Well, now I know about Lemmy. Streisand effect.
Lemmys ok. It needs more users to be useful. I don't think the critical threshold is very high.
It clearly can't handle more users, so that's a bit of a problem.
Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
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#22While Reddit is pulling a Digg, Lemmy is pulling a Reddit.
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#23As if Reddit needs any more bad publicity recently... or don't they care and welcome any publicity?
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#24There's also some weird drama going on over a user complaining about Lyft's response to an issue, and then Lyft responding to the user's post with their real name (which was not attached to the reddit account). If Reddit removed the comment I haven't seen that yet, so the two stories feel vaguely similar in a way.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/142094g/i_was_...
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#25This has been fun to watch. Reddits been working to deteriorate its quality for a long time. The major disappointment is that they aren't a publicly traded company so there is no way to make money on their downfall.
I mean, everyone had similar views about twitter and it's still kicking around just fine.
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#26Funny to see people quick to make fun of a project for not being able to instantly handle a spike in requests, which most of their own apps wouldn't either!
Reddit has been around nearly 20 years to harden their infrastructure. Relax and give them a minute. Their page loads for me now that I've typed this out, anyway.
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#27Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606170826/https://lemmy.ml/...
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#28This has been fun to watch. Reddits been working to deteriorate its quality for a long time. The major disappointment is that they aren't a publicly traded company so there is no way to make money on their downfall.
I mean, everyone had similar views about twitter and it's still kicking around just fine.
For some value of "just fine"
https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-twitter-documents-ad-...
Not that it's worth much but I recently deleted my Twitter account (and then a few weeks later, also, my Reddit account)
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#29This has been fun to watch. Reddits been working to deteriorate its quality for a long time. The major disappointment is that they aren't a publicly traded company so there is no way to make money on their downfall.
I mean, everyone had similar views about twitter and it's still kicking around just fine.
Not quite 'just fine', lol
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#30I moderate a few modestly sized subreddits for a niche hobby -- regular stuff, nothing that could be regarded as morally questionable or a ToS issue -- to the tune of 10k-15k active users on a busy day. My account was suspended for "suspicious activity" the other day[1], and some of my less active subreddits were also banned.
While extenuating circumstances (described in the post linked below) mean it's plausible this was an overzealous spambot, the timing is curious, as I had just added my subs to the protest, and was in the process of communicating with the mods of some fairly large subreddits about joining the protest.