Not true, at this point it seems inevitable that Lemmy will get even bigger. And that's a good thing in my opinion. But that doesn't mean it can encompass all different use cases. It's normal that there will be forks and alternatives, just look at all the different microblogging projects on the Fediverse.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It’s normal that there will be forks and alternatives

This is not the sentiment you have previously expressed in direct response to these forks and alternatives. Thinking specifically about your activity in the sublinks announcement posts.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I only wanted to point out that Sublinks will take a long time to be ready for production and to replace Lemmy. Some people seemed to think that its only a few weeks away. However this doesnt mean I want Sublinks to fail.

[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think sublinks is more similar to mbin/kbin than lemmy anyway and people don't seem to get that.

[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seems likes the guy would like to burn (if i may say as he has invested five years into it) one of his life's work to the ground

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Honestly, I think the Beehaw admin might've simply nailed it when they talked about vision. There's nothing inherently wrong with not wanting to be the lead over a project having hundreds of thousands or millions of people involved. That's not inherently necessary to always grow.

I hate to bring political/economic ideology into this, but I'm reminded of Marxist philosophy. In that ideology, properly realized, there are no huge, massively-scaled organizations that lead top-down. Only smaller independent ones that work cooperatively, nothing much bigger than a city-state. The idea of endlessly-growing scale being beneficial is generally a capitalist value.

The ones making the mistake could be us, if we misunderstood the devs real wishes. We would just be projecting onto them, with our own ambitions and goals. That's not actually healthy.