Yeah I think it is. If you go to settings you can change the default (under “Type”).

Not really. Usually you have to request the community vs creating it yourself. Allows the admins to curate.

There’s a good chance your account was activated. I don’t think notifications were going out for a bit.

All on the homepage? Strong disagree on that one, I’d rather subscribed was the default. It doesn’t really matter since it is easy to change it.

If I want to discover new things I can click all myself.

Jerboa is developed by one of those people the mastodon post is talking about.

I don’t think it will keep it from taking off, but I am not sure that all the most popular communities should be on lemmy.ml.

I appreciate that the devs/admins for the most part do encourage dissent.

There was some discussion just before the Reddit influx, actually: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

Edit: Also read through the history of Lemmy for some info on the motivations.

I have no problem with the admins of their instance running it however they want, and they made a really cool project and I appreciate that for the most part they do not have a problem with people who disagree with them. I think people should think twice before re-creating all of their favorite reddit subs on that instance though.

Currently kbin is the only one I am aware of.

I doubt they will. They already added a 10 minute limit in airdrop for the “receive from everyone” setting (China first, now worldwide). From a security perspective it’s a good change but it does block the usefulness of airdrop as a tool for mass messaging.