Me, who’s already been here for a few weeks, trying to just load a post or make a comment right now with the influx of traffic:

Wanted to be on a reasonably big instance, since I figure they’re more likely to stick around in the long run. Lemmy.ml was closed for registration at the time (might still be, idk), and plus I have some disagreements with the admins, so I chose lemmy.world. I’m pretty happy here and don’t see a reason to change personally.

H.265 tends to struggle with older, film grain heavy content in my experience, but for newer stuff it wins hands down.

More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.

Alright, well, there it is in plain English. They're killing downstream clones like Rocky, Alma, etc.

I have to wonder how this is going to affect software which officially only supports (insert RHEL clone here). I use DaVinci Resolve for work every day, historically they've only supported CentOS, and just recently they started supporting Rocky as well. VFX isn't my wheelhouse, but I know the situation is basically the same for those programs as well.

Officially they're called communities, the issue with that is that when you're trying to mention them in conversation with someone outside of Lemmy, you often have to use the longer "Lemmy Community." Not the end of the world, but something quicker and more distinct might be better.

No. Even if they decided to do something to placate us today, they've shown their hand and demonstrated they don't give a shit about their userbase. I have no plans of going back. Period.

I, unfortunately, did read all of it, and I think it took a year or two off my life, sadly.