This seems like this is going to be heavily counteracted by better engines, and AI generation.

I wonder how it'll play out though.

Is it federated?

If not, it's not useful.

It'll at the very least make indie studios capable of insane things.

I like communities, honestly, it sounds much less... y'know, reddity?

And also, it's much more intuitive.

The real problem was never about communism, it was about authoritarianism.

Authoritarianism is the enemy of everyone.

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy

Soon, we may be able to use any of the reddit apps.

I swear to god the people arguing against the fediverse are fake, their arguments are so unimaginably bad that I can't imagine they aren't coming from a disinformation campaign

even better: post links to your IT help queries on lemmy to reddit.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

They're coming!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113

I think once these two issues are solved, the average user really isn't going to have any problem with lemmy.

I just wish they'd link to lemmy! It's almost pointless to just shut down for a few days and not make people use competitors.

Uhhh....

Lemmy devs are tankies.

Someone please mirror? I'm done giving reddit traffic

The point of this post is actually to get people to participate over there to stop the spread of misinformation, i'd appreciate it if you went over there with an adblocker, but if you insist:

I think there's a team of people intentionally spreading lemmy misinformation. I think reddit is trying to get people not to switch from this platform

People are saying the same things everywhere, but on any analysis, they don't actually make sense, let me give an example:

Lemmy is absolutely too convoluted for normal people. "There are multiple servers, many of which overlap with each other content-wise? Which one am I supposed to use? This isn't as simple as reddit," says the photographer who posted to /r/earthporn, says the politics junkie who posted in /r/worldnews, says the creative writer who posted to /r/nosleep.

There is no way to prevent this from happening again. It will happen again, no matter what. If Lemmy gets big, it will only do so if a couple servers rise above all others so the normies can understand that those are the servers to join... and those servers eventually will take advantage of their users just as reddit has done."

There's no aspect of truth to this comment, as an example, let's try actually doing what they're saying is too hard:

https://beehaw.org

click "communities"

search "news"

oh, there's the one at the top with the most subscribers

https://beehaw.org/c/news

Done

So, did they just make up that it was too convoluted for normal people? Yes. Is there some truth to the notion that there are multiple communities for the same thing... Also yes, but there are on reddit too, it's no different than r/art and r/art1 r/art2 and the billion other subreddits in a similar position. People just search and then use the largest one... so is it an actual problem, or is it just grasping at straws? You be the judge of that.

Are there things that make lemmy difficult? Yes, but they're rapidly being solved and extremely minimal, other than that issue tracker, the other thing that might stop you is that some lemmy instances require a message and approve signup, this is because they widely aren't monetized and are run by volunteers with no intention of ever monetizing. Neither of these things are real blockers to normal human adoption, and neither of them are long-term fundamental issues.

If you think federation is too complex for normal users, I ask you, why does email face no such difficulty? Why is nobody complaining about how difficult email is because of federation?

The other issue is genuinely a problem, the lemmy developers are tankies... however, lemmy is released under an open source license, none of their ideology is being injected into the code, and this is akin to worrying about the ideology of the developers of email. Use an instance not created by them, and you're safe from this entirely, I recommend https://beehaw.org/

Don't let the misinformation factory stress you, I don't have proof that reddit is doing this on purpose, but this seems to be a common set of lies... and if you don't like lemmy anyway, there's also kbin, which federates with lemmy but is made by completely separate developers.

Federation is NECESSARY for a non-corpo/government propaganda AND control ridden future. If reddit were federated, nobody would give a fuck about this api thing, because we'd just go to another instance, and all of our content would still be available on that other instance. That's why reddit fears federation, none of the issues with lemmy are fundamental, let's build a better future, one where we don't have to hope a benevolent centralized monopoly/dictatorship on a community will work for us!

And lemmy is the only way to save these precious reddit apps: https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy

Reddit finding ways to actively make things worse, while lemmy rapidly improves.

You could come to lemmy once a month, and see just about nothing change.

It was not nearly as fun as it is now

https://lemmy.ml/u/Communist from a 4 year old account.

That's why I wish lojban would take off, although I know it never will.

summary of lojban I posted elsewhere:

I’m learning lojban with my girlfriend right now for many reasons, I think this language would be absolutely insanely wonderful for autistics, for a few reasons

1. It’s syntactically unambiguous, this means every sentence only has one meaning
2. Attitudinals, at the start of your sentence, you actually state the tone it is meant to be interpreted in (you can see how that could be massive for autistic people alone)
3. Text has the exact same meaning as the spoken language: Y’know how in english, you have to write punctuation marks? in lojban, those are words, meaning when combined with attitudinals, the written language has feature parity with the spoken language.

There isn't an option, you can't even tell but you already have the kbin content.

You can't disable it.

The reason that's happening right now is because kbin is enacting ddos protection using cloudflare so they aren't federating properly, this is a temporary problem.

I actually support awards here with the option of hiding them, i think it'd be a good, relatively ethical way to monetize lemmy.