Will just lead to even more leaving.
Like I give a fuck anyway, reddit is dead to me now. Died a long time ago when my front page, even advice animals, got clogged with political and mediocre posts.
Reddit went mediocre a long time ago
Even I dislike Elon Musk now, used to be a big fan, was difficult for me to come to terms with.
This was my thought as well, I actually don’t mind OpenAI trawling my content to train their models, I’m benefiting from their end product in so many ways already. The internet was always public, no one asked for stupid ceos to step in and stop that. How is it Ok for Google webcrawlers, but not OpenAI? Also it’s not like I can monitise my posts and comments myself on my own anyway.
The whole locking down the API due to AI model scraping excuse was poor, it should be a decision for the community of reddit.
Starting to wonder if Reddit are going to train their own AI models or have already started.
Also, that journalist from the guardian, if you go to the website linked, looks like an older John Oliver or John Oliver’s dad 😂
I have 2 weeks off whoop!
Some instances are faster than others due to server load. Not sure how well Lemmy.world runs or what spec the server hosting the instance is, but Lemmy.ml runs like a pile of dog shite compared to the smaller ones, it’s constantly timing out, with error 500s too. I had to make another account on feddit.uk instead as it runs much faster.
Also for example if lemmynsfw was completely defederated, if you wanted nsfw content from there, you would have to make an account there to access that content.
Fret not though, over time the opensource community will step in to improve all of this.
Have to agree, I don’t really mind how many total users or active users there are at this point, there’s enough talk to engage in proper conversations now
The best part about federated services, like Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon etc, is that they are free and open source software. The amount of development that is going to do into these project from people all over the world will add features and tools that will surpass reddit's.
We have the basic software down today but it will become so much more.
What a joke, one of the problems with reddit was over moderation and how things had to be so neatly organized with flairs etc.
On the basis of this information, to me de-federation is a good thing and shows how this could be better than reddit, over just banhammering users.
The admins of beehaw are delusional if they think providing personal email addresses to private instances is a good thing imv. Let them have their silo, unintended consequences will happen.
Also passwords are hashed but don’t re-use any password at all on Lemmy.
All instances are private actors and should not be trusted as default
Reddit wasn’t built in a day :)
Thanks Obama