Its important to keep in mind that Lemmy is provided for free and as-is. It also hasnt reached version 1.0 yet so obviously there are still many features missing. Yet there are tens of thousands of users and hundreds of admins who are happy with Lemmy in its current state.

To continue with the analogy, if the Lemmy playground is not safe enough for your particular neighborhood, you have a few different choices:

Wait for someone else to solve the problem (but this may take very long or forever)
Solve the problem yourself, or pay someone to do it
Use a different type of playground instead

Beehaw in particular has $5,470 in donation balance. This would cover my income for around 2.5 months. They could easily take this money to hire a developer and implement the features they require. Yet they believe that they are somehow entitled to dictating what I or Dessalines should work on.

Edit: This doesn't mean that I don't care about implementing better mod tools, in fact if you look at the pull requests there have been numerous improvements in this area. But resources are limited and mod tools cannot be the only priority as some people seem to expect.

Edit 2: To be very clear, this comment is only aimed at Beehaw admins and a few other individuals who are extremely entitled and think they can dictate me to work on features they specifically want. The vast majority of users and admins on Lemmy are not like that, so of course my comment is not aimed at them and Im working hard every day to make Lemmy better for the majority. But that means I cant get distracted and waste time on features that only a tiny minority wants.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

You sound like you actually want to end up with another niche alternative that never does get big.

Is your perfect-world idea for Lemmy just a modestly-sized userbase? Is it already bigger than you'd prefer?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Not true, at this point it seems inevitable that Lemmy will get even bigger. And that's a good thing in my opinion. But that doesn't mean it can encompass all different use cases. It's normal that there will be forks and alternatives, just look at all the different microblogging projects on the Fediverse.

[–] spaduf 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It’s normal that there will be forks and alternatives

This is not the sentiment you have previously expressed in direct response to these forks and alternatives. Thinking specifically about your activity in the sublinks announcement posts.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I only wanted to point out that Sublinks will take a long time to be ready for production and to replace Lemmy. Some people seemed to think that its only a few weeks away. However this doesnt mean I want Sublinks to fail.

[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think sublinks is more similar to mbin/kbin than lemmy anyway and people don't seem to get that.

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