Well, if we wanted say 50 million users at 5000 users per instance we would have 10000 instances. If we wanted 1 billion users we would have 200 thousand instances

I dont think so. As an example, take the !technology@beehaw.org community for example. It can have say 1000 subscribers from lemmy.ml but only needs to send content to lemmy.ml once as it comes in. All 1000 subscribers see the cache copy from lemmy.ml and a message is only sent back to beehaw.org for comments, votes, etc. With everyone having their own instance beehaw.org would have to send updates to each one instead of sending an update to one instance and 100 users seeing it. A good level to strive for is many small communities of say a few thousand (1-5 thousand or so). That way one single server doesnt get to massive but federation requests arent overwhelming instances either

You seem like the right person to ask. If a user on instance b makes a comment on a post that is on an instance “a l” community my understanding is instance b sends that comment to instance a and then instance a sends messages to instances c, d, e, f, and so on telling them about the new comment?

I miss the information density of redreader. Everything just feels so spread out.

I just deleted both my reddit accounts but overwrote years worth of comments and posts first

Searx. https://xo.wtf

News websites tech sections via rss. Mainly epoch times, new york post, and one america news. I bet if i used some others like slashdot i would prob know about newer stuff sooner, but it keeps me updated. Though i honestly havent been keeping up to much lately because every damn story is “AI” this and “AI” that. Otherwise its “ChatGPT” this or “BARD” that. I am absolutely not interested in closed source AI

What do you mean? I can talk to mastodon, kbin, pixelfed, peertube, etc users from inside lemmy and same with my mastodon

Sadly no video platform will ever stand up to yt without creators. Odysee is the closest and thats only because youtube bans decenting opinion about topics

Yeah, my bad. Dystopia is the name i was looking for

So workers will revolt and now would be a great time to have a business that puts in writing in their policy that 100% remote work will always be allowed

Sad. This just rewards the behavior

Go invidious!

Makes me feel quite blue. I always heard the snowball and yeti were really good for the price

Yes, but it could have been handled better. If ai was the problem they could have gone the route of api only being allowed after an application process so they know who is using it and everyone else trying to use it would get denied until they were assigned a key

The more damage control they do the more damage they do too

There is another one. Blue something but i have no idea what platform its built for

Nsfw subs will not be. Nsfw marked content in mixed subs should be

Well, at least we can expect a good app in future

Back in 2022 and 2023 i remember people finally getting fed up and abandoning corporate social media platforms in droves after realizing that 20 years of centralized platforms didnt work.