At least in terms of the communities popping up. A lot of them (even ones I made), are just the Lemmy version of Reddit subs. Is that a good/bad thing? Time will tell, but at the moment I think it’s kinda funny of what’s happening.
To frame it a different way, there was nothing special about Reddit except the community, and that community can live anywhere.
What’s funny is not that a community migrated, because we’ve seen communities migrate before. But what’s funny is that the Reddit administrators didn’t expect it or don’t care.
Imagine working in a factory and telling your truck drivers, who you depend on to get product to stores, to take a hike.
That’s what scummy bosses like to do, and then they act shocked when workers call their bluff.
(shoutout to the /c/workreform@lemmy.world community here haha)
!workreform@lemmy.world should be a working link.
Edit: nevermind that’s still not quite right somehow.
Clicked on that link twice. Both times Jerboa crashed. 😂
Yes, this is a known problem. We should probably write links in multiple forms for now.
That’s fine I understand :)
Hopefully that markdown will get automatically implemented at some point in the not-too-distant future, so doing that won’t be necessary.
Same with the !workreform@lemmy.world syntax.
Until a sub has even 1/100 of the activity on here compared to reddit why would they care?
edit: Even then, they’re hoping to have cashed out by then so they still won’t care as long as the IPO goes smoothly
On the one hand you’re absolutely on point. It’s all about the money, not the quality.
But some people also care about their reputation. Some people value integrity and progress. I wonder what story they tell themselves. Or do they.
Good thing, personally, there is nothing wrong with reddit itself other than management, UI, and mods being abusive, permanently online types. And that can move anywhere.
I feel like there’s very little to be lost from having more niche hobby communities, at least. Those were the thing I used Reddit for the most, and I feel that they were generally non-toxic.
The tech subs I used, electronics, microcontrollers, pcb, circuits, etc, are what I miss. I know it will get here eventually.
They’re also the thing that most benefits from the site in general having a critical mass. Something that will be difficult to get on the Fediverse, though I desperately hope it happens.
People are just rushing in to fill the void left by leaving reddit. Remaking an existing subreddit is the lowest fruit to pick.
A lot of the new people coming to Lemmy are (ex) Reddit users. It’s normal that they want communities that have the same names as what they are familiar with.
Look at Ellis Island in New York. People from all over the world came through it and now you have neighborhoods from all over the world in New York. People like what’s familiar, especially when they have to move somewhere else.
I don’t even think it’s about the names. It’s just about the subjects. If you enjoyed a subreddit for your favourite game, you probably want to continue having a place to discuss that game. And because subreddits generally have pretty obvious, intuitive names, the name on here will also often end up being the same.
That’s fair. Still an interesting thing to see when it happens. That and what forms of evolution will Lemmy take to grow beyond just Reddit refugees, once the equivalent of multigenerational citizens take over?
Also 1 July and the death of 3rd party apps hasn’t happened yet.
I have created a Lemmy account - obviously - but I am still desperately clinging to RIF.
I’ll go down with the RIF ship.
O captain, my captain… :'((
This is a great point and really interesting
i have seen more subs on kbin. i think the biggest problem the fediverse has is that my user account doesn’t float. so i now have two user accounts. i know i can subscribe to lemmy from kbin but i cnt have uniqueness or migrate a magazine from kbin to a community here
“float”?
You can view and subscribe to kbin magazines from lemmy and vice versa. What do you mean by “uniqueness” and “migrating a magazine”?
Yeah, you are going to have to consolidate under one account. You can probably manually move your stuff over by taking advantage of the ActivityPub API, and doing a bit of scripting. But the good news is that when you have settled on one, you should be able to use both from a single account. Plus, navigating between the two should get easier.
Huh? You can access kbin. Hell, lemm.ee is like the only instance with no defederation.
hopefully not, because then spez could claim to legally be the CEO and shut it down :(
that’s… not how things work.
but if lemmy becomes reddit then reddit’s board will shut it down :( 😂
Reddit isn’t profitable. The cost to litigate a federated project across multiple legal jurisdictions is going to be crazy. That said, I am setting up my own server and choose a German company to make the jurisdiction question interesting.
yes, spez will go to germany soon, expect his presence in your house soon, he will litigate you by force
