This is great to hear! I hope other instances will benefit from figuring these things out.
I've only been a member of Lemmy for a few weeks, and I've joined three instances - one large, one medium, and one small. Among them, the medium-sized instance has been the most stable. I understand that building up a platform like this takes time, and I find it completely acceptable that it’s been Rocky.
I actually created multiple accounts based on a post I read in early June, which suggested it as a good idea during the initial rocky period. Personally, I don't mind if things were always a bit challenging if the end result is a decentralized platform.
The spirit of federated social forums has truly captivated me. I wish I could contribute more to the cause, but while I have experience in pre-release software development, I'm not a programmer. Nevertheless, I truly appreciate and admire the work and effort you and others are putting into creating this space for us.
I don’t think everyone needs to be so drastic. And helpful genuine answers on niche topics is how I found reddit in the first place. In a way, for me, reddit became a google alternative. I liked seeing a qualified discussion about something. Especially discussions about things that never feel trustworthy, from life, relationships or even product purchases. I always feel I can distill a conversation down to gain perspective. Lemmy will accomplish that, but it’s going to take time to build it.
I can’t see myself “using” Reddit again. But it will be inescapable to visit the site when I just need a good answer to things from years ago that were arrived upon in some old thread. To me that’s reddits greatest value. What we all contributed. So I totally understand why you can’t so handedly throw it all away.
It’s so true! I’d still be on Reddit too. Social media is not that big of a deal in my life. I never imagined having my nerve struck so hard. That I’d delete a 11yr old account. Loosing Apollo definitely would have lowered the amount of time I would have spent on Reddit, but I changed comments, burned my accounts, and did a gdpr request, when I saw Spez’s AMA and he doubled down against Christian. And Christian easily provided the call recordings. That was so terrible. I don’t want to be anywhere near that.
I totally agree. Devaluing the product seems to be the way of business during this inflation. On social networks it’s the content creators. In the music industry it’s the plummeting percentage paid to artists over the last 5 years. You see it everywhere. Simultaneously requiring subscriptions. Essentially Reddit was going to force the API into a subscription profit model if Christian Selig went along and kept Apollo alive.
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