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Yeah, there's no debating that. It's just really bringing to light how spoiled we all were (at least, all us reddit transplants) regarding the whole third party app ecosystem. It's incredible how good those apps were

All I'll say is, this is one of the huge advantages of FOSS. If a website is run by bigots and people tolerant of abhorrent behavior, that's part of the website. But if FOSS was written by someone of that ilk, you can take the toys they made for you and play elsewhere -- they showed their hand as soon as they submitted their project under an open source license, and it's too late now.

What I do think is worth mentioning is that I wouldn't be averse to forking conceptually -- on a political basis, sure, but as lemmy grows rapidly I think it's tremendously worthwhile to pay attention to any forks that fix issues and growing pains with lemmy as a service. It seems particularly restrictive on the backend in some ways (could be wrong) and I think that using a more feature rich fork should such a thing appear would definitely be to beehaw's benefit. But that's a conversation for when that day comes, and not one that should be predicated on "lemmy=tankies=bad" but rather on "does this fork serve our userbase more", which is both a healthier question to ask and one more in line with the community being cultivated here. All this is hypothetical or course, but it's worth talking to these ends early on imo

Honestly, great point. Aggregators don't need a hugely enfranchised userbase, just enough people that share a few interests and suddenly, functionally, it's comparable to reddit. Only thing it's missing is a huge knowledge base of questions already answered, but for the most part that's not the bulk of my reddit experience and something else will replace it for that in time. But as long as there's some people here, it's doing it's job

if you click on a link to an instance iirc it opens that instance in your web browser rather than displaying it by way of your instance, allowing you to subscribe to it. It's strange

I wish I liked jerboa more as an app, the fact that I cant hold to hide comments, the fact that opening comments in my inbox requires more than just clicking on the comment, how tricky it is to sub to communities from multiple instances -- it's just really fidgety and I wish that a smoother app existed. But it's good enough for the time being

Honestly I super agree, I got into Genshin so I could have something to play during the texas freeze and I'm glad it sucked me in during that time because it's SUPER fun -- the story isn't remarkable all the time, but it's cool getting a serialized narrative through the form of a game like that. I'm really glad I got into it, even if hoyoverse doesn't seem interested in adding more endgame content at all

Yeah, agree with all of the above. I've worked in community management before so I totally understand where you're coming from, growth that's sustainable is more important than growth at all costs, and anything that threatens that should be handled carefully. I hope that the interest persists though, because if you do manage to create that space (and i think the fediverse and more specifically beehaw are well equipped to create that space) it could be something very special :)

Yeah, that's fair. I don't think its intrinsic to anime or its fandom, so I think it's fine to have the community around, but I totally empathize with hesitance to start the community here.

Gotcha, that makes sense. Honestly, the one missing space for me is a place to talk about anime/manga, like I previously specifically mentioned. Especially one that exists in such a well moderated space, lots of times those really easily veer into degeneracy/bigotry in a way that's really unhealthy, and I think having a productive place to engage with those hobbies would be wonderful. Obviously you're slowing down so please don't take this as me demanding it be added now, but I do think that beehaw would be uniquely positioned to have a specifically good anime community, which I would genuinely appreciate.

I'd like to ask, what kinds of communities are you trying to make space for here on beehaw? I know this whole instance isn't trying to be a reddit replacement, but it seems like there's some amount of hobby space over here? Where are the lines for what kinds of hobby spaces have a home on beehaw? i.e. will there be an anime/manga instance at some point? Where do you draw the line on specificity as well? There's a gaming community, but what about ones for specific games? I figure that's out of scope for beehaw, but I'm just trying to get an idea for what the future of the community is as far as hobbyist spaces are here, given that's largely what I used reddit for

That's a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day

Holy shit no way me too