This truly is Reddit’s successor.
Regardless of the success (or failure) of the blackout what’s important is to create an alternative platform to Reddit. The blackout doesn’t have much legs because of the lack of alternative. Deep inside we all know that many will just go back to reddit once the blackout will end - it’s why the importance of creating an alternative.
Keep boosting Lemmy.
Lemmy and mastadon and the whole fedeverse are the future. We didn’t have our eyes open cause we where stuck in the Reddit world for so long. I’m learning more and more everyday and i’m loving it. So easy and so many people :P People will make this place close to reddit as they can but long live lemmy
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i think accessibility is why lemmy has such an “Old Internet” vibe to it. there are probably a lot of people here that joined reddit over a decade ago (my account turned 11 this year).
that and, there’s no reason to tie your real identity to your account. i think about the difference between lemmy and mastodon (aside from mastodon being like twitter). i look at mastodon maybe a few times a month, but when i do look at it, i see people using their real identities and posting as if it’s a piece of their professional career
Putting your real name and face on the internet has always been a mistake
Not necessarily.
Something like Facebook is still useful for keeping in touch with extended family and social circles. I may not particularly care about great uncle John, but it’s nice to be aware that he’s in the hospital after a bad fall without that information going through 5 rounds of the telephone game.
Somewhere like Reddit or the fediverse? I would never want my real identity associated with these accounts. It’s nice to have some anonymity.
Facebook is a (mistake/evil plot)
Facebook in specific? Sure.
But the idea of platform meant for keeping in loose direct contact with your extended family and social group? That has merit.
I remember having to explain to people what subreddit where, once lemmy/kbin upgrade their UI enough it will be no more complicated.
Kbins build docs are a nightmare. I have experience with Linux and docker. Can’t get them to work at all. Closest I get are 500 errors and one can’t find a log tossing errors to explain it to save my life.
Maybe I’m not as well familiarized with the parts and pieces as I thought, though I’ve built plenty of Drupal stacks and the like, even using docker and Ansible etc.
Then I look at PRs showing sql injection fixes and XSS fixes and I’m like…oh
i’m so glad we’re off reddit so now we can say what we really feel about spez
Apollo was the only reason i used reddit…
Joey for me
Same with Sync
Same with Relay
Same with RIF
Same with RedReader
Reddit is going to let RedReader still work. They need it for accessibility. Also the dev is thinking of letting you access lemmy with RedReader.
I think the fundamental thing for alternatives to succeed is that they can’t primarily exist as outlets for us to complain about reddit. Certainly there’s going to be a lot of that given that reddit’s actions sparked a partially-reluctant exodus, but the best revenge is living well and all that.
The crunch will come after June 30th. We’ll see how many people really ditch Reddit once third party apps stop working.
Do you think if the mobile Reddit apps stop working (the ones that are miles better than the official Reddit app), mobile users are going to flock to kbin/lemmy? Are there any good mobile apps? All the ones I could find are extremely alpha/beta quality.
Bleh, gatekeeping is trash
I mean the only people who are gatekeeping are those that prevent themselves from joining because they are unwilling to work out how the fediverse and by extension Lemmy work and how it’s actually surprisingly easy to use, once you get used to it.
In other words people’s fear of change is the true gatekeeper here.
Still annoying, but so long as we don’t try to make it harder for these people to adapt than it already is, I think there should be no problems.
The biggest benefit I see so far is the lack of bots. I know there are still some bots out there but most of them are useful bots and not just karma farming bots or bots designed for propaganda.
