This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
You’re right, I apologize. This came from a place of frustration. I just don’t understand how you could even reason with these people at this point if users are just gonna go back to the way things are and not give a shit.
The last thing I want is for Lemmy to turn toxic like Reddit did.
Some prioritize Reddit’s convenience, others focus on the company’s actions. The majority seem to not care. That doesn’t mean we can’t make something special here! This is a community created and maintained open-source project and I have a feeling it isn’t going anywhere yet.
You mentioned convenience. A big part of that is absolutely having a mobile client. And with so many freaking clients being developed across iOS and Android for Lemmy, that is going to attract so many users. Imagine a Lemmy client as fleshed out as Apollo for iOS, or Boost for Android. When casual users notice this and Lemmy.world blows up, it’s going to create a wave effect across the entire internet. I do have some hope because of this.
(Of course, Lemmy.world does have some stability issues but I have no doubt they’ll be ironed out)
Exactly this.
This might sound stupid, I just heard an interview with the Apollo app dev and I would love to have him adjust the backend to make it work with lemmy.
In the interview he said he really wants to continue working on it if possible in any way and I’ve heard somewhere that out of convenience the API is basically the same as Reddit, so that would make adjusting it much easier.
The only thing we need is his attention, his motivation, and maybe a little bit of a budget for him. Maybe if we could crowdfund his development this could kickstart something…
The official Reddit app is not as bad as some of you make it out to be. Still a thousand times more userfriendly than here if we’re being honest.
I’ve spent some hours using the official app and god is it laggy. Click a post, see a stuttering post open animation, need to wait for 2s to start scrolling with frame drops to 10fps. Then it smooths out 5s later until it finds a big comment and starts stuttering again. Videos don’t play, every action is delayed.
This is not on some budget phone, I’m on a Google Pixel 7. Been using Relay and other third party Reddit apps for 12 years at this point and I’ve never even seen a single framedrop in those.
And this doesn’t even mention the insane amount of ads inserted into the feed because I filtered those out using Revanced already.
I honestly thought I was the only one having a difficult time. For some reason the Mlem app crashes on me constantly. I like it but it’s basically unusable for me. The mobile site isn’t great for me either. I feel dumb but I’m not that tech savvy and I’m having a rough time trying to get used to Lenny.
I haven’t gone back to Reddit because I do strongly believe in the protest.
I’m trying out the Memmy app and it has less crashes. Might want try it out.
Is that in TestFlight?
Yup!
Are they still allowing invites, you know where I can get in on the testing?
I’m trying out the Memmy app and it has less crashes. Might want try it out.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Mlem and that seems to have fixed it for me.
This, to me, is a good thing. Everyone here will have an easier time forming an initial community, as we all have a common agreement on how we would like to see the internet/social media work in the future. We’re all on the same page as to our frustrations.
Lemmy is toxic. It’s concerning you don’t see that
…Then leave?
Why is Lemmy toxic?
Because of the toxic positivity here. You guys want to force everyone to be nice all the fucking time and that’s really fucking annoying. Also I don’t understand why you guys have such a fucking hard on for wanting other people to block shit for you. The user should be able to decide what they want and don’t want to see why the fuck do I need someone else making decisions for me? That makes no sense
Well you certainly sound like a redditor. Go take your anger management pills or go back to Reddit.
Or stay and rant, totally fine either way.
We all have our arrows
You can disagree without insults. You can discuss topics without immediate anger. There are places available where the type of interactions that you seek are already expected and allowed. We don’t need to force an entire multi-federation to change to suit another website’s previous allowances. Just use the previous website if you think it’s better. No sweat off my back, it has nothing to do with me.
It would be like me going to Facebook and being upset that it isn’t like Twitter, or going on Zoom and being upset that it isn’t Myspace. Everything has it’s place. Not everything HAS to be for absolutely everyone. Variety is the spice of life.
I would have directed you towards Voat, but apparently it shutdown. Sort of makes sense. It billed itself as a version of Reddit without censorship at all, and was created in the wake of Reddit banning a lot of communities like fatpeoplehate, jailbait, etc. It took the somewhat predictable course of becoming hate speech and nothing else. If you want a community that allows unfettered free speech, that is the issue you will have to confront. People create content, those with anything worthwhile aren’t going to contribute to a forum that mixes their content in with trash.
i havent really seen that yet somehow