Between lemmy.world and sync having issues I almost went on reddit. Then I remembered this is the fediverse, jerboa and lemm.ee exist and I'm back and more active than ever.
Ryumast3r
joined 2 years ago
I start paying local news after about 1 article per day, and usually more like $20/month not the £10 they're asking for.
Pay up or stop expecting them to give you unlimited service for free.
Hell, I'm paying my local union paper $25/month to support their strike against their corporation and I hardly read their stuff at all.
One minute our content (through the API) is "very valuable" and "needs to be monetized". The next we're just "noise".
Mostly I think it started as a show of how much reddit relies on the free labor while giving reddit an out, but as time goes on I'm inclined to believe it's also because mods know that if they "abandon" the subreddit, the admins will just open the subreddit up to new moderators a la r/redditrequest
There are already subs that have had users request being put on as mod despite barely becoming inactive.
Jervoa has so far been a really good interface to use. A lot of work can be done to make it more friendly but I've been really impressed so far with how seamless it's made my transition.
Think of lemmy as like an email (except everyone can see it). You have an email address "steakfries" and the domain you registered your email on "@lemmy.one" so if I want to email you I have to enter in @[email protected]
I can "email" you from any domain, be it Gmail, yahoo, my own server, etc and you can likewise respond.
Going to download my data tomorrow and delete my own 11 years worth.
Sad day, but also very cathartic.
That's pretty much been the entire conservative movement's MO for 30 years now.
Same, pittsburgh.