The old adage I learned when I first got into photography (that I've only just started following) is that if you have $5000 to spend, spend $1000 on camera gear and $4000 on plane tickets. You'll end up with my better photos that way.

Short term thinking: apps cost us a lot of money per year, let's claw some of that cost back.

Long term thinking: hiring enough people to moderate all of the popular subs that will now have no moderators will cost us tens of millions of dollars over future years just in salaries, not to mention more IT ops, HR and the other stuff that comes with growing a headcount.

It's going to be really sad to see Reddit collapse under its own stupidity :(

Fantastic news! Signed up, happy to pay again, can't wait!

Been on Mastodon for a while since the Twitter crap. Signed up to a Lemmy instance just now and so far so good!

One question for the more seasoned folk: from my Mastodon client, I can see some Lemmy communities if I search @<community>@<server>, but I can't see any posts. It just shows empty, but the count of posts says there are posts. Is this some sort of lag, or a setting of the Mastodon server I'm on?

Also are these communities associated with an instance, or do they exist across all instances? I'm assuming the former? And what does that mean if there are multiple communities with the same name on different servers?

EDIT: Ok now I'm seeing some of the posts in my Mastodon client, so the answer to my first question seems to be 'yes, some sort of federation issue'

Probably the best we can do for now, but this feels like either a feature request for Lemmy. Either directly, or some sort of integration with a fediverse Wikipedia type thing?