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missingno ,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Damn. Hadn’t actually posted there much but I did lurk quite a bit.

Just feels like every attempt at alternative social media is dying as the internet shrinks to a few corporate websites that control everything.

rglullis ,
@rglullis@communick.news avatar

Wait, I thought that running a social media server costs only a few cents per user? The Lemmy crowd told me so!

koncertejo OP ,

server costs were not the biggest reason, it was down to salary costs

rimu ,
@rimu@piefed.social avatar

Very extensive background saga, if anyone is interested: https://hackers.town/@lori/110656825941689147

celeste ,
@celeste@kbin.earth avatar

Thanks for linking to that! Interesting. I refreshed their page and they have more to say now that it's happened.

MysticKetchup ,

Man, what a mess. This site was doomed to fail

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

this space intentionally left blank while we wait for people to frequently ask questions

I thought FAQs were always just made up.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Yea the writing had been on the wall for a while AFAIU. I don’t know what lessons are to be gleaned from its story, but I’d bet at a basic level it’s that building new social media spaces is not easy. An old school forum is likely fine. But a whole platform with all of the expectations and features people have today, hard if not impossible.

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