Following Reddit announcing its new API costs for developers that are killing third-party apps like Apollo, one of the most...
  • Xandolas@beehaw.org
    28·
    3 years ago

    The loss of the forum like help threads will probably be the most impactful thing. We can build communities elsewhere, but the 8 years old post about a problem only you and the OP is having is super valuable.

    • uthredii@beehaw.org
      9·
      3 years ago

      There was talk of someone populating a Lemmy instance with reddit data.

      There is a lot of reddit data on a torrent somewhere aparrently.

    • nhgeek@beehaw.org
      6·
      3 years ago

      I feel that. I posted about a Plex problem 2 years ago and the subsequent solution I worked out. Every once in a while I still get someone replying to that and thanking me.

    • woodenskewer@beehaw.org
      4·
      3 years ago

      That’s the thing that bothered me the most about deleting my account. I had multiple people say thanks for posting solutions and problems with solutions I had, even years later. Not specific to iphone but in general.

    • exhuma@beehaw.org
      3·
      3 years ago

      Not only that. But if Reddit really suffers badly from this it might also have an impact on small communities. It’s really simple to set up a community on any topic on there. And it’s currently mainstream enough that you can get people on-boarded pretty quickly.

      Larger communities may find a new home elsewhere. But for smaller ones that feels much more difficult.

      Thanks to last week’s fiasco I discovered the fediverse and hopefully others too. I just hope it’s intuitive enough that people don’t get scared away.

    • milkytoast@beehaw.org
      2·
      3 years ago

      yep. this is why i might still occasionally use reddit after this. r/askmechanics was so incredibly useful

  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
    14·
    3 years ago

    I am so happy to see people coming together and moving away from commercial platforms. It feels silly to say it, but it seems like it is a step in the right direction. It is technological and social progress. Decentralization is a really fantastic tool and it seems to be a system that cannot be controlled internally or externally. Mastodon has been great, and I expect Lemmy to be even better.

    To anyone reading, if you have any extra cash, look into making a small donation to your instance. The people running it are not just putting in time, they are likely paying hundreds a month to rent server space.

    • sydneybrokeit@beehaw.org
      6·
      3 years ago

      Money is going to be the deciding factor in the long-term health of the entire Fediverse. More users on each instance means more costs – and to some extent, even users not on that instance will contribute to cost. That money has to come from somewhere, and eventually, if the Fediverse is going to scale up to even a sizable portion of what we’re moving away from, we need real, consistent money involved. It doesn’t have to be full VC corpo junk, but eventually, some instances are going to need a team.

      I want this stuff to work great, but expecting the people running it to pay the cost forever isn’t sustainable.

      • mrchuckles@beehaw.org
        3·
        3 years ago

        would it be a good idea to have comment/post rewards like gold/silver etc. where the proceeds go to help fund instances?

        • sydneybrokeit@beehaw.org
          1·
          3 years ago

          So… it could work. But that’s not going to be consistent, and the federated nature of things like Lemmy makes for some weird structures. Can you give rewards across instances? What if one instance has “gold” at $1, but another has it at $0.50?

  • ivlarac@beehaw.org
    11·
    3 years ago

    This is great, many more subreddits should do something like this. But in the end, it’s us, the end users, who should do the actual protesting since it’s us who have the power to change things. I’ve decided not to give them any kind of traffic from now on. Me, by myself, won’t make much impact but if more of us did the same they’d be force to change their strategy.

    • Ghostalmedia@beehaw.org
      2·
      3 years ago

      Bummer that they’re vetting all new subscribers for an iPhone community. Seems like an aggressive gatekeeping tactic for a benign topic.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
        2·
        3 years ago

        I’ve heard in other lemmy communities that the vetting is mostly an attempt at an anti-spammer( and anti-troll) measure.

      • StringTheory@beehaw.org
        1·
        3 years ago

        They are? I was able to subscribe immediately. Wonder if it’s just being slow now. A few things I’ve subscribed to the last day or so have been slow to show up on my subscription list and I assumed it was the influx from Rexxit bogging things down a bit.

          • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org
            1·
            3 years ago

            I honestly thought “subscribe pending” was some kind of automated thing. I’ve subscribed to a ton of communities and gotten plenty of pending statuses. If I wait about 5 to 10 seconds, they all change to “subscribed”.

      • StringTheory@beehaw.org
        0·
        3 years ago

        There are two excellent lists I’ve seen. One is a community/sub browser made by someone on feddit.de, the other is a comprehensive list of reddit subs that have been duplicated in the Fediverse. (That one is surprisingly huge!). I didn’t make note of either of those, but surely someone will be along shortly with the links.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    7·
    3 years ago

    I like the “indefinite” part. Let it stay dark forever and have people make iphone subs in the lemmyverse. The Reddit is dead, long live the Lemmy!

  • Provenscroll@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 years ago

    I’m glad some subreddits are going dark for good, not only will this actually hurt reddit as a company but also it will lead to some people switching to alternatives like lemmy which is always a good thing.

    • bit0fun@beehaw.org
      0·
      3 years ago

      It’s been attempted in various spots, but either reddit itself removes the mentions or edits them out