You should join his discord. He talks a bit about the process sofar. But he doesnt seem to be the type to write paragraphs. He seems more like a line or two here and there intersperse with a joke or 3. It's been fun watching the transition from "reddit is dying, thanks for all the fish" to "lemmy might be a thing let me look into it" into "I think this will work, I wonder if the lemmy devs will be open to suggestions for things I wanted from reddit for 5+ years".
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I've bought 3 copies of Sync Pro, 3 copies of Sync Dev and 2 copies of Sync Ultra over the years. Will buy Sync Dev Pro Ultra for Lemmy as soon as it's available :D
Its not just replacing mods though. Take the issue that happened with that snack sharing subreddit. The current mods held it for 10+ years. They built several tools that automated verification and rating people who shared with each other and it prevents a LOT of drama and scams. Then reddit replaced them because of the protest. But what about the automated tools that they personally made for "their" sub. The owner of those tools took them down. The new mod put them back up. They will die on the 30th anyways because they wont make the API requirements and if they are forced to stay up byt he new mods then the person who will have to pay reddit for the API usage is no longer the mod there.
This is not a unique situation either. Tons of people made auto moderation bots and tool over the past 16+ years. Most of those tools break today and if the mods are replaced then those tools are stolen from the owners. If the owners remove the tools reddit sees that as protesting and removes the mods.
It's going to be a train wreck and a legal nightmare.
Even in a perfect world you are replacing mods that know the communities and have created them and worked on them for years with a new set of mods with no attachment or experience running those communities.
He has said he plans to support kbin in the future. But he is working on a MVP minimum viable product right now to get something that works out asap and then start addressing things like kbin support down the road. He just needs time and the support of the community. You can follow the project at !lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy (hopefully I did that right...)
This is not true. I have always surfed the frontpage and I dont subscribe. If I want to read a sub I specifically go to that sub.
The amount of content being posted this week vs a month ago is significantly less. I can browse the front page right now and it will take me significantly less time to get to the dregs (threads with less than 20 replied) It used to take 2 hours but you can get these today in about 10 min and then once you've seen those posts they will stay on the first 10 pages for days instead of what used to take a few hours.
This whole thing feel like a giant slice of gas lighting to me. Most of the comments and upvotes appear to be from bots. Even if you read one of those 50k+ comment treads you'll hit comment chains that are obviously just bots talking to themselves saying the exact same things in the same order with only slight variations. It's weird.
Time will tell if reddit survives. I kind of think they will survive personally. But its not going to be what it was even a month ago for a while.
Everyone I know except for children (at the time of release of ep1) hated the prequels. Like... HATED... (again, except for those who didnt care at all) I've never met someone who thought they were good.
Dont really like any of them. They are to busy for no real benefit. The logos are not unique enough that you would instantly recognize them. Because they are not better than the current generic earth picture I say we just leave it.
I think it's an age thing. If you were a child when the prequels came out you probably enjoyed them and everyone around you enjoyed them. If you were in your 20s when they came out you probably hate them and everyone around you hated them. If you were in your 40s when they came out you probably didnt care one way or another and probably still dont...
I've not been rate limited yet which makes me feel like I'm doing pretty good not checking reddit as much as I used to.
lemmy.ml followed by a bunch of hate speech.
Yep. Got the warning but works just fine.
Maybe pass on the lemmygrad.ml anything...