I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.
I feel like that last sentence is the most important for me. I was a Reddit /r/all lurker. I just kind of wanted something to look at, latest news, etc. It’d be nice if I could just sign up under an instance which is focused on providing that basic content. Trying to find communities and subscribe to them is a little cumbersome.
Also, though, I’m concerned about scalability. If every Lemmy user wants to subscribe to something like “latest news”, aren’t they all going to want to sub to the same community on the same instance? Isn’t that instance going to become prohibitively expensive to run?
I haven’t really been looking at it to see how well it’s working, but this page was built to mimic
r/all. It aggregates from these communities as described here.