I think a lot of the same API issues are going to hit.
Reddit wants to stop OpenAI from crawling all "their" data (that was given to them for free by their users), so any kind of algorithmic fetching of comments beyond web scraping will be removed.
Likely Project Managers, who are above the day-to-day developers. PMs take any product and squeeze the life out of it.
Los Angeles has been turning their streetlights into EV charging stations. So if you need to charge - just park under a lamp and plug in.
The goal is that everywhere in the city will have charging, so presuming you can park near a streetlight you'll be able to charge your car. After all - the streetlight needs power anyway.
That said - I bought my Model 3 when I was still living in an apartment. Charging wasn't too bad. My job gave me free charging in the parking garage as a perk, and on top of that I had a Supercharger I could stop at on the way home if I needed it (which I rarely did). Usually I only used that charger if I was eating in that shopping center anyway, and typically my charging would get done before I finished waiting for my food (so I'd have to rush to move my car before getting idle fees).
The challenging part came when the pandemic started. I didn't commute to work anymore, but my car would slowly die in the parking spot (just like how your phone can die in your pocket).
Every weekend, I had to take it down to charge it. This honestly wasn't so bad. There was a charger by an In-N-Out, so I'd stop by and grab something to eat while I charged. There was a mall across the street with free charging as well, but during the early days of the pandemic they originally blocked a lot of the mall off.
After a couple of months I moved to a place with a garage, and now I charge using a regular wall outlet without any problem. But it really wasn't too bad having to charge while in an apartment, to be honest.
If you go to the Communities tab and hit "All", you can see a list of communities you can subscribe to based on what your instance has federated with. Then you just hit the "subscribe" button and you're good to go.
Sadly, my German isn't the best or else I would've looked more into that one. ;)
I applied for an account over at Beehaw.org, but they're slammed since they have been hit the hardest by Reddit users (as they are the closest culturally to Reddit).
I'm also not 100% sure if I'll switch or not... I've had this account since 2020, which makes it a relatively old account in Lemmy terms. Not that I've used it much, mind...
Fair enough. It'd be nice to centralize all my social media in one place - Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc. It's actually super-cool that this works the other way at all - I've followed a couple communities on Mastodon and it's neat seeing posts pop up in my feeds.
But I totally get why Lemmy works the way it does. I almost wonder if maybe it makes more sense to be able to follow Mastodon hashtags? I'm not familiar enough with the ActivityPub protocol to know how easy that is, though (and I get the feeling it's not easy...).
Haha, I was here 3 years ago, before Federation even worked. It was very slow, to say the least. ;)
It's been my first time back since 2020, and it's kind of wild to see it taking off. I'd imagine it'll only grow as the enshittification of Reddit continues.
I am very curious what's going to happen to the larger instances like lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org. Lemmy.ml was struggling to load for me a bit earlier; come July 1st when everyone gets their access cut off I'm very curious how slammed this'll be.
It's a little annoying - I'm a "normal" user and if I choose to see "all" then I see everything that my instance has federated with. Which is fine... but it's annoying having to manually block communities when I don't agree with their instance's moderation policy.
I'd much rather denylist an entire instance and never see them, even if my instance has federated with them.
I've been on Lemmy for years now (before it could even federate!), but never really used it because there was nobody really here (and at the time there weren't any good Android apps - that's changed with Jeroba though).
The biggest competitor I've seen appears to be Tildes. I actually got an invite link to Tildes and have been trying it out.
The main difference is that Tildes is focused on high-quality discussion, trying to replicate old-school Reddit - before it went mainstream. Tildes purposely doesn't have memes or cat pictures, and comments are closer to paragraphs than anything else.
I think that's valuable... but I also know one of the big things that attracted people to Reddit were the memes. Not having memes is going to cause a lot of people to not want to stick around.
Lemmy is a lot more loose, so those people will be right at home. The main complaint I've seen from Reddit is that a lot of people are turned off when they see Lemmygrad as one of the most active instances, and they've been associating Lemmy with hardcore tankies.
Posting this from my Lemmy.ml account so you can see the account age - it's from 2020. When taking the survey, I noticed the phrasing/answers on some of the questions could maybe be improved if you want to find out what Lemmy was like before Reddit came over.
I am a long-time user of Reddit. My Reddit account is well over a decade old at this point, and I've disliked the admin team since about 2013-2014 or so. I continued to use Reddit because of its scale and the ability to have niche discussions on it, but I have always taken any alternatives seriously. Over the last 10 years, my trust in the Reddit admins has continually shrunk; bear in mind that I am also a moderator of a medium-large subreddit (600k subscribers).
I discovered Lemmy from this post on Reddit. At the time that post was made, Lemmy didn't really have any federation yet. Lemmy.ml was the only real place with any activity (although Lemmygrad was founded and beginning to grow).
I used Lemmy for a while, but left for a couple reasons:
Conversations were slow, with 1-2 weeks between a post and a reply
People on there had unsavory politics that I disagree with, including the creators of Lemmy itself (who ran Lemmy.ml, which was - again - the only instance with any notable activity)
I also was frustrated with the lack of an Android app; I was recommended one at the time but it has since stopped development and is now abandoned.
These factors drove me to Reddit again, although Lemmy stayed in the back of my mind. But I checked in every 6 months or so, just to keep an eye on things. Which brings me to my real point here:
It's really hard to talk about "Lemmy" as a whole. It's not quite like Mastodon, where there is very much a culture that's shared across instances. Pre-migration, there were politics between Lemmy instances and these politics have always been dividing lines.
People federated with Lemmy.ml because there was no alternative. That's the "stock" place people go to sign up. It was the only place with activity, and thus if you didn't federate with it you didn't have anything in your feeds. (Not that there was much going on anyway... there were maybe a couple dozen active accounts per month.)
Despite this, you still had places like Beehaw which had a very strict moderation policy (basically a safe space for people who disliked Reddit and Lemmy.ml), but Beehaw still federated with Lemmy.ml. You had Hexbear, which technically turned off federation altogether and used Lemmy as a traditional forum after their subreddit got closed (like Truth Social is to Mastodon). Etc.
The way the survey speaks about all these places as a monolith sort of ignores a lot about what Lemmy was like before the migration from Reddit. Each instance was very different from the others; now they've sort of run into one another but prior to that you had very specific "look and feel" for individual instances.
Because of this, questions like "How do you feel was the response from the existing Lemmy community towards the migration?" will get very different answers based on what instance you joined. Asking how Beehaw reacted is very different from how Lemmy.ml reacted, and Lemmy.world didn't exist at all before Reddit came over.
Another confusing question: "Which platform's user interface do you find more user-friendly?"
This can give you very different answers based on whether people are coming from New Reddit or Old Reddit. I very much dislike New Reddit (and have since it was launched). Old Reddit is much more functional, but I have no way of indicating what I'm comparing Lemmy to.