Beehaw defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
hey folks, we’ll be quick and to the point with this one: ##### we have made the decision to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. we recognize this is hugely inconvenient for a wide variety of reasons, but we think this is a decision we need to take immediately. the remainder of the post...
My notes:
- As expected, a blackout with a set end date is seen as toothless by Reddit leadership
- I hate when companies refer to their employees with some "cute" nickname, like "Snoos"
- He expects some Reddit users to actually resort to physical violence, painting them as the irrational bad guys in this whole situation?
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's letter to Reddit employees in response to blackout
Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.
We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.
There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.
While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.
I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don't want you to be the object of their frustrations.
Again, we'll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.
Edit to include source: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/
I also suggest submitting a request to exercise your privacy rights (if applicable to your location): https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001370251
According to Reddit's Privacy Policy (as of June 13, 2023), they need to verify that you have access to your Reddit account:
Before we process a request from you about your personal information, we need to verify the request via your access to your Reddit account or to a verified email address associated with your Reddit account.
Also note from the Privacy Policy (as of June 13, 2023):
After you submit a request to delete your account, it may take up to 90 days for our purge script to complete deletion. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
I don't think the number of downvotes show up next to the comment score arrows until it receives at least one downvote.
In the meantime, you can hover your cursor over the score to confirm how many upvotes/downvotes a post or comment has received.
Agreed, justice should be apolitical.
The mid-engined Toyota Previa.
My family had one when I was a kid, the supercharged model, with captains chairs in the second row that could be spun around to face the third row to create a chill hangout zone when parked or for long road trips.
I grew up thinking it was normal to lift the driver's seat to access the engine. I was not a smart child.
Well, with that recommendation, I'll definitely keep an eye on mlem.
In the meantime, I'm pleasantly surprised at how usable Lemmy is on mobile web, much more so than Reddit.
Thanks for the links. Hope their development makes it easier for Lemmy to grow.
That said, I personally prefer to use homescreen shortcuts to Safari on iOS to avoid having to download apps that can clog up my phone, use up its battery, etc.
So the fact that I was happy to have Apollo installed on my phone really says a lot about how much I loved using it.
Just replaced the spot where Apollo was on my phone homescreen with a shortcut to Lemmy
When Reddit killed Alien Blue, I downloaded Apollo on a whim. It has since become what I believe to be a sterling example of what an iOS app could and should be, in terms of UI/UX, and has been justifiably showcased by Apple themselves.
It's sad to witness its death, but I'm incredibly thankful to Apollo's dev, Christian Selig, for the work that he put into an app that I used for literally hundreds of hours.
I hope Lemmy can prove to be a viable alternative to Reddit. I've been enjoying it so far. Using it is reminding me of the earlier days of Reddit when it was seen as the "nerdy website with the ugly interface".
The list of instances with user count and other stats: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Strange, no idea what's going on. Could be spam or technical issue with the users meaning to comment on another post.
@[email protected] could maybe investigate?
Looks like there's an issue with posts >2k characters that the admin is aware of: https://lemmy.world/comment/76346
To me, this is like Richard Stallman and certain reprehensible actions and opinions.
Just like with Stallman and his contributions to software, I can justify using Lemmy to myself due to it being open source and the devs not directly financially profiting from the spread of Lemmy (although it certainly raises their public profile).
It's definitely unfortunate that they're Tankies.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues is likely the best place to suggest this.
Anyway, I agree, it would be good to have the option to disable live updates.
Lemmy will likely have its own "the narwhal bacons at midnight" phase.
It'll interesting to see what it is...and then almost immediately tiresome.
And another generation gap between people who use a double space after a period and those who just use a single space.
You can always tell when someone was trained to type on a typewriter when that happens.
Could Reddit have become profitable by now if it had followed Craiglist's business model?
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Charging for certain types of posts, such as job/gig postings, apartment listings, car listings, etc while allowing every other type of post for free
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Keeping employee headcount low (Craiglist reportedly only has 50 employees, but I'm unsure how up to date that stat is)
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Avoiding significant development/infrastructure cost by keeping the UI/UX essentially unchanged
On top of this, I assume Reddit became a lot more expensive to run when it started hosting images and videos itself (presumably to prevent users from navigating away from Reddit). Could Reddit have reached its current state of growth (for better or worse) if it had continued to rely on third party media hosts?