So I didn’t even know avatars were a thing on Reddit because I’ve used sync for so long. After migrating to Lemmy this is a thing I noticed they have and I actually added one. Will S4L include these? It’s not a huge deal I’m buying it anyways, just curious if it will be added to it.

  • Vangarell@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, reddit had chat and we weren’t allowed to have it because they decided they didn’t want to create an AP for 3rd parties to use.

    I wouldn’t presume Lemmy will lock features to its own app or site in an effort to monetize them or keep their users in their own apps.

    I expect that ljdawson will bring in the features of the Lemmy site over to the app as he sees fit. And that we’ll have a pretty complete experience.

    • iso@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy doesn’t have “their own app” nor does it have “its own site”. It’s all open source. There is no one company behind it. The one issue that might arise is that the open source project is being led by a bunch of developers who could in theory go rogue, but people would just create a fork (kinda like a copy) of the source code and create their own lemmy instances. On top of that, Lemmy instance admins would likely not install the updates from the main developers.

      Don’t worry, we’re safe here.

      Forever and ever :3

    • ramEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If there are missing features from the Lemmy API, that can be requested or even someone can implement them themselves. Pending approval from the project maintainers, they’ll be made a part of the main branch of Lemmy and thus all updated Lemmy instances will have access to these new API features.

  • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I downvoted this post. One thing that made Reddit better than other social networks was that it focused on content and not on users. The mere fact that Reddit is called a social network now instead of a link aggregation platform is IMHO the result of adding more and more personalization features.

    On other networks the look of a user or their public image is always front and center and is almost more important than the content.

    Hacker news is in its own way the better reddit (again: IMHO) as the only thing that distinguishes users is their username. So we always have to engage with a users content.

    I hope lemmy will not go the way that Reddit did in adding all these personalization features. They didn’t make Reddit better, they simply increased the dopamine hits that people get. Reddit didn’t improve because engaging with it was becoming more satisfying in the psycho-chemical department. It just became more profitable in the ad-revenue department.

    Lemmy doesn’t need to be optimized for ad-revenue. It can be optimized for thoughtful, civil discussions instead.