The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

  • @[email protected]
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    1431 year ago

    Yeh I’m in the same boat. The day the internal memo came out about how everything will blow over, I deleted Apollo. I haven’t been back to reddit since and after the first week, I don’t even miss it now.

    I wish lemmy was a bit busier, but outside of that the general atmosphere and quality here is better. Even if everything was reversed and Spez was booted, I won’t return now.

    • @ThinlySlicedGlizzy
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      1011 year ago

      Just wait till the third party apps shut down tomorrow, loads of people will be rolling in here. Then when the RIF and Sync developers release their Lemmy apps (with the same names) even more people will come. If you want there to be content right now though just keep contributing to posts you see. The more content we make right now, the more likely it is for new users to stay,

      • WideEyedStupid
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        231 year ago

        I can’t wait for Slide for Lemmy. Always loved that app!

        But it’s awesome to see so many developers already working on stuff for Lemmy. It’s simply bonkers to me that reddit looked at all these people who created so much for them and basically told them to go fuck themselves.

      • The Picard Maneuver
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        141 year ago

        I have accounts on a bunch of instances, just in case the traffic takes some down.

          • @MysteriousSophon21
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            71 year ago

            What’s different about it? I’m on mobile, can someone explain?

            • TheOneCurly
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              It’s the home of the online piracy community. Dbzer0 is the founding mod of r/piracy.

        • @ext23
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          11 year ago

          Sorry, another newbie here, what’s the point of having accounts on different instances? Can’t I post on any instance with the same account?

      • @VubDapple
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        81 year ago

        Where did you see an announcement about RIF for Lemmy? That’s awesome!

        • @bobbysq
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          171 year ago

          As far as I know, talklittle is focused on making a Tildes app called Three Cheers for now, and had been working it even before the announcement from Reddit. As much as it would be nice to have a Lemmy successor to RIF, the closest we’ll probably get any time soon is an app that’s just inspired by the RIF design.

          • @Zarxrax
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            61 year ago

            Just FYI, the app Connect for Lemmy can be configured to look pretty similar to RIF by just toggling a few options.

          • alaphic
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            31 year ago

            Jerboa is also remarkably close to how rif looks/looked right out of the box

    • @Pregnenolone
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      471 year ago

      While I want to it be a little bit busier, I’m pleased that we’re not at the low-effort comment point e.g. every other comment being a pun or a shitpost or “this”

      • Flying Squid
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        161 year ago

        I’m old enough to remember the Eternal September on Usenet when AOL allowed their users to access it and there was a huge influx of people just posting “me too,” often in replies to replies to replies to replies of someone saying “me too.”

        Let’s hope Lemmy never reaches that level.

      • @Ryumast3r
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        51 year ago

        “Came here to say this”

      • TheSaneWriter
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        31 year ago

        Indeed. Honestly, what I’m missing is the high effort posts in slightly less active communities, especially things like r/nosleep or r/bestofredditorupdates.

    • @[email protected]
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      321 year ago

      Actually, I like the small community vibe of Lemmy. It’s the dead sub vibe I have a problem with. There are lots of really interesting communities, but you don’t see people posting anything yet.

      • @captainlezbian
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        191 year ago

        I like a lot of the tiny vibe but I miss girl Reddit. It was such a unique social media atmosphere and I haven’t managed to find it here. I hope more of the women from Reddit come here

        • @Ryumast3r
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          151 year ago

          Took a long time for that to become a thing.

          It’ll come here though for sure. I think most people are trying to filter into whatever communities exist right now to get a feel of how federation works but once everyone has a decent idea I think you’ll see an explosion of communities.

          • @captainlezbian
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            41 year ago

            Yeah that’s where I am. Also its important to remember that the apps are nice but very beta, and what we have now are early adopters. Like part of why I’m here is that I oppose the increasing corporatization of the internet enough to sacrifice a better experience for it. We need the people who care but not that much so we can get the people who don’t care but think this is a better space.

            It’s a long and slow process and if lemmy gains steam like we hope the real competition may start pushing centralized communities to quit their bullshit.

            I was talking to my wife about me joining here and she pointed out that Lemmy really is the best use case for the fediverse. Forums were hard to centralize unlike Microblogging and other more social media-y social media. It’s less individual user dependent of a format

        • @Buckeye
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          51 year ago

          My girl subreddits are my big miss too. Even my silly pop culture ones. Actually especially those.

          • @captainlezbian
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            41 year ago

            It’s not silly. It’s community and shared interests. And the response I’m seeing to my comment is assuring me that we’ll have these communities back before too long

        • @rookie
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          51 year ago

          I miss GirlGamers, honestly. It was such a refreshing perspective compared to the constantly angry/circlejerky dudebro vibe of 90% of gaming communities

          • @captainlezbian
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            21 year ago

            Yeah! It, trollx and witchesvspatriarchy were some of my favorite subs.

            • @TeaHands
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              31 year ago

              I’ve seen a couple of witchy communities pop up here, apologies I can’t link because I’m on mobile but try searching at lemmyverse.net and it should turn up some stuff.

            • @righteous_angst
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              11 year ago

              We’ve found each other again! Those were my top subs as well.

              • @captainlezbian
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                Yeah, this isn’t the same account name I used on them but I loved those subs. I’m so glad it looks like there are a lot of women on here

              • @captainlezbian
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                Yeah, this isn’t the same account name I used on them but I loved those subs. I’m so glad it looks like there are a lot of women on here

            • @gornar
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              11 year ago

              I really hope witchesvspatriarchy moves to the Fediverse; one of my faves

        • @Evrala
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          41 year ago

          That’s the one area that’s missing for me as well, there is a general lesbian community that was just started yesterday, sapphics on lemmy.world, yesterday I found it and was like “neat! I need to post to help this grow, errrr… what do I post?”

          • @captainlezbian
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            31 year ago

            Hmm maybe I’ll just have to post something silly about loving my wife on there

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          Are you looking for more girly communities? Maybe consider starting one if you can’t find what you’re looking for.

        • @Gushers
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          Am girl, excited to help build a community here!

      • ඞmir
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        71 year ago

        Using this to plug my community [email protected] for League of Legends stuff. Trying to make it a bit more popular but it seems like there’s only one other person posting so far

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          Keep on posting. As long as there’s something, other people won’t think it’s completely dead. Eventually others will start posting too.

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          lemmy.ml is defederated from all kbin instances, right? that might make it a harder place for a community to congregate. Just going off what I was reading in this reddit thread

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I was apprehensive of moving over to Lemmy, but I’m starting to get the feel of the fediverse and finally made the switch over.

      I think the community can grow over time. It honestly feels like early Reddit, I’m quite enjoying Lemmy!