This move is like the ranchers deciding that veal will sell for a higher price, so now we're all being shackled so that we stay tender.

I actually think this is far more absurd. The situation is more like the ranchers deciding to charge rent to the cows living on the farm. We're not just the product being sold to advertisers, we're also content creators - building their audience to sell to advertisers. And now if I want to access reddit through a third party, they want to charge about $30/year, plus a 30% markup for the app store cut. You know it's odd, everyone is treating this as though the app developer is being charged this insane amount, but obviously they aren't doing anything with the data commercially, they are simply conveying the information to us. We're ultimately the ones being asked to pay the same as a Curiosity Steam subscription - a service that actually costs money to run and license documentaries, not a fucking text based forum where users create or link out to all the content- just to access a free website in a different way.

I am aware of that as well as i am also aware of the fact that one does not have to stay anywhere. I was not trying to say anything except for that i don't like seeing me getting fucked over or others getting fucked over, especially when the people are the ones, working for it.

in conclusion, i know that i have to pick a poison, so i prefer to pick the one i get to know the ingredients in it

Ah i welcome you just the same my guy. What can is say, let's keep pumping that sweet content here and enjoy our time. I've been sorting things out as of late so this is just the next step to getting to what the internet once was imo. I'm happy to see this website grow too and yea, about that karma, i never really gave much of a shit about it tbh, so works for me. Hope you'll have a pleasant night/day

The no karma thing is a great point and one I overlooked. I wonder how that difference will influence how people post and comment.

Well a min karma and a CAPTCHA check to filter spam was only r/mildlyinfuriating . On the subs I'd lurk in Karma was abused and farmed. My "favorite" (ironically) was temp bans because some people couldn't and or didn't want to read. like I said, I mostly came from reddit because some subs I was using to fix a email problem. then I found out about how weird, and psychotic haufman was, and the entire clusterfuck for going public.

Yeah I can even understand the pressure/rush to monetize from the admin’s POV. But nothing justifies being dismissive of the mods/community that works for free to allow your business to exist, or the way they tried to accuse Apollo devs.

I mean, i generally don't see a problem with rules and moderator to make sure they won't be broken, but reddit sure was wild at times. I think, if you're just being yourself and use the social platform for something like, idk, being social, it won't come ti a ban.

tl:dr I agree with you on that point and i see the way lemmy handles this, as a good thing, as freedom of speech should be a given in social platforms

One of the other big problems is name squatting, a lot of the well named subs get traffic by default as a result of their names, not their quality, which makes them impossible to replace with better subs. And unfortunately, mods tends to get more power trippy as time goes on, which means that the quality of some of the subs has gone down significantly and there's not much you can do about it

They are now trying to restore deleted content

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Heads-up-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and

Yes absolutely. Digg actually had multiple waves to reddit. I left on the first one but most left on the second.

It really feels to me a similar effect is happening

It's the circle of life...

sir, I'll have you know I'm a lurker NOT an active user...

The issues will be fixed soon. This is a huge unexpected wave and the developers weren't exactly planning on hundreds of thousands of people migrating to their beta software overnight. But more people means more developers able to contribute to code fixes, so just keep being patient and it'll all work out. There is a kbin app in the works currently so your issues with mobile won't be issues long.

Like a new beginning, i hear ya. Nice to hear that you sacrificed a whole decade to make a point. Shows that you mean it and i welcome you to Lemmy.

Long live Lemmy!

It's paaaaainfully obvious that that's all reddit really is anymore... I know some people would disagree, but I think they tested how extreme people could get about the masks and stuff to test the influence of reddit and realized it could be used entirely for thought control.

I think the best thing for society is to move on from the platform.

It'll happen here, too.

People forget how obvious the efforts of Correct the Record and ShareBlue were on reddit.

Part of it was understandable: Trump sucks and any alternative was preferable, and reddit as a whole skews young and Democrat. So who cares, right?

But that level of astroturfing would have rightly been called out were the politics swapped.

And it goes way beyond politics. I'm sure Marvel and Disney are sending out feelers to control discussion in reddit alternatives.

Is there a reason to have multiple accounts?

Better yet? Host your own instance. That way no-one can take your account down.

Things are going quite smoothly here (except for picture upload but i heard that it already gets worked on) and the content is indeed growing every day. Maybe the perfect opportunity to correct some things or have a better start. I'd take it as such and i'm glad to hear that the convertion over to lemmy is helping you out. Social Media sure does a good job on sucking you in until way too much time is gone, but with less busy shit going on on the screen and the platform relying on real social interaction (you know exactly what i mean by that kek), one might be less forgetting of touching some grass. Either way, glad to have you here and i hope it goes better for you as time continues. We live in times that are way too fast paced, to the point where we forget to just exist from time to time. I wish you luck with maintaining that part of life that you regained through this and a pleasant stay.