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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • So far so good - sh.itjust.works was showing off a solid looking infrastructure (which is so far seamless), so I joined there.

    It feels a lot like 2010 era reddit in terms of content, with a whole bunch of people trying to resurrect memes and communities that grew up organically on reddit. I’m not sure if it’ll work that way, because there’s a natural difference in userbase, but best of luck to them. I worry that the difficulty of getting NSFW content online is going to give reddit a perpetual competitive edge, but totally appreciate the legal/moral difficulties wherein.

    It took a bit to figure out how to sub to new communities, and along with a lot of other newbs, I’m hoping that that’s something that can be tightened up. Like, a browser extension or something that could recognise you’re logged into some instance, and then create a subscribe link on the page rather than the weird copy-paste-into-searchbar dance that seems to be the standard at the moment.

    Overall, great to see that this works and grows. My thanks to the instance hosts and mods.


  • I’m still using it because old-dot-reddit-dot-com still works, and until it doesn’t, I probably will. That said, I’d rather the fediverse thrive than the increasingly corporate-beholden reddit does, so I’ll favour what sparse engagement I make to a lemmy instance first.

    I think what’s hardest to replace from reddit is the absolutely monstrous archive of posts and discussions, which seems to be a bit of a two-edged sword for them (if the official statements are to be believed) - it costs a tonne in hosting, but makes them the most relevant source for real human discourse. This needs to be handled better, and ideally I’d want to see:

    • Some sort of archive-dot-reddit-dot-com. Minimal, flat html, ideally anonymised as much as computer-ly possible to help with the inevitable privacy issues this would raise.
    • Some sort of mobile-dot-old-dot-reddit-dot-com, as they seem incapable of making an app without bloaty (both visual and bandwidth wise) “features”. Call me a boomer, but if I can do something without a specific app, I would rather do it that way.
    • Separate i-dot-reddit-dot-com and v-dot-reddit-dot-com into different companies from the main reddit, reddit should be link aggregation and discussion, content hosting seems like a costly thing to try and monopolise.
    • If it really costs so much to run the APIs, I’d rather see more user-based rate limiting than price gouging to discourage bad actors. I do not think that is why they are price gouging, but am trying to assume good faith on their part for discussions’ sake.

    I know I’m an idiot, and some of these are possibly already done and I just haven’t looked hard enough, probably some are impossible for obvious reasons I haven’t seen. Though even if reddit as a company turned around and tried to become a curator of the discussions it holds rather than milk it’s current audience dry with ads, I’d still rather see lemmy out-compete it. Protocol > Platform.