Technology
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1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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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.
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.
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.
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?
There's a saying here in Germany that roughly goes "If you're at a dinner with 1 Nazi and 9 people who say nothing, that's a dinner with 10 Nazis". That's how it is with HN. They can't hide behind "just some commenters" when they've got years long harrasment campaigns and then update HN's code in order to get arround Hector's attempts to stem the tide.
The comments are all gone now. But as Hector points out, it takes weeks or months for the moderators to actually do anything. In my opinion they don't get credit for removing these comments once the threads are stale.
And then when people try to limit HN traffic to their site and stop the harrasment campaign, Dang updates HN to order to circumvent it.
The Asahi team got a massive amount of harassment from HN, it took HN weeks to remove any comments, months to remove them all, but they were very keen on getting around Hector's HN block.