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The ones that are permanently blacking out are the hardest. I kept telling myself that if nothing else, at least I could visit the pale shadows of the old places I enjoyed via desktop. But /r/dndmemes is probably closing forever and I wasn't quite ready for that.
There's /c/[email protected], though, and perhaps others eventually. So the magic may someday return.
It's not surprising, but IMO the shutdown is still worthwhile. It's shaking people loose to start looking for alternatives, and giving those alternatives opportunity to shake themselves down too. We're not quite ready for a Digg-style implosion yet. It may come more gradually this time.
Just checked and it's at 1/3 of the planned shutdowns now.
What might be neat is a user preference that allows one to enable or disable downvoting just for you. If you disable downvoting then you get a different view of the community and comments that only accounts for upvotes.
This is the number one source of reassurance I give people who object that Lemmy is "overrun by tankies." That was just the earliest niche community that happened to jump ship in this particular direction. Now, even at this early stage, Lemmy is being overrun by everyone else.
Older audiences are more likely to dislike the new changes, though. They've been on Reddit for a long time and will be aware of how much better it used to be.
The only hope I have for Reddit - and it's a vain one, I fully recognize - is that after shareholders buy it they might put a board of directors in place who go "hey, our userbase is bleeding profusely and Reddit alternatives are flourishing, maybe we should do something to staunch that if we want this thing to retain any value."
The current owners evidently don't believe that, so an IPO that swaps them out is the only option.
They're /r/unexpected, so if they were to state one or the other I don't know if that could be trusted anyway.
I am really not into porn that much :)
Heh. I feel we may have a common attitude here; I'm not particularly into smut but I think it's very important for a free Internet to allow it to flourish for those that want it. The common "No NSFW" restriction on major Lemmy instances is likely to be one of the major hurdles to attracting Reddit refugees, alongside the particular political positions that devs and major instance-runners currently espouse.
I suspect both of those things will be diluted away quickly as this space evolves, though.
That is the common narrative among Americans and Redditors
And also reality. Or does Russia still secretly occupy Kherson and Kharkiv? Did they only pretend to launch a major mobilization of new troops and call up prisoners to fill the ranks?
The day-to-day changes of the control map are less clear, especially now that there's major operational security around the counteroffensive, but I'm speaking of the overall "pattern of the war" here.
Indeed. I've used RiF forever with Reddit, it has such a nice clean interface and is so well polished. It's such a shame to throw something like that away.