You wouldn’t download a meme.

More of a duck than a goose, but I think the sentiment applies: https://youtu.be/4JudTGMp4Yw

I could have sworn I read about it shutting down years ago. Did someone bring it back up, or am I just mistaken?

It might also help with the potential problem of entire communities being eradicated by rogue actions from an instance admin, or instance issues in general. If the community is spread out across multiple instances, it can weather problems on its “main” instance without being as easily dispersed.

Yeah, it’s happening to me as well. Went a few pages into all/hot and the links are all from 1-3 years ago. Must be some kind of bug with the feed algorithm. Lemmy seems to be full of fun surprises. :)

That’s the neat part, you don’t!

That’s what they want you to think. (not sure if I’m being sarcastic or not)

Even if that’s true, once they become a part of the ecosystem, they will start looking for ways to dominate it. That’s just the nature of for-profit corporations.