StarManta

Not only are YTA, but this will not help you make more money. What would have helped you make more money would be to charge a reasonable rate for API usage. But now you have alienated the users which contributed the most to your success.

That’s overestimating the number of users who are planning to jump ship for sure. We are the noisy ones because we have a lot to complain about right now. It probably more like 1-5% that are planning to leave Reddit indefinitely.

The key word though is “planning”. Because that 1-5% contains an outsized portion of the biggest moderators, content creators, and active users. After we jump ship, Reddit is going to have more spam and abuse (and learn the value of the free moderation they’ve been getting up til now), and less valuable content once you get through that. So Reddit might end up losing half its users as it becomes more useless, even if it’s only a small fraction that’s planning to leave right now.

Before I started seeing Lemmy pop up, I was thinking that Slashdot was going to have to be my home base.

It’s muscle memory. I’ve been opening Apollo several times an hour for like a decade. The only way I’ve been able to stop being in Reddit constantly has been to put Lemmy into Apollo’s former place in my phone’s Home Screen.

The ELI5 is actually pretty easy: e-mail.

You know how you can have an account @gmail.com and I can have an account @hotmail.com and we can still send each other emails? That’s because gmail and hotmail (and every other email server) talk to each other when you send an email between them.

The fediverse is just applying the same model to other services. Lemmy is this for a Reddit-like forum. Mastadon is this for a twitter-like feed. And so on.

This makes it nearly impossible for one company to “ruin” any federated service, the way twitter has gone under Musk and the way Reddit seems to be heading in advance of its IPO. Google might ruin gmail someday, but all you have to do is sign up for another email address somewhere else.

Broken arms was something about a teenager who had broken both his arms. I forget the exact way the conversation arrived at this but the joke is that his mom would help him jack off since he couldn’t anymore.

Should add a section about client apps. I’m using the web for now, but I can’t imagine Lemmy getting incorporated into my daily routine like Reddit is without a native app.

One thing I don’t understand about Lemmy is, how do you do stuff across instances? For example I’m on Lemmy.world, but clicking a link to that sub Lemmy takes me to Lemmy.ml, where I’m obviously not logged on. How am I expected to interact with that community?

Edit: I was able to find and post this comment by manually typing in the address into the URL, which surely isn’t how this is supposed to work

That really sounds like a verb for the thing I do with my second Reddit account.