Yeah, I saw the comment he made about the Apollo developer. He's lying plainly, without even trying to refute any claims made against him and his team. He really believes the company can stand to float on a more mainstream userbase. I doubt it honestly. More likely it will start a slow trend downwards as the mods are mostly leaving, so the site will have to deal with massive site wide content moderation and community management issues. He doesn't care. Maybe he's already checked out and he plans to step aside once this transitory phase is over.

The idea that reddit can survive purely on a mainstream userbase is ludicrous anyway, the entire point of the website has always been its many niche communities. Its ecosystem of interconnecting and interacting user groups. Thats never going to be a big sell to pure social media oriented users, who already have Instagram and TikTok to fulfill their algorithm needs. So financially I have no idea how they plan to survive in the long term.

I don't even understand, myself. ATM I have one kbin account and a few Lemmy accounts. Not sure if there is an advantage to having an account on a kbin instance vs a Lemmy instance or anything??

At the moment, Jerboa seems like the best way to browse (although nowhere near as polished as many of the bigger Reddit apps obviously), so it seems pike picking a compatible instance with that works best right now. Still, it's all a bit overwhelming!

I honestly find the constant digs at Apollo developer baffling. Spez is clearly looking for a scapegoat, but after the second or third time Christian showed the receipts, you'd think he'd find another target...

Instead he is digging himself and reddit deeper and deeper into that hole - seems ego really is a hell of a drug.

I'm wondering the same.

I mean, anyone with a bit of sense knew beforehand the AMA would have been a disaster, it actually turned out to be even worse than many people imagined.

At first I thought he wanted to do it anyway to play victim, something like "see?? I wanted to talk they didn't listen!"

But seeing how utterly stupid his answer were, I couldn't make any sense of it, you're probably right, "egotistical rage" is the only logical answer at this point.

Of course. Here's a quick one:

Pros:

• You don't depend on anyone else's funds or time
• Always available and snappy no matter how busy some parts of the Fediverse get
• You choose who to federate with. Want to talk to both puppy-lovers and puppy-haters? No problem.
• It's a social media account you really, in every sense of the word, own. Nobody can take it away from you. The lemmy.ml admins could accept the billions* they're surely being offered right now for their instance, but my account is still mine.

Cons:

• Hosting costs some money, knowledge, and time.
• Unless you subscribe to specific communities (or people, in the cast of Mastodon) those posts will never reach your server. So you don't really have a "Federated" timeline

*I'm joking about the billions. Probably.