Free (as in freedom) open source software
Free (as in freedom) open source software
I’m sure the advertisers are going to love that.
I’d like to see some sort of export/import functionality as well. Instances will come and go, and it would suck for people on those to just lose their stuff with out having a way to back up/restore it.
Mr. Huffman and Alexis Ohanian founded Reddit in 2005 as a site with a countercultural attitude toward the internet and its advertising-based economy. Reddit espoused free speech at any cost, zero ads and an insular culture that laid a foundation for Web 2.0’s meme culture.
Well how things have changed.
I saw that Sync and Slide were going to be ported. Didn’t know about the rest. This is awesome!
Some surveillance capitalism would be nice too. That way I know I’m wanted. /s
I also have issues with the feed just going wild and poping in new posts so fast I can’t read anything on the web.
Oh yeah I saw that last night too. Lemmy is relatively new, and will get better in time. I’m excited for sync to be released. Slide might get re-purposed for lemmy too.
Though I think a lot of them are just trying to find reasons to complain about Lemmy because they are addicted to reddit, don’t want to make the switch and they know that if people start leaving Reddit they’re going to have to switch to something else and that scares the shit out of them.
It sometimes amazes me how opposed to change people can sometimes be. Yeah sure Lemmy is different, but not radically so.
Ah yes further proof that companies don’t give a fuck about anything ixcept making more money.
This is least painful/scary way for them to die. It’d be an instantaneous death.
High pressure under water does weird things
If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.
Upvote/downvote posts
Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)
Anyway that stuff doesn’t matter. What matters is it was pretty clear and mostly agreed that the internet works best when we use open protocols and not hide community generated content behind login screens and apps. We agreed to continue to participate in adding to the global knowledge as long as everyone played nice and allowed the content we put in for free, can be indexed, RSS’d, shared and scraped. This way anyone can find it and benefit from it.
This to me is the worst part of the enshittification of reddit. All that human interaction and knowledge base is “owned” and controlled by a profit driven entity. Reddit hasn’t done it yet, but I think the time is approaching when they gatekeep all that data behind a login, which will prevent it from showing up in google searches.
Bringing this full circle. Federated apps feel like the logical next steps. I think this path is the correct one.
Lemmy is only four years oldand will continue to get better. There will be other projects (kbin, plebbit to name a few) trying to accomplish the same thing as lemmy, exploration is good. It’s an exciting time for social media.
I created this account earlier today a first step to move away from reddit. I’ve heard kbin mentioned and will; have to check that out too.
When I first started using reddit over a decade ago it was pretty great. I didn’t really stop to think what would happen if reddit started to act more like a corporation because I was having too much fun.
Now that time has come, and it’s time to move on to a more free (as in freedom) and open system. It’s immoral that all those years worth of human interaction (the howto’s, cat videos, porn, niche topics etc) is “owned” by a corporation.
I also will never install the official reddit app. I’m trying to move away from reddit altogether for various reasons.
I created this account this morning and am writing this message on Jerboa (got it off fdroid). So far so good!
They can probably hear the awwws from halfway around the world.