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  • I am honestly not sure about that. Similar to the ASML restrictions this does hinder them in the short term, but it also means they have all the more reason to double their efforts to make a domestic product. And it also means the chinese firms get this whole market by default and the western ones lose it, which in return means less revenue/profit to keep pushing ahead.

    I guess at this stage it might be all that’s left as a counter measure, but I feel like the west in general really dropped the ball pushing for general equal access and opportunities, when it still had a stronger hand.



  • I would say yes, because as is the real niche communities dont have the size for larger discussions.

    Mainstream communities e.g. about global news already have a decent size. And in many ways it doesn’t make much of a qualitative difference if there are 500 or 10.000 predictable comments. But many smaller communities are still mostly propped up by a few power users providing the majority of content which is not ideal for many reasons.






  • There definitely are growing pains, but in think all things considered it is moving in the right direction. As much as I wish it were different, expecting lemmy to instantly match and replace reddit (that had a ton of time to organically grow) is wishful thinking.

    Have you tried signing up on other instances? That determines a lot of the performance you are getting. Personally lemmy.world at the time I signed up was having issues (might be better now), which made me try out lemm.ee . So far it has treated me very well performance wise.

    As far as apps are concerned I am on android so I can comment for its, but connect has been my choice this far. Works fairly well, although not perfect. However in all apps I’ve tried the speed of progress has been very encouraging.

    Lastly concerning submissions without comments, lemmy simply still doesn’t have a user base to rival reddit. So in some way we have to be the change we want to see, otherwise things will never change.

    Personally I have given up on reddit, but I wouldn’t fault you for using it alongside lemmy for a while. I’d just hate to see people like you stop using lemmy completely just because it can’t instantly replace a platform that had such a massive head start.