I think people are forgetting that Reddit didn’t start off with communities (subs), they came later. Reddit got big the same way all sites that don’t have a built in audience (e.g. Threads users basically being Insta users) - time and commitment.
Lemmy is not going to be as big as Reddit for a long, long time. Everyone has fallen into this habit of thinking all Reddit mods are power crazy egomaniacs and some are, no doubt, but the good subs on Reddit required dedicated time and effort to build up. Curating, introducing and constantly readjusting rules and expectations and at some point a good sub reaches a tipping point and it’s popular.
All this will take time with Lemmy. Community mods will need to be as dedicated as Reddit mods were. And, as a side issue, this commitment to making and keeping a community great is what spez and his idiot gremlins have just thrown away. It’s not about user numbers for Reddit, it’s now a priority for them to get mods who are willing and able to put in the amount of work the mods they just alienated had. Subreddit engagement stats are mostly going down take a look at the number of posts and the number of comments for r/askreddit, it’s a steady decline.
Lemmy might not ever get as big as Reddit but it will grow if mods stay committed and users keep posting and commenting. If that happens, that same tipping point will come.
I have no idea what the word ‘ephebophiles’ means but the fact it’s got the syllable ‘phile’ in it and it’s an anime sub makes me too nervous to google its meaning.
We just added Alexandrite to the server, it’s an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to a.lemmy.world and have a look!...
This is excellent news :) I’ve been using Alexandrite since u/sheodox announced it so I’m very pleased to see it added as a dedicated front end for .world :)
I’ve got a lot of services, some in docker, some in LXC or a VM in proxmox. Currently I’ve got no monitoring service. Recently a service went down and I didn’t notice for quite a while so now I’ve got a bunch of missing data. What monitoring tools do you all use? Looking for something that works with docker and plain...
I have Conky on my desktop and do a curl to a known page on my server to monitor if a web service is up every 60 seconds. If it’s down, I swap to a blinking animated gif as an icon and play an alert sound.
Downvotes mean even less on a Lemmy instance than they did on Reddit. They don’t affect your ability to post to a Community, or comment on a Post or start a Community and they don’t affect your comments position in a thread.
It therefore doesn’t matter in any way if people upvote or downvote your stuff, let it go as a concern.
Or, if simply sharing an instance with left leaning people is what really bothers you, exploding heads exists.
No open source clients means we just have to trust all that stuff about the apps/networks privacy. That’s an odd choice for an org who claim to be dedicated to privacy, so it’s a ‘thanks but no thanks’ from me.
I’m not basing my opinion on your point of view. I’m basing it on the opinion that any organisation that makes claims about strong privacy but doesn’t allow people to check their work is essentially saying ‘just trust me bro’.
I feel so stupid now. I can’t believe I ever thought a good way to save on costs was to not pay executives millions of pounds in wages and bonuses every quarter. Now I realise it’s better to lower wages/hours for minimum wage staff on zero hour contracts or lay them off.
It’s not just the Tories, Keir Starmer has already tried to get VPN’s included in the bill. Don’t kid yourself its going to be any better when Labour get in.
No doubt, but he’s very likely going to be the next PM. Even if the current proposed legislation doesn’t get through the Lords or get scrapped or not implemented before the Tories get booted out, he clearly sees this sort of bill as a good thing and will introduce his own.
I guess whoever is up earliest on a Thursday gets to make it, and isn’t being up really early cause enough for complaint in itself? Hmm, this is far too deep philosophy for so early in the morning....
What’s boiling my piss today is a bit nerdy, so apologies up front.
Why do 3rd party providers only make their scripts available via bloody iframes??? Honestly Stripe, I now can’t style or access the DOM for any part of the card fields!
It gets worse - Stripe seem to have replaced their front line support staff with a irritatingly upbeat AI. It’s clearly a cheap knock-off as the ‘I’ part of it is lacking…
Quite a few people over the years, whilst fully accepting that I was an atheist, were puzzled as to why I extended that to Satanism. There’s a variety of reasons for me. Firstly, whilst I’m not interested in theistic religion, I do like the ‘religion’ part of that phrase. The word ‘religions’ Latin root word is...
It’s an OK article but would’ve liked Max to be a little kinder in terms of an explanation as to why both Lemmy and KBin are at the state they’re currently in.
Six weeks ago, the two dev teams (and for KBin that was one person) were writing code for barely used platforms. Now all of a sudden, the code they’re writing is catering to over a million people across hundreds of instances. This is Alpha software so of course some tools and documentation are missing. These two dev teams have been in fire-fighting mode for the last few weeks I expect. There’s no large dev teams here, no billionaire backers able to throw money at an issue.
The article was good overall but it would’ve been better if there’d been an explanation offered as to how they’re being developed and why some features are not in place yet.
Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.
How exactly did Reddit become a top website and what does Lemmy need to do to eventually get there?
Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?
r/anime ephebophiles upset that their yearly competition to determine who they think is hottest teenager was botted (old.reddit.com)
Finals announcement...
Ithica - The Language of Injury (Hardcore/Shoegaze, UK, 2019) (piped.video)
Alexandrite UI: https://a.lemmy.world
We just added Alexandrite to the server, it’s an alternative desktop UI for Lemmy created by Sheodox who worked tirelessly to make the necessary changes to we could host it ourselves here. So go to a.lemmy.world and have a look!...
Employed To Serve - Exist (Hardcore, UK, 2021) (piped.video)
Poetry books
Wanted to hear what your favorite poetry books are?
[Opinion] About Lemmy
Hi guys. This is not going to be a long post and I will briefly explain why I didn’t like Lemmy and going straight back to Reddit....
Selfhosted Monitoring Tools
I’ve got a lot of services, some in docker, some in LXC or a VM in proxmox. Currently I’ve got no monitoring service. Recently a service went down and I didn’t notice for quite a while so now I’ve got a bunch of missing data. What monitoring tools do you all use? Looking for something that works with docker and plain...
Is Lemmy a liberal echo chamber?
You know, where dissenters get downvoted.
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Are people outraged just to be outraged or are they outraged because they don't understand?
I’m going to come to the conclusion that people are simply uneducated. Simply based on the responses I’ve already gotten....
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
Git repository storage/forge recommendations?
Looking into possibly replacing my GitLab instance, as I find it bloated and heavy on both hardware and maintenance compared to alternatives....
My turn for the Thursday complaints thread!
I guess whoever is up earliest on a Thursday gets to make it, and isn’t being up really early cause enough for complaint in itself? Hmm, this is far too deep philosophy for so early in the morning....
Yeah, but why Satan?
Quite a few people over the years, whilst fully accepting that I was an atheist, were puzzled as to why I extended that to Satanism. There’s a variety of reasons for me. Firstly, whilst I’m not interested in theistic religion, I do like the ‘religion’ part of that phrase. The word ‘religions’ Latin root word is...
Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives? (www.pcmag.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2164989...
Porta Nigra - Es ist Krieg (German Black Metal, 2023) (piped.video)
New album Weltende is out on the 28th July.
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Apple Suggest They Will Withdraw iMessage and FaceTime In UK If Law Changes Go Ahead (www.theguardian.com)
Apple has said planned changes to British surveillance laws could affect iPhone users’ privacy by forcing it to withdraw security features, which could ultimately lead to the closure of services such as FaceTime and iMessage in the UK.