• csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I hope we get better content. I’m really tired of all the posts on the frontpage being meta. Like i had to scroll to find anything about the student loan news. I go to reddit and boom I get actual content still.

    … i want conversations about things that aren’t lemmy or reddit. … memes are cool but man most of the frontpage that isn’t meta is memes. … Fingers crossed it gets better soon.

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      1 year ago

      I joined Lemmy during the blackout. Obviously it was crazy for a few days, but the last week and a half has been news, memes, and real conversations. Really enjoying it here so far!

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    1 year ago

    I was still using Slide, I was hoping it was under the radar enough that it would squeak by but nope. Goodbye Reddit. I was user 4163 16 years ago, and now it’s time to get the fediverse up and going.

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    Been a redditor since 2010, RiF user from about 2015 on, then Apollo user since 2020. There’s a few work related subs I’ll still visit occasionally on a web browser (using old.reddit of course) but other than that I’m done with it. On the bright side - I should be more productive and on my phone less!

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    I’ve now been tricked twice into breaking my Reddit boycott just to check and see if Infinity still works or not, and it still does.

    Maybe Infinity just has enough fewer users than something like Apollo that Infinity hasn’t reached the request limit to where it’s been shut off yet.

    (I don’t actually mean I was tricked. ;) )

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        I meant that I loaded up Infinity specifically to check and see if Infinity still worked or not. Not to access any particular Reddit content. But Infinity still worked for me after I first saw this thread.

        Edit: Ah, and I just realized I might have misunderstood you, not the other way around. Sorry about that.

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      From what i heard recently, infinity is going to be subscribtion based from now on… so probably devs didnt stop app from working but are yet to implement subsciption

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        Interesting. I’m not sure how that works with an Open Source app. Will the API key be in the source repo? Will there be a server that Infinity routes through that adds the API key to the request? Will future versions of Infinity be proprietary? I’ll probably look into it at some point.

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      A few apps that have a smaller amount of users have been granted a delay in which they can set up a subscription scheme.

      We don’t know yet what the subscription cost is going to be and whether the whole thing will be sustainable. It’s not clear to me for example what will happen if the users/traffic for these apps eventually rises (which is bound to happen if they’re the only ones left standing). Or why a deal couldn’t be reached with the large apps too.

      Not to mention the whole sour taste, a couple months ago if Reddit had come out and said “we’re putting all ‘power user’ stuff behind a paywall, pay a sub directly to us to help us out” I would’ve seriously considered it. Now, not so much.

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    I wonder if this will have any effect on Reddit’s metrics? The blackout had almost no effect, and certainly no lasting effect. But this might.

    Not that I care, though. Lemmy is active enough nowadays, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to continue growing now.

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      Reddit’s metrics are ad sales. And I think the impact here is going to be slower, and take longer.

      Twitter’s fall has been faster because existing competitors like Facebook and Instagram can take some of their users, Mastadon takes another chunk, and Substack launched their Twitter clone Notes already. Not to mention Bluesky’s expanding public beta. If you liked Twitter and want that experience somewhere else, you’ve got good options.

      Reddit has no real competitor. There’s stuff like Hacker News, but their community is small and extremely toxic. Nothing else comes close. Until there’s a true Reddit competitor, their demise will be slow and could be easily turned around.

      You and I are of course on Lemmy. But lets be real, Lemmy isn’t a competitor to reddit. As I write this comment there are 3 users online in this community. And given how there’s already a huge amount of in-fighting and defederating amoung different Lemmy instances, this will never really take off.

      Regular people don’t want to sign up for a service and only to have it suddenly become much less useful overnight because they failed some purity test they didn’t even know they were taking.

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        I’m mainly talking about metrics with more immediate impact, such as new posts and comments: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

        I know this won’t impact Reddit’s business line immediately, but it will eventually, and I’d be surprised if they weren’t paying attention.

        Re: competition, I agree Lemmy isn’t going to absorb all of Reddit right away. But it might make a dent. Also, some Redditors might abandon Reddit in favor of other social networks, or even give up on this activity altogether.

        There’s stuff like Hacker News, but their community is small and extremely toxic.

        WTF? HN is one of the best communities. What exactly is “toxic” about it?

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          WTF? HN is one of the best communities. What exactly is “toxic” about it?

          Their years long harrasment campaign against one of the main developers on OpenGL because she’s trans, and the project lead for AsahiLinux because he stood up for her come to mind. I’m interested in graphics stacks (because I’m bad at it myself) and you basically can’t discuss OpenGL there because they hate Alyssa Rosenzweig for existing.

          There’s a reason why lots of people block them entirely and that HN doesn’t respect those blocks basically tells you all you need to know.

          Re: competition, I agree Lemmy isn’t going to absorb all of Reddit right away. But it might make a dent.

          This won’t happen. As soon as any one instance of Lemmy grows other instances will just defederate it (like so many Mastodon instances wanted to do with mastodon.social) and kill whatever growth there is.

          I don’t mind that Lemmy will remain small. It’s fine by me, but anyone expecting Reddit to ever notice Lemmy is kidding themselves.

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            Their years long harrasment campaign against one of the main developers on OpenGL because she’s trans, and the project lead for AsahiLinux because he stood up for her come to mind

            I think you’re confusing a few users with the community as a whole. I’ve read a lot of Asahi linux threads and only saw positive comments. I’m also very surprised to see accusations against Dang. He seems to be a very nice and balanced individual. Would you have any links to these attacks on HN that were not moderated?

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    I’m here from using Joey for Reddit. I’m surprised it seems like it wasn’t as popular as the other third party apps. It was great for me