• Sonemonkey@lemmy.world
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    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

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      A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.

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      Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

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          I do that sometimes, but that’s not even close to what I’m looking for. If they had a top hourly, that word be close

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            New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.

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      Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can’t tell if that would be useful or spammy.

      I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there’s a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.

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        I’m not sure, if most of the posts are just links to reddit, it could push people away. If it’s just like the actual image it could work. It’d probably be better to just do it manually for communities you’re personally interested in.

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        Respectfuly, please don’t. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they’re honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.

        I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.

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    I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

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      Yeah I learned so much reading other people’s comments, so I’m trying to recreate that on this site.

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        yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!

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    Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:

    • r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
    • Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.

    Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.

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    For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

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      The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere

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        I saw that post too. I can’t even begin to imagine the July 1st surge when all 3rd party reddit apps are forced to shut down.

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          Honestly, I’m excited! We are potentially the early comers to get the ball rolling if/when a huge number joins. We are the early people (not to discount those who came before everyone coming from reddit originally) that can help out and grow the communities

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            I witnessed the digg to reddit switch in 2010, now potentially seeing the beginning of reddit to lemmy/kbin. Fresh start, new communities, better connections. Can’t wait!

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        This also was the realization point for me that was the last straw for me. It was a hard struggle not opening Apollo first thing in the morning and all throughout the day for the first time in such a long time. But now I do my best to avoid touching anything on reddit at all.

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      has there been some particularly recent? It seems that the protest is slowly dying with sped not willing to budge and seems to be winning, unfortunatelly.

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    Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…

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    In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .

    Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.

    I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I’m not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I’m not buying it.

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    This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.

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      The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.

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    I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

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        It’s going to take a lot of bots to compare to the amount of bots and sock puppets on Reddit. At the very least we’re comparing apples to apples by including them in the “members” counts.

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        @ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)

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          It’s possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It’s essentially an arms race.

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      There was also just a huge dump of mods off some big subs, and a post about it on Lemmy with a link…I had been thinking about coming here specifically when I left Reddit, and the mod dump coupled with the link was the perfect opportunity, probably not just for me

      Also yay, my first ever comment on my new news platform

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      Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.

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    I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.

    I don’t even use third party apps. It’s just that I can’t give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.

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      Same here, I’m a software dev for a living and it resonated differently/pissed me off hearing about the API pricing changes and what happened with Apollo’s developer

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      That’s a good reason to jump ship. And wow, I think you missed out on not using the 3rd party apps, but they’re coming to lemmy soon.

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      I am the opposite. I had a Reddit login for years but never used it. When I found out about Apollo, I gave it another go and it quickly became my Number 1 Internet time sink.

      With Apollo no longer functional, Reddit (for me) is no longer functional.

      The fuckery was just the icing on the cake to force me to delete my account.

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    I’ve been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version

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    Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30

    Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

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      Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it’s digital shit, but still shit.

      Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that’s christian minecraft discussions!

      Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that’s interesting porn positions!

      Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it’s choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!

      No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)

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        Malicious compliance at it’s finest! Screwing with the Reddit admins like that will always get a chuckle out of me

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      Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days

      I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.