It’s worth stepping back a moment to appreciate that it’s actually worked. Whether it will continue is another story, but Lemmy became a successful and viable alternative to Reddit. That’s worthy of praise and celebration, and it couldn’t be done without the admins and mods of .world who’ve made this place into what it is.

Well in January I believe they told third party app developers that they weren’t going to charge for the API this year (but that someone was in the works). Then May I believe is when reneged on that? June? I know the charging went into effect on July 1.

In May/June Spez said that old Reddit wasn’t going anywhere. So we can extrapolate ~October for them to announce it’s ending, and then it being killed by the end of the year.

Man thinks CEOs actually offer something and aren’t universally hated lmao

“you deserve to be free from Reddit’s oppressive thumb, and this system will let you do just that!”

“What if I piss the mods or admins off?”

“Ha get fucked”

Yeah this was hilariously ironic to read

I’m not totally out, there’s some gaming subreddits which are directly visited by the devs for feedback unfortunately. There’s certain mangas I read and shows I watch too. But other than that, everything else is Lemmy.

I know that sounds really unimpressive, but it’s actually a significant reduction. I’ll only go for very specific reasons, providing dev feedback or discussing a new chapter/episode. That’s a few times a week at best for not much time at all. I don’t bother regularly browsing the subs for interesting content anymore.

A substantial part of my activity was commenting on politics and world news, and I’ve completely cut that out. “General discussion” like that is all on Lemmy now, and it’s easily the majority. If I’m wasting time at work, it’s probably on Lemmy now.

rofl, even

Yeah they’re fucked. New moderation will never work if the users don’t support it. And judging from the comments, they definitely don’t support it.

Das ist sehr gut!

I don’t think so, largely because his ego wouldn’t allow it.

The bell weather was that Spez couldn’t stay positive in that ama. Even with manipulation, they can’t beat the overwhelming number of users. It’s astounding they thought different here.

“We brought all the users back, buy us!”

“But they’re all saying they hate you. Like, really REALLY hate you.”

“Trust me, it’s a great deal!”

This is the litmus test to see if something AI is hype or legit. Are they using AI to actually help out with tasks?

If an author is praising AI and saying it’ll replace creative media and writing – and they wrote it themselves – they really don’t have faith in AI.

Ironically, if they spent a lot of time improving it, Reddit might’ve been far more profitable. A big advantage Reddit has is all of the genuine conversation and questions for things people Google. Reddit could have weaponized it by becoming a direct competitor to Google, and I think they would’ve actually done really well.

I got a bit heated there about something yesterday because I had irl stresses going on, and when I calmed down I went and edited my comment to make nicer and apologize for rudeness.

To my surprise, the comment is clearly still upvoted, and the guy I was talking with told me not to sweat it. A few times now I’ve posted a controversial opinion and observed it, and always, it’s at mildly upvoted.

Honestly this makes me wonder how much of the downvotes were from bots or paid shills.

At the end of the day, I just want somewhere to relieve myself and maybe wash my face. The fear that women may have with a man in their bathroom is likely not related to actual use of the bathroom, but fear of assault.

This attack on trans people in bathrooms is just smokescreen to mask the problem that some men are fucking creeps who need to be called out. I think it was Huckabee who said he would’ve loved to be able to go into the women’s locker room when he was in school, and I was fucking disgusted by it.

When you’ve lived all your life as a cis person this shit is kind of a mind fuck. I never realized how lucky I am for my body and mindset to just fundamentally make sense to me. Until it got more visibility I had no reason to even consider that viewpoint and even now it is still foreign.

It’s interesting to try and imagine what it’s like, as a cis person. I can get pretty bad anxiety moments, and I imagine it’s just like that 24/7, and that’s horrifying. What I can’t imagine is withholding relief from someone going through that.

Maybe my perception is off and it feels different, but it’s mental anguish of some kind, and I can empathize with that. It’s probably much worse anguish than what I’ve experienced, but I can wrap my head around the idea at least. And yeah it makes me feel lucky – I can’t imagine what it would be like if the bad anxiety I got was also politically weaponized so half the country hated me.

Musk would’ve had to agree to making himself look bad, which I don’t think he would’ve done.

They’d be arrogant and stupid enough to call for it, that’s for sure

Apollo automatically refunded everyone for the money they had spent for a full year. Reddit isn’t doing anything at all. It says a lot.