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Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by llbeansandrice »

timeon wrote: post #179
rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

> slow Not sure if this is problem since Reddit's UI is massively laggin.

I find old.reddit.com with RES to be one of the snappiest websites I regularly use and the 3rd party app I use (Apollo) is also a dream to use.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by janfoeh »

vidarh wrote: post #191
icehawk wrote: post #172

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(4) and most importantly, no ranked/AI-managed feed. Thus it is filled with noise. If you're in control of your feed, and your feed is filled with noise, I wouldn't call that a Mastodon issue.

The thing is, I have the choice between following too few people to get enough of the stuff that really interests me, or having a deluge that I can't possibly get through, where most of it is not of interest to me, because of what the people I'm interested in seeing certain stuff from posts is stuff I'm not interested in. Without a ranked/AI-managed feed I'm not truly in control of my feed - without it, I'm forced to…

> Without a ranked/AI-managed feed I'm not truly in control of my feed

It sounds to me like you are describing the opposite: being more in control than you would like.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by wkat4242 »

polalavik wrote: post #148
nosebob wrote: post #71

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gonna be hard going mainstream with a name like "phuks", unfortunately. i.e. "i posted on reddit" "i posted on lemmy" ... "i posted on phuks" sounds a little nsfw.

It's only the package name. The platform could be different. But I agree re the name

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by PrimeMcFly »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #73
rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

It's like your local freemason lodge. The conversations will be much more interesting but they will never be as popular as meetup.

I dunno. I'd be pretty skeptical the conversations of some middle aged men would be that interesting at their LARP meetup.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by wkat4242 »

willcipriano wrote: post #94
skyyler wrote: post #67

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The first post I got when I opened that link was from a user going by "Kitler" (based on the profile picture, it's a kitten version of Adolf Hitler) Kitler's post was culture war stuff about homosexuals. Clicking on his profile, I get taken to a bunch of racist and anti-semetic posts. Gab is for a certain kind of person .

You know how people in California claim that the homeless problem there is due to them having programs to support the homeless, and that if other states did a better job their state would have less of a problem? Well if you are basically the only website that allows all legal speech, you are going to see a lot of stuff that was censored elsewhere. I'd love to see a version of this created by a more left wing group of…

I'm leftist (moderate by European standards, probably radical by American standards) and I would never want to be on gab. It's a toxic cesspool. Sorry I just have no other words for it.

This is not about free speech anymore, it's really just a bunch of hate speech.

I checked it out recently and among the first 5 top posts was one claiming Hitler was a great leader. I wonder if they remember how many patriotic Americans lost their lives getting rid of that insanity.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by usea »

Sunspark wrote: post #185
2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #64

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The reddit redesign is still a marvel of technology, in a negative way. I can not comprehend how it is even possible to make a piece of software, be it online or offline, that mainly just has to display text (and the occasional video, thumbnail or image), so incredibly slow and bug ridden. It's truly baffling. The editor for comments is buggy, regularly posts comments twice, can't handle copy/paste properly, "there w…

My favourite bug there (unless it's actually a feature?) when people post links reddit will intentionally break urls by actually inserting "/" in the link url especially if the urls have "_" to separate words in it. so this_is_an_example becomes this/_is/_an/_example. When you use their "app" it works, but if you use a browser it breaks.

This is definitely a feature. It's intrusive, obvious, and has been around for a long time. It creates friction for users of old reddit with plausible deniability.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by some_furry »

LordShredda wrote: post #160
goplayoutside wrote: post #109

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Maybe the modest technical hurdles are a feature, not a bug. From the (currently) top comment in the lemmy post you linked[1], which relates a story about alt.sysadmin.recovery in the 70's/80's: >Which brings me back to my point. A few hoops to jump through and a few initial challenges to adoption can go a long way as a filter for who can show up and interact. Of course we would want Lemmy to be welcoming to anyone w…

No one likes secret internet clubs, they're lame and end up as a circlejerk or a hugbox, much like early IRC servers and discord servers now. Opinion: lobste.rs sucks because you need to be one of the chosen people to post there, and you're only chosen if you think like someone already in there. The posts there are very high quality, but it might as well be a hivemind's blog. Why would I read someone else's comments…

> lobste.rs sucks because you need to be one of the chosen people to post there, and you're only chosen if you think like someone already in there. The posts there are very high quality, but it might as well be a hivemind's blog. Why would I read someone else's comments when I could make my own, on a different website with the same links posted?

You should read some of the threads of lobste.rs users reacting poorly when a technical article happens to be posted by an author with a furry or anime avatar.

It's just like some Hacker News threads. Indistinguishable.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by guraf »

sph wrote: post #74
yuck39 wrote: post #45

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Exactly. I always thought Mastadon could have been so much more successful if they had just proxied cached versions of the most popular instances through a single larger server. Sure it would give Mastadon the power to pick and choose who it wants to host, but if you want to go join a different instance you are more than welcome to. It would just substantially streamline the process for your mainstream user.

The problem with Mastodon is that some people still don't know how to spell it properly. It's not rocket science.

You are being downvoted but I agree, what's with people spelling it mastadon? That's not even how it's pronounced (in my English but non American country, at least), so is it a language thing? Is mastadon a real word in some languages?
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