It’s worth noting that Lemmy only had around 1000 active users for the first half of 2023. (Kbin had fewer than 40 active users until May 2023!) Currently Lemmy + Kbin have about 38,000 active users.
Learning curve is huge compared to other social media
The sad thing is, is not really that more complicated, it’s just got a bumpy on-ramp. join-lemmy.org is a lot better than it used to be, but it’s still got this anxiety-producing step where you have to select a home server.
Great commentary, but “greed” is a bit simplistic. Both Castle in the Sky and Porco Rosso have greedy pirates as comedic characters rather than villians. I think it’s closer to say that his films explore the many ways that technology can be misused.