this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like people are setting themselves up for disappointment

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This, most users who decided to make the jump to Lemmy will have already done so

[–] spiderkle 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Never underestimate herd-mentality. I put off the switch until today in hopes of a dialogue between mods and admins. Reddit doubled down on their stupidity so here i am switching with the early members of r/startrek

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] spiderkle 6 points 2 years ago

He was a legend

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Idk, I feel like all the reddit users who are going to transition (of which I am one) have already done so

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The majority, yeah. Users didn't go to third party apps out of spite toward reddit; I doubt too many will have hung around this long in the spirit of some symbolic D-day to stick it to spez.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think a lot of people are waiting till their preferred app stops working so there’s still a chance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm in the minority, but I'd be happy going back to reddit if

  • spez started be honest and transparent about his interactions with third party app devs
  • reddit provides incredible moderation APIs immediately
  • reddit stops (allegedly) "undeleting" posts

If that all happens, I'd stop being upset with reddit and instead be understanding of their situation... untill spez did something else stupid and then I'd be upset again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's kind of the problem though, isn't it? They've shown that they're willing to do whatever they need to make reddit look good to shareholders, the community be damned. That's never going to change regardless of whether Spez or another parasite is the CEO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's a good point, though my take is somewhat pointless since there's about a 0% chance spez actually makes it up to the third party devs anyway

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I am principally opposed to what is going on with Reddit. But to be honest, I am much more practically opposed to using it without a third party app. Hence I have only just gotten around to join Lemmy now. If I wasn’t on vacation and had a bunch of time right now, I probably wouldn’t have joined until after the apps stopped working.

I expect that the practical reality of not being able to use your preferred Reddit app (which is still hours away) is going to be a big motivator compared to everything else leading up to this.

[–] spiderkle 4 points 2 years ago

Which shows you how little reddit invested in their own development for mobile. It's a huge factor to have a good app that's intuitive and fun to use

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly feels like it's already started. I've been having trouble commenting or making posts on specific instances

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've had issues with even loading some posts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It works for a few minutes and then stops. Clearly heavy server overload

[–] spiderkle 2 points 2 years ago

try to subscribe to new communities. its a bit laggy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. The API change is official tomorrow isn't it?

[–] spiderkle 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

apparently, people are nuking their reddits left and right (no pun intended).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Do you mean subreddits or account?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Might be one of the last "Reddit hug of death"

[–] spiderkle 4 points 2 years ago

reddit is done without it's mods and content creators.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this is a test. please ignore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, I've already noticed a new bug where it will say "language not allowed" unless I manually specify English from the dropdown.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

someone donate to lemmy for me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Quick! Prepare the cloudfare anti ddos

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Instances without captcha will be most affected.

[–] spiderkle 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but somewhat unconventional method of stress test. Anyway happy that reddit is getting ditched by some people atleast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not TRYING to hurt Lemmy 😭 I will only try to do a normal amount of user behavior - and I'll try to be patient and gentle while I'm at it, I swear!

[–] spiderkle 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't worry it's not you... it's all of us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No one pebble feels individually responsible for the landslide it's part of 😔

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello, it's me, I'm part of the DDOS

[–] spiderkle 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Definitely 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have to say, joining Lemmy was made easier because of the name but I know it has nothing to do with it. :)

Motörhead!!

[–] spiderkle 1 points 2 years ago

That's what makes it great for genre fans

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Do you think the new version of lemmy, particularly v0.18.0, might decrease load tomorrow? Don't know what all it entails but you are the expert. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.0

[–] spiderkle 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am interested to know as well, this is obviously just a meme and lemmy decentralized, correct? Would it help to not log in tomorrow to decrease traffic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would it help to not log in tomorrow to decrease traffic?

I've been thinking of doing that, or to maybe switch to some small obscure instance

[–] spiderkle 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lemmy.ca is supposed to be very friendly.

[–] Acester47 2 points 2 years ago

get a load of this hoser! Tabarnak..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably through until Wednesday would be my guess.

Monday at (or getting ready for) work and can't Reddit without their crap.

Tuesday is a US holiday.

Wednesday as Monday for people who took or got the third off as well

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

getting 404s on lemmy.world rn :000

[–] spiderkle 1 points 2 years ago

It's all part of the plan don't worry. they call it stress-testing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] spiderkle 2 points 2 years ago

yes we're all high

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