Amazing feeling.

  • English Mobster
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    811 months ago

    It’s kind of like when Mastodon started to take off. Hopefully it’s self-sustaining.

    I’m really interested to see what will happen on July 1st, when Reddit cuts off API access.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      Reddit sustains on having go-to communities.

      Public freakout is inherently entertaining.

      Wallpaper board. Even if you don’t use reddit, you likely went there for wallpapers.

      Emulation and console hacking. If these become main discussion points on lemmy, less will go to reddit first for the info. Same for crypto. Same for Linux enthusiasts, knife collectors, car nuts.

      We need that instant “I’m sure Lemmy would know” mindset that we already have with reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      i dont think they’re cutting it off completely, just charging for it, and it’s gonna be stupidly expensive

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        It’s effectively the same as cutting it off for third party apps. No small-time app developer has 20 million lying around.

        They’re trying to profit as much as possible from the AI companies that want to scrape user data, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Killing third party apps are just a nice side benefit as they can get more eyeballs on ads.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          yea it’s 100% basically the same thing. i hope they’ll see that it won’t go over too well with the community

      • rhabarba
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        511 months ago

        I honestly had not even noticed that Feddit defaults to “Active”. :-)

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      It really reminds me of Reddit circa 2012.

      A little wilder but also a little more innocent so it balances out.

  • Millions
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    111 months ago

    What does the active tab do? Like what’s the difference between hot and active