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The issue is that I often don't want to comment and engage with some of the psychos that show up on the internet. Downvotes are a passive way to help move hateful/ignorant comments to the bottom of the thread. Having downvotes publicly accessible is giving these psychos a way to directly engage back with you.
Did you use any tools to help build this or did you do it by hand? I remember sethbling put together some kind of world edit tool that did something similar years ago.
I disagree. The obscure subs is what I really loved about reddit. Subreddits based on niche hobbies have a much wider userbase from reddit to pull from while you won't have nearly as many people over here. Overall I'm looking forward to seeing Lemmy grow some more but I think lacking active discussion in some of the more niche communities will make it a little more boring for me than reddit was.
They could have just straight up said, "hey, we are getting rid of third party apps because we need to consolidate where our users browse reddit for our IPO". I would have been annoyed, but the way they pretended that all that TPA devs were too unreasonable to work with their outrageous terms genuinely pissed me the fuck off.
I mean third party apps have had over a decade more time to get polished in comparison to the Lemmy options. I'm not really optimistic that Lemmy is a true competitor to reddit. While I, personally, no longer want to support reddit, only a tiny fraction of reddit's user base has made the switch to Lemmy, and if you go over to reddit right now, not much has changed. Posts are still getting orders of magnitude more interactions than posts here. Some mods will leave but people will eagerly replace them. I also think Lemmy is inherently a little difficult to understand. I'm pretty tech savvy and I had issues figuring it out. The average user is going to struggle a lot which is bad for becoming more widespread.
The issue with Yang is that he's proposing cutting other social safety nets and replacing them with UBI which would put a lot of people in worse situations. UBI would be great but we also need robust social programs.
Exactly lol. Also the swiping on comments and posts to upvote, save, reply, etc behaves differently. I find myself accidentally downloading posts when I'm just scrolling.
I doubt they'll be getting rid of old reddit. The main reason third party apps were shut down was so that reddit could serve ads. They can serve ads on old reddit. Old reddit also isn't being updated anymore so development costs are really low.
JP licks is great but it's so damn expensive. Got a cone with two scoops the other day and it cost $9. I live a bit out of the city and the same quantity/quality of ice cream at a couple of my local spots is around the $5-6 mark.
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They probably can already see that. It doesn't take much to start an instance.