Reddit Migration

The Future of the Threadaverse. Is a Lot More Growth a Good Thing?

I’m a recent refugee from Reddit and a very long time social network user. When the Apollo app announced its demise, I joined kbin.social and beehaw.org and love these new networks. The discussions seems much more reasoned and friendly. I do miss some of the more esoteric groups such as music theory and jazz. I’m sure they’ll be created as the threadiverse (kbin and lemmy) continue to grow. In this case, growth will be good. Is there, however, a point where these new networks get too big?

Imagine 56 million daily users (the current figure for Reddit) using the threadiverse platforms. If they were divided evenly into groups of 10,000, that would be 5,600 instances. Surely, such growth would take years, unless Huffman pulls another catastrophic move such as making you pay to be member and having to view ads as well. Even if he did, I doubt Reddit would completely go away. It would join myspace and AOL in the backwaters of the Internet.

Back to my point. Let’s say there are 20 million daily users. Magazines on kbin and communities on lemmy would have 100’s of thousands or even more that a million subscribers. The subreddit r/worldnews has 32 million subscribers. There could also be 100’s of thousands of magazines/communities. Reddit has 2.8 million subreddits. I know communities are tightly limited on beehaw.org, only being added when there is sufficient interest and support for them. On kbin, it appears any member can create a magazine. I could be wrong. Lemme.ee also allows members to create communities without restriction as far as I can tell.

Assuming there were enough instances to support such a volume of users, would that be a good thing or would discussions turn into flame wars, vitriol, and personal attacks? Even if such things were kept under control would threads become full of pointless or uninformative comments that kept you from reading quality posts. I don’t know one way or the other although I suspect, at some point there would be such a thing as too big. Most likely, it will take years for the threadiverse to grow so there’s plenty of time to plan and implement mechanisms to handle it.

#RedditMigration

Please let me know when we get there! We can do this!

We shall overcome!

Attached: 1 image Updated Apollo to give it that Tweetbot treatment 🤝

Thank you to everyone who offered advice in my "where do I host this" thread. I appreciate the insight and it absolutely helped me narrow down how and what to look for.

So, I've selected a host... and now I have to configure everything. I have root access, a solid VPS, and... well, I need the time to do it, but I should be able to find a moment or two!

Any tips, tricks, Items of Grave Concern?

Just to let you know we also have "woahdude". Thanks

Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can't charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn't made it inoperable.

Why is Boost still working?

someone on reddit made some secret subreddits for certain acievements:

• controversial club - one of the most controvertial posts on reddit within an hour
• popular club - top 25 posts on reddit of the day
• eternity club - popular club clone
• ternion club - popular club but you also got ternion

etc...

why they exist? who knows, but i guess they are no longer secrets

Mods, please let me know if this is not allowed. I’ll remove it.

With what’s happening at Twitter and the mess that’s going on right now, I feel that we need to migrate all the users over to the fediverse. I still don’t understand why anyone would still be using Twitter today but we need to get them out as soon as possible and stop supporting Elon. I think what he’s doing is ridiculous and it’s just a matter of time before he runs Twitter into the ground.

As the title says, Reddit replied to my GDPR request to delete all my data saying I had to do it first, which I suspect is in violation of GDPR law.

Reddit's argument is that to comply with GDPR, they just need to dossociate your account from your posts, so the latter cannot be traced back to you. However, the argument could be made that the posts themselves are enough data to be linked to you.

Is there any type of response that could be framed in legal terms to make reddit really remove all the content from my account?

Ernest just posted some comments clarifying recent changes to Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points.

Post is here

“It does mean you’ll need to pay more attention.”

Just uninstalled Relay and from now will rely on libreddit and old.reddit for feeds from the Snoo Platform.

#RedditMigration

I've heard a few people say that they don't use reddit apps anymore and only access reddit via old.reddit. Could someone explain to me how that resolves the "morality issue"? Isn't that still traffic and aren't they still getting money? Is it less money somehow?

#RedditMigration

All 6000-ish of it lol. I'd been registered user for close on five years and I only made use of it for a couple more before that. But boy did Reddit help me out in a variety of ways small and big. And helped me waste time. Some would say too much time. Some would be right.

I deleted my content two and a half weeks ago in one big, automated purge and I've been waiting and watching and stamping out the occasional zombie content reappearing from the dead. I haven't seen any in a couple of days and today is a good day to die. This was much sadder than axing Twitter or Facebook (Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!)

I don't know how my experience with kbin will shake out, but I'm honestly looking forward to trying to contribute more and be more thoughtful, careful, interesting, in whatever ways that I can. That's the intention I'm starting with.

Alas, poor Reddit, I knew ye well-ish? It was a tough choice.

Any surge in kbin or lemmy signups?
I'd check myself, but don't know there to look. We might not see much change until Tuesday when the long weekend is over.

#RedditMigration

Why does rif still work for me? Anyone know what's going on? I got the 429 this morning but now it's working exactly as before.

#RedditMigration

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/925265

I've been working on a new Lemmy client for iOS and Android and will be looking for testers in the coming weeks. I'll be starting with iOS and then later rolling out to Android.

Features (so far) include:

• Compact and card views
• Multi-account support
• Gestures
• Nested/Threaded comments
• Themes

Let me know some of your favourite features of other Lemmy / Reddit apps that you liked that I may not have thought of!

Please follow the link if you're interested in testing. Here are some screenshots of the app so far and you can check out my thread on its development on Mastodon.

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https://tanza.hubza.co.uk/kbinfamiliarity.png
Hi! I joined kbin a few days ago, and found it hard to get used to the new UI, so I made a theme which replicates old Reddit as closely as I can!

To install the theme, you first have to install the Stylus browser addon, then you can install the theme here!

I also highly recommend using the Kbin Usability Pack as well, it adds alot of very helpful things! To be clear I didn't make this.

I hope people find this theme helpful! Please report any bugs by just responding to this... article? or making an issue on the github!

This is honestly probably for the best. It's a really bad idea that we've let reddit monopolize niche knowledge

For those that dont want to look at the link:

"effective immediately, we plan to discontinue the following activities:

1. Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs.

2. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary).

3. Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.

4. Maintaining a current up-to-date sidebar calendar of scheduled AMAs, with schedule reminders for users.

5. Sister subreddits with categorized cross-posts for easy following.

6. Moderator confidential verification for AMAs.

7. Running various bots, including automatic flairing of live posts"

I feel this was Reddit biggest sub, and probably the most prestigious. Wonder what the effect will be on reddit overall and if reddit will replace the mods.

Curious about if there is any discernable difference anyone can see if they may have popped in to Reddit today? I know it's probably naive to think there would be a big difference first day.
I deleted rif and never even used other apps or desktop site so I won't be going back, hense the question to those that are accessing the site.