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Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by arcturus17 »

vinay427 wrote: post #6
benbristow wrote: post #4

Looks nice. Really fast webapp too. Congrats team! Looking forward to tracking this project's development.

You're not kidding. This webapp is so fast (after the initial load) that I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the Reddit mobile website intentionally adds sleeps/delays as some have jokingly suspected in the past. On this site, I can actually scroll through posts or collapse comment threads without wondering if my touch input and/or browser are frozen.

Not my experience... Touching “Communities” on my iPhone takes a while to load.

Edit: to add, while touching the buttons for the different sections, it seems sometimes my touches are not registering, requiring me to try again.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by tetris11 »

MintelIE wrote: post #17
mahathu wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will never be required to sign up or use a feature. I'm not trying to play the devils advocate here, just genuinely curious: Why do you (or anyone else) have such a strong opinion on not using emails for signing up? Usually, when a service requires me to enter an email, I have no issue with using a service like 10minutemail an…

People don't trust companies who want an email address. You get extra spam, the company or their successors and partners sell the email address, poorly secured computers and cloud nonsense almost ensure it'll be stolen, and nowadays if you have an incorrect opinion you could easily be doxxed, even by people inside of these big tech companies and startups. You may not care about these issues, and you might have the co…

Its am easy way to filter bots though, and its similarly easy for actual users to use disposable emails

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by MattGaiser »

MintelIE wrote: post #17
mahathu wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will never be required to sign up or use a feature. I'm not trying to play the devils advocate here, just genuinely curious: Why do you (or anyone else) have such a strong opinion on not using emails for signing up? Usually, when a service requires me to enter an email, I have no issue with using a service like 10minutemail an…

People don't trust companies who want an email address. You get extra spam, the company or their successors and partners sell the email address, poorly secured computers and cloud nonsense almost ensure it'll be stolen, and nowadays if you have an incorrect opinion you could easily be doxxed, even by people inside of these big tech companies and startups. You may not care about these issues, and you might have the co…

And which of these problems is not solved by 10minutemail?

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by Afforess »

How is lemmy going to avoid the fate of the last reddit alternative (voat)? Voat attracted the communities banned from reddit, e.g the worst of the worst: jailbait, creepshots, beatingwomen, etc. The users most interested in an alternative to reddit are on average, the exact wrong type of user to help with the growth of a healthy community. I don't see any information on how being "federated" solves the hard problem of toxic communities, especially given that is the userbase it will attract.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by phoe-krk »

MattGaiser wrote: post #18

How is this going to avoid becoming like Voat? Reddit already has competitors. It is just that they are cesspools as the only people who have a strong reason to leave reddit are those reddit has banned.

See how the Fediverse works - it has largely avoided becoming like Voat. Most alt-right instances, such as Gab, are hugely defederated by instance admins and therefore isolated from most of the network.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by readnews1 »

generatorguy wrote: post #19
readnews1 wrote: post #8

"Reddit alternative" "open source federated" What is the difference between this and usenet

You might be on to something! repackage an nntp server with a web front end in a docker container and away you go

@zzo38computer (can you tag people on this website????)

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by _8j50 »

mahathu wrote: post #13
_8j50 wrote: post #11

Sorry, don't like the name. Also, when you say a reddit alternative, to me it gives the impression that the redditor culture will remain so why would I sacrifice the content rich reddit for a new platform? Federation doesn't mean much to me as a user that justs wants [social]entertainment and news (and commentary on them). There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will…

>There's only one thing that can change my mind a little: if you guarantee email is not and will never be required to sign up or use a feature. I'm not trying to play the devils advocate here, just genuinely curious: Why do you (or anyone else) have such a strong opinion on not using emails for signing up? Usually, when a service requires me to enter an email, I have no issue with using a service like 10minutemail an…

I have spoken about this many times on HN. It comes down to this: email is being used in many nefarious ways and it is an ancient protocol with many insecurities. Anonymous email works for a bit but then every service worth using starts banning the providers. Both reddit and HN prospered as a result of not requiring email, that should tell you a lot about how horrible it is. It's on the same level as social security numbers being used as a secure secret that identifies a person. Email was not meant to be abusef this way, and I have seen first hand how it can be used against people so I have chosen it as my figurative "hill to die on".

Now, if I can give a limited use address that cant be tied to me as an individual,expires after a period of time and messages are E2EE encrypted with no metadata leakage I don't mind that.

I have spent almost an entire day trying to sign up to one service withour having to give up my phone number,real IP,creditcard or real email address to anyone as a challenge. I have tried countless anonymous email providers and sms code receiving services. I failed. Email abd phone number collection is a modern tech evil for me.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by SiNiquity »

tetris11 wrote: post #22
MintelIE wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People don't trust companies who want an email address. You get extra spam, the company or their successors and partners sell the email address, poorly secured computers and cloud nonsense almost ensure it'll be stolen, and nowadays if you have an incorrect opinion you could easily be doxxed, even by people inside of these big tech companies and startups. You may not care about these issues, and you might have the co…

Its am easy way to filter bots though, and its similarly easy for actual users to use disposable emails

Requiring an email isn't a (good) way to filter bots though.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by takeda »

readnews1 wrote: post #8

"Reddit alternative" "open source federated" What is the difference between this and usenet

I agree with you that Reddit basically overlaps this area, but I don't think access to Usenet is easy these days (ignoring paid services that are optimized for downloading files).

Although if anyone knows good servers (ISPs no longer seem to offer them) or even better a way to connect own server to Usenet, I'm interested.

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