Yeah if you want to do the same community it’s going to be harder, but if you want to make your own community with your own content and views it’s different.

Also, the history of the internet contradicts your point, communities have moved servers since the beginning, there never was a unique central point for everything. Lemmy is a bit inferior here because it only allows you to see communities one by one, but piefed can group communities into feeds that you can directly follow. By not placrng focus on a single one piefed can push for much more diversity

That’s because AP as it is implemented today is crap, it’s a superficial compatibility layer on top of a proprietary (as in, doing non-standardized stuff) platform. We need to take it on its head and make AP the actual core then build on top

Pro-capitalism garbage is putting me off, yet is everywhere. I like that it’s different, not everyone wants the same things

I like that communities/instances have opinions and go in a direction. That’s what make decentralization useful rather than one big average thing that always pushes towards the status quo in the end. Make your own community with your own rules without all-powerful overseers, that’s a system I believe in

No, I’m taking the data as it exists on the API …

We can see a globally slowly downward trend, probably not good but I’m definitely not equipped to analyze that