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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Izkata »

slindsey wrote: post #99
Stephen304 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but only the first remote user needs to know the address. After that the content gets federated to the feeds of other instances automatically, including the new/hot pages where popular upvoted posts from the star trek instance can show up on the front page of other instances, allowing new people to discover, join the "sublemmy", and comment often without realizing it's hosted on a differ…

Based on my mastodon experience, it's a little more nuanced than that. You are on a server (not the star trek one). Someone on your server needs to follow stuff on that star trek server for it to show up on your server. So if your community is mostly about fishing and no one likes star trek but you, you'll never see it unless you go looking for it.

What? That sounds like a great way to pollute the tightly focused fishing server... There's got to be something more to it, right?

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by dvngnt_ »

tmaly wrote: post #112

This lemmy site they have migrated to reminds me of something Matt's script archive would produce back in the early 90's. Did they style this for nostalgia?

maybe the rust devs aren't great at implementing modern designs built by dedicated art teams

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by slowmovintarget »

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…

Forgive me for picking on the phrase, but I believe this is result of Reddit owners engaging in destructive destruction.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by q1w2 »

Spivak wrote: post #68
q1w2 wrote: post #65

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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.

Yes central logins, yes unified feed. How do you think federation works? Click on the "All" to see posts from all different servers. Then click into some comments and see that people are posting from other servers. Your "frontpage" on whatever server you choose to call home is the amalgam of all the content you follow everywhere.

The cross-server logins are broken right now.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Izkata »

BizarreByte wrote: post #97
tapoxi wrote: post #84

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Typically the users are voting in favor of this. Also mods aren't as replaceable as you think - who wants to work for Reddit for free while being treated as disposable?

I really wonder how many users are in favour. I keep seeing very critical/cynical comments about the whole thing and most users only casually browse to begin with. It's hard to get a real idea how much support there is amongst the user base. I standby what I said though, mods shouldn't have the power to take away entire communities.

I only saw one user poll about whether to go private, granted on a pretty small subreddit, and it voted like 70% stay open. But it was interesting that it was the only poll I saw.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by q1w2 »

tapoxi wrote: post #70
q1w2 wrote: post #60

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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.

No, if you have an account on one Lemmy instance you can subscribe to or post on a community (sub) hosted anywhere. Your home instance also houses all your subscriptions.

I'm unable to login to any other server besides the original I signed up on.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by Izkata »

incomingpain wrote: post #120
rcxdude wrote: post #116

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Seems odd that you mention an 'unstable/untrustworthy crew' in the same breath as 'high concentration of LGBT people' as reasons you don't like it. I suspect that might be related to your ban, not the fact that you didn't like it in the first place.

>Seems odd that you mention an 'unstable/untrustworthy crew' in the same breath as 'high concentration of LGBT people' as reasons you don't like it. I suspect that might be related to your ban, not the fact that you didn't like it in the first place. I also mentioned cadet and criminal, each of these attributes are separate entities. You are the one associating untrustworthy with LGBT. Which in fact isn't the case. I…

I think they would have been less confused if you wrote it as "Tilly(?)" rather than without the parens, which makes it look like the end of a sentence and the following comma a typo. I'm guessing you were unsure of her name or the spelling of her name.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by pokerface_86 »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #110
empyrrhicist wrote: post #72

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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.

A bit elitist take, but I would be happy if the people who don't want to take a stance stay and the rest move on to more interesting places. Reddit can be reserved for ads and memes.

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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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Post by pokerface_86 »

bazmattaz wrote: post #144
tmaly wrote: post #112

This lemmy site they have migrated to reminds me of something Matt's script archive would produce back in the early 90's. Did they style this for nostalgia?

I couldn’t agree more. Lenny looks like it was designed and built by devs, for devs. Given that a large proportion of Reddit users are likely not technical I think Lemmy will have a hard job of attracting and keeping those users. Maybe that’s by design I don’t know. Would it hurt to have a designer look over it?

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