Seriously: 6
Unseriously: 7
Don't feel bad, red and black together are the fastest combination. Just add some red-painted flames over your black PC and it will outperform even supercomputers.
I'm personally moreso of a believer that humans don't necessarily need spiritualism, we just need purpose. That purpose can be found following a deity or other spiritual pursuits, but can also be found with a task or organization, for example, volunteer work is often a source of community and meaningful interaction. It's when life feels purposeless that people fall into isolation and depression.
More or less.
I'm very happy to hear that, this is my favorite way to sort and is the main reason I wasn't using wefwef as my main app. I love how quickly development is moving for all of these apps, the rate of development is inspiring.
@[email protected] has done a really great job of keeping VLemmy up to date; I have faith they will continue to do so. The ability to switch instances is a tricky feature and is something the developers are working on, but from what I've heard it's challenging to know exactly how to handle it.
Indeed. Beehaw is like a friendly cultivated forum site, that wants to let its users go out and interact with other similar forum sites. I think it's understandable that to create that curated experience they defederate from servers they think would harm it, every instance has its own approach to it. The instance I'm on, VLemmy, recently held a vote and decided to not defederate even with really shitty instances, instead opting to let users curate their own experience. To each their own, that's one of the great things about the decentralization of the Lemmy protocol, every server can do its own thing and users can join whichever they would like or host their own.
I wouldn't mind awards coming back, they were a form of monetization on Reddit that I didn't really mind. If we do awards on Lemmy, I think it would be neat if we could pick one free award a day to give out (and let it be any icon), and I don't think awards should give Lemmy premium or any of that stuff, but I'm open to the idea in general.
A mixture of everybody. Right now the service is new, so people are being really good about donations. There are also contributions from charities like the OpenCollective which are meant to help the development of these FOSS communities. As we hit the six months or one-year mark we may see some instance owners attempt monetization as donations dry up, and I remember that my favorite app Boost served ads in the free version to fund development which its Lemmy version may continue to do, but as long as there's interest and community here the servers will stay up.
Just as a note, wefwef is a PWA so it also works on Android. It is said to be very similar to Apollo, so if you're on Android and are curious what Apollo was like feel free to give it a try.
The federated all feed will have more diversity. Knowing that, it becomes more important on a small instance to use things like lemmyverse.net to search out new communities to subscribe to, because they may not appear in your feed otherwise (unless the server owner uses a bot to subscribe to a bunch of communities). They are also more variable, how well they run is based on the technical knowledge of the admin and the type of hardware they're running on. However, when built well small instances will usually run a bit faster, be a bit more stable, and have a more close-knit community. Knowing all of that, I think which is better just depends on the priorities of the user. However, as a note, spreading the load over as many instances as possible increases redundancy and makes Lemmy more sustainable, so if you're on the fence I would say to join a small instance.
It's beautiful.