Reddit is well structured to spur and better support larger scale migration, though, since subreddits are operated somewhat similarly to how Fediverse instances are run. They're structured such that they have hegemons and formal "leadership". If the mod teams of a reasonable number of medium sized active subreddits just decided to spin up their own lemmy or kbin instances, it would make fedi aggregators a real destination for Reddit folks overnight.
This is different from Twitter, where communities were informal structures, and no one had any kind of editorial control. It's way more structured.
The key is to sell mods on it, rather than individual users.
Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
Aside from the whole Fediverse concept (which as a current Matrix and Mastodon user I didn't have to relearn), the most confusing concept for new users I'd say would be that there can exist the same community on multiple servers (like, say, politics). But when you realize what this service is really doing, there's not really another way to do it and maintain moderation control on each server. It's actually a strength IMHO. I'm really impressed with what I'm seeing. More people coming onboard is going to make this place really fun. And if it ever becomes not fun, there'll probably be another server that would be more your idea of fun.
They aren't the most controversy-free group, but there's a lot of value in their existence, especially for people newly working toward privacy. It's also nice to see more groups acknowledging Lemmy
it's very much borrowed from one of the reddit subs i frequent(ed) often, but the idea is to share what we're playing weekly and hopefully create discussions around those games (or simply have a sort of "check-in").
Just curious. I crochet a bunch, newly including Tunisian crochet. Tried knitting but that shit's hard, and slowwww. Might use my knitting skills for super small stuff like washcloths, but I doubt I'd have the patience to create anything bigger....
when my grandmother passed she left behind a nearly finished blanket that I felt I needed to finish, been learning and practicing so I can get to the point I can finish it properly.
I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...
I'd rather crawl the 20 extra miles to a new community (and did) than use that app again. It's that bad. The reviews on Google Play are very telling. It's just a buggy mess.
Part of the Digg exodus and on Reddit for ~14 years, Old.Reddit + Reddit Enhancement Suite for PC and Reddit is Fun on Android are the only reason I lasted so long.
The Apollo dev comment on this. They have a subscription model already, but would need to more than double the cost just to meet the cost of the API.
They worked it out as $2.50 per month for the average user. But I'd be willing to bet that you'd have less users using it more if it cost that much, so it would need to be higher. And then you add taxes. And even then it's all going to reddit, the dev gets nothing.
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Boosting and upvoting are conceptually different
Update: this has now been resolved by changes to Kbin's voting system:...
Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned (www.reuters.com)
Beehaw's user count tripled this week (the-federation.info)
The overall Lemmy stats haven't changed as dramatically, but there has been an uptick in active users.
Reddit is Dead, long live.. leddi- lemmy?
It really whips the llama's ass. Post says it all. Foreveralone. Take my upvote. Are we in post-social media yet or what?
Which games you've been playing the longest but never finished?
For me:...
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my thoughts on lemmy so far
Just joined, and well, I'm thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you've done quite some good work here.
r/PrivacyGuides from Reddit has made a Lemmy (lemmy.one)
They aren't the most controversy-free group, but there's a lot of value in their existence, especially for people newly working toward privacy. It's also nice to see more groups acknowledging Lemmy
what are you playing this week?
it's very much borrowed from one of the reddit subs i frequent(ed) often, but the idea is to share what we're playing weekly and hopefully create discussions around those games (or simply have a sort of "check-in").
Anybody else knit or crochet?
Just curious. I crochet a bunch, newly including Tunisian crochet. Tried knitting but that shit's hard, and slowwww. Might use my knitting skills for super small stuff like washcloths, but I doubt I'd have the patience to create anything bigger....
Lemmy users be like (beehaw.org)
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