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Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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post #6

this is so sad. i understand the protest, but it feels like burning books. is all that prior information gone? or is the protest temporary way to get the community migrated away but content will be restored for historical purposes?

more like building a new library

how do I access the content that was at /r/startrek?

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#12

Big loss, I would google stuff like: "Why is there only one Negus in deep space 9?" and more often than not it was a Reddit thread someone submitted 8 years ago with in depth knowledge. This is huge, hopefully more communities migrate away from Reddit. That platform got way too big for it's britches. Just don't move to Discord, Discord is terrible. The major problem Reddit has and will always have is "power moderator…

For public discussion, places like Zulip, Slack and Discord are fucking abysmal since they can hardly be googled and usually have stronger circle jerking in them.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#13
post #3

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?

https://startrek.website is the third Google result for "star trek lemmy". "Star trek discussion board" shows many other discussion boards, so discoverability seems fine to me.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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post #3

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.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

#18
Churn in social media is probably good. Places get big, overly commercialized and stale, people's desire for socializing stays constant, so they'll constantly move and create new spaces. Changes and transitions suck, but finding a new place and seeing it grow is also great.

Re: /r/startrek/ migrates to lemmy

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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…

Reddit buying third-party apps to adopt a few token niceties and then kill them wouldn't be a middle ground. Anybody who uses those apps would see exactly what the game was and be just as outraged. It would still be a tantrum, figuratively speaking, just a more expensive and passive-aggressive one.

"Incompetence and lack of awareness" is what you get when management starts taking their community for granted.

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