Remember how they took gold awards, a user made bot, and monetized it?

Firefox did the same.

And I actually love it.

You’re saying this… On Lemmy. You do know we have three different “trending” settings here, right?

I honestly much prefer the idea of a chronological feed too, but disagree that’s what kills a platform. Tumblr has both the chronological and the trending for you/for all, and it was also ignored.

Honestly, Docket with a GUI just becomes super easy I actually got a bit spoiled. Used to use Kitematic, which even had a browser, but that’s gone. I’m back to terminal only now, but alas.

There’s a video that shows exactly this phenomenon in real time.

https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ

The most important people are the first followers. A website with a guy commenting alone is sad for the guy. A website with a couple people commenting is sad for whoever’s not talking.

Same thing for every single-game community. Dota’s deserted. Also things like patientgamers is lowering in activity.

I think there won’t be an immediate rush, but I do think there will be a sporadic sine wave of people checking out the place. Funny enough the best thing people can do is hold off posting memes and then doing it on the 1st of July for maximum engagement.

It’s okay babe, happens to a lot of men.

Oh shit I only get one opportunity to say something witty and I just wasted

When the Twitter-pocalypse was happening I did check out Tumblr a fair bit more. Dear god, that place was like 10 times funnier since the porn ban. It’s like the whole place aged up a bunch and the people left were far more mature and creative. Like, seeing the whole Goncharov thing unfold was amazing.

But if you have any more niche interest, yeah, place is much slower.

I like it.

And they do it in the most abhorrent manner ever: No timeline, no way to rewind, and hold-to-pause. And people keep making minute long shorts.

I like YouTube shorts. I hate youtube short’s format. For that reason, I removed the shorts and won’t get them back until revanced adds the playback controls YouTube doesn’t.

Reddit will be worse. Their engineers can’t make a video player that doesn’t download all video qualities at the same time, on a wasteful format. Their shorts feature will follow suit, it’ll be uber garbage.

I have to say, there’s something peak hilarious to imagining someone at redsit huffing and puffing that "THEY’RE NOT USING OUR NFT’s!

It’s perfect and I wish Reddit did it ages ago. It’s the same as Forums with account levels, it makes you think someone has more input than they actually do, and it opens up the system to people selling accounts or botting accounts to later sell (which is a rampant problem on reddit and there’s now anti-bot bots).

This is what I want. A way for users to create their own “lists” similar to multireddits, which come up on their feeds as part of a super-community, and then they can share that list with other users.

No hassle for the moderators. No change to the system outside of the feature’s own self-contained stuff.

Interesting. I wonder if they already got an offer that matches their new API pricing, and they decided to up everything to match that cost and avoid being sued later.

Like, there seems to be some urgency between them announcing and upping the price. What was it? Is this the reason? A confirmed, extremely wealthy and extremly naive buyer?

“Gamers” and Gamers are two different things. Only “Gamers” ever said they wanted to boycott games, but much like Reddit’s userbase, “Gamers” are only 30% of all Gamers.

Unfortunately, I doubt Reddit would crash. I don’t think these online protests have much sway anymore. Twitter’s definitely didn’t. And ironically, Lemmy might crash a couple times with going over user capacity…

Either way, we ought to work to avoid it. Chop chop, people, content, we need content! Lifeblood of link aggregators is people having topics.

I played this a couple weeks ago. It was way harder than it probably should have been for what it was trying to achieve. So I used the godmode cheat, lol. Still missed quite a few things going by that video. I like the author’s interpretation of the “THEY WERE ROOMMATES” of the whole thing.

*Quietly observing the door for Xenoblade fans*