You can even question if the compiled version running on an instano is the same as the version posted to GitHub. There’s no way to even check what’s running on the server you don’t have access to.

Trust is necessary at some level if your going to participate on any hosted or federated service as you pointed out.

They’re purposely disruptive to the community, they are not part of the community.

By simply using the default mbin UI and clicking on two menu options for any particular post or comment.

I agree with just about everything you said, except that it won’t be a technical can of worms to implement the change according to the devs.

mbin users can see that right now.

I did read it.

Not at all what I wrote.

That’s just how federation works out in every federated service ever.

This reads like someone telling me that the nazi bar is the only place to go because the nazi bar has people there all the time and the other bars are mostly empty.

see: https://startrek.website/comment/11417825

Seems like a good strategy would be to not have every post and comment shown to you if your goal is to break your habit of spending too much time on your phone or PC.

I think it’s good.

Quality over quantity is what I would prefer. I think LemmyNSFW is a potential determent for other instances.

Lemmy.world has no lock in on their “power”. They have the most volunteer labor, money, and infrastructure. That’s makes them stable, so people aren’t worried about their data suddenly going offline (like kbin) and they don’t worry about the service being flaky.

there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

Value created doesn’t translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

Over 6 months and over a month, I think most users with multiple accounts use their accounts at least once to post, comment, or vote. So it wouldn’t surprise me if active users to active accounts was 1:2

No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn’t surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.

I’ll read that but before I do, I want to point out that developers generally have the latest, most expensive tech and they generally build for that first.

Initially, yes. They probably relaxed it a bit.

This is my way too. But I default to new and switch to scaled and top-x from time to time.