Seems likes the guy would like to burn (if i may say as he has invested five years into it) one of his life’s work to the ground
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Carrolade@lemmy.world 9 months agoYou sound like you actually want to end up with another niche alternative that never does get big.
Is your perfect-world idea for Lemmy just a modestly-sized userbase? Is it already bigger than you’d prefer?
THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Carrolade@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Honestly, I think the Beehaw admin might’ve simply nailed it when they talked about vision. There’s nothing inherently wrong with not wanting to be the lead over a project having hundreds of thousands or millions of people involved. That’s not inherently necessary to always grow.
I hate to bring political/economic ideology into this, but I’m reminded of Marxist philosophy. In that ideology, properly realized, there are no huge, massively-scaled organizations that lead top-down. Only smaller independent ones that work cooperatively, nothing much bigger than a city-state. The idea of endlessly-growing scale being beneficial is generally a capitalist value.
The ones making the mistake could be us, if we misunderstood the devs real wishes. We would just be projecting onto them, with our own ambitions and goals. That’s not actually healthy.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Not true, at this point it seems inevitable that Lemmy will get even bigger. And that’s a good thing in my opinion. But that doesn’t mean it can encompass all different use cases. It’s normal that there will be forks and alternatives, just look at all the different microblogging projects on the Fediverse.
spaduf@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
This is not the sentiment you tend to express in direct response to these forks and alternatives. Thinking specifically about your activity in the sublinks announcement posts.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I only wanted to point out that Sublinks will take a long time to be ready for production and to replace Lemmy. Some people seemed to think that its only a few weeks away. However this doesnt mean I want Sublinks to fail.
THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Moreover sublinks is not an alternatuve for lemmy and is more similar to mbin . They are litteraly reinventing mbin to make it look like lemmy UI which they hate ??? And have lemmy compatibility apps whuch wouldn’t work at all in my opinion because their very different platforms. But yeah good for them i personnely am here because i want the lemmy experience or else i would’ve gone to mbin people doesn’t seem to understand there is a difference between this two platforms .