And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.

I don’t give a shit what children see.

They’ll live.

Stop spying on adults.

There’s gonna be more Lemmy servers.

No one running this software thinks they’re the last person who’ll ever bother. They got into it figuring it was a sensible protocol and they only bail once they cannot be arsed to moderate all the people who show up.

Surely the fediverse is better-off letting some existing userbase soldier on, under whoever constitutes new management, than destroying any existing instance and expecting a fresh spate of randos to show up.

Who could possibly give a shit?

Art belongs to its audience.

People have a right to culture.

There’s two entire months between this announcement and the fuck-you date.

How long should it take to vet someone?

Would it really be worse to let a flawed bastard take over, versus deleting everyone and all their content?

Oh sure, that’s why the announcement is about looking for someone to take over. Can you imagine if the admin simply announced a definitive end because they stopped giving a shit?

There’s gonna be more Lemmy servers.

A new one will be worse-off than taking over an existing one, as a rule.

For all the same reasons that having a new NSFW-heavy server doesn’t make up for LemmyNSFW disappearing and taking years of content with it.

And “fuck yourselves” is explicitly how several websites I care about have disappeared.

The thing about transferring ownership is that price stops being your problem.

‘Hey could you maybe transfer this important established server to anyone else?’

‘Nope! Fuck yourselves! <3’

I don’t think that’s an accurate use of the format. They’re more like the big flat layer right above that: fairly small, behind almost everything, and completely unnecessary.