Obviously this community has two valid, opposing viewpoints on this, but I’m with you. I just can’t imagine that the small amount of traffic generated by those actively protesting really amounts to big bucks or metrics for the site.

Meanwhile the ability to immortalize “fuck [the CEO]” on his own platform is probably pretty rare throughout human history.

I read something the other day that they’re working on a new sorting algorithm that would limit it to the top few posts from each community within a given time frame. Specifically to address this issue.

No idea on timeframe or further details, or if I even summarized it correctly lol.

I’ve had a small breakthrough here in a way that helps people understand, especially if they are Reddit users.

Have them pull up r/all, and just scroll a few posts and tell them to imagine that every subreddit is [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc

Then explain that Lemmy works the same way, except the content doesn’t all come from one website. It’s part of a network of sites that have agreed to an open protocol so everybody can share information freely.

You can explain the pros and cons if they’re still listening lol. But this seems easier for people to conceptualize, for whatever reason.