In the FAQ it says

A: Currently hosting Sopuli costs me ~12 € per month so it’s mere pocket change. I will however not rule out donations in the future.

I bet there will be a pinned post on this topic in Meta, if new users keep coming.

Well, you have been worried for a reason, and I have been worrying whether this instance holds up.

That's an actual big fear of mine. Is there a way to donate to an instance?

Yah this is the forum based chatting I'm all about. I'm glad reddit did this a little bit, because I finally got pushed to check it out. I vastly prefer this, even if it's never hugely popular

One thing that I'm unfortunately gonna have to keep going to reddit for the time being is all the niche, technical or creative fields I'm in (it's a lot..) where I just don't see that kind of content being available on Lemmy just yet, more growth needed for that.

However I think I'm going to curate my sub-list and remove all the general / news / memes / etc and replace all of that with Lemmy.

Also ofc I would be happy to donate a monthly amount to help keep the server running. My Apollo subscription money has to go somewhere now

I had never heard of kbin before the Reddit shitstorm began.

Kbin seems to be AGPL3 software targeting ActivityPub, so ultimately it doesn't matter, they're joining us rest. Seems like it's written in PHP so it could at least attract different contributors than what Lemmy would.

There seems to be consternation about "lemmygrad" and certain Mastodon users have decried Lemmy because the developer also runs "lemmygrad".

Also this https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

My understanding is it's all the same thing? Lemmy, kbin, mastodon are all fediverse? So we can join any and see all of them?

AFAIK, its USP is that it combines Lemmy community's and Mastodon hastags into magazines, which makes it easier to peruse certain subjects (if you're interested in microblogging). Also, the server handles a lot of the technical aspects of finding and subscribing to communities. So you can just follow a magazine about gaming instead of having to subsceibe to all the gaming communities you can find. The downsides are that you give away a lot of agency to a third party (and we know how that can end). Also, AFAIK the Kbin interface displays a lot of personal information, like your upvotes and subscriptions. It seems very oriented to following people over communities.

Kbin users do contribute to Lemmy communities and vice versa, so that is great. Personally, I feel Kbin adds a bit of bloat to the Lemmy experience, with the hashtags and complicated topic headers and all. But that is a minor annoyance.

Absolutely could use some improvement. A good excuse, on my part, to maybe learn some app development!

I think they crossed too many lines. I can't speak for all, but I'm staying and trying to be more active. There will be a tipping point and I don't mind waiting it out. Eventually enough users will make it great. I like the decentralized theme.

I will at the very least keep using Lemmy as an addition to Reddit from now on. Whether I switch entirely depends on how big the userbase grows.

I think they almost certainly won't. People already using reddit designs will stick around. That's okay though, I think enough will come that we can stay *here

They should set up a fund to support scaling. I'm broke af but I'm a backend dev if they need a code monkey volunteer

Forever, I hope. I want to see Reddit Inc. crash and burn, and set an example of what happens when a company prioritizes IPO monetization over their user's needs. I want VC:s to stay the fuck away from online communities.