Officially they're called communities, the issue with that is that when you're trying to mention them in conversation with someone outside of Lemmy, you often have to use the longer "Lemmy Community." Not the end of the world, but something quicker and more distinct might be better.
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You're not the first person I've seen make this argument, and it's definitely a difficult situation.
End of the day though, this line of argument essentially allows Reddit to hold us hostage. While it is unfortunate that this will be in some ways harmful to the internet as a whole, it's ultimately our content, and we have the right to remove it if we wish.
That said, I do think that, if anyone has a history of being particularly helpful on Reddit, they should consider backing up their comments, and possibly reposting the relevant information to a blog or something similar, or maybe even here on Lemmy.
(Discussion) Would you pay for Reddit Premium IF it allowed you to continue using your favorite app?
No. Even if they decided to do something to placate us today, they've shown their hand and demonstrated they don't give a shit about their userbase. I have no plans of going back. Period.
I, unfortunately, did read all of it, and I think it took a year or two off my life, sadly.
Bonus points if they're Nintendo games!
It's so bizarre to me how, in the wake of Reddit killing 3rd party apps, some people are running to Discord, which is infamously, actively hostile towards 3rd party apps, to the point of banning people for using them.
I have genuinely commented here on Lemmy today than I have on Reddit in the past 6 months, maybe longer. Trying my best to do my part, and honestly I find the atmosphere here a lot less intimidating, at least for now. It's fun to watch a new place grow!
...what the fuck???
That is a fair point. I guess it's up to us to try and make this place popular outside our circles, then.
Currently on Fedora, but having the itch to switch recently. It "just works," but I'm getting a bit tired of how many times I've run into a program that has a way of installing on Ubuntu/Debian, and an AUR package, but no rpm/copr/etc.
I'd strongly advise against Manjaro. The devs are incompetent morons, resulting in it being a buggy and insecure distro. There are plenty of better options for something based on Arch, EndeavourOS is probably the best.
Lemmy is the first one I heard about, and that's where I made my account. Kbin is also a much newer project, so I'm less confident that it'll be around in the mid-to-long term future than lemmy.world, and I'd rather not have to make a new account.