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Will Reddit ever cave in? (lemm.ee)
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Exactly as the title says, do you guys think Reddit will buckle and at least be more reasonable or maybe even reverse their current decisions?

Edit: if not lemmy to the moon ๐Ÿš€

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[โ€“] computerboss 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. I found it easier to transition because I follow mostly smaller tech subreddits that already had a presence here, or quickly started one. I only posted 70 comments total and almost nothing recently. I am more concerned about the power users, mods, and people who need things like screen readers not being able to make the jump. In my opinion Lemmy needs those users more than lurkers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel it. I followed a lot of innocuous bullshit, random stuff, and most of my comments followed suit. It's been a long while since I felt like I could have a conversation on most parts of Reddit. There are some niche communities, and things that don't work well without a lot of users, that I'll miss, but I'm mostly glad to be not spending so much time on Reddit.

I do hope that the open-source nature of Lemmy, and the fediverse in general, will foster a better relationship between developers/admins and users/mods, and more development towards what the mods and users want and need out of the platform. I do have optimism for the future of such an open platform, although I do remember a time when Reddit's software was open-source too.

I can't personally speak for the accessibility issue, so I don't know if it's a problem here, but open-source should definitely help with that too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

although I do remember a time when Reddit's software was open-source too.

Reddit used the MIT license which is dogshit. It not only allows people to steal your work and not contribute back, but it also allows you to revoke the Open Source nature at any time.

Lemmy uses AGPL, which is pretty much the best pro-Open Source license out there. It is copyright violation to run a modified Lemmy instance and decline sharing the source code.

Edit: and just following up on this, it's thanks to AGPL that Truth Social had to release their source code too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well that's good to know, thanks for the info. I'm a garbage programmer so I'm not familiar with the nuances of open-source licenses, and have only ever used MIT, because it was the most permissive and I never wrote anything worth stealing or that I really gave a shit about lmao.