I used to host my portfolio site through them actually.
Reddit Refugee
I used to host my portfolio site through them actually.
Its not comparable at all. Reddit was a customer boycott. This on the other hand will cause a massive and very expensive logistical nightmare.
I cant wait for the heat wave to be turned into a summoningsalt parody.
God i hate how utterly useless search engines are now
I miss all the personal home pages. You could get a real sense of who somebody was based on what they chose to display. Maybe they had pictures of the favourite game or tv show, or their own little web diary. Now its all just santizied profile pages that have virtually zero room for creativity. It’s too sterile now.
All they had to do was charge relative to the value reddit is providing to said apps.
Instead they gave the “fuck you” price and now theyre not getting any money for their api.
The very same anonymity people use to get away with terrible behavior on free sites. I don’t see the downside here.
Which is still just some pngs. All that avatar crap is utterly worthless
God i hope so. I miss being able to just pop the back off and change out my battery. It was great for sd and sim card slots too. I am quite excited for this
If an instance of lemmy becomes commercialized, other instances will just defederate it, cutting it off from like 90 percent of users and content
Id rather pay for a subscription for a forum site or something. I know echo chambers are dangerous, but sometimes you just need a gated community. Money makes it really easy to keep the lunatics out.
This is a pretty shit deal tbh. Ooohh ad free browsing and some free pngs you can tack onto your avatar or comments.
It sure is convenient that the second they kill third party apps they push a subscription model for ad free service on their ad riddled, barely functioning app…
The sequel to CHALLENGE PISSING
Yeah same. I did shop around a bit on other instances but i decided the general purpose one here was the most sensible for me.
So far I’m liking it. I wasn’t fond of the general attitude people had on reddit though, and I’m seeing some of the pop up as a result of the migration.
I have concerns that the lemmy community will become as toxic as reddit is. Other than that, I am enjoying how small communities are here. I don’t feel like my voice is being drowned out by other users or bots.