yesterday .world had to turn off sign-up and even shut down shitposting community.

This is basically the front-door of Lemmy. And as others are starting to notice, 60K users after all the people seeking better and trying out things isn’t that many… And there are seemingly a lot of people who use multiple servers given the technical instability of Lemmy’s code… I am one of those people who spends 10 minutes a day on 4 servers, but I’m cutting back because content just isn’t there and it’s now often gaming topics and news making the rounds as duplicate stories over a 2 to 4 day period (besides memes)

Social media in general… there was so much Facebook hate for the past 8 years… but not much betterment came of it. Today looking over Reddit, it hasn’t really changed that much in the past 4 months… there was a group of dissatisfied people who don’t seem to want to actually build something better - just want to protest Reddit.

YouTube and TV advertising - that’s a huge topic. YouTube does have a lot of small-time original creators, but is the money the reason why? You can’'t make money on Reddit or Lemmy unless you have a business shop or something related to specialty topics (such as auto repair in a discussion community about same).