I find it funny how Lemmy's effectively becoming Reddit.
I find it funny how Lemmy's effectively becoming Reddit.
At least in terms of the communities popping up. A lot of them (even ones I made), are just the Lemmy version of Reddit subs. Is that a good/bad thing? Time will tell, but at the moment I think it's kinda funny of what's happening.
To frame it a different way, there was nothing special about Reddit except the community, and that community can live anywhere.
What's funny is not that a community migrated, because we've seen communities migrate before. But what's funny is that the Reddit administrators didn't expect it or don't care.
Imagine working in a factory and telling your truck drivers, who you depend on to get product to stores, to take a hike.
That's what scummy bosses like to do, and then they act shocked when workers call their bluff.
(shoutout to the /c/[email protected] community here haha)
Until a sub has even 1/100 of the activity on here compared to reddit why would they care?
edit: Even then, they're hoping to have cashed out by then so they still won't care as long as the IPO goes smoothly
On the one hand you're absolutely on point. It's all about the money, not the quality.
But some people also care about their reputation. Some people value integrity and progress. I wonder what story they tell themselves. Or do they.
I feel like there's very little to be lost from having more niche hobby communities, at least. Those were the thing I used Reddit for the most, and I feel that they were generally non-toxic.
The tech subs I used, electronics, microcontrollers, pcb, circuits, etc, are what I miss. I know it will get here eventually.
They're also the thing that most benefits from the site in general having a critical mass. Something that will be difficult to get on the Fediverse, though I desperately hope it happens.
A lot of the new people coming to Lemmy are (ex) Reddit users. It's normal that they want communities that have the same names as what they are familiar with.
Look at Ellis Island in New York. People from all over the world came through it and now you have neighborhoods from all over the world in New York. People like what's familiar, especially when they have to move somewhere else.
I don't even think it's about the names. It's just about the subjects. If you enjoyed a subreddit for your favourite game, you probably want to continue having a place to discuss that game. And because subreddits generally have pretty obvious, intuitive names, the name on here will also often end up being the same.
This is a great point and really interesting
Good thing, personally, there is nothing wrong with reddit itself other than management, UI, and mods being abusive, permanently online types. And that can move anywhere.
You might think of these things as subreddits, but that's just a popular current version. Go look up old bbs archives. It's the same shit. You'll find keyboard warriors in the trek board worried that star trek 2 (1982) won't portray the tos episode well.
People are just rushing in to fill the void left by leaving reddit. Remaking an existing subreddit is the lowest fruit to pick.
It's this way now, but it won't be this way later. Things change and evolve, even as much as parts of them might remain constant(as @[email protected] alluded to).
The communities being founded(or refounded) here aren't all new statements, sometimes they're the continuation of a sentence that started somewhere else.
i have seen more subs on kbin. i think the biggest problem the fediverse has is that my user account doesn't float. so i now have two user accounts. i know i can subscribe to lemmy from kbin but i cnt have uniqueness or migrate a magazine from kbin to a community here
Yeah, you are going to have to consolidate under one account. You can probably manually move your stuff over by taking advantage of the ActivityPub API, and doing a bit of scripting. But the good news is that when you have settled on one, you should be able to use both from a single account. Plus, navigating between the two should get easier.
"float"?
You can view and subscribe to kbin magazines from lemmy and vice versa. What do you mean by "uniqueness" and "migrating a magazine"?
What is the meaning of "doesn't float"?
Huh? You can access kbin. Hell, lemm.ee is like the only instance with no defederation.
hopefully not, because then spez could claim to legally be the CEO and shut it down :(
I doubt that Spez is that stupid. Claiming that he owns an FOSS projects on the fediverse... That's gonna be bit of a stretch. Might as well claim he owns the Thames, because some of San Fran's water is potentially part of it.
you're not great with sarcasm 😅
that's... not how things work.
but if lemmy becomes reddit then reddit's board will shut it down :( 😂
Reddit isn't profitable. The cost to litigate a federated project across multiple legal jurisdictions is going to be crazy. That said, I am setting up my own server and choose a German company to make the jurisdiction question interesting.
yes, spez will go to germany soon, expect his presence in your house soon, he will litigate you by force