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Grats on escaping Islam, that’s huge!

This place is a bit crazy, when you read:

An opinion survey involving 158,000 people in Iran showed that more than 80 percent of respondents reject the Islamic Republic and prefer a democratic government.

But come to Lemmy and you’d be thinking they’re angels

for some reason this didn’t get the same amount of attention as the gretel celebrity influencer boat of no hope

wonder why

i was thinking you could do ads for people not signed in, then no ads for people logged in

then for people logged in/signed up you could do discord style nitro benefits, fancy name tag, just extra stuff that supporters can get to show their support for the place

but in isolation no good because what’s to stop another instance just giving it away all for free? it’s like the place is self undermining, it’s the most cut throat environment to be in while being worse to work for than any it slave pen, at least at the end of the work week you get paid, here you’d be expected to work for free :\

The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Iran is not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon

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UN nuclear watchdog finds Iran in breach of non-proliferation obligations for first time in 20 years

The IAEA flagged that Iran had amassed more near-weapons-grade uranium in its May 31 confidential report.

The report sternly warned Iran was now “the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce such material” — something the agency said was of “serious concern”.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/iaea-finds-iran-in-breach-its-nuclear-obligations/105411014

And Iran provides Hamas weapons to bomb Israel

You think Iran, the country that supplies weapons to

Damn you really hopped up on social justice warrior juice today eh?

He missed a bit:

they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance … or go somewhere else entirely

then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve

This is the natural end result of every volunteer run instance, you don’t find it odd that over the last 40 years of the internet not one fediverse like server or community has survived or even been mildly popular?

I’ll repost this because for some reason the other post got deleted, it was regarding lemm.ee shutting down, they were concerned that one of the largest Lemmy instances is shutting down and the future of Lemmy:

You’re 100% right to be concerned and to be honest I have doubts lemmy will ever crack more than a few million users, the same thing happened with Mastodon, something that relies so heavily on volunteers running the infra almost inevitably results in burnout because the fediverse works on a disincentive basis:

Basically the more popular a server is, the more funding it requires, the more admins it requires, the more work it requires, and all of this is on a slim margins or more likely requiring on people to donate time/money/effort ‘for free’ is a huge ask.

The supply of people sitting around doing nothing all day who care enough to dedicate their time/effort/money to running a social network… for free… is a very small group, almost as small as the amount of people who are willing to donate every month to a social network.

You can find mods of communities are usually fans of the communities they mod, it’s a topic they enjoy and so the incentive for them to invest their time is to keep their community clean and great. But running a social network which has hard costs not just time is a whole other thing

This is opposed to a regular website or social media network, where as it gets bigger, it makes more money through ads/subscriptions, the incentive is to get bigger to make more money

And then they can simply pay people to do the shit no one wants to.

The reality for me is that the money has to come from somewhere, you can do a paywall like newspapers do or beg for donations every page visit like the guardian/wikipedia do, or the usual suspect allow advertising, but the money has to come from somewhere.

Thus the fediverse has a disincentive to growing larger, it is simply easier and more sustainable to remain small

Dozens and dozens of journalists were shot this way during the first Trump regime after the George Floyd protests.

And they voted him in again, it seems like a lot of people are real fuckin slow at realising you get what you vote for

grats to channel 9! this must be huge for them

top story on the guardian and brisbanetimes.com.au and smh!