Is https://botsin.space/@threadcount on drugs? It is showing lemmy/kbin at 437,000 right now
Everyone figuring out /u/spez is full of shit
Im really enjoying my experience here on Lemmy. Kinda like how I enjoyed reddit in the beginning
People that have ~1 week of ping time (as yours truly) are finally getting to their todo list item of checking alternatives to Reddit and making an account and first posts :)
I love that analogy. Same for me, been meaning to check out Lemmy for weaks and just made an accont yesterday
For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I’m extremely happy to be here!
Edited: messed up posting the Dev’s name. Thanks @DTFpanda@lemmy.world
A fellow RiF user, do I detect?
Nope, Sync for Reddit, here! Soon to be Sync for Lemmy.
LJ Dawson, lol
Reddit’s meltdown
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To make a long story short… Reddit’s doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit’s CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy
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May also have to do with reddit users wondering why all their favorite subs are now full of pictures of John Oliver and Wales (which are newer acts of protest).
Tasteful pictures, mind you
What caused me to just delete the app and my account is the post by the Apollo creator today. When you see it all put together, it’s really shameful how poorly the community, moderators, and devs are treated. It was a huge post and on popular
It’s there a screenshot or something? I’ve done good about not logging in…
It’s a very long image, so I’m not sure how readable it’ll be, but I used Apollo’s awesome “share as image” feature to do this (hoping it’ll be implemented in one of the Lemmy iOS apps soon).
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Yeah that poor Apollo dev who was making half a million dollars a year for 10 years. Won’t someone think of the little guy for once?
Announcement 📣 📣 I want to debunk Reddit’s claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/
Maybe this helped?
Is it not because of hexbear deforking?
what is hexbear? they suddenly appeared today with tons of user?
Leftist shitposting lemmy instance. It recently updated in perperation for federation. It’s not federated yet but plans to federate with lemmygrad and later more instances.
thanks for the info…
how is their community? is it bad for normies like us? are they contend to post on their instance only or actively trolling on other instances?
Could it be because r/ModCoord recommended moving to kbin, lemmy etc.?
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Yeah major mods are now actively promoting the switch to lemmy.
not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option
I’m tired of capitalism and greed ruining everything I love!
This is why I’m here finally. I didn’t hear about this until the Reddit shenanigans. Finally took the plunge.
They’re starting to de-mod folks.
Are they?
Yeah, the sole mod on r/celebrities was removed without warning and shadow banned
I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can’t tell if that would be useful or spammy.
I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there’s a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.
Respectfuly, please don’t. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they’re honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.
I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.
Yeah, that’s exactly why I was asking. I figured this might be the sentiment.
I’m not sure, if most of the posts are just links to reddit, it could push people away. If it’s just like the actual image it could work. It’d probably be better to just do it manually for communities you’re personally interested in.
Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.
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New is good
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
I do that sometimes, but that’s not even close to what I’m looking for. If they had a top hourly, that word be close
A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.
spez’s continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.
The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere
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Honestly, I’m excited! We are potentially the early comers to get the ball rolling if/when a huge number joins. We are the early people (not to discount those who came before everyone coming from reddit originally) that can help out and grow the communities
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has there been some particularly recent? It seems that the protest is slowly dying with sped not willing to budge and seems to be winning, unfortunatelly.
As subreddits continue to protest… the lemmy FOMO is becoming real….
I’m here because I saw a comment mentioning it and I wondered what it was. Then I saw there were threads with hundreds of responses and thought, “hey, this isn’t actually dead, maybe it could be fun”
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