bring back webrings
you all must make poorly laid out websites, center aligned, with bright flashing gif backgrounds, and lots of small flame gifs lined up all over the place
and hamsterdance, you must make hamsterdance
I'm jumping ship so fast you have no idea. I'm SO FUCKING SICK of being banned and having comments removed for showing leftist prospectives. I'm SO FUCKING DONE with admins letting Nazis just harass for free.
Western culture is fucked, it would probably be similar off of :reddit-logo: as well.
Depends on the instance admin. Lemmy devs just blocked a super reactionary and relatively popular instance from their flagship instance. The Nazis are being held at bay, one digital fortress at a time
Just stop going on Reddit. There's nothing keeping you there, it's trash and you know it
It's not just reddit, it's all these white supremacist platforms. Pisses me off that every alternative platform's a fucking ghost town.
"A return to a more independent internet" definitely seems optimistic, if by that you mean it becoming a mainstream thing. But I do think FOSS and the fediverse are going to continue growing in popularity beyond their traditional extremely narrow niche.
We need to actually implement federation though.
would you say 2022 is finally the year of the linux on the desktop?
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
We need to actually implement federation though.
We're working on bringing Lemmy up to speed with some of the features our "fork" (it's more of a rewrite) has. When that's ready we'll switch to that which will already have federation ready for us.
It’s not a single event or a true “return” to a preexisting state, but it’s decent enough branding and the overall process of (true) decentralization is indeed a good thing for the left and for people in general
Internet wasn't ever truly independent, but this is a step in the right direction of putting tech know how and ability into the users hands rather than gating it to the 'tech wizards' off somewhere and being reliant on big social media sites' rises and falls.
Big tech will respond very antagonistically to FOSS/fediverse as they grow bigger, I can imagine it'll be like how Google play 'doesn't play nice' with Fdroid for a tame example. People are tired and broke ass enough to bypass shit, and as always, if there's a will there's a way.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they started bundling free memberships to premium federated social media services that are corporate owned and controlled. Or maybe they’ll just sponsor people to be on the committees who manage the standards and effectively gridlock them
I'm expecting to see if not outright blocked/banned access (like walled gardens if you're familiar facebook and reddit are allowed, but marxists.org or wolframalpha are banned) pay more to access services that aren't part of the social media monopolies, ex FOSS apps are free in of themselves in this future, but to unlock (at least legally) you have to pay a fee.
Reddit going public is making people jump ship. Can you "digg" it?
id be more than happy to try and take my sub to another website but honestly i dont see people moving. nobody actually cares.
I don't see the vast majority going to a different website regardless. if other examples are to go by, the users will just dissipate.
I agree that at least the piracy related subs will probably thrive outside of reddit, like a return to the warez sites on the mid to late 2000s
so the big thing is that people who go to these subreddits for utility purposes will just go to another site for the same utility? im not sure what the point is bringing them up then, there are already piracy and rom sites. Reddit was not a huge hub for these topics anyway. there are piracy/roms/streaming sites that have been serving people for longer than reddit has been around.
Not everything is just reddit based.
this is why i think nobody cares. there are other sites for these utilities and always have been.
You can build your alternate platform up over time, integrate your communities, and then the retention percentage will be higher
God I hate to say it but it's similar to a vanguard party, wherein you organize ahead of time and gain support before it's time to pop off, and then when the moment comes there is already a sense of what needs to happen among masses of people looking for an answer. It is kind of wild that it translates to online, but that frame of reference actually makes sense to me right now
Chapo.chat wasn't established until over a month after the sub was nuked. If there had been a backup site already established then sure the majority still wouldn't have migrated but this site would be a lot larger and maintained more of the subs spirit.
They’ll care after a ban or a quarantine. The point is to set it up when nobody cares and build it over time
Fuck.
I guess my days of using old.reddit.com are numbered. They'll standardize the user experience so it's the same level of shit for everybody.
Without old Reddit I'd have to make an account to actually make the site usable -- and I'm not doing that.
You need an account to filter out the garbage, unless I'm doing extra steps
I just mean following links from here to specific posts or comments. In regular view Reddit now hides many comment threads and puts posts behind registration walls.
Without an account I can't view half of the links even from this site without changing the url to old.reddit
wow yikes. I have a browser extension that does that for me so I had no idea it was THAT fucked
Yeah I don't know when they changed it, and I used to have an account that I deleted, but it's earlier this year when they started hiding stuff
Hopefully somebody will come up with something like Olditt.com that's basically a clone of old.reddit.com. Old is far from perfect but I absolutely hate the current layout.
The death of a federated instance looks a lot different from the death of a silo’s community. An instance that only has 1 post a week and 100 comments a week can be joined and that new user will still be able to see all the content that the instance is federated with. And if that new user posts, they can start getting responses from people on other instances. The network effect for individual instances is nearly nonexistent while the effect for the entire Fediverse is strengthened
That is really interesting, I dont think reddit will completely go away, but perhaps for a while there will be a little shift towards more independent fora
the megathread is already hosted on github, so there's that. I guess requests that are not on the megathread will be a bit more rocky if r/roms is gone tho, I saw the writing on the wall a few months ago so I'm in hoarding mode atm lol
clone it! it's probably a risky place, but it also makes re-hosting extremely easy
i wanna have federation.
also i want to get medicated and help with making federation.
