Horror author from New England. Principal engineer. Active HWA, Codex member.
Co-founder, Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.
Personal: https://semioticstandard.com
Lol Austin Powers: https://libquotes.com/mike-myers/quote/lbb8l7s
The Internet, sadly, has always been an awful place for women and minorities. I hope we can build a culture here where that kind of shit isn’t tolerated, and all (sans trolls, bigots, racists, and Nazis) are made to feel welcome and respected.
Except the Dutch. Fuck those guys.
Someone did, though there’s nothing on it now https://lemmynsfw.com/
Makes you wonder how many absolutely awesome things that society has lost, or would otherwise have, if capitalism and greed hadn’t absolutely fucking ruined things. It’s tragic that we can’t have nice things just because they’re nice, someone has to make a buck in order for a thing to exist.
I want Lemmy to succeed, I want to be optimistic about it as an alternative to Reddit, but OP is correct, and we need to be honest about this very simple fact:
The Reddit we knew and loved is gone, and that’s a sad, tragic thing, and there likely won’t be a 1:1 replacement for a long time, if ever.
It’s okay to admit to ourselves that this whole situation sucks, because it absolutely does. That doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy Lemmy and other federated things like it, and it doesn’t mean that federation doesn’t have advantages over Reddit, but let’s be honest: most of us were happy at Reddit, using our favorite 3rd party app (like Apollo), and we wouldn’t be here if the admins weren’t happy to kill what we once loved.
All we can do is try to make the best of it.
Agreed. This is depressing as hell. Apollo is a joy to use. There are so many niche communities on Reddit that I enjoy, and even if Lemmy or other federated things like it take off, those communities are largely going to die. This is a tragedy, no matter how you look at it. We are losing.
Sure, I’ll give it a go, thank you for thinking of me. The whole bullshit with Twitter and now Reddit has me feeling pretty burned on corporate-owned social media, so I’m likely to stick with federated things like Masto, Lemmy, etc., but I’ll give it a go. I am curious about it. I wonder why they’re leaning so hard on the waitlist thing? They’re losing precious adoption time, as people are right now wanting to move away from Twitter. Or rather, they have been wanting that for months, so there may already be a lot of lost opportunity re: user attention or interest.
Hey, I co-founded Rocky! I’m always chuffed to see people using and enjoying it.
Yes, absolutely. I love(d) Reddit! All the niche communities, all the subs that I enjoyed so much, like r/whowouldwin and r/tiktokcringe and r/askhistorians and so many more :(
I admit, I have sentimentality attached there. It sucks. It does feel almost like the loss of a friend.
I’m totally on board with pirating content in those situations. I recognize it isn’t a black-or-white issue.
Why should you get to enjoy something you haven’t paid for, especially while others have?
I couldn’t say, they’re closed to new users. I’ve been on the wait list for a long time, but no joy.
I’m skeptical that it ultimately won’t just turn into Twitter 2.0
I know this opinion is wildly unpopular, but I think pirating is unethical. If you can’t afford something, or you disagree with spending money for it, then fine. Don’t watch that show/listen to that song/play that game. But the people who make things deserve to get paid. It’s not right to refuse to pay for something while also consuming that content. Many of the justifications for pirating just feel like entitlement to me.
If you’re a systems/network engineer or a dev, the CLI is your home.
It wont replace it of course, it will just be another UI standard.
That’s the great thing about standards, there’s just so many of them!
I like that Lemmy and Masto don’t have those fucking algorithms. It’s a relief.
There’s a horror community here that we’re trying to revive, come check it out: https://lemmy.ml/c/horror
Austin Powers quote! https://libquotes.com/mike-myers/quote/lbb8l7s