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What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows?
Can't wait for the screenshot of a Reddit post of a Lemmy post of an Instagram post about Elon tweeting some shit.
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What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows?
Can't wait for the screenshot of a Reddit post of a Lemmy post of an Instagram post about Elon tweeting some shit.
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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
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Well, mods also relied on 3PAs so...
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Lemmy is blowing up
A little bit worried. I am a recent migrator myself so this may a bit hypocritical, but I feel a lot of people will want to "redditize" here, just like how people tried with mastodon a couple months ago or (in a larger level), how people want Linux to become "another Windows".
These are not replicas, Lemmy doesn't work like Reddit, neither does it try to be, and that is by design, not a flaw. Things work differently, over and under the rug, and I think users should be entitled to doing some small effort to readjusting and have an open mind.
I'm all for UI/UX improvements, like most community projects, the front design part is more of an afterthought, and in that matter Lemmy has a lot to improve, but always keeping in mind what it is aiming to be.
For example, I am thinking in working on some simple browser extension to rearrange the UI in a way similar to Reddit's (nothing fancy, the upvote/downvote and collapse buttons locations, simple things). Maybe even some redirecting magic so if you open a link to another instance's community, it instead opens it in your current one, so you can still interact without having to go to your instance and search this one.
If anything, as a FOSS and federated content advocate, I wish this project nothing but the best so that one day we can escape the clutches of greedy companies.
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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
Discord already kinda sucks, I find the app not nearly as smooth as before, and it tries so hard to choke nitro into you, it also has so many bloaty extra features.
Maybe it's just the use I try to get from it. Discord has evolved more towards community channels, and for that (at least the bit I tried to use them) it seems fairly decent. Most of the time I just wanna use it to play with 2 or 3 friends, I could definitely use a minimalistic app that does just that.
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what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back
I've heard for a lot of time about these federated social media (lemmy, mastodon...) and I really like it. The interface is not bloated, no bullshit notifications, no ads, no damn algorithms that try so hard to spoonfeed me taking 60% of my feed, taking place for the communities I am actually interested into.
If I could put it into words, lemmy feels a lot like early 2010's social media, fewer people, less stakes, just a bunch of people enjoying some topic (it is ironic, since I started to use Reddit because it seemed to be the only mainstream place left where you can talk with real people). Anyways, I am enjoying it, more than "What would Reddit need to do to get you back?" I would prefer more posts like "What should Lemmy improve to keep you here?".
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What are some of your LEAST favorite game mechanics?
Escort missions
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Whats a game that everybody seems to love that you cant stand for one reason or another?
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You ain't missing much, been playing for some years and it feels like being a damn smoker.
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What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows?
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Nah, they are going to their own rathole.
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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
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Yeah, video is just that much more expensive to store. I am sure a lot of current Lemmy instances are still lighter that some "cat meowing for 3 hours" video. And let's not talk about all of those channels that upload dozens of gigabytes of data on a daily basis. I fear we may never have a suitable replacement to YouTube (that it's not just another asshole mega corporation).
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Your Favorite foss Apps!
My Expenses: pretty much the best expense tracking and budgeting android application I've had the pleasure of finding, It has some paid plans to enable cloud hosting, a local web server, among others, but the free one was more than enough to me for years.
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Lemmy is blowing up
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Hey man, I've felt mostly the same than you migrating to lemmy. A while ago I tried mastodon but it really didn't click with me, how do you do to find people to follow and so? I was only getting recommended the same like 10 guys. I like gaming and programming if it helps.
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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
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So same thing pretty much.
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List of subreddits that have gone private
r/amitheasshole
Yes, yes you are.
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For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
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The only problem I find with this approach is that it will favour the "main" instances, thus recentralizing the app.
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What's the last website you saved in your bookmarks?
fullstackopen.com/en theodinproject.com
Not added recently per say, but how could I not take the opportunity to advertise the best free and libre resources for learning web development!
Edit: added en lang to fullstackopen.