Based on the README and that article, the founder sounds like he is deep into conspiracy theories and is an anti-vaccine MAGA person.
Not to downplay the problems on xorg and I am happy it's getting forked, but wtf is up with "No DEI" "Make X great again" in the README... Doesn't convince me at all that this project is going to stay intact and upkept on the long term.
Edit: added some words
Edit2: yeah okay, he's a complete nutjob and a shitty person. See link below
Codium is honestly a really nice product. Atom was my go to editor before MS aquired Github and turned it into vscode and I still like it, but without all the MS bullshit (so codium).
But yeah all the AI crap is taking all the development time now.
Please don't create a bot account that is not flagged as a bot. There is enough malicious activity that you might not see because mods/admins are doing their job.
There is no need to increase the volunteer work these people do.
True, and also it will make it feel less like "lemmy is dead" to new comers (something we have heard time and time again from people who are new to the fediverse) because they accidentally found the one community that was dead. It's easier to point them to "our version" of a community they are looking for.
Even in moderately popular communities the posting frequency is quite low compared to what some people are used to. For me personally I actually like the activity level of lemmy, but we need more people to account for comings and goings of users to be able to sustain communities on the long run.
I've had this discussion before and the conclusion was:
Keep it as general as possible. Lemmy is still growing and small and a niche community looks often dead.
Once the community becomes too big it's easier to split the community into more specific communities.
For example: we have quite a few communities about learning a specific language and they all seem inactive, so we are keeping a general community up (!languagelearning@sopuli.xyz) but don't limit the content to anything specific. You can ask generally about languages, learning, or a specific language and you are more likely to get an answer from others than if you go to a language specific community.
Once it's too big it will be easy for an active group of people to move to, say, !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz or something.
I believe many instances defederate lemmynsfw.com simply because instance admins don't want that legal responsibility and don't have tools to keep an eye on it.
It's been there for quite a long time though, just incase people here were not aware.
Based on the README and that article, the founder sounds like he is deep into conspiracy theories and is an anti-vaccine MAGA person.
Not to downplay the problems on xorg and I am happy it's getting forked, but wtf is up with "No DEI" "Make X great again" in the README... Doesn't convince me at all that this project is going to stay intact and upkept on the long term.
Edit: added some words
Edit2: yeah okay, he's a complete nutjob and a shitty person. See link below