And spray paint

Still a big deal. Having a company owned by Microsoft decide to pull out of using your site is gonna drive traffic elsewhere. Reddit is only as useful as the content produced by users on it.

Their own feedback section on their site. Otherwise… ???

Ive tried both. I prefer Memmy. But i feel the Mlem devs are doing their best. Give them time. We will see some good competition between the two!

Apparently i sound like a bot when writing applications…

Probably a lot. They love bootlicking

Waste of money.

Giving and receiving gold was surprisingly, one of my least favourite things. Someone gave me gold once and i felt beholden to say thank you? I didnt ask for it, i didnt comment in hopes of getting given “gold”. I never gave anyone else gold. Why would i give a shit about getting it myself? Its a fucking forum.

Ooo i was subbed r/nolawns and love solarpunk, guerilla gardening shit

I think the aesthetic and layout could be tweaked but im quite happily, happier than i was with reddit even, with how responsive and easy to use the UI is.

Even typing a comment i have all these text and image options beneath the text box right now, i havent used them once but could see potential uses for them. In reddit i would have had to do some dumb shit with formatting to get that kinda stuff, so my posts and comments were just text with paragraphs and occasionally a picture.

I may consider running my own federated instance at some point but we shall see!

It wasn't pleasant before either, looking back. Everyone else has said it, conversations were so shallow. Every comment section filled with copy/paste, bot-like comments. “Thank you kind stranger” type shit which i found embarrassing to be honest, gave me second hand embarrassment reading it.

Reposts multiple times a week. Low effort, unfunny shitposting. The same 3 questions on repeat seemingly everyday.

Just look at r/askreddit and it says just about everything you need to know for even some of the niche subs.

I kinda want it to die now.

What we need is a group of “hackers” like lizard squad back in the day (yes the dumb hacker trend we had) to DOS or spam threads with bots. Or DOS reddit mods and admins of larger useless subs that arent considered critical resources for important real life shit.

Yes im condoning dumb shit that got old over 10 years ago, but at this point… does it matter?? May aswell just be dicks with it.

“i do think the blackouts are pointless”

I think they have misconstrued youre line of thinking, they think that you meant any form of protest is pointless. When really you just thought that the one tactic used doesnt achieve much.

bEcAuSe tHeYrE RuNnIn A BuSiNeSs aNd u ArNt bEiNG oPpREsSeD bY iT

I love VX bro

It is horrible. Obviously i use funny in a way that i dont think its actually funny.

They feel they can get away with it because unfortunately in today socio-economical-political climate they CAN get away with it for the most part. Theres still gonna be twitch streamers who feel like they have no option but to continue streaming on that platform, and redditors who dont really care about the API change and dont mind New reddit & the official app.

Those groups allow them to get away. They’ll die at some point, but not yet unfortunately.

Heyy, thank you so much for detailed response! Really appreciate it :)

True yeah. Im just hoping more people move off these kind of websites to be honest. Shame to see more money go to them.

Yeah , tis inevitable that this type of stuff would happen when capitalism.

Truuue. Im quite happy to see an influx of people turning to decentralisation and FOSS!

So you cant advertise within the stream. Or in twitches words, “having ads baked into the video”.

They're doing it so that THEY can do it and not the streamer, which means they have a monopoly on whats advertised and how the sponsorship money is distributed. They're also putting strict policy changes onto what can and cant be advertised. Some of the things they're denying advertisement for is politics, vapes, drugs and DRUG REHABILITATION/RECOVERY SERVICES and other things. Some of that is understandable and soem of it not so much, but some of it is kinda messed up when you consider they allowing the advertisement of alcohol, but NOT drug recovery services.

Sorry I forgot to paragraph there. I’m not explaining it well but a quick google or youtube search will give you more in depth idea at whats going on!

Yeahh definitely. I dont use reddit or twitch (i didnt use twitch much to begin with). And i seldom use netflix, i have a profile on my familys account we share.

If i didnt have access to it i wouldnt be missing much

Yeah seemed like it, eitherway funny read. Im awful with social cues too haha

See if you can adopt XMR (monero). Requires less fiat converting and is decentralised&secure.

Reading this was funny. Maybe its the tism but i couldnt tell if this was two people being honest with one another or being passive aggressive?

Eitherway, thanks for making the entry to creating your own instance easier for non-techies. Pls keep the “cancel at anytime” thing.

Yeah, If its just me on my own instance i would only have to run it when im actually using lemmy. Saving energy on my own, and bandwidth and load on other instances maybe?

Good! ;)

Slice!

Blackout wont end on some useful subs, maybe indefinitely!

Dont forget twitch. Twitch shat the bed the same time as reddit did. And theyre implementing the shit stain service changes on July 1st, same time as Reddit. Beginning to feel there is a cabal of shareholders making anti-user friendly pushes at the same time.

Beautifully captured that storm. The shape of it.

Deleted my one and only account I had left and have no intention of returning. LME feels nicer to use and i like the idea of separate instances and more decentralisation. Gives more agency to more people.

Black Sails. That music and the intro visuals hit so damn hard for a pirate series.

Yeah your issue is youre looking it from the perspective of a cancer cell. Growth isnt always good. Too much growth and you run out of resources. Keeping things sustainable and self sufficient and not reliant on loans and “infinite growth” ponzi economics tends to work better in the long run. (Example: libraries)

Ponzi-esque

Naaaahhh man stalin just got too drunk one time and forgot to send out the food delivery one time! Americans exaggerate all the time.

Whats funny is twitch is also simultaneously fucking their userbase/content creators.

Both Reddit and Twitch rollout their new changes on 1st July. Its almost as if shareholders are making a co-ordinated push for some extra money and to infringe upon user experience

Good. Time for something new, and for good.

Seee lookey here. OPEN DISCOURSE. WE DID IT GUYS. Also yeah centrists could and should have better ideas. And not the easy ones.