bill_1992

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I shamelessly use Linux Mint with Cinnamon pre-installed. I imagine my experience is closer to the classic Windows experience than Windows 11 right now lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To your point, Seattle had 2 subreddits due to disagreement on moderation lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I found out about the the "He gets us" ads from comments, because I only used old w/ ad blocker or a 3p app...

 

I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.

I put my findings and my analysis into what it would actually take to kill Reddit, based on the deaths of Digg and MySpace. tl;dr it's a lot less dramatic than most people would think.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Why spoil a good thing? The protest was basically the best they could do, got tons of attention and media.

Obviously time will tell if this actually is the downturn for Reddit, but belittling their efforts just because they didn't redirect to Lemmy seems a bit entitled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Think of all the man hours wasted on features specifically asked for by users and clients, only to never be used...

It'd be that utopia meme if only users knew what they wanted lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I honestly don't understand. Reddit hasn't ever treated their mods well and will never pay them. I only see upside to going down with the ship lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pinterest has around the same amount of MAUs as Reddit with $2.8b revenue...

I don't think killing 3p apps and eventually old reddit is gonna make the difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can "vote" against Reddit by not using it ;)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know it's a meme, but the way I see it is, giving Reddit a click or two won't really move the needle much.

Really it's about the long-term. If you're on the Fediverse creating content and not on Reddit, eventually those search results will stop pointing at Reddit. That's the real win I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you're into character progression, and loot, then you'll love Diablo. The loot system is great and really draws you in to playing more.

The art and ambiance is also amazing, and from what I can tell Resurrected is pretty faithful to the original.

There are some rough parts (like stamina, chugging potions, etc) given the age.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Some of y'all getting angry need to look at yourself in the mirror. The whole point of federation was to allow communities to do things like this if they want.

A lot of new people are going to see this mudslinging and rightfully turn around. Nobody is coming to Lemmy to see drama between instances.

 

The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating so many places for a new user to churn.

Also, see the cases where the admins of a few Lemmy instances act badly: now the brand of every other instance is tarnished.

If I want to join kbin, I go to kbin, and I signup. How easy is that? I personally think this is why kbin has been getting a lot of traffic compared to Lemmy instances, and this benefit is lost when other kbin instances begin popping up.

In my opinion, it makes way more sense to market the instances individually rather than as a whole. Federation can be discovered at the users own pace, instead of being the main draw which will always be the content hosted. This does add a bit of a prisoner's dilemma, but I do think it would end up benefitting the ecosystem as a whole.

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