pitninja

joined 2 years ago
[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I definitely saw that. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they're expecting third party app devs to basically be charging what they do for Reddit premium, which is honestly pretty ridiculous. Most people aren't going to want to suddenly have to pay anywhere near $6/month for what they had been getting for free. Reddit also screwed up by not having a way that their existing Reddit Premium users might continue having API access in third party apps with a personal token instead of making all third party app devs be brokers in the exchange. They're making the system needlessly complicated IMHO.

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't really care about pirating live TV, so Plex (because it's built into my Nvidia Shield TV) and Kodi (because some videos just play better in Kodi) with an attached 12TB drive that I load up from my computer with Radarr, Sonarr, and SABnzbd. I have an antenna for local content recording with Plex on my Nvidia Shield TV via an hdhomerun.

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for the GitHub link! I'd like to point out to people who really want this feature that there's a way to vote with your wallet and chip in towards a bounty for it 😉

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

From what I understand, beehaw has been struggling a little with their user count more or less tripling overnight. I think we're going to have to expect some growing pains like when Mastodon was overrun a few months back.

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aside from the whole Fediverse concept (which as a current Matrix and Mastodon user I didn't have to relearn), the most confusing concept for new users I'd say would be that there can exist the same community on multiple servers (like, say, politics). But when you realize what this service is really doing, there's not really another way to do it and maintain moderation control on each server. It's actually a strength IMHO. I'm really impressed with what I'm seeing. More people coming onboard is going to make this place really fun. And if it ever becomes not fun, there'll probably be another server that would be more your idea of fun.

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Maybe the difference is the fact that Dessalines is directly involved in the Lemmy project. Maybe that makes it self promotion in the Apollo dev's eyes? 🤷

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Was your test a success? 😂

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What a fantastic idea. They don't even have to necessarily pivot their apps to actually be Lemmy clients to deliver a massive "fuck you" to Reddit. They collectively have a large install base. Instead of a warning banner saying, "This app will cease functioning on July 1 (or whatever the date is)," they could add, "Check out our new community over on Lemmy [with a link to whichever Lemmy client]." If I were a Reddit app dev, I would 100% be incorporating this threat into my talks with their team about the forthcoming reddit API.

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I would actually be willing to pay a small, reasonable monthly fee to not have to see ads and to be able to continue using Boost for Reddit like I have been for the last 7 years with the experience unchanged. What I will not do is pay to use reddit's official app without ads simply because it's going to be the only choice with their horrible fee structure that will kill all third party apps. As soon as they kill Boost, my account there goes dark...

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