I'm not sure sorry! I have the same issue.
Mersampa
joined 2 years ago
I mentioned Lemmy on Mastodon and some people noted some controversy surrounding the "main" instances. I don't know exactly what concerned people
One of, if not the most active lemmy instance is a Marxist, pro-Russian war, pro-CCP, pro-North Korea community. When I signed up on lemmy.ml a while back, it was almost all you saw.
The problem with reddit alternatives is that, until now, the only people leaving reddit were the ones kicked off. They needed new homes and they found them in unmoderated communities they could host themselves, like lemmy.
Some of us have been waiting for some time for more "average" redditors to make the move, so this exodus is like Christmas coming early.
The difference with the Digg to Reddit exodus is that the two communities were rival competitors working in the same space. It wasn't a case of one being a huge monolith that everyone used and the other being a small unknown, they were more evenly matched and reddit already had plenty of content and community, and neither were household names.
The situation today is very different. If Lemmy takes off, which I hope it does, it will likely still be small compared to reddit. A bit like how young people are fleeing facebook for other platforms, but there's still no platform actually displacing facebook.
I played and enjoyed both. But I don't think either 1 or 2 were as groundbreaking as the demo for 1. The demo was amazing, but then they took a year or two to get the full game out and by then it wasn't really that interesting compared to other games that had come out in the meantime.
Budget Cuts 2 was basically more of what 1 was like. It was quite a while ago now that I played it, but it wasn't groundbreaking as I recall.
Haha yes, it's like a big foot reaching out to give reddit a kick in the pants: https://the-federation.info/node/details/25274
I think they might cave. Think of it like a negotiation.
John: Hey, we make zero from third party reddit apps, we should charge them
Fred: Well, they produce a lot of content, which is what keeps people on the site
John: Hmm, we should charge them anyway. Keep the shareholders happy. $1,000 per 50 million requests.
Fred: But won't there be a big uproar?
John: Well, that will happen regardless of what we charge. If we think we can get away with charging $1000 per 50 million requests, let's announce $12,000 per 50 million. Then we can walk back to $1,000 and everyone will think we're being reasonable. If we started at $1,000 we'd probably have to walk it back to $100, and that's a waste of time.
Fred: You're brilliant, lock it in!
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
I've known this for a while too, but it's been hard finding something. I think Beehaw is what I've been looking for, because my first experience of Lemmy was... well let's just say that it's a lot more pleasant on a server that has chosen not to federate with certain other servers... it scared me off for a while.
I think it's normal after a big surge to see participation drop off. If you can hit the critical mass to keep content flowing, that would be awesome.
And at least in the short term, it's appreciated that the site is now running much smoother! That's also important for retention of users :)
The Apollo dev comment on this. They have a subscription model already, but would need to more than double the cost just to meet the cost of the API.
They worked it out as $2.50 per month for the average user. But I'd be willing to bet that you'd have less users using it more if it cost that much, so it would need to be higher. And then you add taxes. And even then it's all going to reddit, the dev gets nothing.
This is based on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
It will be interesting to see how many users stick around. It's busy right now but in a month you may be able to backtrack to the previous hardware.
Does the Lemmy license prevent corporations running nodes? In fact, it doesn't even have to be Lemmy.
If you think about email, it's widespread and used by everyone; but it is still mostly ruled by corporations (Google's Gmail, Microsoft's Outlook/Hotmail) for the average personal user. The protocol is open but the servers are run by different corporations each with their own UI. I'd guess there's probably no reason we won't end up like that some day, with some corporation creating a big social network with proprietary code, that happens to work well with ActivityPub so they have heaps of content and users on day 1, getting over that common initial social media hurdle (that none of your friends use it).