Asklemmy is already here!
Ethics is meaningless when corporations are doing "research" for profit.
I put it in quotes because a lot of the "research" done by companies doesn't even resemble real scientific research. They use the word to give "we forced a new feature in front of unwilling users, never asked if they liked it, and took them continuing to use the site as liking it" legitimacy when talking to news outlets.
The implication here is that if they are testing it on logged in users, then they will eventually roll it out to ALL users, whether logged in or not.
They want to force more people to download the app so that they can show potential investors how many people are using the app, and so they can mine data off of phones with the app. I fucking guarantee that's what this is.
They are gambling that the people who incidentally land on reddit using their phones to search for things will be more likely to download the app than stop using reddit when it comes up in a search.
THATS WHAT IT IS THANK YOU
I wasn't thinking to click and hold... I may put a request in for a toggle that lets you swap the single click and click and hold functionality. I'm use to Infinity for Reddit (which I think offered the same) where I press and hold to collapse comments and single tap to open/close comment interactions
I keep seeing people joke about this-do the mods here really ban people for talking about it? It seems like it's a bit of a meme here...
This was pretty much exactly my thought process. My biggest concern here is account stability-from what I can tell, if your instance gets taken down by its owners, your account is gone.
So until the devs figure out a way to centralize account credentials so that isn't an issue, I'd much rather join on a big instance than a small one, especially one that the devs of lemmy themselves own. They have a clear interest in keeping it running, so the chances of my account vanishing are small, just like with bigger social media sites.
The hard reality here is that, much like in real life markets, federated social media will likely tend toward a small number of very large instances and lots of significantly smaller ones. Most people want a stable, consistent experience and don't want to worry about losing communities or accounts. And unless an instance is STRICTLY policing it's communities, like lemmygrad for instance, then I think we will see the same thing happen with communities-right now there are lots of communities that are basically identical, and I think we'll see one or two of each become the "main" ones people use-and those will likely be on larger instances.
This looks similar to what happened in Atlanta a few years back. In that one a bunch of trash stored under the bridge caught fire and caused it to collapse. Wreaked havoc on traffic for years.
When you're worth a hundred billion dollars EVERYTHING is optional. The landlord wants some of that sweet cash so he will tolerate any amount of waiting. Would YOU want to piss off one of the richest men in the world? He's called people pedophiles for significantly less with no evidence at all. He's doxxed people. He has millions of loyal dedicated followers who will harass you and threaten you.
Capital is way more than just money and Elon has more than almost anyone else on the planet.
Yeah that's why I'd say they're salivating. They want to slip plausible adds into comment sections for their shitty products in a place where people go to buy things long term, thereby sabotaging the very point of BIFL.
I agree. It's hard to tell, though, if it's because of the huge influx of new people arriving and interacting what what they are seeing in active, or if it's a flaw in the system. I've been here 2 days now and active hasn't changed almost at all, this morning I saw one new post near the top.
I think after a week or so it will probably stabilize and we'll start seeing more posts get higher up.
It's one of the first things I looked for. There is c/aww, which seems quite active.