The original developer left the project and handed it off to somebody else. I reckon you’re still on the old beta which doesn’t get updated anymore and got pulled off of Testflight.

Personally I really like that lemmy is becoming more active and there’s more activity on mainstream topics outside the tech bubble right now.

What I don’t like is my instance becoming overwhelmed.

Penetration tester?

Really? For me it’s the opposite effect. You usually don’t get crazy amounts of engagement like on reddit where a post can have hundreds of upvotes and comments but on average, I feel like I’m getting more engagement and more valuable engagement.

The other point for me is that reddit has been getting shittier long before the API change. Forcing you to use their crappy app when you just clicked a link on mobile, all this weird avatar and award stuff. The weird chat that got bolted onto their message system, yet keeping the two seperate?

There’s no way I will pay for that.

In addition to what the others said, there was a „campaign“ a while ago that you should boost and not favorite on Mastodon.

Since there’s no algorithm that promotes liked posts in the timeline, liking something doesn’t do a whole lot.

Nice! Can’t wait to pay 40$ next year for that access.

Seriously though, it’s a great feature and I hope it stays.