I came over during the whole API debacle and then realized it will either be great for my mental health, or eventually Lemmy will have just as much content. So far my mental health has improved… the content has improved a little too

Give them a taste and then defederate…

Just mine the area for lithium for a while, then you can offset the extra brackishness with your fresh water

Have them all in like a tag system. So I can see all subs related to technology, etc.

I think it’s part of the game and growing pains. You want high quality comments? Well you need more users, 75% of which will rarely post anything, 15% will spam low quality comments, and 10% might submit good posts and we’ll thought out comments. Those numbers are probably a little inflated, but you just need to frow the base and what we are looking for will eventually be there. There will just be a ton of other nonsense, but that’s the good part about upvote/downvotes and different ranking sorting systems.

It will take time, and a lot of people, for a long time will complain that Lemmy is becoming worse, while it slowly gets better.

The project devs currently have like 300 bucks a week comitted to them… kind of sad

They are banking on winning their appeal for almost a billion dollars in subsidies for Starlink from the government for “Rural community service” that the FCC denied.

So much of Musks companies have benefitted from government funds in one way or another that it makes you wonder how successful they would be without them. Just to list a few others: Over 15B in Lucratice SpaceX contracts, a half a Billion in preferential loan rates for “expanding electric manufacturing capacity”, COVID aid funding, SpaceX took in $3M in state and local subsidies and grants and over “$100M in Federal loan guarantees and bailouts”, Tesla received $2.5B in state and local subsidies (tax credits, grants, etc.)

Also, let’s not forget the Federal electric vehicle tax credit that was started when Tesla had almost no competitors and then ended before competition really started.

All of this while Musk complains about them expanding the electric tax credits now that Ford and other companies would be eligible vehicles. Oh and let’s not forget him railing against NPR as “Government Funded Media” when NPRS government funding is like 0.03% of what he is appealing for his rural Starlink grant.