Curious to see the comments about it on Reddit
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I wonder how long this will stay up.
Curious as well
You made a great comment showing some easy ways to join Lemmy, and that’s what I appreciates about you!
Thanks!
It’ll be a great comment for a few hours until Reddit deletes it all and bans OP.
Still up, 600 points, 130 comments
I appreciates many things about Ms. Katie
sounds like they are coping
Paywall forum, what can go wrong ?
Reddit is just borderline unusable because of the API thing… The app is unusable, and Red Reader is just too bland to use.
Red reader is perfect. I wish they would add Lemmy support.
The official Reddit app and new Reddit layout drive me crazy… The amount of suggested content and the confusing algorithm for best sort really turned it into facebook. I find myself much happier here on Lemmy. I understand the algorithm. I’m even pleased to see that posts can last more than a day at the top of the “active” page. I think it means that Lemmy encourages discussion and going back to a topic even if it is a few days old. Probably better for our collective attention span.
Not to mention bloated and loads like crap on older mobile devices.
i absolutely despise the Reddit app even on my cutting edge Android hardware. it sucks, it’s laggy and poorly designed - I can’t imagine the experience on a mid or lower-end phone
Well I think we’re gonna see another influx
Can confirm. That’s why im here. Figured I’d just jump earlier with the whole avoiding US companies vibe too.
Same, just got fed up about all this bullshit and degoogled every device in my life, as time passes we get more and more exploited by these giant companies.
Yep, hi, here am I. Usually I think news like these are fearmongering for clickbait, like those old “Facebook is going to be paiiidd!” (As if “being free” wasn’t at the very core of its appeal and selling point) but reading the room this day and age I don’t think I’d be that surprise if a change like that did happen to Reddit. The only good think about this shitstorm of an age is that it made me find the fediverse and I will never forgive myself for not caring enough to find it earlier.
a few days ago i saw how r/redditalternatives has only “lemmy bad!” posts and i know for a fact folks here have been spreading the word about lemmy in a positive way so don’t blame yourself, reddit has been actively censoring any good thing said about lemmy or the fediverse in general
i looked marginally deeper into this and it’s apparently all the way to shadow bans :) link
seems like its posted around the same time reddit started banning people in large numbers.
Oh, so that’s why I saw some post about reddit alternatives and the person replying had to mask lemmy. Oh wow.
Yea, I’m one.
one of us one of us
Forever growing profits and money to grow the IPO this is the logical choice. I saw this comming. I left reddit a few months ago. Never been happier.
I’m having a good time with my popcorn!
No one said he was a rocket surgeon.
mfw someone makes r/paywalledwhatever then someone else mirrors it with r/unpaywalledwhatever
Time to move on over here I guess.
Niche subreddits need to start archiving posts and wikis immediatly.
Too late with the API changes. There are lots of old guides that were deleted or changed in protest, and whole subs that went MIA or got banned.
So Reddit wants to move to a pay model, which would mean they’d have banking information on record for any user that might be of interest to the federal government.
No thank you.
I just got permabanned because the admins didn’t like me saying “the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi”
I don’t know about you, but I’m fucking done with social media companies kowtowing to Nazi, racist, and outright fascist bullshit with the intent of “not inciting violence”. By tolerating intolerant people, they fell victim to the paradox of tolerance.
Welcome! The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi!
Nazi lives don’t matter
there’s no way to monetize lemmy, right?
just making sure i’m on the right liferaft…
This site isn’t going to get popular enough to worry about. It’s large, sure, but people go to reddit because the sheer volume of users means your chances of catching breaking stories or real contributions by witnesses to events, is just much higher, there’s more of everything, and this is why they want to bleed it dry.
Just don’t get too attached, Reddit was Digg’s liferaft… Once Thing go to shit, move on.
there’s probably a way to monetise everything but with the numbers of Linux people (yes we know you use arch shush) and anti-capitalists, i think we’re safe?
Maybe yes, but realistically no. It’s open source, so anyone could make their own clone of it with whatever monetization methods they want. If you ran an instance, you could also charge people to post on it. That said, with the way Lemmy is organized, people would just leave the offending instance for a different one.
Reddit’s mechanics are not the whole story about why it became the juggernaut it is, the platform of people making their own forums isn’t new. What happened was a few major sites like Digg, Somethingawful, Fark, 4chan and a lot of old-school staples on the internet from the 90’s on through the 2010’s suddenly lost popularity as their user base matured at the same time reddit moved in. There were other factors, sure I was around during it all but it’s all quite complicated, but I’m pretty sure if reddit broadly started returning 404’s tomorrow, Lemmy would see a slight jump in users but people are just going to want the next new thing and it would be some entirely new thing that captures the world’s online browsing.
I’ve never seen a website replace another by copying it’s layout and mechanics. I’ve seen a lot of popular platforms die, but never resurrect in the same form, people always want something novel and they want to feel like they’re getting in ground-floor on something special. Reddit still offers that by giving users a chance to contribute early to conversations about current events, but if there were a new system that gave people a similar system and found some other way to give users a little serotonin boost like the votes do, then it would slay reddit pretty handedly.
That would probably depend on the instance creators. Donations are paying the way so far, but maybe someone will test out an instance with a registration fee or something. I don’t see that working out unless every other instance is in dire straits and super unstable because they’re running out of money.
Oh this is perfect!
Eat shit spez!
You mean the guy who claimed credit for his dead friend’s work?
So people will start using reddit alot less than they do anyway.
