Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
This is not a drill.
The Reddit post in the second link starts:
Olympus has fallen folks, r/rule34 has been banned!
Holy smokes they're really hammering hard now with the clampdown. Even r/transgender_surgeries got nuked...
It wont be long before they start shutting down old reddit.
Seems that sub is back now. It turned out to be a drill. We just need to be better prepared next time.
Yes, this is me. It’s a little difficult to find content, but at least the app I chose is Apollo-like
One thing I can recommend is, if you have an issue and find a post on Reddit or need to make a post, bring it over here to the correct instance too, even if your problem was solved on Reddit. Just clarify that.
My thoughts are that will add content that can help users and provide more content to lemmy. Which in turn, could provide a better experience for users as well as open up discussions here.
Reddit admins are Nazis and maga pukes. Inevitably they will push people away from the platform and I'm very much looking forward to that day.
Welcome new friends! 💜
Popular/Unpopular opinion : Lemmy is currently perfectly sized. The amount of altrighters and trolls one may encounter is low enough to make is a healthy network. Depending on the people leaving reddit, it might be a blessing... or a curse.
Counterpoint: There still is too little activity within communities that aren't tech related for me to say that it's the perfect size. I think we still need a good number of non-tech focused users here. Also, the jokes are stale, but reddit has that issue too.
Yeah, this site is basically a news aggregator with a side of tech memes. None of the niche communities we used to interact with exist, and no matter how many times someone says “just make them lol” it’s just too small to support a Memphis Grizzlies or a cat mlem or an alt-biking scene
Yeah this is the real issue. Reddit's mass of niche communities, easy way to find them, and mod tools like matchday bots for sports and others really make reddit more appealing to a general market. I've seen users on Reddit comment on Lemmy and the consensus was "it's a cool alternative but too small" and I kinda agree.
Another massive hurdle is how entwined Reddit has become with Google searches. 9/10 any technical or research prompt I search has a log of Reddit posts with answers. This is no doubt the product of Reddit owners partnering with Google. I imagine it would be a real challenge for the Fediverse to replicate.
Nah. All the niche communities are practically dead. Weeks go by between posts in most C's that aren't free concentrated big ones, most of those vaguely political in nature.
Unpopular/Popular opinion: the federal structure of lemmy makes it easier to stick to your bubble. Altrighters will eventually have their own instances you can easily block or defederate from. So each one's "observable fediverse" will always be perfectly sized.
It's great for us personally, but corporate social media is a danger to society that ought to be replaced by decentralized alternatives too.
The problem for me was not Lemmy. I still believe in Lemmy, the Prolem was that slrpnk.net really was not user friendly. I'm writting this from phtn.app which someone told me about and it's awesome! Looks wayyy more like Mastodon and something from today :D
I left after they closed off the API and shut down third party apps. I could never go back, whilst Lemmy hasn't always offered the same amount of content, its always still offered good content, plus I know I'm guilt free of supporting Reddit and what a shit show they've become 🙂
I intentionally sabotaged my account to get banned so that I couldn't go back. Lol
Unpopular opinion: they like it there, and aren't going to switch no matter what happens. We'll see.
If someone like Musk were to take control of Reddit, be prepared. Let's be real, Spez is not even in the same league as Musk in terms of being unpalatable to Redditors so claiming something like "already has been" is ... a choice. But for sure, if someone far worse takes over, there will be an exodus. And frankly, the Fediverse is fully unprepared to handle that, so that'll be fun.
What'd I miss?
Nothing yet but to speculate Steve Huffman’s rolemodel Elon Musk has been whinging about subreddits banning links to Twitter. They might replace some moderators again and covertly reverse the community ban.
I'm amazed there were still moderators left that were willing to do protest actions after last time.
As we've seen from the Trump admins, there's never a shortage of bootlickers who would polish that boot for the smallest amount of power.
Yeah, it kind of feels like we may only be a few days away from Rexxit 2.0 depending on spez's next move. Musk's comments have been short on this but given the fact spez is already a fanboy and, as Vice Dictator, Musk's merest utterances get taken very seriously in certain quarters, I could see the Xitter ban being overturned.
This struck made my Spidey-Senses tingle when I read it the other day:
Reddit drives significant traffic to X, particularly for discussions related to trending topics on the platform, so a ban on X links on Reddit could significantly impact Musk's company.
Now Musk has favoured ideology over profit but if he can get a bootlicker to improve his bottom line with minimal effort on his part, then he might get spez to harm his own site for Xitter's gain.
It may not happen, but as a Lemmy Instance Admin, it's something I'm keeping a weather eye on and making a few plans.
Obligatory: fuck u/spez.
Lemmy needs to drastically improve the UX before it'll become big
The frontend and the backend are separate, so people can design new ones and many instances run alternate frontends, we do here:
The default needs to be nice, most users would get frustrated and give up before discovering a. Or p.
Just use a 3rd party app and pick the experience you prefer.
Which 3rd party app?
The average user needs to be spoon fed, choosing between 5+ different apps is confusing and takes mental load etc.
Everything just needs to work, with barely any thought put in (defaults for everything)
And once they're using the platform they can change defaults if they like.
Currently there aren't defaults, or the defaults suck (Eg lemmy.world web UI)
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions"
That will be when old.reddit is culled. They have been preparing to quell future dissidents for a year now and this decision would be the only one that I can think of which would bring that much outrage
How much are the Reddit owners banning any mention of Lemmy, though?
A lot! They’re clamping down hard on any posts that mention the platform even the moderators sadly.
Its the hard Right turn that most subs took that is keeping me away
Memes about the Fediverse
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