I’ve been trying to group interests to specific accounts on different servers.

Just look at the defederated instances for each server! Including piefed ones. One reason I haven’t switched from .world (even though I’m ideologically closer to like db0), is that it doesn’t defederate from much, and I like the access.

I’m a rather determined believer and adopter of Lemmy, but I wonder what the future of Lemmy growth will be like among average folks. I hope continued development of the Fediverse pulls users away from corporate platforms, but there’s still a lot of work to do to smooth out the wrinkles.

It’s fine. Mods will power trip, the old internet functioned fine like that.

But the Fediverse’s goal is ‘slow and steady,’ not hyper-growth like a corporate startup. And I think thats good: we’ll go through a few more enshittification cycles as the Fediverse takes its time to carefully develop…

Also, the cooperative aspect is huge. Different projects add to each other, instead of compete like they do in any other ecosystem. Look at piefed: its basically built as a fork to spite Lemmy’s tankie devs, yet its fully cooperative with it.

The slowness feels frustrating, though.