Reddit is Dead, long live.. leddi- lemmy? : asklemmy

[-] preppietechie@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 years ago

My hope is that someone (Mozilla? Apollo devs?) stands up a Lemmy instance “for the average user” similar to what Mozilla did for Mastodon. It’ll take moves like that to get some degree of critical mass and help the average user switch to federated apps like Lemmy. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 years ago

Mastodon has a flagship instance for normies before mozilla. Lemmy doesn't

[-] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago

Is Lemmy.ml not the flagship instance? Or is it just one of the larger ones?

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 years ago

It's the one the devs run and so is often treated as such, but they discourage it in order to encourage decentralization and because they don't want too much moderation overhead.

[-] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago

Ah, thank you for the clarification!

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[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

To expand on morrowind's answer, here's the long response about not being a flagship: https://lemmy.ml/post/70280

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 years ago

Yes, if mozilla makes an instance the game will be changed. The biggest problems I'm seeing people on reddit say is that making an account is awful and picking an instance is too hard. Please mozilla

[-] kinther@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 years ago

I think for certain technology and privacy focused individuals, Mastodon and Lemmy are the way forward. Some people will always prefer a centralized solution or just don't care enough to make the switch. They will continue to be the userbase of websites like Digg, Reddit, and Twitter.

[-] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 15 points 3 years ago

And to be honest, I don't see that as a bad thing. I find the content here is actually worth reading through almost every comment, whereas on Reddit/Digg/Twitter I'd scroll past hundreds at a time because of how low-quality they looked.

[-] sup@beehaw.org 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah I think a bit of a barrier to entry is actually a good thing, in a way. Keeps low quality content to a minimum and the discussions more authentic. At least this is what reddit (or even the Internet, in general) was back in the day.

[-] Liempong_pagong@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

Yes the easiness of registering to reddit have also contributed to it's dumbing down. People who just follows the trend basically overwhelmed the culture of that site. And i hope the perceived difficulty in using Lemmy acts as an effective barrier to those kind of demographic.

[-] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 3 points 3 years ago

Yep exactly. Culture got diluted far too much. Niche subs were/are good for specific interests, but everything else changed so much nowadays

[-] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 years ago

I just want to know if we call communities sublemmies? Or sending else?

[-] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 13 points 3 years ago

And are we lemmings? I've wondered what the term of what the users will be called will be

[-] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 years ago

I mean, I followed people over here from reddit so I guess we are lemmings

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 years ago

Well, if we decide we like the official name, we call communities "communities". Hence the /c/ in "https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy" and the link up the top.

[-] sup@beehaw.org 4 points 3 years ago

I like "communities" :)

[-] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] Screak42@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 years ago

I agree fully, but I want to add that I would not suggest a freerange VPN.

Nothing is free on a free VPN - you pay with your data. It's always a question of trust using any type of VPN, but a free VPN is 100% going to sell collected information to ... whom ever.

Anything else. Yes. Save everything, leech everything. I hate streaming music... it makes no sense to me. A movie I watch once ... mh. maybe. Anything else. Load it. Save it. Hoard it.

[-] arghya_333@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 years ago

ProtonVPN is an open source VPN with a free plan (medium speed and limited countries and a few settings). What do you think about that? Is that good enough for privacy?

[-] Screak42@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

Good call. I did not think of them. I guess their business model would be sustainable enough to provide this within limitation for free. I'm using their (paid) email service since they are the only ones to my knowledge not using AWS storage. (Also one of the reasons behind their quite high prices compared to others)

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[-] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago

Is there a good /r/DataHoarder equivalent on Lemmy somewhere?

[-] Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 13 points 3 years ago

Upvoted for WinAmp reference

[-] mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 years ago

It actually makes me realise - back in 2016 when thedonald was constantly making its way to the top of reddit, none of the people at the top did anything.

Now with these API changes, you barely hear about them despite the threads being heavily upvoted.

I look back on that shitshow with even more pennies dropping.

[-] bahcodad@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 years ago

Deaddit

[-] Pestilence@feddit.de 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Lemmy is the Reddit part of the Fediverse, like Mastodon for Twitter and Peertube for YouTube.

Welcome to the free internet. ;)

[-] JungleGeorge@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago

hello from kbin 👋👋

[-] Barbarian@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Hey! Glad to be part of the fediverse. Bit of a learning curve, but it's exciting and interesting!

[-] fratermus@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

Reddit is Dead, long live… leddi- lemmy?

Earlier this year I s/twitter/mastodon/ to good effect. I don't think s/reddit/lemmy/ will happen anytime soon; the numbers are too small for any real network effect.

For example, the subreddit I spend the most time in has >2million readers. There are enough posts daily that my niche interests come up regularly and I contribute to those discussions.

[-] Blaskowitz@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 years ago

Tbh I have no idea, I stumbled across Lemmy from a random Reddit post. However, getting out of Reddit for a bit and looking around what's here now, it reminds me of the early days, and maybe I'm just old, but I think they were better. Maybe at Reddit's scale + the way the web is now just isn't something that scratches that itch for me. If not Lemmy I hope to find another alternative for that. But in order for this to work, you're right, it does need a certain number of users, we'll have to see how that pans out I guess.

[-] elauso@feddit.de 3 points 3 years ago

I personally see the small userbase of lemmy as an advantage as well. Reddit is too popular now, it's full of karma-farming bots and commercialized, mass-appealing content. Those things are worthwhile on sites with millions of users, but not here. We just need enough active users to get things going. The app devs of Reddit clients might be of great help.

[-] nullthegrey@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Everything started somewhere. I think (could be way off here) that Reddit became popular because of some unpopular stuff Digg was doing.

[-] sotolf@beehaw.org 2 points 3 years ago

Yup, that's how I ended up on reddit back in the day, when digg did some stupid shit, that I don't even remember wat was any more, but something similar to what reddit is doing now.

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

Reddit is well structured to spur and better support larger scale migration, though, since subreddits are operated somewhat similarly to how Fediverse instances are run. They're structured such that they have hegemons and formal "leadership". If the mod teams of a reasonable number of medium sized active subreddits just decided to spin up their own lemmy or kbin instances, it would make fedi aggregators a real destination for Reddit folks overnight.

This is different from Twitter, where communities were informal structures, and no one had any kind of editorial control. It's way more structured.

The key is to sell mods on it, rather than individual users.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago

If the mod teams of a reasonable number of medium sized active subreddits just decided to spin up their own lemmy or kbin instances, it would make fedi aggregators a real destination for Reddit folks overnight.

That's a compelling point.

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[-] autisticaudioguy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Love the winamp reference! No other software has a better start up sound IMHO.

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