“Sure, that’s an option, but no other social media I use requires a routinely read regarding whether I need to backup my saved items because it might shut down.”
Let me just be clear that I personally don’t have a problem with how lemmy runs, but I do think that difficulties and issues are heavily downplayed for potential users.
As someone said in another comment “you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”
“Choose an instance that provides monthly reports, including finances, such as !home@lemmy.zip”
Hypothetical response:
“Sure, that’s an option, but no other social media I use requires a routinely read regarding whether I need to backup my saved items because it might shut down.”
Let me just be clear that I personally don’t have a problem with how lemmy runs, but I do think that difficulties and issues are heavily downplayed for potential users.
As someone said in another comment “you know how when a corner shop closes in town, you’re still able to go to a different store, but if safeway has driven all the other stores out of business and then shuts down you’ll fucking starve to death?”