As one of the many New Users/Lost Redditors: Thank you for working hard to "keep the lights" and in fostering such a welcoming community.

Also part of the 10+ year club (long time lurker). You're right about that "familiar sense", but for myself it comes with a forgotten sense of optimism.

Reddit's been on the decline for years before the Vitoria incident or The Great Purge... but as long as I had my niche communities, baconreader, and old.reddit.com - I could "get by"... as Reddit became more and more aggressive in selling "me as the product".

The federated and open source nature of Lemmy will solve the issue of "corporate presence", but it will require us to "roll up our sleeves" - which I find refreshing.

Oh, I like it! A multi-subreddit should be a must-have for a federated community like Lemmy.

It would create a simple way to lump together all these Gaming group (from different servers) into a single view. Such a feature would improve visibility and also (hopefully) reduce the amount of noise/duplicate content (ie: one trailer being reposted to each Gaming channel/server)

I was also using jerboa (and beehaw hasn't upgraded, either).

I ended up exploring other apps and are really liking thunder (it reminds me of baconreader).

Another honorable mention is liftoff.

Tbh, I don't know why jerboa was released as "stable" but with a forced server upgrade. It seems a bit strong armed. Anyway, I'm thrilled that other applications exist, so I get the continued functionality I want w/o needing the admins to accommodate me.

I didn't know it was open source until 2018. According to the article, they needed to go close-sourced due to the video player (lol)

... But you can find the original source code at: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0

I really wonder if this is the code for https://old.reddit.com

Thank you for the article, but can we talk about the eye-cancer that MSN has de-evolved into?

I click on the link, see the first 3 lines of the article (that I cannot actually click on to read the rest) followed up with an infinite wall of ads and "other articles you may enjoy".

In principle I agree with karma turned posts into people gaming the system.

However, I've heard one of the struggles for Lemmy Communities is to keep people from lurking.

Karma might be a stupid feature but it is/was a cheap way of driving participation - it could help Lemmy (especially at this early stage). Even if karma encouraged people to just up voted, it still raised visibility on the more interesting topics.

I'm in the same boat. I limit myself to a superficial check of Reddit twice a day (morning and evening).

Some of the nitch subs haven't migrated and I get the feeling that the "world news" I get from Lemmy is either lagging or flat out missing content. Maybe, I haven't found an "unbiased" Lemmy world news group.

Regarding your comment about "small communities" not really developing: Couldn't we just have a simple technical solution? Communities that aren't "active" just get pruned, culled or just removed from the search.

This would allow the opportunity for some of those "small communities" to thrive (while others die out).

I'm like the parent poster. I came from Reddit and joined /r/GameDeals and /r/PatientGamers but I specifically did not joins /r/Games. Why? Because for me there was too much noise and content I wasn't interest in /r/Games, but GameDeals + PatientGamers combined offered me more quality with less noise.

I'm kind of frustrated with Lemmy that I need to filter through all the Gaming communities (and noise) just to sort-of keep tabs on what's happening in the community.

Hi Buddy! It's great to hear from you again.

Thank you for pointing those communities out, I just subscribed :)

Thanks for the heads-up, I had no clue it was released.

Yup, that's me. I'm trying to make lemmy my new home and limit my access to Reddit (vote with your feet). I still check Reddit for the polls and a few nitch communities that don't exist on Lemmy (yet)

Understood. Since I'm coming from a development background, I guess what I'm trying to gauge is "What are the technical limitations vs cultural"... since, technical limitations are usually easier to change than cultural :)

lol ... and what was the average life expendency in the 70s?

Wow, is that how Lemmy really works? Beehaw disables the downvote, but since I federated through it - I cannot downvote anywhere in the fediverse.

I wonder if this means that people from outside of Beehaw can downvote threads posted in Beehaw (anyone is welcome to downvote my Beehaw responses - in the name of science, mind you :)

I'm really going to have to think about hosting my own Lemmy server. It sounds like whoever's site you register through has quiet a bit of control (especially outside of their respective site).

You mentioned that you're hosting your own Lemmy server. Have you had any issues accessing or being accessed by others in the fediverse?

Oh this is awesome. Losing /r/GameDeals is one of the things I'll miss most about Reddit.

This group here will help soffen that blow :)

BTW, are there any plans to provide prices in USD/EUR too?

Eh, don't be so sure.

Email is often drawn as something similar to the fediverse. ... but if you've ever tried to run a small Mailserver, you'll quickly find that "the big corps" have created a walled garden that'll keep the "small fish" out.

It's all based on what the big players view as your "reputation". This is based on proprietary metrics (usually how many emails you send), but your reputation will determine if the email is delivered or not.

You can find more information here.

... but the point is that one big corps consolidate and reach the size (in terms of traffic/content) like Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo, etc - they will not hesitate to squeeze out the smaller fediverse fish to force them into paying to use the bigger pond.

Sadly ... this is just business as usual.

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Your absolutely right "opening the floodgates" would be an administrative nightmare, plus it might put you (as the admin) at some sort of legal risk.

However, maybe there's a middle-ground. Let's assume, for arguments sake, option 2 existed (some simple rules - you defined - which would cleaninly archive, purge, cull inactive channels).

Then foster/encourage people to submit small/nitch channels. Of course, it would need some sort of approval process. It could start out as a simple "blocked word list" and there after would need a manual approval. This manual process could be done by people who you believe are like-minded and "understand" what Beehaw's purpose is.

Of course, this vetted group will not always choose exactly as you would. However, community members would/could report content, which would draw attention from either you or the vetted group, which could result in the channel being revoked and purged.

If there's one thing I've witnessed at Reddit, it's the power of passionate people / Mods. They're not afraid to "roll up their sleeves" and get dirty, if they're given the chance.