No idea. They do have a community here so you can probably subscribe and keep an eye on it.
The Mlem app deserves more attention. Wefwef is very good but Mlem should be in the mix. I switch between both.
I like the ability to talk to people not just be an invisible upvote or downvote. And honestly, I did very little voting because it was just a way to scroll mindlessly. Here, it feels like it matters.
Well, maybe you have another new buddy!
I was on Reddit for over 8 years, nearly entirely using Apollo. It was frustrating to arrive “late” to a thread and only see funny jokes, and have any comments buried if you bothered to make one. Here, it is nice to actually have a conversation with posters and maybe you might actually see them again someday.
Maybe the difference between having a conversation at your favorite pub with good friends versus yelling at someone in the stands at a football stadium. It is nice to be seen and heard.
Is there a good way to support the overall universe as well as individual servers? I know lemmy.world has a donation site but curious if I can support the overall universe with maybe the proceeds split among key lemmy cost areas. I really don’t want ads, data selling, sponsored posts etc.
I think it will be hard. However I still have think lemmy will be valuable, successful and fun. At the end of the day though, if lemmy.world or another instance is to reach 3 million subs (for example), that is a lot of costs for the admins. We’d probably need a combination of ads, subscription revenue, or third-party backing. Once investors get involved, then data selling and algorithms get involved.
The way to delay that as long as possible is to guide new users to different instances that are federated to spread the load and costs among all servers and admins.
I would greatly prefer a subscription versus ads or investors. $20-$30 annually for a fun community is very little in the overall scheme of things.