CheshireSnake
While I do agree lemmy adds a layer or two of complexity compared to the simple "plug-and-play" reddit model, the article comes across as blaming all of the author's lemmy-related issues on the software rather than admitting he just doesn't understand how to use it.
Unlike Reddit’s approach of categorization using subreddits, Lemmy instances are mostly entire servers that act as catch-all versions of subreddits.
This is one example. Subreddits =/= instances. A more apt comparison would be communities, and then he can point out how communities are hosted by different instances. I mean, how did he miss that?
Another one is when he said there was no visual representation of "All" and "Local". Just one look at an instance's page shows you those options quite clearly.
Try as I might, I missed the curation and consolidation of Reddit, where content is batched up into similar topics.
Wait... What? That's kind of exactly what's happening in lemmy communities.
I may be biased, but despite lemmy's many shortcomings/growing pains I feel the author should have acquired at least a basic understanding of how all this works before writing an article that points out "problems" when there is none.
Edit: I'm on mobile so it's hard to quote every single line. But there were more than a few mistakes there.
It's easier to park backwards compared to forward, specially if the space is narrow.
I agree with most people here. I don't think it'll be something major. We'll just be able to interact with them without having to use that ~~godawful piece of of crap~~ official app. Of course, that's if instances don't defederate. Reddit has porn and other nsfw stuff so maybe a few instances would defederate, but I don't think lemmings would have as bad a reaction like we did with Threads.
Of course, that's never going to happen, as you've said, because of money.
https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim
Iirc, it doesn't include saved posts/comments yet (correct me if I'm wrong) as well as your original account's post/comment history.
Yes. It downloads a json file. For me, it went straight to my desktop.
so what’s stopping rich assholes from buying up points and using their capital to take over communities?
Oh silly boy/girl, that's exactly why it's set up that way. :D
JK. Seriously, though, I doubt reddit cares where the funds come from. Pretty short-sighted to me, tbh. When money takes over, I wonder how redditors will react.
I use Arch and Debian and I don't think I ever had to build ungoogled chromium from source before (unless I wanted to, which I didn't).
Firefox has telemetry. You can opt out and delete it, but by that logic it shouldn't be trusted either. Also, I doubt people who really care about privacy don't harden firefox. Being able to is not besides the point.
I'm not switching to Vivaldi because I'm not retarded.
Legit question: what's bad about Vivaldi? I've been trying it out for a few days and I don't see anything extraordinarily bad like Chrome/Edge. Although it might not be as privacy friendly as Brave and FF.
+1 to this. Imho it's not good for lemmy as a whole if people are concentrated on a few large instances. Any time one of those major instances experience issues, the effect is going be major.