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  • Eh, don't be so sure.

    Email is often drawn as something similar to the fediverse. ... but if you've ever tried to run a small Mailserver, you'll quickly find that "the big corps" have created a walled garden that'll keep the "small fish" out.

    It's all based on what the big players view as your "reputation". This is based on proprietary metrics (usually how many emails you send), but your reputation will determine if the email is delivered or not.

    You can find more information here.

    ... but the point is that one big corps consolidate and reach the size (in terms of traffic/content) like Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo, etc - they will not hesitate to squeeze out the smaller fediverse fish to force them into paying to use the bigger pond.

    Sadly ... this is just business as usual.

  • (Meta) Do we have a general forum for this instance?
  • I was also using jerboa (and beehaw hasn't upgraded, either).

    I ended up exploring other apps and are really liking thunder (it reminds me of baconreader).

    Another honorable mention is liftoff.

    Tbh, I don't know why jerboa was released as "stable" but with a forced server upgrade. It seems a bit strong armed. Anyway, I'm thrilled that other applications exist, so I get the continued functionality I want w/o needing the admins to accommodate me.

  • Tales from Tech Support @compuverse.uk LedgeDrop @beehaw.org
    An alternative to scraping from is there any deals and friends...
    lemmit.online Lemmit - A Reddit to Lemmy crossposting instance. - Lemmit

    I have created some software that is capable of synchronising posts from Reddit to Lemmy. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but it works as a such: People can request new subreddits to be mirrored on !requests@lemmit.online [!requests@lemmit.online]. A bot (open source [https://gitlab.com/...

    I stumbled upon this and I immediately thought of this channel.

    Someone is running a bot that'll scrape a website-that-shall-not-be-named. It'll only mirror threads (not comments) and the author / community seem very passionate to subvert any api limits that the scraped company may impose.

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    how many of you have genuinely ditched reddit?
  • I'm in the same boat. I limit myself to a superficial check of Reddit twice a day (morning and evening).

    Some of the nitch subs haven't migrated and I get the feeling that the "world news" I get from Lemmy is either lagging or flat out missing content. Maybe, I haven't found an "unbiased" Lemmy world news group.

  • I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
  • Oh now that you mention it, a sharable link would be a must. This would promote curated "Awesome..." repos/links.

    It would be ideal if it were part of the fediverse naming convention. For example "/m/multi-subreddit-name/c/group1@domain1/c/group2@domain2/..."

    It would allow full transparency, the ability to update / change it... places could even provide URL shorteners for it.

    Edit 2: formatting (come'on Lemmy don't let me down)

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  • Wow, is that how Lemmy really works? Beehaw disables the downvote, but since I federated through it - I cannot downvote anywhere in the fediverse.

    I wonder if this means that people from outside of Beehaw can downvote threads posted in Beehaw (anyone is welcome to downvote my Beehaw responses - in the name of science, mind you :)

    I'm really going to have to think about hosting my own Lemmy server. It sounds like whoever's site you register through has quiet a bit of control (especially outside of their respective site).

    You mentioned that you're hosting your own Lemmy server. Have you had any issues accessing or being accessed by others in the fediverse?

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    I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
  • One feature suggestion for Lemmy someone made: Create something like a multi-subreddit with Lemmy groups .

    I love the idea. Basically, you could toss all the fragemented tech topics into a single multi-subreddit, giving you the ability to browse through a single topic but spanning different Lemmy installations.

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    [Epic] Guacamelee 2 and Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition (100%/Free)
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  • Wow, I noticed the prices in different currencies. Fantastic work!

    I've got one question: since the community is rather small, would it be possible to enable the downvote button? I'm not certain if this is a site-wide setting or not.

    This would allow us to weigh "good deals" vs "okay deals" vs "shovelware"... which means more relevant deals will rise to the top and would probably attract more people (creating a positive feedback loop)

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
  • I immensely appreciate your transparency on this issue and the goal to create a safe-space for people.

    Originally, I didn't agree with the enacted solution... but your previous post - did add a lot of context (I'd suggest to those who don't agree with the policy change to read it first, before commenting).

    I hope these moderation tools are developed quickly - so this "quick fix/nuke" can be removed.

  • Forget growth, lets enjoy what we have
  • In principle I agree with karma turned posts into people gaming the system.

    However, I've heard one of the struggles for Lemmy Communities is to keep people from lurking.

    Karma might be a stupid feature but it is/was a cheap way of driving participation - it could help Lemmy (especially at this early stage). Even if karma encouraged people to just up voted, it still raised visibility on the more interesting topics.

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  • Also part of the 10+ year club (long time lurker). You're right about that "familiar sense", but for myself it comes with a forgotten sense of optimism.

    Reddit's been on the decline for years before the Vitoria incident or The Great Purge... but as long as I had my niche communities, baconreader, and old.reddit.com - I could "get by"... as Reddit became more and more aggressive in selling "me as the product".

    The federated and open source nature of Lemmy will solve the issue of "corporate presence", but it will require us to "roll up our sleeves" - which I find refreshing.

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