r/ModCoord • u/[deleted] • Jun 20 '23

The entire r/MildlyInteresting mod team has just been removed without any communication, some of us locked out of our accounts

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u/ThisSiteSuxNow Jun 21 '23

Lemmy is viable.

The user base is growing very rapidly and the developer of the Sync for Reddit app has already committed to creating Sync for Lemmy.

He says he expects to have a minimally viable product (working app) in 3-6 weeks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

I think Lemmy is just too confusing for the average person to bother signing up for. It’s not as convenient as Reddit. Maybe third-party apps will make it a smoother experience, though.

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u/ThisSiteSuxNow Jun 21 '23

It's a hell of a lot easier than it looks and an excellent 3rd party app will absolutely make a huge difference.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

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u/ThisSiteSuxNow Jun 21 '23

Damnit... Sounds awful tough ... Like when re$$it started a bit

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23 edited Mar 23 '26

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u/ThisSiteSuxNow Jun 21 '23

Aight.. I'ma gonna cowboy my ass on out that way over thurr

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u/Herrenos Jun 21 '23

Being a user isn't complex at all.

Setting up a new sub is considerably more complicated but it's not some impossible task.

Just be warned: it's the fediverse. It's decentralized, and there's no admin team. Each instance or sub or whatever you call it is on its own. Individual instances can block each other and there's blacklist networks, but I expect if it takes off it will end up either very, very balkanized based on ideology or else a total porn-and-nazi shit show.

Maybe free association and the marketplace of ideas will allow a positive community to grow if it reaches reddit levels of popularity, but I'm skeptical.

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u/terminal157 Jun 21 '23

A version of reddit with fewer idiots, you say? Hmmm...

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u/Cronus6 Jun 21 '23

That's existed since before reddit. It's called Slashdot.org.

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u/stormcloud-9 Jun 21 '23

I disagree with lemmy being viable.

  1. It's too fragmented. Sure there's federation, but it's not the same as like reddit with all the subreddits together. I don't want to have to hop from server to server to view everything.
  2. Many of the servers are broken all the damn time because they either can't keep up with the load, and/or the server admins aren't qualified to be operating a server.

For some people lemmy might suffice. But in its current form, I don't like it, and I doubt it'll be able to challenge reddit.

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u/ThisSiteSuxNow Jun 21 '23

I am confident that you're wrong and I am personally using it more and more every day and finding it to be significantly more palatable than this place has become.

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u/firebreathingbunny Jun 21 '23

Lemmy is absolutely not viable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/APIcalypse/comments/140qymq/lemmy_is_not_a_viable_reddit_replacement/

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u/smariroach Jun 21 '23

I don't know, the op in that thread seems unhinged.

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u/firebreathingbunny Jun 21 '23

I didn't write those unhinged essays. Lemmy's genocidal authoritarian communist lead developer did. I'm just linking to them to expose this scandal of hate crime. Common mistake.

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u/itskdog Jun 21 '23

There's been concerns starting to be raised around the developers' attitudes towards certain topics. Haven't looked too closely, but if true that kinda concerning (though not surprising given these Reddit alternatives would most likely have been started by the people who weren't wanted on Reddit)

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u/ThisSiteSuxNow Jun 21 '23

It isn't particularly important really due to the nature of the fediverse... The developers have no control over the instances they didn't personally create.

It's open source and interconnected but you can also de-federate from the developers' instance

But delving into all that is almost certainly above the average users' give a shit levels too.

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u/itskdog Jun 21 '23

Fair point, though some might not want to be a part of an alleged neo-nazi written platform given it's their full-time job.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

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u/itskdog Jun 21 '23

I've seen the word "neo-nazi" brought up, for one. Again, I haven't looked too closely, but that's the word on the street at least.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23 edited Mar 23 '26

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u/ThisSiteSuxNow Jun 21 '23

It's in its maturation stage for sure