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.
... 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.
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.
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.
Yup, that's me. I'm trying to make lemmy my new home and limit my access to Reddit (vote with your feet). I still check Reddit for the polls and a few nitch communities that don't exist on Lemmy (yet)
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?
Thank you for the article, but can we talk about the eye-cancer that MSN has de-evolved into?
I click on the link, see the first 3 lines of the article (that I cannot actually click on to read the rest) followed up with an infinite wall of ads and "other articles you may enjoy".
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)
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.
Malicious Compliant Deep Thoughts : You could create a group here on Lemmy, start topics and discussions there. Then link those Lemmy posts on Reddit. The Reddit Users will figure it out. :)
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.
I haven't tried it, but I did see fly-lemmy which used fly.io.
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.
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.
Oh, I hope this (eventually) works with Skyrim VR!
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 didn't know it was open source until 2018. According to the article, they needed to go close-sourced due to the video player (lol)
... But you can find the original source code at: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0
I really wonder if this is the code for https://old.reddit.com
Well... it does have an MIT license (meaning you can use it for anything)
It would be wickedly funny to see a Lemmy frontend with a Reddit 1.0 theme.
lol ... and what was the average life expendency in the 70s?
I foresee many discussion threads in Lemmy/here being crossposted in /r/startrek (aka: Malicious Compliance)
This appears now be "sold out"
Yup, that's me. I'm trying to make lemmy my new home and limit my access to Reddit (vote with your feet). I still check Reddit for the polls and a few nitch communities that don't exist on Lemmy (yet)
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?
Thank you for the article, but can we talk about the eye-cancer that MSN has de-evolved into?
I click on the link, see the first 3 lines of the article (that I cannot actually click on to read the rest) followed up with an infinite wall of ads and "other articles you may enjoy".
Thanks for the heads-up, I had no clue it was released.
Another random thought: Can we increase the title limit (200 characters)?
I'd posted a "low effort" (bundle) [https://beehaw.org/post/577245], but needed to cut some content in the title due to the 200 character limit.
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)
It's not a website rather an app, Spotube (although it's a bit buggy) would allow you to download your play lists from various "free" sites.
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.
Malicious Compliant Deep Thoughts : You could create a group here on Lemmy, start topics and discussions there. Then link those Lemmy posts on Reddit. The Reddit Users will figure it out. :)
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.