Likely need to define some basic rbac controls. They signed up, sure, but donāt receive a āuserā role until after approval. Then in the home page, when signed in with no roles assigned, they get a banner saying theyāre still pending approval and will not be able to post or comment.
The major concern will be retroactively applying user roles to the existing users.
Yeah same here, Reddit is my mindless scrolling app of choice, not Twitter, so when I tried to use Mastodon I just kinda stood there not knowing what to do
I love being able to read and immerse myself is specific communities and whatnot, and specifically I love Reddit for the discourse, people posting in a community, replying to posts, and replaying to those replies, and so on
So Lemmy has just become my jam, so happy that Reddit has an open source federated alternative now, even if they reverse their API debacle Iām still gonna keep using this app
Strongly agree. Mastodon is alright and I use it a little, but the twitter-type format never really worked for me. I feel like when I have to follow individual people I usually end up either following no one or being forced to follow people who post things that interest me sometimes but a lot of the time post things that really donāt. Following particular topics or threads just seems much more natural to me; I can look at exactly what interests me and nothing more.
Iāve been thinking that it is probably easier to move a community from a platform like Reddit to the Fediverse than it is from Twitter. I have used both Twitter and Reddit a lot, but have moved off Twitter and now use Mastodon. Mastodon works pretty well for me, but itās taken a lot of work to get there, and there are parts of the communities (mostly related to my work) I want to connect with that just donāt exist on Mastodon.
But the big difference between Reddit/Lemmy and Twitter/Mastodon is that on Reddit/Lemmy I am interested in communities for topics that are mostly hobbies/entertainment etc. for me, so I donāt really care about who Iām interacting withā¦ I canāt really name more than a handful of regular users or mods on the Reddit subs Iāve been using for more than a decade. But itās not really important for interacting there, because itās about interacting with people who have an interest in a particular topic no matter who they are. On Twitter/Mastodon (at least how I use it), the specific people Iām interacting with are more important.
So it seems the ālock inā of Reddit is weaker than Twitter, and I think itāll be quicker to establish communities here. A community on Lemmy with a few hundred people contributing (posts/comments) is already pretty successful and enjoyable. It doesnāt matter that the equivalent community on Reddit has over a million people (and in fact itās often better if itās smaller!).
That weaker lock in and the fact that Reddit seems to be massively undervaluing the contribution mods and third-party app devs make to the platform make me think Reddit is going to quickly regret this whole fiasco.
Sneaker culture is incredibly weird. Shoes made by children in China with a limited edition color are in such high demand that there are sites where people refresh F5 constantly hoping to have the honor to pay hundreds and hundreds for shoes that cost $7.50 to make. Then half of the time people wonāt even wear them outside, theyāll put them in a bag and change shoes when they get to work or whatever. Or some might not even wear the shoes at all and just display them.
Iām an old soul in this sense. I love a quality goodyear welted shoe, and made in USA, UK, or Italy usually. An Allen Edmonds strandmok is a fantastic everyday shoe for me. I like to purchase nice things in general, use them, take care of them. I really hate throwaway culture as well.
Please nobody hate me for this, Iām a bit self conscious being an admin of my own instance and donāt want to piss people off haha. If youāre into gym shoe culture thatās awesome. If I knew you in real life Iād probably make fun of you for a minute if I saw you walking outside in socks carrying your $400 limited edition sneakers, but then you can make fun of me for one of the thousands of things I do and itās all in good fun.
Man that whole situation really sucks. Reddit was by far my most visited site before they decided to light the house on fire. On mobile I always used Boost because the official app is terrible and (at least the last time I looked at it) would drain my battery like it was nothing even when the app was closed. RIP. At least weāve got Lemmy. I just wish these 3rd party apps would take their users to the fediverse instead of shutting down entirely. As a developer it really sucks when you have to shut down a project youāve put so much work into.
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