the open source cross-application platforms like Kbin or Lemmy, it’s been really hard for me to adjust to the chaos of it all and the server crashes causing so many people problems.
so do I
I’ve created code in the past 60 days to rewrite replication, migrate data from lost instances like vlemmy, and other things but the server crashes have had me lose faith in a lot of the work I did. it has been nice to see others make good progress with front-ends.
it’s an interesting article and beehaw’s discussion on it really has some good comments. https://beehaw.org/post/6873241
I also sense a lot of people’s disappointment of what Reddit became and the loss of a lot of good historical discussions. One thing I liked doing on Reddit was reading past discussions, years back, about films and such. And now it invokes a lot of emotions about how big companies and society general keeps trending towards self-destruction of good content. And seeing instances go down like vlemmy - makes it clear that the same can happen here. The crashes are a reminder too.
