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[–] MushuChupacabra 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh, it's about to get far worse for reddit in short order.

I suspect that we will be seeing some very beloved third party apps that just got bullied out of reddit, available for lemmy very soon.

What the fuck is spez going to do, when he now has to compete against the look and feel of apps that make his app look like dogs shit? He can't boot them from reddit again.

[–] PlasticExistence 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Sync app author has confirmed they're working on a Threadiverse app, and I suspect we'll get at least one more from the reddit 3PA authors.

There are also some nice ones shaping up from other developers already too.

My opinion is that without proper moderation tools, the best mods will leave or just quit moderating. Slowly the site eats itself when that happens.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been extremely lax about my moderation these days. But the only posts getting reported are my sticky posts on where else you can find us.

[–] samus12345 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they're reporting a post you wrote...to you?

[–] neurodancer 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe they think they're telling on him to the admins

[–] ThatSandwichGuy 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hopefully a rif replacement is coming

[–] jjnjjlr 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would they change the acronym to rwf for reddit was fun or lif for the obvious?

[–] Hogger86 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kif for kbin and the meme of this post has gone full circle

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[–] GONADS125 8 points 1 year ago

Slide for reddit is working on Lemmy support as well!

Slide has unparalleled customizability imo. Definitely my favorite.

[–] nucleative 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These 3P app developers have millions in their audience. Millions of people who'd love nothing more than to open that app as usual on July 1st and just keep doing the same thing they did the day before.

[–] Imotali 7 points 1 year ago

Once Sync publishes their first public build it's over for Reddit. Native simply can't compete with Sync.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favourite Reddit app, Infinity, just popped a message this morning saying as of July 1, they're going subscription.

While I understand, I'm not paying to use Reddit. Even if I did, my understanding is that NFSW content won't be available, and, let's be honest, that's half the usefulness of Reddit.

So, Lemmy it is! And so far, I've got no complaints.

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[–] WrenofDelpan 58 points 1 year ago (5 children)

God. This is the first I'm heading of Reddit staff actively organizing against Lemmy- what's being said?

[–] PlasticExistence 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well, I'm stretching the truth just a little here. It has been reported that they're censoring any links or mentions of the Fediverse (just like Twitter did with Mastodon), but they are engaging in gaslighting about the protests.

Most recently the subs that voted to become NSFW in protest marked themselves as such (thus self-filtering for anyone not wanting to see NSFW content), however the admins removed that designation from those subs... without removing the NSFW content first! They then sent the mods of those subs threatening messages about how the mods showed NSFW content to everyone without the proper filters in place!

[–] Restaldt 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not sure about censoring links but they definetly rolled back manual edits i made to about 6 months of posts and comments pointing to join-lemmy.org and lemmy.world

[–] timespace 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf seriously? That’s actually the worst offense I’ve heard from them so far - that tops the killing of 3rd party apps for me. Does it suck they killed 3rd party apps? Fuck yea. I left because of it. But I also recognize it’s their site and if they want to remove 3rd party apps they are within their right. But actively changing posts/removing edits is fucking WILD to me. Absolutely it’s censorship, fuck Reddit.

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[–] PlasticExistence 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would call that censorship. Take a look at the comments here: https://lemmy.world/post/353026

Also, here: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/70064

If they can't handle criticism of spez, how could they feel secure about people getting directed to Fediverse sites?

[–] hydra 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

use power delete suite and do the edits again until you lose API access or they give up

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[–] Transcendant 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I popped on earlier today following a google link, I've made one comment in the last week or so, earlier today, when someone asked where everyone's migrating to... I said lemmy.world. So we'll see if they've got some kind of search filter setup I guess if that gets altered or left alone

[–] PlasticExistence 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A couple hundred of my edited and then deleted comments on my reddit account have shown back up since I ran Power Delete Suite. I re-ran that today, and I think it's getting severely rate limited now because a good third of my resurfaced comments did not get updated. So I manually edited those. I left all of them up after editing.

All of my existing comments tell people to join the fediverse. Let's see how many more of my old comments reappear now.

[–] overzeetop 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if you change all your comments to Fuck u/Spez? Will the FuckSpezBot delete the comments for you?

I might have to try that tomorrow.

[–] PlasticExistence 7 points 1 year ago

That's worth a shot!

[–] Shadywack 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some stuff I'm seeing is "But but, what if your instance admin goes crazy????" or "I just want ONE community, not a bunch of fragmented ones"

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"but what if the ceo of your big centralized corporate website goes crazy?..."

[–] Alchemy 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or conspire to remove credit from a dead man’s accomplishments.

Aaron Swartz

[–] Pixlbabble 11 points 1 year ago

What a guy. RIP

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They've got astroturfers in every thread on the big subs that are basically FUDing the shit out of everything that isn't Reddit. Oh Lemmy too hard, oh Lemmy too complicated, Oh Lemmy require email on signup. They have so many shills now that they had to actually start handing out six month old accounts. It's hilarious to see.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago
[–] Yoz 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Bro get people from reddit to use Lemmy. Create guides for boomers so that they know how to register and navigate lemmy

[–] JdW 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Create guides for boomers

lol. Babyboomers and Gen X invented and built the internet. We programmed VCR's and could navigate dial-up settings for v90modems. Maybe write a guide for gen Z, as anything more complex than a swipe is too much technology for them XD

[–] p00n 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel there's more nuance to this and this is an inaccurate and disingenuous generalisation.

A very small portion of baby boomers and gen x were involved in this compared to the masses who simply exist as sheep.

The "enlightened" ones are a minority in every generation from what I can see.

I also feel this whole my generation > your generation is just another mechanism of segregation. Instead let us bring forth our collective knowledge of setting VCR times and laugh about getting to the last floppy/stiffy disk in a set and finding corruption because... magnets.

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[–] DrTeeth 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Heck, genXers are the only generation who can set the clock on a VCR. A skill now lost to time and technology.

[–] HoagieBoy 8 points 1 year ago

Some of us VCR clock-setters are on Lemmy already due to the combination of us loving playing with tech and the attitude of "fuck you I won't do what you tell me". I've seen the fall of the original BBSs, Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL, Geocities, MySpace, Yahoo, Digg, Facebook, and here I sit watching Reddit's behavior with a bag of popcorn. If they don't backpedal, they'll get their IPO, Spez will get his money, and the shell of what Reddit was will continue to exist like MySpace and Facebook. It will strive to stay relevant while slowly becoming more and more irrelevant over time as the newcomer gains steam. Will Lemmy be that newcomer taking over? I'm not sure but it sure is fun to watch the world burn sometimes.

[–] Protheus 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell, I know a couple of guys, a boomer alcoholic and a zoomer that ages backwards, that work at a VCR repair shop, one of the three remaining in the United States. Although I don't know how good are they at actually fixing VCRs, all I see is them scamming some elderly person off of his life savings while all he wants is to watch a Night Court video cassette.

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[–] Hogger86 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Boomers and certainly gen X/older milenials are probably more into tinkering and getting it working....it guides for zoomers with their point and click tablet/ipad interface or SaaS that need guides.

As a youth of the late 80s I know bbs, forums, etc

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[–] Ipodjockey 11 points 1 year ago

This is pretty accurate... Sadly.

[–] hydra 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don’t think you’re using the word gaslighting correctly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hey OP, is that Ubuntu font you used for this post?

[–] PlasticExistence 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed! Ubuntu Mono Bold (I think). I made this in GIMP.

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