On the other hand, I prefer the beeps over the jingles every appliance has now.
UnverifiedAPK
joined 2 years ago
"How do I connect to my printer?"
From a technical perspective, right now Lemmy is as anonymous as can be — I've yet to see an instance that requires ANY kind of verification. I didn't need to provide an email address, phone number, or any other identifying information to sign up
Not exactly anonymous...
Lemmy will most likely go the way of 4chan, they'll ban connections from all major VPN services and start banning users via IP.
For my frontpage the change is small but still noticeable:
/r/pcm was always holding on by a thread, it looks like all the quality posters and moderation have left/given up.
/r/chess is down about 10-20% of its normal upvotes
/r/ProgrammerHumor is down about 50%
/r/Sysadmin is surprisingly normal-ish for upvotes, but the posts aren't great. Although that sub has been mostly off topic rants for a while now... not sure I want to purely attribute that to the API change.
The point is to trash the site so new users don't join, if they replace the number they lost they can say "hey look, we recovered in only 6 months"
Let the record show: I downvoted this
There's a reason all irl votes are private.
¯\_(T_T)_/¯
In theory one of the communities would start to hit critical mass and everyone would go there.
Ehh, even on Reddit I was subbed to ~5 generic gaming subs. I think you're right though, there will be themed federated servers. Which does come with their own issues, basically creating super-mods again purely by their nature. (but at least they'll need to put their money where their mouth is this time around)
It's reminding me a lot of when I first joined Reddit (nearly 15 years ago). Not too much is happening day-to-day so I'm checking in every couple of days or so.
I think this is a much healthier relationship than checking a site compulsively every couple of hours. I'm liking it so far, also a crazy repercussion is that I'm using the internet like the early days again. I think of a topic and I do a deep dive on my own, researching into it and going down weird rabbit holes.
I feel like Reddit discouraged this behavior by having a non-stop flow of communities that "mostly" interested me enough to not go "browsing the web"
What really helps is the power users and moderators moved over too this time. Hopefully with this type of userbase Lemmy will be able to self-moderate and won't end up like Voat.