I wish something in the license of activity pub could have prevented corporate espionage. Make no mistake, meta will absolutely dominate and kill off the fediverse

I’m no fan of a lot of what isreal does but yes, sabbath and Manamakahn seem to be both middle eastern and pushing their articles hard around here.

agreed. as others have stated. Transparency. But also, new software, new tech (in a way, the fediverse/activity pub), and hopefully a new beginning. Happy to be here. If not technically on the ground level (lemmy has been around for a short time before we knew reddit was going to implode), close to it!

Thanks, installed. But still rooting for Memmy too! Love everyone who is stepping up to the plate for the mobile app scene!

Memmy is updated almost daily at this point, the App has come a long way just this week even

“The ongoing strike, spurred by Huffman’s plan to charge fees to third-party apps that serve up Reddit content,”

Then it goes on to talk about commercial AIs scraping reddit data through their api for deep learning for free.

But the reality is people weren’t upset about the api charge, they were upset at the exorbitant price they released. There are so many other ways to be fair and to stop commercial use if that was really an issue. Plus, I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit is being scraped without the api from the front facing website anyway.

Then, reddit double downed and spez just made a complete ass of himself. I could have done a better job as CEO, that guy is unqualified and delusional. If he stays at the helm reddit will surely sink

This is what’s beautiful in open source. I wonder if any one has had any luck making the old.Reddit nesting style yet

Open source, so I’m sure someone can. Platform is very young - I suspect that as it gains popularity, more people will contribute to source, and we’ll eventually see more options for customization. Both at the user level and the instance level giving people more reasons to choose other instances over just population of it.

Yup, I feel like a lot of people complaining of too much centralization don’t fully understand how the federation concept works. Even if a single instance goes down, turns evil, ect - all of the content would have already propagated to all the other instances. It’s not ideal, because those instances would loose sync with each other since the initial instance went dark but we wouldn’t loose the content but commenters can still discuss within their own instance.

Again, not ideal - but at least the content would be preserved.

Hmm, I wonder if US users benefit from that? I’m sure they could tell by the IPs where the content was posted. Maybe that’s too much of a hassle though

Can’t say I’m surprised. I’m sure they’ll stop people from deleting their own content off soon too. It’s amazing how short sighted they can be burning the community that gave them the decades of free content that made Reddit popular.

Don’t know how to help but agree on how important search is. Which might be even harder to do given federation.

Also upvote for firefly user name

memmy is another ios (x-platform?) app to try that is apollo’esq, is more stable, and seems to default to using swipe as the primary method of up/down vote and commenting.

certainly, a selection bias in a way I didn’t think about. Unfortuently, that seems to be the majority… for now.

I’ve found found the same in other communities, I was surprised how many people just didn’t care or were actively shilling for Reddit.

Honestly, I brought up the issue in a top 1% subreddit by population and I got downvoted into oblivion. The few that would engage were just like “stfu”, and “lol no” and “I don’t care”

5/mo is too much I think.

ok, so it’s not just me. Hope it gets resolved soon!

god it’s terrifying and so true. I didn’t realize how addicated I was to apollo until muscle memory just kept clicking the damn app!

r/datahoarder is working on archiving everything: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1479c7b/historic_reddit_archives_ongoing_archival_effort/

so that should be covered at least.