If someone like Musk were to take control of Reddit, be prepared. Let's be real, Spez is not even in the same league as Musk in terms of being unpalatable to Redditors so claiming something like "already has been" is ... a choice. But for sure, if someone far worse takes over, there will be an exodus. And frankly, the Fediverse is fully unprepared to handle that, so that'll be fun.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like spez is swallowing billiard balls to be ready to accomodate musk

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

When Musk took over Twitter I deleted all my Tweets and never even visited the site again, blocked on parental filters and through NextDNS.

I had been there since 2006.

I would definitely do the dame for Reddit if Musk took over, and I have been there since like 2010 and have some million total karma across several accounts (mostly on one).

I actually did quit for about a year when they killed 3rd party apps.

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just do it now, why wait.

Also, don't forget the following:

Open All, sort by new, click through upvote and downvote buttons randomly.
Sort by hot, open random post, comment something completely wrong and unrelated to the post.
Go to explore, pick random subreddit, sort by top year or all time. Pick random post from the first dozen and repost it back into the same subreddit. Not cross-post, just copy whatever title/image/text/link there are without changing a thing. Bonus points for doing this on subreddits for current events and hitting a frontpage
Do NOT delete the account. The account age and karma will shield you from anti spam/bot protections in case you ever decide to do it again.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Which is why Musk will keep spez to take the blame, just tweaking the site slightly to not allow it to ban links to X anymore.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

About adding new instances to handle the load:

There's four possible legal structures that could be behind a messaging service:

political domain (state, city, ...)
corporate entity (typically for-profit)
clubs (typically non-profit)
individual humans

I think it fits the spirit of the Fediverse best to consider the lower two options. A club is a free get-together of humans for some purpose, such as sports club, literature club, you could have a Fediverse club. I highly support this approach, because it is non-profit-oriented, lives off donations, and is rooted by responsible individuals who do something good for the community. Also, individual humans can host smaller instances, but as the instances grow in size, having multiple people behind it to back it up could make things more stable over time.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is not a drill.

The Reddit post in the second link starts:

Olympus has fallen folks, r/rule34 has been banned!

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I left after they closed off the API and shut down third party apps. I could never go back, whilst Lemmy hasn't always offered the same amount of content, its always still offered good content, plus I know I'm guilt free of supporting Reddit and what a shit show they've become 🙂

[–] LaminatedDenim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same, but then I immediately returned to reddit. Today I suddenly realized I wanted to leave reddit, so here I am again. Any good tips for Android apps?

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Im on Voyager. I like it so far.

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Lemmy needs to drastically improve the UX before it'll become big

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What would you like to see improved ? This could be great contributions to the codebase :)

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean, the downsides of the Fediverse have been discussed at length.

Here's a routine occurence: i'm browsing around, opening new tabs and such; then i go to upvote something, and it tells me i'm not logged in. This is how i find out i've accidentally left my instance. It's cooked at that point, i'm not going to post that comment, if i really wanted to i'd have to carefully replace the relevant parts of the URL. This keeps happening in both Lemmy and Mastodon.

I need to 1. Not fall out of my instance as easily, and 2. if i've opened a page outside my instance, i need to be able to open the same page in my instance in one click. Anything else is is annoying to me and a complete deal breaker to most new users.

I don't doubt that there's loads of work done in the backend that i don't see, but from my point of view as a user, Lemmy still has the same problems it had when i joined two years ago. That's right, it's been just about two years, the Reddit API debacle was around April-June of 23, and i haven't seen glaring problems adressed.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's annoying.

There is a universal link system (example), so someone could write a browser plugin but it demonstrates that this can be done by Lemmy itself and you see this in the links next to usernames and posts where you get the option of two links: local to you (a chain) and canonical (Lemmy pentagram). The problem is, the system would need to identify that the link goes to Lemmy instance and parse it accordingly and there is no standard URL. However, if you held, say, the top 40 instance URLs in an array and ran a quick check when rendering the page it would solve 99% of these problems overnight and you could flesh the link out a bit later on. The extra processing would be minimal.

edit: I asked @flamingos@feddit.uk (as they know more about the Lemmy code) and they pointed me to this which would resolve many of those issues, but also that using Photo gives you a "remote" and "local" version link at the top of the page to switch you back if you ever wander off instance.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's great! Good to see that these issues are being worked on.

I would have thought that the solution would involve checking the cookies to see which instance the user is logged into?

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

That may require a browser plugin but if all links between Lemmy instances were rewritten to point to the version on your own instance, that would solve the problem of suddenly finding yourself off the reservation.

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