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The #RedditMigration isn’t about any app being better than Reddit. It’s about a company that’s grown on the backs of volunteer labour now claiming ownership of that labour.
Reddit didn’t write those posts, draw those illustrations, make those videos. We did.
And Reddit sure as hell didn’t create those communities, nurture them, and moderate them. We did.
I agree with tech writers who say that the average person just “wants their memes”. But Reddit never made those memes. We did.
Content might be king. But who makes content? We do.
I have no doubt that the average person just wants content. But while we might be providing content for free, we’re not dancing monkeys. Who decides why content is made, how it’s made, and where it exists? We do.
The Fediverse doesn’t exist merely as an engine for content. It exists so that people can share what they love.
Why are people coming to the Fediverse specifically? Because we rightfully see ActivityPub as insurance for our content – which, again, is made by and for us.
Not Reddit. Not Big Social. Us.
If I’m giving my content away for free, then so long as it is federated, no one company can own it – putting up gates, demanding payment for my work. Instead, my work is out there, living on 24,000 nodes that presently exist.
Android Authority might dismiss this as “suffering the same fate” – what fate they perceive, I don’t know. But to me, the true “suffering” is when a company like Reddit claims ownership of my work, locking 3rd party developers out from API access.
For this reason, I’m locking Reddit out from my work.
Perhaps the author of this post, Dhruv Bhutani, doesn’t consider that he’s writing for a, well, blog. And that this blog exists on its own domain, with its own design, as its own property. He could have written this entire post on Reddit, but he didn’t.
Why? I suspect it’s because he believes his work has value, and Reddit simply doesn’t give him what he believes is his worth.
Same deal with me. I’m not looking to get paid for my work on Reddit. I do it for fun – always have. But if I’m doing something for fun, it’s still going to be on my terms.
Not all of us creatives are willing to be a cog in Big Social’s machine. That’s why I’m here on the Fediverse right now. I don’t give a damn whether the average person just wants memes. I create for me.
So yeah, Lemmy and Kbin suck. I can live with that – they will both improve. And I have no doubt that, with time, they might prove to be better than Reddit.
But this isn’t about how good Lemmy or Kbin are. Nor is this about the insatiable appetite for memes.
This is about my need to create on my terms – and I’m not alone here.
@atomicpoet@fediversenews Being also a #Reddit refugee, I would disagree with most statements, however, the following one is mostly true: “the platform (#Lemmy) is far from ready to be a consumer-oriented product. Not only does it lack polish, but it lacks the diversity of content, polished #apps, and ease of access needed to hit consumer momentum.”
The #Fediverse idea is superior to corporate platforms, but it has to provide a similar user experience to succeed.
Neuer CEO: Twitter legt Fokus auf vertikale Videos inklusive Smart-TV-App
Twitter beabsichtigt vertikale Videoinhalte voranzutreiben – inklusive einer App für Smart-TVs. Die neue Chefin erklärt weitere Details zur Twitter-Zukunft.
We've been told Google Play transparently shows what data is collected etc, right? And whether an app has Ads? Well, dream on. I've just checked an app to see if it would fit my repo. Below is what Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.isaakhanimann.journal) says about it (no "Ads" marker), then the results from my library scanner.
@christianselig
I categorize #apps by how important they are for me, from least (first below) to most:
🔹All other apps on the #AppStore
🔹Apps that I have bought but not installed
🔹Apps that I have installed but are in the app drawer
🔹Apps that are on one of my home screens (4 pages, hierarchical)
🔹Apps that are on my main home screen but in a folder
🔹Apps that are directly accessible on my main home screen
🔹Apps that reside in the #bluebanana zone on my main home screen <- #Apollo lives here
At this point I am literally just begging you to stop putting hCaptcha in your apps. Please. I don't know what else to do. Please. Please don't do it. If it's on a website we at least have a chance. As bad a chance it might be. But if it's in your app anyone who can't do a captcha is completely locked out. So please. Do not do it.
Wenn ihr hier im Fediversum bleibt, werde ich wohl auf Lemmy auch ein Account seperat machen.
Aber wenn nach dem #Streik eh wieder alle #Reddit User zurück gehen, werde ich es deshalb mal paar Tage noch abwarten.
Kann zwar von hier zum Beispiel ich_iel folgen, aber von den Forum bekomm ich trotzdem nur das mit was ich iel teilt. Nicht ganz praktisch glaub. Deswegen würde ich mich da noch ein Account extra dann machen.
I've been playing around with the Jetpack app (Android version on my Samsung S21) to write, edit and post to WordPress and I'm REALLY loving it. It's so intuitive-- cool things like when you do a hard return, it makes a new block, and the blocks have arrows to move them up and down, etc. It's wild. It's also really easy to format things, and I'm finding the UI excellent and easy to figure out without much thought at all, which is a total surprise. Should've been using this earlier!
I want to make a Wirecutter for #apps. Like, this is very best app for X purpose. (no games) Anyone want to start a new media pub with me? (Just kidding lol but I sorta want this to exist)
There are several really awesome looking third party #iOS apps... and all we have is #Tusky
Now that's no shade on Tusky.. which I love! And given that it is free, I got zero complaints toward it..
..but I'd be happy to pay for some upgrades..Tusky or otherwise..
..and yes I realize the logic is that "people willing to pay for an #iPhone will pay for #apps" is a thing.. but I promise all Android users aren't cheap.. just selective.. 🙂
Lately I've managed to stick to my routines by blocking social media and other time wasters completely from my devices in the evening and morning with Freedom, sticking to bedtime with Sleep town and timing my routines with RoutineFlow. 👌 #Productivity#Apps
OC Some of the Chinese iOS apps I use daily
大家好, 歡迎 /m/chinese!...