If you go to lemmy.ml it’s just a bunch of fucking redditors with their dogshit memes and like three lemme users. It’s sad. I strongly encourage users of this site who are so inclined to take a break from infighting to bully neoliberals over there.
Wahh! The way that the javascript populates the page with new posts and there being so many more users makes the page seem to jump to me and makes my eyes twitch! I hate XMLHttp request and think it was a mistake.
The fact that the creator of node.js made a half hour apology speech at a JavaScript conference 4 years ago is really funny, but also sad
lemmy is experiencing their lifeboat dilemma rn. the unfortunate fact is that when you signal a sinking vessel, you’re not gonna only have friends on the boat afterwards. in their case, they signaled towards redditors, and now they have too many redditors on their forum, which has made it very reddit, to no one’s surprise. they have, unfortunately, marketed to a non-ideal demographic.
honestly, with federation, I don’t really see the need for lifeboatting onto specific pre-established spaces within the fediverse. I don’t think it’s productive. The point, in my eyes, to carve out a separate space in the network for the lifeboat.
The problem is that space must be created for them to go to, and when someone makes a new space, people then have to choose between a new, empty place, and the place where there are already people.
what’s going on with reddit that so many people are fleeing to lemmy?
Just like twitter, they are going to charge for API access, so no app besides the official one will work anymore.
Also, when we federate are we gonna have an influx of redditors?
Probably not. We are almost assured to federate with lemmygrad. We might fed with lemmy.ml, but mods might be able to block them if it gets too annoying. It’s probably a good idea to do that at some point. Explicitly liberal instances like Beehaw want nothing to do with us anyway.
They’re making the APIs cost a buttload of money, breaking 3rd party apps. A lot of subreddits will be boycotting with a blackout in protest.
“No”, because the redditors are flocking to Lemmy and landing on lemmy.ml and beehaw mostly (lemmy.ml is falsely advertised as a flagship by some, so a lot of libs are arriving at what used to be a somewhat socialist-leaning space). Lemmygrad has gotten a couple of trolls but not much more, it seems, and this place would absolutely tear a lib a new hole in a tenth of the time. But they will cry on lemmy.ml about it, I’m sure!
it’s just a bunch of fucking redditors with their dogshit memes and like three lemme users. It’s sad.
Thats just this place too
I’m confused, I thought it was explicitly marxist-leninist.
Nope, it is just one domain name that if I remember correctly can be obtained for free. It is commonly used by such projects, both lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml use it.
The devs of Lemmy, who host that instance, are M-Ls with communists as their profile image, but lemmy.ml is only explicitly leftist, and the admins aren’t going to drive libs away because their main goal is to become a reddit alternative, not a communist commune. They might cut the fat once other instances are more established… or they could go the way of /r/antiwork. It’s hard to guess without asking them.
Relevant:
- The official “What is lemmy.ml” announcement describing their goals and attitude to liberal instances.
- A post from the lemmygrad.ml founder about the current situation
