Nah dude, then youd have to lie to the kids as to what happened which sours your relationship with the kids.

It depends on what happens next. Short term there definitely isn't any harm. Longer term if the content stays as is it gets stale and dies. On the other hand if the people keep finding creative ways of posting content in this "new" format it seems like it breathes life into the site*___*

It seems like Jerboa uses GPLv3 as well, as does Bitwarden and some other open source apps. Its probably ok though it seems like it can run into trouble way down the line. Im going to keep the GPLv3 for now.

Just added the Apache License.

Goals:

1. Better UI (I am aiming for old.reddit) for lemmy with a new design (repetitive icons, hard to distinguish comments, terrible mobile UI) and fixing common issues, like freezing, spinners loading forever, etc.
2. Single codebase for web, native Android and iOS apps. This is possible with Svelte + Capacitor.
3. Svelte codebase which I believe will be far easier to develop on.
4. Rethink how communities are browsed/integrated as alluded to in this post. This is my end goal, but I need to have some discussions about what this will exactly look like.

My current goal is to just get the site working with all/most of the existing functionality. For that there is a lot to do. Profile/settings page, comment replies, community browser/subscriptions to name a few.

I am working on this. But I need help, shoot me a message if you're interested. https://github.com/ando818/lemmy-ui-svelte

This is such a good point. Reddit nor any of the other giants can surpass the ability of open source. If this works out it will prove a very fundamental shift in tech.

Agree, let them do whatever they want.

If this place turns into rage bait content like reddit Im out. Way too nice outside to deal with cynical assholes to discuss irrelevant stuff that has no real impact

I don't think the federation in itself is an issue. We just need to figure out how to present it, and integrate everything.

Nah that is most likely very true. If they go public that would also be quite obvious as they have to release all their financials. A lot of giant organizations are not/were not making money for a long time, including Snapchat, Twitter, Uber, etc.

There is a huge cost to running these things.

Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls

This one is a lie, he was added as a moderator by another mod, at a time when anyone could do so. Lets please stop spreading this.

I don't think it's a lie, but it highlights that revenue is all they're thinking about.

God why is everyone on reddit a cynical asshole?