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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by swexbe »

BizarreByte wrote: post #59
stcroixx wrote: post #16

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.

Seriously though, it's absurd that such a small group of incredibly privileged users (mods) get to speak for the majority and make decisions for them. Reddit should be removing these mods, adding new ones, and reopening subs. Mods shouldn't get to hold entire communities hostage when they throw a tantrum. Anyone can moderate a subreddit, these mods aren't special and they're completely replaceable. They should be rem…

I'm sure they will. Just waiting for the whole thing to die down a bit to get less of a reaction.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by empyrrhicist »

trostaft wrote: post #49

There was a brief period where the internet was shockingly stable. However, 'creative destruction' and churn is inevitable as the whole world continues to desire a better internet. If reddit cannot productively use this to come out with a better product and commitment to its community, hence destroy the bad within itself, it should fall apart in favor of new services. I spent a decade+ actively on reddit, and I truly…

Seeing things change is honestly really exciting - I didn't realize how stale things had started to seem. Fragmenting into a bunch of smaller communities honestly seems kind of ideal.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by [deleted] »

skilled wrote: post #4

What is/was stopping Reddit from doing this: - Decide that you don't want third-party apps. - Buy out all the big players (Apollo, etc.) and integrate some of their tooling into your own app/core. I understand it would have cost a lot of money, but they could have found a middle-ground where everyone is happy. Instead, they're throwing a stupid tantrum that could end up costing them a lot more than it would have cost…

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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Zetice »

No, the members of /r/startrek are vowing to not use Reddit anymore. /r/startrek will be considered abandoned and given to anyone who asks for it. Reddit will take it away from these mods and I don't blame them.

Maybe nobody will use it, but some people probably will, people who don't give a shit about stupid Internet wars and just want to read about and discuss things Star Trek.

...which, believe it or not, is most people. Mod wars are uninteresting to the 90% who don't even make accounts.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by 0xDEF »

hospitalJail wrote: post #61

I decided to try Lemmy(vlemmy specifically) a moment ago. 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.

Lemmy's backend is written in Rust using Actix Web and Diesel.

https://actix.rs/

https://diesel.rs/

Lemmy's frontend uses the React-like InfernoJS library that claims to be faster than React however I really doubt it's frontend rendering that is the bottleneck here.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

BizarreByte wrote: post #59
stcroixx wrote: post #16

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.

Seriously though, it's absurd that such a small group of incredibly privileged users (mods) get to speak for the majority and make decisions for them. Reddit should be removing these mods, adding new ones, and reopening subs. Mods shouldn't get to hold entire communities hostage when they throw a tantrum. Anyone can moderate a subreddit, these mods aren't special and they're completely replaceable. They should be rem…

> Anyone can moderate a subreddit, these mods aren't special and they're completely replaceable

You're volunteering?

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Zetice »

fullshark wrote: post #53

based on the reactions in r/gaming when they opened back up they either have to to do this or admit they are giving up and the entire protest was meaningless: https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/reddit_were...

By definition the protest will always be meaningless, because ultimately the vast majority of users don't care. Reddit can weather this storm because most of the people who they make money off of are confused about what this is about and when it blows over will be otherwise ambivalent about all of it.

This was never going to work. Mods should have used this moment to get paid (percentage of ad revenue generated by the sub they moderate), not throw a tantrum about API access.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by remram »

Spivak wrote: post #38

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…

It's like HN is actually multiple people or something...

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by dzader »

BizarreByte wrote: post #59
stcroixx wrote: post #16

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.

Seriously though, it's absurd that such a small group of incredibly privileged users (mods) get to speak for the majority and make decisions for them. Reddit should be removing these mods, adding new ones, and reopening subs. Mods shouldn't get to hold entire communities hostage when they throw a tantrum. Anyone can moderate a subreddit, these mods aren't special and they're completely replaceable. They should be rem…

Go start your own subreddit then if anyone can do it! I'm sure you'll have tons of users and it will be super popular!
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