Once again agreed, but there is always merit in the growth period where user-interests and mod-interests are aligned to facilitate open and honest discussion before the platform becomes enshittified as you suggest. It’s one of the reasons why many of us left reddit for greener pastures.

I believe we are still in this beneficial growth period, and that lemmy still has some time before the community saturates in its usefulness, but if you think that is not the case then no one should stop you from seeking other places to get good content.

I agree, you could ask a search engine which is gamed to give you the most promoted result instead of the best one, or you could indeed ask an AI which is trained to give you an aesthetically pleasing answer that may or may not be without substance…

More simply, you could just reach out to the wider community and get a reasonably up-to-date answer with an easy back and forth from others in the same situation without any worry about nefarious incentives.

I guess it depends on how you measure what a good and trustworthy answer is.

It does stimulate discussion, and as someone who has passively thought about this problem in tmux, but not actively tried to fix it, OP has enriched my life with their post.

The snark really isn’t that warranted

Uhh… these projects are the backbone of the free and modern web. How is less funding a good thing?