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.
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.
Once Sync publishes their first public build it's over for Reddit. Native simply can't compete with Sync.
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.
Did they say how much is going to be for their suscription? not planning on buying but I'm curious as to how much per user is sustainable for 3rd party apps
I almost feel bad for him, that's going to be a losing battle both financially and because at this point Reddit doesn't have very much of a future.
Especially financially since we all know that there are going to be plenty of people who might use it without paying for it (cracked apps, while not as common as they used to be are still definitely a thing).
There's already 3 in development that I know of. 2 for Android and 1 for IOS.
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!
Not sure about censoring links but they definetly rolled back manual edits i made to about 6 months of posts and comments pointing to join-lemmy.org and lemmy.world
They've got astroturfers in every thread on the big subs that are basically FUDing the shit out of everything that isn't Reddit. Oh Lemmy too hard, oh Lemmy too complicated, Oh Lemmy require email on signup. They have so many shills now that they had to actually start handing out six month old accounts. It's hilarious to see.
kbin.social. I heard they removed posts, banned users etc.
Staff? The post doesn't really specify if it's Reddit admins or users that are talking about us
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
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.
Lol you assume all boomers invented and built the internet ? Wait till you meet my uncle.
We programmed VRC
/subscribed
Lemmy works on mobile devices.
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!
True that, but hey I actually think that boomers et all, (we all do sometimes) kind of pulled up the ladder on that skill set if you know what I mean, like I watched so much stuff change in a negative way in my generation, decisions made by people over 30, who did it just as a money grab or in order to prevent people from becoming "competent" or "capable" at stuff.
I'm talking about everything from removable batteries to built in batteries, exposed screws on frames to plastic caps, CPU going from LGA sockets to ball grid array, supergluing plastic clips for DC power supplies, lots of little things have been done to essentially prevent people from being able to do their jobs or even fix their own things properly.
I'm an honest believer that sometimes in order to go two step forwards you may need to take one step back, because moving forwards sometimes naturally involves looking at how you would make things more approachable for the next generation, and a lot of people have purposefully done the exact opposite in order to assert dominance or simply contain others, and have inadvertently handicapped not only their own offspring, but every single person further down the line, due to their shortsightedness.
Just look at the way Japan's appliance engineers have normalized planned obsolescence of "hard to recycle" stuff, and the resulting mountain of e-waste that China, the Philippines and now the rest of the world now has to deal with.
Sorry for the long rant. Japans big conglomerates have done a shit job engineering stuff, and would make for better artists than engineers, and America being one of the largest consumer markets for many of their end products has enabled this crap.
Just my two cents.
This!
This is pretty accurate... Sadly.
Future is today, old man.
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As a young man I'm highly offended
I don’t think you’re using the word gaslighting correctly
...hello? Streisand?
Hey OP, is that Ubuntu font you used for this post?
Indeed! Ubuntu Mono Bold (I think). I made this in GIMP.
If Reddit made this then I'm sad to say all is lost already for them. That meme isn't gaslighting it's making fun of Reddit. Whenever you end with not uh you are, it's over.
A dork apparently lol
Literally the worst come back ever since college lol
They do look like dorks.
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!
Don't you see the robot?
