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Reddit is becoming "a logged-in-only experience" (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 125 points 9 hours ago (28 children)

Good! Finally the last holdover users will reconsider open source alternatives

What we need now is for every modteam on Reddit who have an alternative on Lemmy, to actually advertise it. Now is the time to do so.

A pinned post should do great to point people in the right direction

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  • [–] 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Good! Finally the last holdover users will reconsider open source alternatives

    LOOOOLOLOL brother, I want some of what you're smoking because I want to exist in this reality where people are fleeing Reddit rather than flocking to it. This only affects logged-out visitors, not so much "users". Most platforms have been this way for a long time and seen no such decline either. Pretty much the entire internet is already account-gated.

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  • [–] 75 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    Finally the last holdover users will reconsider open source alternatives

    The holdover users already have accounts, so this change will not affect them.

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  • [–] 69 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

    It's what made me finally check out lemmy.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

    Welcome!

    Just remember Lemmy is only part of a larger network called the Fediverse. If you find you don't really like it, there are other alternatives like Mbin and PieFed. They're all pretty good I think, but Mbin is probably my personal favorite. There are also custom lemmy interfaces like old.lemmy.world, as well as lots of different mobile clients.

    All the different instances and platforms can tall talk to each other, so you can subscribe to communities you like from any of them, as long as they are connected (aka federated). So somebody on https://kbin.earth/ (an Mbin instance) could subscribe to !micromobility@lemmy.world (a community on a Lemmy instance) and post there, browse, etc. even though they're different websites.

    You can sign up for any instance you want and if you hate them all, you can even make your very own.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    This is a great breakdown.

    I’ll share I pretty much only signed up for lemmy.world because I looked up which one had the most users (not that it seems to matter with all the crossover).

    I wonder if there’s another instance I’d like more!

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  • [–] 11 points 8 hours ago* (1 child)

    I made accounts on a few different ones to check them all out but I started in kbin.social while it was still a thing (the admin had some health issues I heard, hope he's doing ok). Kbin was the predecessor to Mbin, which got picked up by some other devs thankfully.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    Kbin.social was my first too, Ernest was a king and I hope he's doing well and thriving in life.

    Made a handful of alts when it became clear kbin was going away. Ended up using .zip as my main as I like their hands-off approach to moderating/degeneration. We're federated with everyone except malicious/criminal instances by default. If you don't want to see things you need to block them yourself which I like a lot.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

    I want to keep Reddit mods off of Lemmy

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago* (1 child)

    the reddit mods of the large subs should not be one on here, because many of them are powermods(they have hordes large accounts under thier belt, plus i heard many of those are in cahoots with the admins of reddit.

    what lemmy needs is the niche subs. also indian subs are pretty much taking over reddit, solely because of the sheer number of people in india, apparently they dont have a sole "social media" platform of thier own. and i heard this is drama with india subs, solely because of the BJP bots.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 hours ago* (3 children)

    The advantage lemmy has is that unlike reddit, you can easily make a community of the same name, just on a different server in the case of mod disagreements.

    Its MUCH harder to powertrip on lemmy, both because the mod tools are ass, and spinning a new community isnt hard.

    Didn't like tenforward have tHe Exodus drama with some mod?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Its MUCH harder to powertrip on lemmy, both because the mod tools are ass, and spinning a new community isnt hard.

    Do Lemmy instances also have that "no brigading" rule of Reddit that only exists for mods?

    Because I think that rule contributed a lot to make mods more heavyhanded on their communities, even if they didn't intend to.

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