have it.

Lemmy is sitting around 35k MAU. Maybe the problem isn’t that we’re making it too easy to participate.

Data loss, tiny media limits, fragile hosting, instant bans, quadruple moderation, empty communities, and no meaningful appeals process.

There’s a lot more standing between Lemmy and mainstream adoption than somebody reposting a meme from Reddit.

tthis is much bigger than reposts. Lemmy has a pile of structural problems that make it hard for normal users to trust or stick with it:

• Instances have disappeared with user data because admins had no usable backups.
• You often have no idea if your home instance has proper backups or is one disk failure away from disappearing.
• Media uploads are ridiculously constrained on all instances. literally all. Tiny file limits mean you can’t even upload normal modern photos, GIFs, or videos. 5Mb limit on lemmy.world - and thats the largest instance.
• Admins can ban you after 10 posts because they decide you “look like a bot.” No warning, no conversation, no chance to adjust. (honestly - seems to me they just dont have hosting money and thus have to ban everyone posting more than 10 posts a day)
• Admins can ban you after months of posts too. Just because - they didnt know hosting can get expensive. Months of contributions can disappear with the account. (already happened to me )
• Quadruple moderation: community mods, home-instance admins, receiving-instance admins, plus a public modlog that follows you around. Most people just want to have fun - and moderation at every corner is not fun. Waay worse than even reddit which bans for other reasons.
• Defederation can suddenly make you invisible to entire groups of users.
• Many instances have no sustainable funding model and admins personally eat the hosting costs. I think it comes down to this - they ban you because they have no money on hosting, they should just frigging say so.
• Users usually have absolutely no idea what infrastructure they’re trusting with years of their content.

And then we’re obsessing over whether bringing filtered, highly rated content from elsewhere is going to destroy Lemmy.

^ I really don think me posting content is the problem. Anoter big problem is - lemmy cant afford to have it.

Lemmy is sitting around 35k MAU. Maybe the problem isn’t that we’re making it too easy to participate.

Data loss, tiny media limits, fragile hosting, instant bans, quadruple moderation, empty communities, and no meaningful appeals process.

There’s a lot more standing between Lemmy and mainstream adoption than somebody reposting a meme from Reddit.

tthis is much bigger than reposts. Lemmy has a pile of structural problems that make it hard for normal users to trust or stick with it:

• Instances have disappeared with user data because admins had no usable backups.
• You often have no idea if your home instance has proper backups or is one disk failure away from disappearing.
• Media uploads are ridiculously constrained on all instances. literally all. Tiny file limits mean you can’t even upload normal modern photos, GIFs, or videos. 5Mb limit on lemmy.world - and thats the largest instance.
• Admins can ban you after 10 posts because they decide you “look like a bot.” No warning, no conversation, no chance to adjust. (honestly - seems to me they just dont have hosting money and thus have to ban everyone posting more than 10 posts a day)
• Admins can ban you after months of posts too. Just because - they didnt know hosting can get expensive. Months of contributions can disappear with the account. (already happened to me )
• Quadruple moderation: community mods, home-instance admins, receiving-instance admins, plus a public modlog that follows you around. Most people just want to have fun - and moderation at every corner is not fun. Waay worse than even reddit.
• Defederation can suddenly make you invisible to entire groups of users.
• Many instances have no sustainable funding model and admins personally eat the hosting costs. I think it comes down to this - they ban you because they have no money on hosting.
• Users usually have absolutely no idea what infrastructure they’re trusting with years of their content.

And then we’re obsessing over whether bringing filtered, highly rated content from elsewhere is going to destroy Lemmy.

^ I really don think me posting content is the problem. Anoter big problem is - lemmy cant afford to have it.

Lemmy is sitting around 35k MAU. Maybe the problem isn’t that we’re making it too easy to participate.

Data loss, tiny media limits, fragile hosting, instant bans, quadruple moderation, empty communities, and no meaningful appeals process.

There’s a lot more standing between Lemmy and mainstream adoption than somebody reposting a meme from Reddit.

tthis is much bigger than reposts. Lemmy has a pile of structural problems that make it hard for normal users to trust or stick with it:

• Instances have disappeared with user data because admins had no usable backups.
• You often have no idea if your home instance has proper backups or is one disk failure away from disappearing.
• Media uploads are ridiculously constrained on all instances. literally all. Tiny file limits mean you can’t even upload normal modern photos, GIFs, or videos. 5Mb limit on lemmy.world - and thats the largest instance.
• Admins can ban you after 10 posts because they decide you “look like a bot.” No warning, no conversation, no chance to adjust. (honestly - seems to me they just dont have hosting money and thus have to ban everyone posting more than 10 posts a day)
• Admins can ban you after months of posts too. Just because - they didnt know hosting can get expensive. Months of contributions can disappear with the account. (already happened to me )
• Quadruple moderation: community mods, home-instance admins, receiving-instance admins, plus a public modlog that follows you around. Most people just want to have fun - and moderation at every corner is not fun. Waay worse than even reddit.
• Defederation can suddenly make you invisible to entire groups of users.
• Many instances have no sustainable funding model and admins personally eat the hosting costs. I think it comes down to this - they ban you because they have no money on hosting.
• Users usually have absolutely no idea what infrastructure they’re trusting with years of their content.

And then we’re obsessing over whether bringing filtered, highly rated content from elsewhere is going to destroy Lemmy.

Lemmy is sitting around 35k MAU. Maybe the problem isn’t that we’re making it too easy to participate.

Data loss, tiny media limits, fragile hosting, instant bans, quadruple moderation, empty communities, and no meaningful appeals process.

There’s a lot more standing between Lemmy and mainstream adoption than somebody reposting a meme from Reddit.

tthis is much bigger than reposts. Lemmy has a pile of structural problems that make it hard for normal users to trust or stick with it:

• Instances have disappeared with user data because admins had no usable backups.
• You often have no idea if your home instance has proper backups or is one disk failure away from disappearing.
• Media uploads are ridiculously constrained on all instances. literally all. Tiny file limits mean you can’t even upload normal modern photos, GIFs, or videos. 5Mb limit on lemmy.world - and thats the largest instance.
• Admins can ban you after 10 posts because they decide you “look like a bot.” No warning, no conversation, no chance to adjust.
• **Admins can ban you after months of posts too. Jus because - they didnt know hosting can get expensive. Months of contributions can disappear with the account.
• Quadruple moderation: community mods, home-instance admins, receiving-instance admins, plus a public modlog that follows you around. Most people just want to have fun - and moderation at every corner is not fun.
• Defederation can suddenly make you invisible to entire groups of users.
• Many instances have no sustainable funding model and admins personally eat the hosting costs.
• Users usually have absolutely no idea what infrastructure they’re trusting with years of their content.

And then we’re obsessing over whether bringing filtered, highly rated content from elsewhere is going to destroy Lemmy.

Lemmy is sitting around 35k MAU. Maybe the problem isn’t that we’re making it too easy to participate.

Data loss, tiny media limits, fragile hosting, instant bans, quadruple moderation, empty communities, and no meaningful appeals process.

There’s a lot more standing between Lemmy and mainstream adoption than somebody reposting a meme from Reddit.

tthis is much bigger than reposts. Lemmy has a pile of structural problems that make it hard for normal users to trust or stick with it:

• Instances have disappeared with user data because admins had no usable backups.
• You often have no idea if your home instance has proper backups or is one disk failure away from disappearing.
• Media uploads are ridiculously constrained on all instances. literally all. Tiny file limits mean you can’t even upload normal modern photos, GIFs, or videos.
• Admins can ban you after 10 posts because they decide you “look like a bot.” No warning, no conversation, no chance to adjust.
• **Admins can ban you after months of posts too. Jus because - they didnt know hosting can get expensive. Months of contributions can disappear with the account.
• Quadruple moderation: community mods, home-instance admins, receiving-instance admins, plus a public modlog that follows you around. Most people just want to have fun - and moderation at every corner is not fun.
• Defederation can suddenly make you invisible to entire groups of users.
• Many instances have no sustainable funding model and admins personally eat the hosting costs.
• Users usually have absolutely no idea what infrastructure they’re trusting with years of their content.

And then we’re obsessing over whether bringing filtered, highly rated content from elsewhere is going to destroy Lemmy.

Lemmy is sitting around 35k MAU. Maybe the problem isn’t that we’re making it too easy to participate.

Data loss, tiny media limits, fragile hosting, instant bans, quadruple moderation, empty communities, and no meaningful appeals process.

There’s a lot more standing between Lemmy and mainstream adoption than somebody reposting a meme from Reddit.