Awesome. The Linux community should be among the vanguard of this whole effort given our philosophy.

Honestly I've only been on Lemmy for a few days and I don't anticipate going back to Reddit. I'll probably use Reddit for IT help queries periodically but that's it. I like Lemmy quite a bit more.

I'm not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

• Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
• Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
• Jerboa has not warned me that I am "low on coins"
• Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
• Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
• Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)

One of the really positive things about this Reddit situation is that I've learned a lot about the community of passionate third party developers out there. I've never used Red Reader, but if he's able to keep it going with Reddit, and slowly but surely introduce users to Lemmy within its UI, then that's basically optimal. Half the battle of Lemmy is the sign up friction. If you can sign people up within their existing Reddit app, that's ideal.

I really like the policy of no downvotes. Honestly, even on Reddit I think downvoting had long ceased to serve any useful purpose, and turned into a harmful tool. Anything that truly is bad content can just be reported instead.

Can anyone tell me what the "196" community is? If I sort my feed by All, it gives me a ton of memes from there but I can't tell what it is.

Still better than Reddit

Same. Maybe if u/spez got fired and the new CEO did a complete 180, but that's not going to happen.

Disturbingly, there is really no way to know who actually owns a private company like Reddit. Once it goes public, then the owners will be the shareholders (and in reality, the owners are the major shareholders who have a controlling stake).

The only clue to the current ownership is whatever management wishes to disclose. Spez wrote a blog post in 2021 indicating that they issued $250M in "series E funding" to existing and new investors.

If there are any finance bros around here, they may be able to dig up some sort of disclosures from bond auctions to try and see who bought it.

The only confirmed investor I know about is Tencent. They invested in 2019. Its possible they were also some of the "existing investors" Spez referred to in 2021.

Bottom line: nobody knows who owns Reddit. But apparently the owners think this guy Spez is a good fit to run their company, somehow.

It really feels like we, as a country, are being dragged towards an ugly 2024 crescendo of the Trump era. This espionage case is going to coincide with the 2024 election.

I really hope that Reddit never becomes profitable despite all of their best efforts--at least as long as Steve is running it. He is so unprofessional and does not deserve to cash in. I hope he loses money slowly but surely due to his incompetent decisions, just as Lowtax did at SomethingAwful.

Even if it weren't nonprofit, it would be better run as a worker cooperative where the employees of Reddit made the decisions. Instead, its the capricious whims of Mr. u/spez

Same:

www.reddit.com/u/patchymoose

And once they do that, there will be very little difference between Reddit and every other social media site. They'll be shooting themselves in the foot.

Yeah, the niche subreddits are what I really hate to leave behind. I could care less about leaving r/politics, r/AskReddit, etc. But I'll miss r/EtrianOdyssey (niche video game series).

But we'll just have to create these communities on Lemmy. I'm in it for the long haul.

Wikipedia is another example. One of the most heavily visited websites, operated as a nonprofit. Obviously they don't only rely on donations from visitors, as they have a whole foundation. But they are a great example IMO.

This is really niche, but I love drawing maps manually on first person dungeon crawlers. The Etrian Odyssey series is fhe quintessential example of this, and it in itself is a modern reinvention of the old days when you would use pen and paper to draw the map of a dungeon when games were so unforgiving that they did not give you any map at all.

Etrian Odyssey gives you an on screen map, but you get to mark where certain things are between your runs.

The whole thing gives me the same type of feel as manually keeping score of a baseball game. Kind of a lost art.

Ad hominem is, I think, the most prevalent and harmful fallacy on the whole internet and society at large. In fact, not to make everything about the Reddit situation, but we saw u/spez recently employ it by evading questions and trying to impugn developers.

And of course, in the political space, we see it all the time to try and dismiss any pro-worker arguments. In the United States, labeling someone as a socialist has been used as a Q.E.D. in itself for decades. I hope that's changing.

Are we blocked from seeing NSFW communities on Beehaw? (Not an issue, I would create an alt for that anyway. Just curious)

If he was restricted from speaking and posting anything publicly ever again, that would be a great boon to this country, even if justice wasn't really served.

I spent years on Reddit and somehow didn't realize until today what an unscrupulous person he is. And not only unscrupulous, but downright unprofessional.

We can say what we want about someone like Mark Zuckerberg, but he would never behave in the way that Spez did in that AMA. It's just not befitting of the CEO of a company.