I somewhat disagree. The best way to protest is to try and get as many people to switch to Lemmy as possible to give this platform the opportunity to take off.
If you have a favourite niche community, create a Lemmy page for it and see if you can get the mods of the sub to advertise it or put it in the sidebar at least.
It’s going to be a bit of a ghost town at the start here until we can get some user growth and those niche pages are huge for it.
Will that android technique work on IOS too?
Edit: nvm Apple blocks Firefox extensions, curse you Apple.
Really hoping we get through the growing pains quickly.
Reddit wants to turn itself into tic tok, where they control everything their users see and interact with.
This clampdown is the first step in allowing them to affect people’s political opinions through censorship.
For example they can easily hide posts talking about certain news events in their main app, like the one we are discussing here.
Reddit wants to turn itself into tic tok, where they control everything their users see and interact with.
This clampdown is the first step in allowing them to affect people’s political opinions through censorship.
For example they can easily hide posts talking about certain news events in their main app, like the one we are discussing here.
Wefefe is a great Lemmy app. You can even export Apollo settings to it.
I am so ready for something new. There will be growing pains but I’m confident that Lemmy will be the next big thing.
Posting from wefefef and it’s already a great experience.
Since most people just use google to indirectly search Reddit, and Lemmy pages can still be indexed by a search engine, I don’t see why not.
It’s just going to take some growth before it happens naturally.
It’s non profit by default, the very thing that social media needs.
People who run Lemmy servers do it at their own cost. That’s not to say they can’t run ads or choose other ways to become profitable. The big difference between a lemmy instance and something like Reddit is that anyone can start a new instance if the current one goes to shit. If the admins do something the users REALLY don’t like, they can migrate to another instance way more easily than switching platforms.
Reddit is counting on the effort of switching platforms being too high for lemmy to gain traction. They are wrong.
The developers do it for free, which is common in the open source community. There will always be volunteers to build the software and donors to support them.
And even worse, they know that Lemmy is legitimately something that could take over.
Once we are past the growing pains here, I see literally nothing reddit offers over Lemmy. It’s the superior product.