Thanks and Cheers!

I guess we have to make that post their top post now

MAh iNbLocKs R bLoWin uP!

Local communities are lacking. We don't have the critical mass for that.

More diversity, but since we're commenting under a new user's comment, that may be correcting itself.

Niche topics was all I ever used Reddit for, so in my case, Lemmy just doesn’t replace Reddit at all. None of the subreddits I follow have an active equivalent Lemmy community. They go from a few posts a day and dozens of comments on Reddit to “last post: 3 years ago” on Lemmy.

Here’s an earlier comic that will help explain and add more questions for you.

The real question: why not tits Garfield?

I have faith he flips his bicycle and knocks out his front teeth, which still won’t be enough.

Ha fair enough, I’ll go back to my hole now. Just happy to find a place that reminds of what reddit used to be like back in the 2010’s. Cheers!

The spirit of /u/RimjobSteve lives on, even as reddit perishes.

Definitely federated

ha yeah!

If you allow me to do a bit of self-promotion: https://code.mschae23.de/mschae23/mlmym (this is my fork of the software running on old.lemmy.world).

It's a different frontend rather than just a theme, so it needs to be set up separately (similar to lemmy-ui). If you have any questions, feel free to ask me :)

How I envy your ignorance

I'd wager that older dumps are higher quality, before the mass redactions and deletions of the various exoduses. If you're looking for up to date information on current topics, it's time to look for (or build) other places.

The problem with AI is that while 80% of the time it will provide correct information, but 20% of time it will generate very convincingly sounded bullshit.

This is the danger of it.. You test it few times and then you start trusting it. Kind of like that farmer that destroyed his whole crop.

I don't really have an interest in running a public board, and the reason I use(d) that subreddit was because I am also not interested in looking for the deals myself.

However, from another comment, redlib looks like a decent solution for the time being.

Nope, not listening. I am using the increased friction as a reason for giving up and not using reddit at all.

I know right

It's really bean a long time

Yes, Reddit now is truly worthless because:

• it's riddled with bots, so humans can't have real conversations
• AI companies already scraped all old content and now they can't scrape the newer content because it's poisoned by AI itself
• Google won't index subreddits anymore now that you can't see the content unless logged in

I promise you your definition of worthless is far different than an investors

The stock market is overwhelmingly owned by about 10% of Americans who tend to be on the very wealthy side and the “mindless capitalism drones who simply want number to grow” side. They just see user growth and applaud. They love this change and all the changes Reddit has made over the past few years because it means harder to scrape for free and more likely to convert casual browsers to users

What is potentially killing Reddit (and twitter, Facebook, etc) is that advertisers are starting to lose patience with bot activity, which is the overwhelming amount of content on social media. The misleading statistic that those companies throw out is that bots make up a (relatively) small amount of accounts, which is arguably true, but sidesteps that those bots post like crazy. Thus the “power user” effect, where 5-20% of the user base makes up like 90+% of content. Advertisers are getting wise to the fact that an overwhelming number of social media interactions are just nothing (and no one they can sell to) and they’re starting to demand better analytics as well as run their own

This is where Reddit is potentially screwed; meta has dozens of other things to fall back on besides ad revenue. Twitter has Elon propping it up. But this is still pretty wishful thinking, the reality is that Reddits valuation will likely be propped up by institutional investors for years, maybe decades, on the hope of something that never comes (see: Tesla). The quality of the site is essentially irrelevant

Your username is awesome! I nearly snorted coffee out my nose when I read it.

There's an interesting thing about scale.... At 40K subscribers (collected over 15 years), my subreddit is pretty small niche. I tried duplicating it on the Digg reboot last year (yes, Digg sucked, sucks, and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future, but it was an informative experiment anyway)... because the niche is so narrow, and the Digg user base was so small, it never flipped over into growth mode. I'd promote it, get a couple of posts and a couple of subscribers, then crickets. After several rounds of that I walked away from new Digg. Meanwhile, on reddit with its billion+ users, 100 million+ active daily, the narrow niche continues to grow and because it has enough content contributing users, it's not my personal soap box, it's a truly user maintained community. But, that 90-9-1 rule definitely applies, probably even more skewed in my experience: 40K subscribers, probably less than 40 occasionally active content posters - an average of maybe 4 new posts per day, but... 40 posters are enough to keep the 40K engaged and growing.

Before the IPO, close to 100% of old.reddit likely contributed. For submitting, the old.reddit interface had better options for the experienced user. It was faster and easier to submit complex longer comments and posts.

The interface isn't that great for reading comments/post. The third party phone apps did it better.

Besides you had to have a tiny bit of experience with the platform to know how to find that setting. Not something most casual readers who hit the site via a search engine would know to do.

Since the IPO it's likely mostly few old-timers checking the niche subs. Probably very little engagement. Honestly, it's likely still around because of some critical tool for moderators or bots that would be extremely expensive to upgrade. Definitely not because they care about the user.

What's the 90-9-1 rule?

Why do iPhones have such a grip on US?

RedLib presently spoofs the OAuth tokens and behavior of the official Android app to access the website, so they are kind of doing something like that already.

The challenge for instance operators is routing the traffic appropriately to avoid the inevitable rate limiting from Reddit for popular RedLib instances.

Instance operators end up using a variety of approaches to get around this such as having multiple RedLib instances each with its own IP so that if one becomes rate limited, their site can switch over to another instance while the rate limit cools down.

That's a potential solution but there might be problems I haven't considered.

Presently that's not how it works though, redlib doesn't log in.

Oh shit, he does!

I can't unsee that now.

Malachai Huffman.

that grew up after getting rid of the other children.

*funny games

He was a mod of r/jailbait

he looks like alien/human/child hybrid. he also loves musk, whom is also humanoid on ketamine.

Well, they are all in the same club.

Same here, this is what got me banned. Member since 08.

Woah judgey, I will just tell you you are superior if you ask. This post is still on the top of the page 15h later.

Yeah but the reddit community is more mainstream than Lemmy. Ah well, just gotta keep working at it!

Oh my bad, yeah I have totally been using that extension for about 2 years now and I love it.

I've seen this as well on dssktop. Over Reddit. Lemmy seems less bot ridden anyway

Maybe, seems some subreddits still work here. Not sure if testing. The article was about potential upcoming changes which I guess are nearly upon us.

maybe ublock origin can block the popup, like it can with the FB login page. just gotta wait til someone makes the workaround.

This is it exactly. It was hit or miss for a few weeks for me, some vpns would get the login some wouldn't. Some subreddits would get the login, but comments wouldn't.

Now it seems its all login all the time.