Give it a try and let us know.

I think the solution is the same.

Any of them would be better than someone who is openly bought and paid for by the next biggest world power.

Reduce war and not try to force mass vaccinations? (Scary)

Not to mention whatever is running secretly in the modem’s computer.

I totally agree. At the very least it provides the opportunity for debate or the option to just agree to disagree.

I don’t know anything about the Q stuff, but I certainly qualify for how many characterize the first two. I don’t get any value out of name calling and meanness, but it is important to freely voice my opinions regardless of whether anyone else agrees. I’ve never understood why some people have such a problem with that.

I have lived my whole life having opinions that not everyone agrees with, it really isn’t the kind of thing that causes “PTSD” for crying out loud.

I can’t help but think that the censorship would be way way worse if local governments were hosting. Not to mention that they would be most likely to require having people’s true identities when creating accounts.

Truly. Most web search engines, including google, are mostly useless these days if you don’t already have a good idea where to look or it is a very common search.

You use to be able to click down a bunch of pages till what you were looking for turns up. But now after you go down a few pages it just starts repeating and it is all mostly big tech sites.

important gmail account

lol… irony…

but its open source… there isn’t much they can do other than beat their hands on their chest and make noise. … which will not work.

Reddit wants to destroy the mods? Then reddit should see what a world without mods on the internet actually looks like… Especially before the IPO

To be fair… reddit was originally designed to be self-moderated by the users… and it use to work really well. It would be a miracle if they moved back to that model and I would no doubt switch back to them from lemmy if they did. Those were the hey days of reddit and the internet as a whole.

They’ve been running away from their culture of free speech since 2008. The only direction they have ever moved has been in the opposite direction.

I expect most of the “popular” subs (like the one you mentioned) aren’t ones I have ever been aware of or cared to be aware of.

Its not the loss of moderators, its the loss of content. If reddit hadn’t changed their original self moderation model this couldn’t happen. Or at least, not like this.

Moderators are not responsible for making content, they just moderate a sub where others create content. Originally users moderated content on their own.

Pretty funny how reddit’s move to authoritarianism has worked against them this time.

Perhaps… but once a certain amount of people left DIGG for reddit back in the day, the whole thing quickly fell apart. I mean, yea, DIGG still exists and I assume there are people who still use it, but I’ve never met one since I left it about 15 years ago.

Its not like the API issue is the only reason, much less the main reason people want to leave reddit. A lot of people have been wanting to do it for a long time now, it is only that there haven’t been any other options with a crowd big enough to hold a conversation beyond only a few people. There is a big chance that that is now changing.

There have been a few stories about some companies getting punished for not going along with this plan of selling this private information. Like I think Qwest for example. This was over a decade ago, so I don’t remember all the details that clearly.

or within earshot of the microphone on your phone…

If we’re including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols

Reddit sheds a few million of its active users but the API changes and death of third-party apps don’t completely kill the site because now it’s pretty mainstream and a lot of people actually don’t give a shit about Apollo, RIF, etc.

A few million is plenty to make lemmy a comparable community. As that continues more and more people who didn’t move in previous years will move now, because there are enough people here to make it worthwhile.

I think the main difficulty of a site replacing Reddit is that Reddit clones are now a-dime-a-dozen.

Which makes a federated system like lemmy even more competitive.

I’ve given lemmy a try 3-4 times over the last couple years. And I think that presently it is getting fairly close to a big enough crowd that is very usable and is comparable to what reddit was like in 2008 when I switched from Digg.

To be honest. Lemmy doesn’t need to out compete reddit or whoever. It just needs to be competitive. Not having the brain dead mainstream masses over here is not a loss. However, people have always moved to the platform with more liberty when most other aspects are the same. Otherwise reddit would never have been a thing. Most people were over at Digg for a reason. They only moved to reddit when Digg gave them enough reasons to leave.

Then I will definitely go. Their new version is as bad as what digg is now. I could never use that.