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I keep hearing this, but how many of reddit users actually use third party apps? If Twitter proved anything, its that its really hard to kill a popular social media network, no matter how badly managed or drama filled it is.
I moved from Reddit's official App to Apollo about 2 months ago because of huge battery drain and haven't looked back since.
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The problem I see with lemmy, mastodon and similar services (anybody remember the also open source "Facebook killer" from like 10 years ago?) is that they are confusing: is it one service or a bunch of servers? Which server is the good one? The average is lost on the first page, and you need her for these social based apps. You need the non tech savvy people to get communities like r/medicine. Otherwise you get shat…
To argue your point, today on Lemmy.ml the owner advised users the server could not handle the load, and told users to register on other instances ( https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770?scrollToComments=true ). This would mean multiple logins. There is no way to migrate or synchronise accounts. Federation is a cool idea but Lemmy's implementation is a terrible user experience.
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Yes! I think the difference is between people who use Reddit as a feed versus a forum. For a Hacker News audience seeking to engage with forum-like content, the new redesigns clearly do not fit their needs. However, to a general audience seeking to find a feed of content and interesting comment sections, the new redesigns are much more palatable.
That difference is important, because it's the first group that actually makes content. Without those users, there is no platform.
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That difference is important, because it's the first group that actually makes content. Without those users, there is no platform.
That's plainly false, and there is no data to back up your claim.
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The problem I see with lemmy, mastodon and similar services (anybody remember the also open source "Facebook killer" from like 10 years ago?) is that they are confusing: is it one service or a bunch of servers? Which server is the good one? The average is lost on the first page, and you need her for these social based apps. You need the non tech savvy people to get communities like r/medicine. Otherwise you get shat…
To argue your point, today on Lemmy.ml the owner advised users the server could not handle the load, and told users to register on other instances ( https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770?scrollToComments=true ). This would mean multiple logins. There is no way to migrate or synchronise accounts. Federation is a cool idea but Lemmy's implementation is a terrible user experience.
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Don't forget that if you don't like Trudeau, you must want Canada to join the states because you're a truck driving gun-nut bigot who also wants to ban abortion and hates lgbt people.
There is enough variety with wider regional subreddits on the national/provincial scale so that doesn't bother me much. The Toronto subreddit is by far the most dominant and the only general Toronto subreddit worth subscribing to which makes the censorship more aggravating because you can't really get Toronto news elsewhere on reddit.
Might be too late, but 3rd party apps should should reddit content and 3rd party content