• monobot@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I just checked and my account on lemmy is 3 years old, I was waiting for all of you. At moments lemmy looked like it will take of by it self, but last few months was pretty quiet. I hope this is the push this community needs to succeed.

    Reddit got too big for my taste since digg joined in, I don’t think this will kill it ( they have the data how many people is using it outiside official apps), but let’s make space out of it.

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          I’m using jerboa currently. Albeit very new to the app, but I’m still a bit put off by the lack of options for personization and features. It also desperately needs an in app browser so all the links stop sending me out of the app.

          There is definitely potential here, but leaves a lot to be desired.

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        One can only dream that these canceled 3rd party clients might join some day. Hopefully some will be opensource or they decide to support any other platform.

        It would’ve been great if they just collectively change to something else.

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            While I agree that porting one of these great reddit clients to a new platform like Lemmy is the way to go, I don’t see why it should be done by the individual developer instead of treated as a community effort. We’ll just end up in the same boat again where he’s piggy backing on another project (Lemmy, etc) to build a closed-source business that only he profits from. And while I have no problem with people selling apps they wrote, if none of these developers are going to open source their work so that the community can participate, I’d rather see a longer term effort go into improving FOSS solutions.

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      If one was still browsing reddit using rif and seldomly old reddit it somehow still felt similar to what it was 10 or more years ago. Over time I ditched Facebook and some other social media I used but Reddit somehow stayed. Maybe because it was the “anonymous” one, the one I just used for myself without sharing my account with my real-life friends.

      Anyway thanks for waiting for us, took some time for me to get up and leave reddit. I hope others will follow, but so far even for me as a software dev/ architect it was quite a change to switch to fediverse services. Maybe it’ll be smoother when you’re joining bigger servers but let’s see what the future brings. As a fan of Foss I’d really like to see this thing grow.

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      All it took was for a few power users, aka content thieves, someone like MrBabyMan who’s spent all their conscious energy and time submitting entertaining content from other less user friendly platforms, to convince a majority of users on the internet to pay attention to reddit more.

      Simply getting more content, regardless of its quality or dubious origin, only as long as it is interesting or entertaining, will draw more users here. This is probably not what people want, but that’s what it will take for Lemmy to take off.

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        I also just slowly empty my meme Archive here to flow some traffic down the front page. I hope some of them are good and make people lough, they are Hand selected!