Reddit Refugees on Lemmy, how are you guys liking lemmy so far?

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Still not enough content. I already feel the slow down in activities. I'm in a weird spot rn. I go back to reddit because there's more interesting stuff to see, but the official apps is so bad, that I come back here. Also People here seems more intelligent on avg.
I like lemmy because there is no ads and no gold and premium stupid stuff like NFTs and 50$ awards. I liked the awards ideas ,but damn paying up to 100$ for digital emojis that everyone will forget in a day?
The big downside is the lack of embedded videos. Of course videos takes a lot of server power compared to text. But I hope we find a way to implement this in the future.
I think we should have a public board that shows the instance hardware spec and the finance. So we can set donations goals to upgrade servers or keep them afloat.
- Eh, I used reddit before they had their own image and video hosting, it was fine as long as you had RES. Maybe imgur can get some more traffic.
- Have you been contributing and participating in some of the content discussions in the Fediverse? I found that I was a consumer and just came to Reddit to read stuff. But with Lemmy I'm far more interactive.
  Cool idea on having a public board, similar to the modlog. Perhaps that idea should be suggested to the Lemmy devs if it is important to you: LemmyNet Issues board: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/
  While I'm not sure about the information for your instance, lemmy.ca, I'm with lemmy.world for now. Lemmy.world is hosted by the same people who run mastodon.world.
  Lemmy.world posts a blog update that outlines their hardware and financial costs.
  "The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server."
  "May / Expenses / Mail: EUR 32,52 / Hetzner (server etc): EUR 424,34 / Storage: EUR 75,69"
  Mastodon.world Blog (https://blog.mastodon.world/)
  April and May 2023 - Financial update (https://blog.mastodon.world/april-and-may-2023-financial-update)
  Welcome Lemmy.world! (https://blog.mastodon.world/welcome-lemmy-world)>
- There's embedded videos, no need to host them yourself - you just need to link to somewhere supported.
  It's on my to-do list for my app, if no one has figured it out on the web maybe I'll help out. It's not that hard to do but it's not exactly fun
  
  I mean that you don't need to change apps to play a video. I use Jerboa .

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