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WOW! It was incredibly responsive. What the heck? That was so weird, there was no delay in clicking.
I didn't even realize this was a thing until it was so fast that I came here to talk about it.
Not going to speculate, just impressed.
And for those of us with no interest in following the mods, can /r/Startrek be opened again? If the old mods moved platforms, there’s no need to keep this private.
Something that Reddit admins and users constantly miss is: "its the mods that make a subreddit amazing". People openly talk about this as the reason that HackerNews continues to be such a vibrant community. Replacing the mods will change the community, full stop. Could be for the better , could be for the worse.
Conversely, the mods can also be mercurial and act like little tyrants over the subreddit. /r/StarTrek in particular is known for stifling criticism around 'new trek' and spinoff subreddits like /r/DaystromInstitute were created by people tired of the mods' actions.
It also raises an interesting question as to why the mods have so much power in the first place and if any community recourse should exist when subscribers do not like the mods' actions. For one thing it does seem weird that the mods of r/StarTrek are allowed to unilaterally close the subreddit.
What are the current solutions for discoverability in Lemmy? Having a tombstone on Reddit pointing people towards a specific instance is good but it’s still hard to be the definitive community when the namespace isn’t as restricted any more. Maybe that’s better?
I don’t see this approach as a viable one, but time will tell. I never subscribed to the Startrek subreddit, but having it on an isolated website instead of been agglomerated on a solution like Reddit will have an engagement decrease, especially when people who subscribed to the sub still participates in other subreddits.
Software wise (Lemmy/Kbin/etc), it's definitely not for the faint of heart currently but that will improve in time. For me though the biggest thing is "One platform to rule them all" is not viable. It will have issues, users will suffer, and this isn't some unique thing we've never seen before.
The more quickly we can regain some aspect of "the web" in favor of users, the better. In my book.
HN being endlessly contrarian is really weird sometimes. You are in real-time witnessing the rebirth of community hosted and run forums. The thing HN has been lamenting the death of forever. This isn't some "migrate from walled garden A to walled garden B", this is the community setting up new-age phpBB except it's federated and interoperates with any and all ActivityPub. You can subscribe to /r/startrek from your Tw…
This just isn't going to fly. I have literally hundreds of subscribed subs on Reddit - I'm not going to a different site for each.
Anddddd the new site is down.
I also got an error. Lemmy is distributed? No centralized login, so I need to give my email and create an account on every SUB? So there's no homepage with all my subscriptions? This is not a valid replacement unless we're going to bring back RSS and start up a local reader again that can somehow auto-create accounts and re-submit comments.
I got banned from there because I didn't like Discovery. You have a top secret ultra elite experimental ship with a spore drive... with what? Something something tardigrades? But then your crew is a criminal, cadet Tilly?, everyone is unstable/untrustworthy, and a rather high concentration of LGBT people? But you get banned for pointing this out.
HN being endlessly contrarian is really weird sometimes. You are in real-time witnessing the rebirth of community hosted and run forums. The thing HN has been lamenting the death of forever. This isn't some "migrate from walled garden A to walled garden B", this is the community setting up new-age phpBB except it's federated and interoperates with any and all ActivityPub. You can subscribe to /r/startrek from your Tw…
No central logins, no unified feed of messages and subscriptions, no customized compact view. This just isn't going to fly. I have literally hundreds of subscribed subs on Reddit - I'm not going to a different site for each.
Your "frontpage" on whatever server you choose to call home is the amalgam of all the content you follow everywhere.
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I also got an error. Lemmy is distributed? No centralized login, so I need to give my email and create an account on every SUB? So there's no homepage with all my subscriptions? This is not a valid replacement unless we're going to bring back RSS and start up a local reader again that can somehow auto-create accounts and re-submit comments.
It's distributed, but the login can be from any site. You don't need multiple accounts, you can subscribe to "subreddits" (not sure what they're called over there) on different servers from your instance, similar to how a gmail and a hotmail user can email each other or join the same mailing list.
Anddddd the new site is down.
I also got an error. Lemmy is distributed? No centralized login, so I need to give my email and create an account on every SUB? So there's no homepage with all my subscriptions? This is not a valid replacement unless we're going to bring back RSS and start up a local reader again that can somehow auto-create accounts and re-submit comments.