they just blew up that saudi pipeline. cant transit anything like that

I feel like you’re missing the point entirely.

Bab-el-Mandeb is the southern gate of the Red Sea. Suez is the northern gate. You don’t need to own both doors to trap someone in the hallway - you just need to lock one. If the Houthis can effectively close Bab-el-Mandeb, they control whether ships can transit the Red Sea at all, which means they control the Suez route’s viability by default. That’s called chokepoint leverage, not “complete control of the whole Red Sea.”

Nobody said they planted a flag in Suez. They don’t have to. Egypt can own the canal all day - if the southern exit is a shooting gallery, the canal is a dead end.

So yes: technically you’re correct. Strategically, you’re arguing a distinction without a difference.

This just unfolded late last week. Whatvdo you mean they didn’t achieve it? It happened thursday. They are now sitting on a 20 km wide corridor and can surely stop whomever they want. They have all the same drones as Iran.

There is no Info - that’s why im saying there seems to be. a media coverup.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/12/middleeast/yemen-houthi-saudi-us-blame-intl

‘A f***-up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance down Red Sea coast

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/centcom-chief-saudi-arabia-yemens-houthis-seize-bab-al-mandeb

US Navy Adm. Brad Cooper flew to the kingdom overnight Thursday as Yemen’s Riyadh-backed forces crumbled in the face of a lightning Houthi offensive

Houthis took critical chokepoint out of red sea that they couldn’t do for many years and now can effectively close it just like Iran closed other one- with very little effort needed. That effectively controls Suez passage

Bro I don’t even know yassificaton is. Use normal english

lemming? I couldnt tell

I don’t mind reddit content. I want reddit without using reddit it’s that simpe

Lemmy is never going to be as big as Reddit. It financially cannot be.

Why not? That’s exactly the kind of assumption I’m questioning.

Federation is supposed to make scaling easier to distribute. More users can mean more instances, more admins, more donations, more infrastructure, and costs spread across the network.

“It can’t grow because we can’t afford growth” isn’t some fundamental property of federation. It’s an infrastructure problem to solve.

And “it doesn’t want to be” keeps coming up. Lemmy is software. It doesn’t want anything. Different users, admins, and developers clearly have very different ideas about what it should become.

I’m interested in seeing how far it can go, not declaring its ceiling in advance.

is that why lemmy has no hardware resources - they all communists?
also - are non communists allowed to join?

That’s just semantics. An alternative competes for the same users.

Your own source says Lemmy was created because Reddit was banning their communities. The whole point was giving those people somewhere else to go.

Call it an alternative, competitor, or communist escape pod. 😂 The question is the same:

What good is an alternative to Reddit if almost nobody adopts it?

because while I can - it wont do anything if lemmy is at 35k MAU. need distribution and volume. has to be onpar with large plaeyers

at the momen 35k MAU is 4x less than my wife cookie blog monthly sorry

comes election when reddit sabotages all news and only ships corporate propaganda you dont have to have an independent influence?

see issue is - most non techie people wont even understand why they being banned. thats the problem. me running my own instance solves issue for me, does nothing for others.

I dont want corporate control. I like lemmy. but its not working - it needs to be much much bigger to really affect reality

people are not happy with it. most people leave.

Removed by mod

Jesus Christ, everyone here seems to have invented their own definition of what Lemmy is.

Lemmy doesn’t have competitors. It isn’t competing. It isn’t what you think it is.

Except the actual Lemmy developers describe it as:

“a decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators”

They’ve been calling it a Reddit alternative since at least 2020.

So no, I’m not imposing some imaginary “corporate framing” onto Lemmy. I’m using basically the same framing its own developers used to explain why they built it.

And “there is no manager or corporate goal” doesn’t mean adoption suddenly becomes meaningless. If you’re building an alternative to corporate-controlled link aggregators, whether anybody actually adopts the alternative fucking matters.

Otherwise what are we celebrating? Software existing?

And that’s why 35k MAU matters to me. Reddit has spent years handing alternatives opportunities on a silver platter, and Lemmy hasn’t capitalized on them.

You can personally define success as “35k enthusiasts are happy.” Fine.

But stop pretending your definition of Lemmy is the official one while telling everyone else “you don’t understand what Lemmy is.” Even the developers explicitly called it a Reddit alternative.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

It is an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

I wanted to leave reddit. but ther is nothing and noone here that why

trust me - I really wanted it to work

MAU measures whether people actually use the platform.

And Reddit has spent those six years practically begging users to leave:

• Killed third-party apps
• Locked down its API
• Pushed logins and the official app
• Increased ads
• Monetized user data
• Pissed off moderators and communities

Yet Lemmy is still around 35k MAU.

At some point “we’re still new” isn’t an excuse. Your biggest competitor keeps shooting itself in the foot and you’re still not growing. its not working chief

you missing the point - I dont care about my content. its fluff imo.
but this network will never go anywhere without content. that the whole reasons I was trying I didnt realize there was a host of other issues.

lke noone is going to jump into a network with moderation more severe than reddit. that was the whole point of getting away from reddit.