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  • I don’t know what will actually end up working, but I hope we try something new soon.

    Personally I don't think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. Each problem needs a different approach. We need to figure out how to have all these systems work in tandem.

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  • This is going to be a total noob (and thus stupid) question, but is it possible to selfhost a vpn?

  • Be honest, do you still use reddit?
  • I take the occasional peek to see if it imploded yet. I do miss certain communities. Only last week I was looking for some info on a historical subject. Google turned up nothing so I wanted to r/askHistorians. I hate they decided to stay on reddit and don't switch to lemmy.

  • Twitter is suing the law firm that used to represent Twitter. - The Verge
  • Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?

  • How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
  • I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in concord consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won't be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it's best to just start over.

  • How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
  • I just don't understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don't switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say "hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go <here> to sign up." If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?

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  • Not until someone can make it profitable.

  • The world you were born into no longer exists.
  • At some point in the future, everyone who is currently alive, will be dead and the earth will be populated with people who do not exist yet.

    Since I was born when my parent were in their late 30's. And my father was as well, so my paternal grandfather was born in the 1890's. When I was a kid he told me stories of his childhood. I was only 9 when he died, and at the time his stories were just that; stories. Now (I'm in my 50's) I wish I had asked him things about those times. He was born and grew up in a world (mostly) without electricity, and without cars, phones, etc.

    He was someone from a totally different world, and I knew him.

    Added later: He was born "only" 129 years ago, everyone alive then, is now dead.

  • Reddit is probably already dead.
  • You know... I don't understand why AI would need access to an API. Can't they just crawl the web? HTML5 was designed with AI in mind iirc. But I'm no expert so I'll probably talk bs here.

  • Reddit is probably already dead.
  • 'the best' is subjective. Yes, tumblr still exists and perhaps has a second life. But the spirit of the old tumblr is gone. Same applies to Reddit. It's not the name or the site that died but its personality. Twitter is a good example. It died a few years ago, slowly. It is still around but what made twitter twitter is no more. It changed, it has another atmosphere and other types of users. It is still called twitter but that is like a son who has the same name as his father. Two different persons.

  • Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000
  • I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact the is some sort of market value to be had by paying 42,000 per month to twitter.

  • [AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!
  • ohh, hyped about the scents.... my olfactory nerve is trembling in anticipation, and I'm losing control of my sphincter. Which is never a good combination.

  • Reddit is probably already dead.

    We just don't smell the rot yet. It's not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.

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    How do I donate to this instance?

    Sorry if this is obvious, but I fail to find where I can donate to fmhy. I see the support button on top, but that donates to lemmy if I'm not mistaken? How/where do I donate to you guys directly?

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    Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes.
  • Hmm. So how about: "Tired of ads? Reddit wants to show them to you. Come to Lemmy, we are friendly and you are welcome!" I am willing to commit 100 euro if anyone can make that happen.

  • Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes.
  • I'm in. Anyone got a catchy idea?

  • They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub
  • Here's hoping. (yeah, I'm an unreasonable, hateful bitch. I despise what they did with the Apollo dev (and others) and I hope it bites them in the arse.)

  • They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub
  • I'm not up-to-date with the latest in accessibility, but does lemmy cater for those who need assistive tech? (just curious)

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  • I got twitter during the arab spring to keep up with what happened. I used it mainly for things like that ever since. But it got bad during Trump's reign in America and worse even after Musk, so I used it mainly for porn lately and deleted my account yesterday together with my Reddit account. Not sure yet if this place will be a viable replacement, but willing to give it a chance and see what happens. Like you, hope to see both Musk and Spez go up in flames and live their lives out under some bridge (well, I am using a hyperbole here, they are (supposedly) human after all, so I hope they have a good life, regardless)

  • Its been one day without Reddit
  • Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.

  • PSA: Let’s fill Kbin/Lemmy with content to attract and KEEP new users
  • Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)

  • SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit. @lemmy.ml Morose mammal @lemmy.fmhy.ml
    Realistically, what do you think will happen?

    With Reddit, and perhaps also Twitter. Personally I deleted my accounts on both platforms and came here today, because I feel it was the moral thing to do. And I hope both platforms will burn down, and the new way forward is more community-driven social media instead of capitalist-driven. But realistically I think both will just slowly get worse in terms of quality (well, twitter doesn't have much quality content for a while now anyway) and muddle through for a while. In the end it could go either way I think? What are your thoughts on where those platforms will end up, realistically?

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    depressed_submissive Morose mammal @lemmy.fmhy.ml

    Gay, autistic and pissed off at Reddit. Let's see how things go here.

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