Memes about the Fediverse
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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.
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 got used to Lemmy eventually and like it. I spend less time scrolling which is good. Now just to ditch Instagram....
I intentionally sabotaged my account to get banned so that I couldn't go back. Lol
I came here a week ago from Reddit! There are dozens of us!
Welcome! I hope you stay.
I left during the whole API thing awhile back. I really like it here. With less people it feels more like a community. People are generally more respectful and when they're not they get very lonely very fast.
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.
Obligatory: fuck u/spez.
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.
That'd be a crazy move. He must know there is an entire wave of new social media emerging thats just poised to punish such a stupid move.
As if Reddit cares about long term stability at all? The line must go up at all costs.
Oh, and fuck Spez.
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.
Maybe we need a euphemism... like... uhh.... "the shadow platform" or something? No wait... "the 'emmy"? "the lemony place"?
Hmm, "the lemony place" is close, but I'd really prefer "the lemony party".
Or maybe just "lemon party" to simplify it a bit more.
I'll go google that just to make sure it's not taken by something else.
I kind of always knew believing reddit was some kind of pure platform basically required being a stereotypical Californian but its declined so heavily in the last 10 years.
Its the number of clearly stupid replies you get now that really irritates me, from people who've very clearly not read or understood what you've said. It used to be a place where the average user seemed to be a PHD looking for cat pictures
I wrote that and now I'm imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thanks for that. It's a good point. There's no reason we couldn't run something like Photon as the default, which would be a smoother user experience. Might see what I can do about that.
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.
Yes, this is me. It’s a little difficult to find content, but at least the app I chose is Apollo-like