kescusay

kescusay , 1 year ago to technology in So where are we all supposed to go now?

Lemmy may be more resistant to that. Hear me out… With Reddit (and Digg, and Facebook, and Twitter, and every dead or dying platform you can think of), you’ve got a single company owning everything on that platform. When short-term profit ultimately dictates they shittify the platform, it takes a tremendous amount of willpower and forethought to resist.

Willpower and forethought the various platform owners clearly lacked.

But Lemmy is an open source project, and anyone can spin up a Lemmy platform, then join the fediverse. If one platform’s owners decide to shittify, it doesn’t affect the rest, and everyone can easily migrate to another with minimal fuss.

My impression is that this makes Lemmy much better situated to avoid ever becoming a late-stage Reddit.

kescusay , 1 year ago to android in Goodbye, Good Reddit Apps

I’m a mod for a city subreddit, so I’ve been checking up on it, but I have a feeling many of its users are going to end up here, and once that happens, I’m pretty sure I’ll be as done with Reddit as I am with Digg or Fark.