I have a love/hate relationship with desktop web apps on Linux. They are a great blessing in some ways because I get to run apps that just wouldn’t be available to me otherwise because Linux typically isn’t a priority for consumer-focused services. Often support exists as a convenient bonus because it came with the web app platform choice.

On the other hand, you get a web app, which looks nice (hopefully) but gobbles down your resources.

It’s been said to death but at heart, I’ve always felt that when it comes to piracy, it’s a service issue, not a cost issue.

Except for you Adobe. That’s a cost issue.

As you mentioned, that in and of itself isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes it’s good not to have people who are really casual users in your community. They can take their time coming over as long as the people who are here are having a good time.

I’m experiencing a bizarre glimpse of humanity in the Internet, before the bots have been written and move in, the experience of communicating with actual people without the influence of karma, business, or astroturf just yet.

They will come, but Lemmy sets the new terms of engagement.

We, the users, the community are the lifeblood. It’s people that had the good times, and people that made them.

Of the places I’ve been, there are a great many more networks I have not been part of arguably because they failed to achieve critical mass. Writing good software is hard. Getting people to use it is even harder in the case of social networks where the value isn’t just in the software but also in the community.

Many subreddits have fled to Discord which I think is a terrible format for their content. I suspect a great many users are still adrift. I hope more will find this island so it can achieve critical mass and really develop the communities that it needs to sustain itself in the long term. I usually lurk only, but I’m trying to be more active just to help promote its growth.

The software is merely the crucible. We are the iron. Reddit continues to make it hot by striking.