How do you follow someone you discovered while browsing a foreign instance?

You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷

Problem is, not enough people are doing it. Case in point: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.

I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.

How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?

So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?

XMPP didn’t die, so why would the Fediverse?

B-b-but the Fediverse told me that XMPP was embrace-extend-extinguished by Google!!?!

Where’s the meme

So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is “relevant” too?

The post itself doesn’t even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.

My problem is what others described: downvoting without actionable feedback.

This is exactly why I prefer instances that have downvotes disabled.

Some instances choose to disable downvotes. If you downvote a comment that originates from one of those instances, it will have no effect outside of your home instance.

There will never be enough donations to cover the cost of hosting videos.

☝️ This user has never donated to libre software.

Cue the Lemmy users confidently suggesting you just convince your workplace to migrate to Linux.

A sample size of 1 isn’t really meaningful.

Also, this post is refuting a claim that isn’t really being made? At least not literally.

Lemmy users will cancel this for not being hardwired to defederate with Threads :^)

Who cares as long as it says “Microsoft bad”

Holy shit you’re elitist

“Guys, Arch isn’t unstable, you just can’t handle Arch if you don’t treat it a specific way”

The issue is that the majority of people on the Fediverse are “techies” with specific interests, which skews the spectrum of content quite a bit.

The Fediverse is in an awkward spot. It needs more people like you to keep technology communities from becoming Linux circlejerks, but at the same time those circlejerks are driving people like you out.