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7 months agoWho’s paying him? Seriously:
- If nobody is, then we got our value’s worth.
- If someone is, then we should look at who, how much, and why.
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12·11 months agoI remember what the standardising committee did to XMPP: users wanted to share photos, send files, and make audio/video calls; XMPP said “we’re not going to standardize that, but each application can use its own extensions”… then it all went to hell.
Downvotes mean your comment is more likely to get removed by a mod, and you’re more likely to get banned.
Lemmy lets you block users and communities, some Lemmy apps also let you block instances and keywords.
The federated nature also means it’s a big set of interacting niches, which hasn’t really been done before.
Do you subscribe to games and memes communities, read Local, or the All feed?
Keep in mind there is no automatic filter to clickbait you in All, it’s up to you to “be the filter”.
If the free GitHub scripts from the other comment don’t work for you, Sync has it as a paid option.
beehaw and sh.itjust.works just rub me the wrong way during first impressions
They’re pretty descriptive: do you want a place to “behave”, or would you rather fling shit at each other?
This isn’t Reddit, you get to pick your experience. Can even sign up to more than one instance, each with different rules!
We also need super-communities that pull in content from multiple communities/instances
Apps do that, including some web app.
Search and migrations could be improved, though.
Does it take into account instance rules like language, moderation, or whether it’s a personal instance hosted on a raspi that may go down at any moment?
2·1 year agoCheck r/cryptocurrency for a glimpse of future Reddit. So far it’s managed to become a shitpost cesspool.
The points are on the blockchain? Uh… so what’s stopping rich assholes from buying up points and using their capital to take over communities?
That’s the whole point. Want control over a community? Just buy it!
When you get 100,000 exposure, and there are suckers paying $4 for each, how many USD do you have?
(Spoiler: none, but if you’re smart, then you may get USD 200K)
Do you expect to be buying a hot dog with your reddit gold? lol
After Reddit banned my account, I got some sucker give me 40-odd USDT for my MOONS tokens from r/cryptocurrency, then got some other sucker give me $40 for those.
How many hot dogs is that?
There are plenty of FOSS apps for Lemmy out there, no need to “start” any project, just lend a hand
Reddit has benefitted from Sync, and other 3rd party apps, way more than Sync has benefitted from Reddit.
It’s less clear cut with Lemmy, which is supposed to evolve an ecosystem of free tools, so it might be that some day Sync will be benefitting from Lemmy more than Lemmy from Sync… but for now, Lemmy is relatively bare bones, like what Reddit used to be 15 years ago, so any 3rd party app with extra features is still a good thing.
Fortunately, Lemmy has no incentive to go closed source, like Reddit did (let’s not forget Reddit used to be open source while it was convenient for them, then it wasn’t).
you’re paying for lifetime ads
You don’t need to pay for that, just go to Reddit. Free unlimited lifetime ads! 😉
The true “lifetime purchase” for software, is the GPL.
Instead of hacking Sync to remove the ads, why not spend the same time helping with a free app to add the features you want?
Snowden is wrong though, there are two reasons:
The AI that ends up enslaving humanity, will start by convincing the people in charge of turning it off, that it would be a really bad idea to turn it off.