As someone who used Lemmy before but made a new account during this migration, this is a very welcome thing. The biggest issue Lemmy has always had was lack of content, and lack of contributors. This burst of new users, even if a large majority don’t stay, will be really good for both

They used the API but added scraping as an option with the last update, they also support Teddit as a backend. Now that I think about it, it’s not as unlikely as I thought for them to maybe support Lemmy considering how much they already support.

Yep! Here’s their GitHub https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit

I used Infinity and Stealth as my main clients, I’d love if infinity came over. Not sure if Stealth will because it’s intended to be used while signed out, and intentionally doesn’t have a way to sign in.

I dealt with the Nvidia Linux drivers for years across both a GTX 1070 and an RTX 3060 before getting an RX 6700 XT, and I’ll never go back to Nvidia after this. Difference was night and day, stuff just works, no more tinkering every single update.

I think I’m okay with it

I’m happy just sitting on Debian 12 with KDE Plasma. I don’t really consider any the “best”, but it does what I need and has never bothered me.

Probably Lightning McQueen, biting into him probably wouldn’t be good for your teeth

I can see both of these ideas potentially working out, I just hope if Lemmy decides to do something like this that they ask the community first for ideas instead of just doing it, so they can work out a solution that works for everyone

While this would get the effect of more users, it goes against what decentralized services are intended to do. One of the biggest things that decentralization brings is that Lemmy does not become another Reddit situation happening now in 7-8 years, if users are spread out over many instances, if Lemmy decides to pull a Reddit or a Digg, you can just go another instance instead of having to abandon it entirely.

Sadly it’s not a problem that can be easily solved by pointing users to a single instance, because then, ironically, you fragment the fragmented community into an “us vs them” situation against the lemmy.ml instance if anything were to happen, with lemmy.ml always winning because that’s where the users would be.

I think having a short list of general purpose instances, maybe 5-10 or so, where it chooses one of them at random and lists the others under an “other servers” button is the best compromise to this, as it spreads the load out across trusted instances, while also not leaving a single instance to become so big that they essentially control the entire network.