Oh, it’s about to get far worse for reddit in short order.
I suspect that we will be seeing some very beloved third party apps that just got bullied out of reddit, available for lemmy very soon.
What the fuck is spez going to do, when he now has to compete against the look and feel of apps that make his app look like dogs shit? He can’t boot them from reddit again.
The Sync app author has confirmed they’re working on a Threadiverse app, and I suspect we’ll get at least one more from the reddit 3PA authors.
There are also some nice ones shaping up from other developers already too.
My opinion is that without proper moderation tools, the best mods will leave or just quit moderating. Slowly the site eats itself when that happens.
Slide for reddit is working on Lemmy support as well!
Slide has unparalleled customizability imo. Definitely my favorite.
Hopefully a rif replacement is coming
Yep, rif dev was rumored to be working on it. It’s a race to the finish now to see which app dev gets it first.
Would they change the acronym to rwf for reddit was fun or lif for the obvious?
Kif for kbin and the meme of this post has gone full circle
These 3P app developers have millions in their audience. Millions of people who’d love nothing more than to open that app as usual on July 1st and just keep doing the same thing they did the day before.
My favourite Reddit app, Infinity, just popped a message this morning saying as of July 1, they’re going subscription.
While I understand, I’m not paying to use Reddit. Even if I did, my understanding is that NFSW content won’t be available, and, let’s be honest, that’s half the usefulness of Reddit.
So, Lemmy it is! And so far, I’ve got no complaints.
Bro get people from reddit to use Lemmy. Create guides for boomers so that they know how to register and navigate lemmy
Create guides for boomers
lol. Babyboomers and Gen X invented and built the internet. We programmed VCR’s and could navigate dial-up settings for v90modems. Maybe write a guide for gen Z, as anything more complex than a swipe is too much technology for them XD
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Lol you assume all boomers invented and built the internet ? Wait till you meet my uncle.
I feel there’s more nuance to this and this is an inaccurate and disingenuous generalisation.
A very small portion of baby boomers and gen x were involved in this compared to the masses who simply exist as sheep.
The “enlightened” ones are a minority in every generation from what I can see.
I also feel this whole my generation > your generation is just another mechanism of segregation. Instead let us bring forth our collective knowledge of setting VCR times and laugh about getting to the last floppy/stiffy disk in a set and finding corruption because… magnets.
Yeah I dont understand why the whole generational thing has become so heated. People like to cheer for their own team I guess. If we all stopped arguing about who has better technical skills/life skills and focused on the deeply manipulative class warfare being waged on us by corrupt and powerful entities we might all have a comfortable enough life to not have to argue about who has more technical/life skills.
Heck, genXers are the only generation who can set the clock on a VCR. A skill now lost to time and technology.
Some of us VCR clock-setters are on Lemmy already due to the combination of us loving playing with tech and the attitude of “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me”. I’ve seen the fall of the original BBSs, Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL, Geocities, MySpace, Yahoo, Digg, Facebook, and here I sit watching Reddit’s behavior with a bag of popcorn. If they don’t backpedal, they’ll get their IPO, Spez will get his money, and the shell of what Reddit was will continue to exist like MySpace and Facebook. It will strive to stay relevant while slowly becoming more and more irrelevant over time as the newcomer gains steam. Will Lemmy be that newcomer taking over? I’m not sure but it sure is fun to watch the world burn sometimes.
It really is just Gen Z. Millenials were programming shit and bashing everything together with hardware and software adaptors as kids. Gen Z grew up in the world of the slick interface that just works.
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No, we grew up on Vista and 8.
Boomers and certainly gen X/older milenials are probably more into tinkering and getting it working…it guides for zoomers with their point and click tablet/ipad interface or SaaS that need guides.
As a youth of the late 80s I know bbs, forums, etc
I would not include boomers but I get what your saying. Gen z isn’t a monolith though and neither is Gen x. Some people are techies and won’t have a problem figuring out the fediverse. Non techie “normies” will probably get confused and write it off unless it becomes more accessible. Good thing apps are coming!
I don’t think you’re using the word gaslighting correctly
God. This is the first I’m heading of Reddit staff actively organizing against Lemmy- what’s being said?
Well, I’m stretching the truth just a little here. It has been reported that they’re censoring any links or mentions of the Fediverse (just like Twitter did with Mastodon), but they are engaging in gaslighting about the protests.
Most recently the subs that voted to become NSFW in protest marked themselves as such (thus self-filtering for anyone not wanting to see NSFW content), however the admins removed that designation from those subs… without removing the NSFW content first! They then sent the mods of those subs threatening messages about how the mods showed NSFW content to everyone without the proper filters in place!
Some stuff I’m seeing is “But but, what if your instance admin goes crazy???” or “I just want ONE community, not a bunch of fragmented ones”
“but what if the ceo of your big centralized corporate website goes crazy?..”
Or conspire to remove credit from a dead man’s accomplishments.
Aaron Swartz
What a guy. RIP
Hey OP, is that Ubuntu font you used for this post?
Indeed! Ubuntu Mono Bold (I think). I made this in GIMP.
Future is today, old man.
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What does this actually have to do with Futurama?
Some of it is questionable if it falls within the guidelines of what we want for the community. However, this being one of the more active communities right now it does provide area of discussion on big changes that may be coming to Lemmy. Also, everyone has been really behaving here so no need to crack the whip, yet.
Totally agree with @Alchemy. I’m ok with it as long as people are being civil. However, let’s avoid extended discussions on this particular topic (Reddit) on future posts. Thanks!