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The time is ripe for philanthropists and academia to rise to the occasion and help shape a social network for the people, by the people.

Lemmy appears to be the closest thing to a publicly-operated reddit alternative. With tens of thousands of redditors looking for something better, I am somewhat surprised that more instances aren't rolling out from well-financed FOSS agencies, technologists and others.

It would be great to see some of the 3PA developers committing to this platform in response to Reddit's increasing enshittification.

There is an opportunity to capture the momentum that is underway, to begin taking back what we've lost to corporate interests these past twenty years, and to tear down the walled gardens.

As a longtime redditor but newcomer to Lemmy, it strikes me as odd that Jerboa shows only posts from the local instance in the home feed by default.

If we are to promote the use of less-burdened instances, and stress the connectedness of this federated platform, we should be displaying the collective content right from the start. Content scarcity is already a stumbling block for many converts, and purposely limiting the view even further doesn't make much sense to me.

If there is a more technical reason for this default view, then I can understand the rationale, but if not I'm curious to know why this is the case. What are your thoughts?