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The only Reddit alt I need is Lemmy.
lemmy certainly scratches the doomer/black pill/commie itch in everyone
Anything that takes users away from Reddit, and forces Reddit to compete, is a plus for me.
Competition is good. Also the less data Reddit has, the slower A.I. models can be trained.
Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they'll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.
This is quite toxic attitude. You should focus on what's good for you - not what's bad for someone else.
Eh, what's bad for capitalists is what's good for the rest of us
I don't agree. We're not talking about a person or a charity. We're talking about a VC-backed company. They can fuck off and die, and it's not toxic – it's just common sense.
But two corporate entities competing are better than one secure in it's market share. Anyone with any sense would reject both for a fediverse option if it could be made to work well enough obviously but still.
Silly question. Is Reddit still banning comments that say Lemmy?
I don't have an account.
Idk, but now that you mention iy, I got a 2nd violation, for threatening violence that did not do so or even come close, to the point I think it was ad hoc in bad faith, to say for other reasons. I did mention lemmy not long before.
If they are advertising on Digg may work.
I'd like to see this place just a bit better
Dunny. I've mentioned it a few times. I don't think they're still removing them but I bet they are still suppressing them
I heard that was highly community-dependent - the more high-profile a community the more likely for it to be removed.
Idk, I think there are also legitimate arguments for piefed !
Haven't tried piefed so I can't say.
We can have both, thats allowed :)
What's piefed? I looked at it and mostly saw lemmy instances.
It's an alternative to Lemmy with some different features. Since it uses the same protocol under the hood, its instances federate with Lemmy. There's more info on the differences here.
It's like Lemmy, but it has more features because the devs aren't tankies and they actually do work instead of just denying genocides all day
Tankie you say
Are there any plans to improve Piefed's RSS feeds? I primarily browse through Thunderbird, and Lemmy's feeds are a lot more content-rich
Sounds like a good question for @rimu@piefed.social
Such as?
This is just off the top of my head.
Grouping comments of the same posts posted on different comms for one.
Keyword filtering to fade or outright block.
Idk if filtering is in Lemmy, but grouping comments definitely isn't.
I could go for a text only version of this
That would be nice. It can probably be done by blocking images at the browser level. Wouldn't be the same as a text only site though.
That's what Usenet was.
yeah it was pretty good I was there
I miss it. SLRN and proper score file made it the best information tool on the internet back in the day.