In theory I guess. But you’d need a ton of funding just to get the server power for that, and there’s no guarantee that users will switch over to your service. And if they start turning bad then they could start blocking that. Also the users are much more valuable than the data. There’s lots of ways this could fail to pan out. The Fediverse is much more flexible to new instances joining.

maybe it would be simple to fork this source code and form your own community

The network effect makes this extremely difficult, even with the source code, it’s basically starting from scratch again.

Not the first person, but certainly the first and only chick

Space Quest Historian, for adventure games https://spectra.video/c/spacequesthistorian/videos

Block lemmy.ml if you don’t like it

(Actually, is lemmy.world on too old of a version to have instance blocking? They’re so far behind on updates)

on fediverse observer, you need to switch to daily stats not monthly stats, right now it says 53,225 MAU for March 13th as the latest datapoint

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

fedidb is probably doing something similar, just showing the average for the whole month, instead of the current day

Yeah we don’t need more posts, we need more comments, and maybe more voters too