Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
That will be when reddit.old is culled. They have been preparing to qwell 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
Unpopular opinion: they like it there, and aren’t going to switch no matter what happens. We’ll see.
Well I’m here to stay because fuck reddit
The online version of Stockholm syndrome?
What happened this time?
I’m curious, too. I suppose I’m out of the loop!
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…
The thing is that the more people use Lemmy the more content there will be
Same, but then I immediately returned to reddit. Today I suddenly realized I wanted to leave reddit, so here I am again. Any good tips for Android apps?
Voyager is my go-to.
I see sync recommended too, but I would recommend against that one. I had to buy it for reddit twice because the dev invalidated the license and took away premium features on an upgrade. So I’m not using their shit ever again.
The 2 specific communities I want to read without a mirroring one in the fediverse I still read through RSS.
Yead is better than using web or their app. And still get my fix.
I also use Boost as I was using that back on Reddit. Voyager is also an excellent Lemmy app too.
I use Boost for Lemmy (paid for, so no ads etc.). It’s what I used for Reddit, so the transition was super easy, but there’s lots of FOSS Lemmy clients on F-Droid that are good too.
Any good tips for Android apps?
Sync, I used it for reddit before they fucked the API. And now I use it for Lemmy. It’s one of the smoothest apps I’ve ever used.
I intentionally sabotaged my account to get banned so that I couldn’t go back. Lol
Yeah that’s when I left, well before when they started talking about it.
It’s not the same which is great
I came here a week ago from Reddit! There are dozens of us!
Welcome !
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 was your reason?
This is where they want you. Head down to the dock and he’ll show you to the Census Office.
And don’t steal any expensive platters!
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m only recently arrived here but already the tech stack seems significantly more stable
Than Reddit? Yeah.
I still visit some niche subs with old.reddit.com, but I don’t see how users even stand the new site.
Obligatory: fuck u/spez.
That is exactly what I expect to happen as well
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.
Really? Where? Like, can you give a specific example?
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.
^This… and my ax (am I doing it “right”?) It’s human nature and we’ll do it again here unless we remain vigilant against the trend.
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.
It’s been 2 hours. He ded.
The enemy of my enemy is on Lemmy
The Lenemys! You’re a genius, IninewCrow!
Lemon-stealing whores.
Whenever I see this referenced it makes me think of an old man I worked for named Olan. Olan was an asshole. He was a jerk. He was just a miserable old man with no redeeming qualities.
We did odd jobs for him because he was in a wheelchair and couldn’t do them anymore. One time my brother was cleaning out a disgusting, moldy, vile stench filled chest freezer for him while he screeched at my brother for gagging, and chucking random shit at him for being “a whiny little faggot”
But the thing that makes me remember him when I hear “lemon stealing whore” is this day a friend visited him while we were there, and the friend asked about some guy who used to work for him
Friend: whatever happened to Bill?
Olan: fired him. He stole my battery terminal cleaners*
Friend: he did?
Olan: yeah. Died, too. Stung by some bees.
Friend: that’s a shame
Olan: he’s cleaning in batteries in hell now
*Terminal cleaners, if you don’t know, are at most a 10 dollar item
ppl can just say the non lemmy instances, im making a private one called hardlywork.ing, just reccomend any url that isnt lemmy, I think theres moistcatsweat, any like that. They’ll figure out its lemmy once they’re on it
Also lemmy isnt lemmy, its technically just one way into the threadiverse with more coming, piefed and kbin may be fine to mention
shadow town sounds nice to me :)
I fucking love this meme lolol
Meanwhile let’s hype up Mbin & PieFed as well They deserve some love too (oh & XMPP as well)
As a side-note, we still need to rename Communities to SubLemmy or SubFeddit & make it “l/COMMUNITY-NAME”
Lol no we don’t, Lemmy shouldn’t be just a Reddit clone
