Same here, found out about Lemmy on Reddit, but some time ago in discussion about where to go if Reddit bans a sub. Didn’t actually start using Lemmy until shit hit the fan.

Yeah I think they’re already off the cliff arms flailing.

I won’t go out of my way to insult. The best revenge is to just move on and forget. I understand the motivation because some people feel a genuine loss. In my case I only used Reddit for a few years and it was never a big part of my free time activity so it was pretty easy for me to do that.

I think it would take half as long to die as it did to become a monolith. It’s almost twenty so ten years. But I don’t know, could happen faster. I’d say for sure it’s not going to get any bigger. How much growth have the other major media sites seen since the profit mongering started?

I agree with the point that people can be rabid about their belief in hard left ideals. Isn’t that like trying to terrorize people into a subscribed ideology? There’s a word for that.

I mean I think it’s fine for people to have differing opinions about social issues, but when they try to hurt people in any way they can because they don’t agree, that’s just wrong. My position on an issue can be changed through an intelligent argument, but attacking me is going to make me dig hooves into the turf.

Even on Lemmy there’s a hard left slant.

I don’t think I’d say hard left, but probably left to some extent.

I’m actually kind of odd in that I can be hard left on some issues and hard right on others. In any case, when I make right hand comments they seem to be tolerated here. The hard left stuff I don’t agree with I just gloss over, I’m good.

Life can suck, but it can really suck when you have financial problems.

Personally I think human beings would be a lot happier if money did not exist. I don’t appreciate money past the extent it provides for my needs. As long as I can pay my bills I’m good. I simply don’t understand the obsession people have with money, but then it’s also a means to power. So basically it comes down to an obsession with power and control. What human trait defines an asshole better than that.

If he’s just looking to cash out and move on then what he’s doing makes sense. Otherwise it’s insanity. He’ll be going down with the ship. As far as investors, I think it’s mostly speculation.

Discord is good for live chat, but horrible for aggregation and public discussion. I mean that’s why most of us are here, because the platform works well for our needs. Supposedly Discord has a forum, but I’ve never seen a link to it on the regular site and from what I understand it doesn’t get much traffic. It’s simply not in a position to be an alternative to Reddit.

It wasn’t just that, they followed with other changes that alienated mods and users. The API thing was just the beginning of a campaign. It’s not even something new, this kind of downfall has happened before when social media sites prioritize profit above community. They had a good run and outlasted those that preceded them, but evidently the cycle is doomed to repeat.

Even the people that haven’t left Reddit seem seem to be pretty hostile toward Reddit. It’s like why are you still here? You can make more of a statement by leaving.

BTW, thanks for the Reddit free link, don’t want to even give them my traffic.

He fails to realize how fickle internet communities can be. It should be obvious based on what happened to Digg and Slashdot. If you mess with your users, they’ll just leave. They should have been trying to keep them happy, not doing everything they can to alienate them. Reddit could have reached their profitability goals without making everyone mad. Instead they just keep digging their grave deeper. This lazy attempt to mitigate dissent means nothing, the damage is beyond repair.

They like Lemmy World but don’t like the fractured idea of each instance having the same name for a community.

Ahh, steer your mod friends away from lemmy.world. They’re having problems right now because of their high visibility (biggest instance). They’re having issues like server overload, DDOS attacks, bot attacks. Recommend an instance that’s not heavily loaded and regionally close.

People that don’t understand the Fediverse architecture can have trouble with it. Explain it’s not the instance that matters other than how well it performs locally. The content is all there for everyone to interact with regardless of the instance.

Also explain that communities may share the same prefix name but people commonly make the mistake of thinking they are two communities with the same name. They are not. The full name for a community includes the instance that hosts it. For example !fediverse@lemmy.ml is not the same community as !fediverse@lemmy.world even though they share the same prefix name.

I think the most outstanding issue is how Reddit is trying to turn mods into employees that work for free. Nobody does that job to benefit Reddit, they do it to build and support a community. You take that away and there’s no incentive. Without mods you have no community.

That’s really good they provide a redirection to Lemmy, they even list the instance I use as a recommend.

Yeah I really disliked it, bots were always trying to chat with me (also follow). I finally had to disable it. Direct messages are fine, but if they ever add following or chat here, the first thing I’ll do is disable it. I mean if I want to chat (which is rare), I’ll just head over to Discord.

Penn and Teller, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Musk and Spez

Mobile apps are in a development frenzy so we’ll keep getting more and they’ll move fast to make them better. We’ll get more growth as new apps release and mature. But yeah, just give them the punt. I did when the blackouts happened and haven’t missed them one bit. I actually post a lot more here than I ever did.

Haven’t deleted mine, but haven’t been back there either. If I deleted it, I wouldn’t miss it. Though at some point I image the account will expire due to inactivity.

Further down the rabbit hole. Seems like they’re doing everything they can to get to the bottom as fast as possible.