• Saintpaul@lemmy.world
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    I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!

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        yeah it’s important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there’s a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it’s early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I learned so much reading other people’s comments, so I’m trying to recreate that on this site.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.

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      1 year ago

      Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.

  • markr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.

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      I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.

      Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.

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      The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.

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    I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.

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      1 year ago

      I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!

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      When Digg put business above users and reddit growth exploded it (reddit) wasn’t a great “alternative” at that time either. But at that time they were putting users first. Isn’t that what makes this (lemmy) a great alternative?

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    Someone mentioned it on a Reddit post about mods so I’m giving it a go. Stopped Twitter a while back and don’t use Facebook. I like the concept of aggregated content around topics I’m interested in just not by evil companies.

  • Tired8281@lemmy.world
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    I signed up and then went to bed. I’m assuming the world took that as a sign and followed me. Or perhaps I should cut down on the hard drugs, idk

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    I use RIF exclusively on mobile. I never use reddit from my computer. The interface isn’t all that different from RIF when on mobile, so I’m giving it a shot. Lots of the other places listed as “reddit alternatives” were mostly just discussion and not community focused and link sharing sites. I like it so far. (my first post!)

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      You could’ve always done this, infinity has always been open source. However using this just means that you and others will be paying reddits ridiculous pricing for their own api access JUST to use infinity. Which iirc is gonna be around $25 a month per user depending on amount of use. Everytime you open that app itll be charging you for data…

      This seems popular to some users now but I don’t see it going over to well when the bill comes due. Id rather take my chances going all in on Lemmy and helping support an instance with a community. Decentralization ftw.

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        I already know which this has been always possible, but an user published how to do not so much time ago. If you have unlimited plan data, like most people, that fact wouldn’t be a concern so please don’t spread misinformation just to scare people into not using Reddit anymore. The API use is free to regular users and with their limitation reasonable for just one user. And if not were of that way, which highly doubt it, would charged to the ISP then or no problems if you have unlimited data plan, or limitate their data usage with apps with a bunch of open source tools which allow that.

        And all of that which has solutions, only in case that this you said about 25$ would be charged for the current free API 100 request per minute, would be true, and I didn’t saw any official announce of Reddit. They plan to enter in stock market soon, I highly believe that they will not start to charge 25$ to every users by the use fo the current free API of 100 request per minutes, that would be so much having in count the last polemic with their abusive practicals, and people would be in a massive exodus, even higher than current happening now with a lot of people comming to Lemmy, which is great and I love that fact. They have to care about for their users, because the users decisions as a colective affects to their inversors, and they will take care about them more, we already saw it…

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    There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.

    And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.

    Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.

    Coincidence? I don’t think so.

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      I left something out

      The code snippet was 24 lines of Python code that demonstrate how to generate random username and password and call lemmy’s API to register account.

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    I’m just here so i don’t get fined. created an account because the developer for my reddit app is working on One for lemmy. So figured I’d give this a try