Personally, I think that Lemmy hit rock bottom relatively shortly after the main Reddit exodus in early July, and has steadily improved since. And more than anything else, I attribute that to users leaving.

The thing is that at least some significant part of the people who have left are people who couldn’t or wouldn’t appreciate the threadiverse for what it is and instead spent their time whining about the ways in which it isn’t the same as Reddit.

And honestly, good riddance to them.

There are always going to be people who can and do appreciate the threadiverse for what it is. Those who are already here will stay and at least some of those who haven’t discovered it yet will, and will move here. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

And still no lemmy.ml admin has commented. And I’m going to go ahead and predict that none will.

I’ve just spent some time experimenting, since I have accounts with a number of different instances.

All of my posts from kbin to other lemmy instances showed up almost immediately.

All of my posts from other lemmy instances to lemmy.ml showed up almost immediately.

NONE of my posts from kbin to lemmy.ml have shown up at all, three to four hours later.

It’s clearly not a broad interoperability issue, since it doesn’t happen between kbin and other lemmy instances. It’s only with lemmy.ml.

I just want to be able to control what I see. I have no desire to control what other people see and I sure as fuck don’t want other people to control what I see.

That’s it. That’s my entire position on the matter.