I'm 90/10 on it being YouTube. I mean, they've already shit the bed plenty in the past. But with all the fediverse stuff picking up steam, Peertube is just sitting there waiting to enter the discourse.
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It's because Elon keeps throwing metal balls at the windows and breaking them. One of these days it won't break and then he can sell that one.
Does this mean your comment is technically a Reddit migration comment? Does this mean mine is?
+1 for the Beau of the Fifth Column shoutout. If his listeners are here then I know I'm among good people.
This is what I think people need to understand. This problem also occurred on Reddit frequently. In the early days there were multiple subreddits for a single topic and over time with growth, one of them won out. I doubt lemmy.ml and beehaw.org's technology communities are both going to grow at the same rate. Eventually one will get bigger faster and become the de facto tech community.
Ahhh, I completely missed that news among the API pricing bullshit. I guess I was so focused on the fact that they've basically just nuked third party apps, that I didn't notice that even if they reversed their shitty pricing, they also killed NSFW content on those apps.
I feel like the server owner matters more than the platform itself. Which is to say that while I'm also not a fan of how far left the lemmy devs are, I have found some lemmy communities to be more in line with my values. I imagine if lemmy grows at all we're eventually going to see many views represented. So I think whether to use kbin or lemmy should really come down to aesthetic preferences. I personally prefer the look/feel of lemmy, but I respect anyone who prefers kbin. It's pretty cool that we can communicate across platforms. Really shows the power of ActivityPub.
I'm a bit OOTL on this I guess, but what NSFW policy changes are you talking about specifically? I was under the impression that they've stayed committed to continuing to allow NSFW content. I can't seem to find any headlines mentioning any changes with all this API nonsense.
With that said though, I did see Huffman respond to a question in his AMA in a negative sounding way towards NSFW content, so that's ominous. Also, I've heard that Reddit has recently been cracking down on subreddits with inactive moderators and not allowing appeals, with a specific target aimed at NSFW communities. Is there anything more specific that has come out lately with the API changes? Or are we talking more generally about their bans on subs like /r/WatchPeopleDie and whatnot?
A fitting death knell for Reddit that their CEO would have an emergency AMA go down as one of the worst ones of all time. This week is going to be one for the internet history books. I'm really looking forward to Monday.
To be fair, Reddit doesn't merge similar communities either. You could have /r/cats, /r/catpics, /r/cat_pics, /r/PicturesOfCats, and so on. The point is, Reddit also needed time to establish popular communities before they took hold. I think it's less a structural issue with Lemmy and more just a small forum problem. In time it should self correct so that when you look up "cats" on Lemmy, the overwhelmingly most popular community pops up and you can subscribe to it. The one downside is that you could have multiple /c/cats communities on different instances, but that still won't be that big of a problem. The most popular one will still be the first search result and it won't be too hard to remember that it's the Beehaw cats community that's the popular one (not literally - just to use a random example instance).
Which is why Ron Desantis terrifies me. It doesn't look good for him right now, but I wouldn't have said things looked good for Trump in the summer of 2015 either. And all it would take is for one of these smart tyrants to win a freak election like 2016 and it would be Trump all over again, but much worse.