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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] yrmitz 110 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I am glad that this happened because Lemmy is very interesting platform.

[–] scarabic 78 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I’ve barely been back to Reddit recently and with Apollo gone, I’ll only ever duck my head in when I really have to. I find it a lot easier to leave Reddit behind than Facebook. On FB I’m connected to real world relatives and friends who I just would lose contact with otherwise. On Reddit I converse with strangers and that’s easy to replace. Lemmy has already done it. Is there anything unique about the hobby forums on Reddit? No. They can be reassembled or restarted elsewhere. In some ways it’s probably good to dump the old structures and shake things up. Some subs were better managed and some really just coasted on their name.

[–] ToNIX 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I totally agree. I'm on Android and never used Apollo, but I'm using the wefwef web app and it's fantastic. People are saying it feels like Apollo!

[–] scarabic 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

wefwef is changing my mind about how good webapps can be. The UI is a copy of Apollo but the execution in web tech is absolutely top notch.

[–] whereisk 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Try ~~phanpy.local~~ phanpy.social for Mastodon! It blew my mind on how well designed, fast and efficient it is. It's better than the Mastodon local apps - at least on the basic functions.

[–] Interstellar_1 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] whereisk 3 points 2 years ago

I did! Thank you.

[–] theyseemeroland 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same, I just miss some of the interest based communities I was in, but they're growing well on Lemmy right now. Optimistic for the future.

[–] Labotomized 4 points 2 years ago

For real. Even though my groups on lemmy are smaller, they’re made up of more dedicated people that participate in discussion alot more. So it’s all great for me!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was an early adopter of Reddit back during the digg days and I had over a decade of post history there and to see that go.... I couldn't care less. It was all ephemeral bullshit.

[–] Tygr 2 points 2 years ago

Same here. Liking Lemmy like I liked Reddit at the beginning.

[–] scarabic 2 points 1 year ago

16 years and almost 300K comment karma here…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only thing that had me back on Reddit was searching for something on DDG and getting 99% Reddit results. I see why they are un-deleting people's comments and posts when they close their accounts. Hopefully other forums take those spots.

[–] rskn 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That explains why I kept trying to purge my history and having some posts keep popping back up.

[–] drzoidberg 3 points 2 years ago

Get yourself banned. I don't think they restore content of banned accounts.

[–] Cornpop 4 points 2 years ago

Well said. Couldn't agree more.