This makes a lot of sense, thanks for the advice! I knew I was down a rabbit hole, and this is just the direction I needed
The way it works is that there’s not one lemmy site, there’s many different sites, or “instances” that people can host on their own servers—lemmy.world and lemm.ee are two of these. The catch is that they are “federated”, meaning that a user in one instance can see, vote on, comment on, etc posts from another instance. That’s why you can be on lemmy.world and see posts from !memes@lemme.ml. So if lemmy.world goes down it’s as simply as typing in another instance to your address bar :^)
Seconding this. In addition to the accessibility, etc benefits, just think about the sheer amount of traffic/users that came from people googling a completely unrelated topic and having reddit pop up. Those are users that might not have otherwise found the platform.
It had taken me so many years to break my reddit addiction, then my friend introduced me to lemmy, and it's been downhill ever since 🥲
Pretty much echoing what everyone else has said, but it really is the perfect hobbyist engine! GDScript for those familiar with python or just plain new to programming, with C# available to those migrating from unity (like me); open-source & free; the fact that it's all self-contained is nice; extremely lightweight, both on storage and memory; and, for me, the fact that it's got the foundation behind it, pushing out new features at a really quick pace.
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