There is some theory circulating that this is related to LLMs scraping reddit data. They say the absurd API pricing is B2B pricing targeting companies like Microsoft to use reddit as training data (not just threads but voting, voting habits, etc.)
Makes sense why so much stupidity and inability to get to a reasonable agreement with 3rd parties. Basically the logic is that if they left a lower pricing for 3rd parties, the big players would be much less eager to accept paying more.
You have to look for it as !"community"@"instance" it works pretty well on desktop, not sure if it's as good in Jerboa. No need to create accounts in other instances. If people from your instance have already interacted with such communities you'll be able to look it up using just some characters in the name. Hope this helps. Try using your instance website if Jerboa doesn't work.
I was a Facebook user for years. Had my groups, valuable people I met, great knowledge and experiences. Gradually the algorithm screwed the fanpage experience, then they fucked up the groups, content started being more and more monotonous and low-intelligence. Now you open FB and it's half a 6 people echo chamber and half a TikTok imitation with low quality entertainment and information.
Switched to Reddit, and now seeing the same path to fuck the user experience and get us addicted and watching ads all day.
I doubt this will be ever massive but that does not matter, what matters is the ability to mantain a solid knowledge agreggator and an environment of open communities. I love to be part of Lemmy and want to contribute as much as possible.
Fuck capitalists and their ROI.
Lol there are useful products on those ads sometimes, but they choose the most bullshit product to show in that example, and, oh god, the timing, fucking scoundrels!
No offense, and I've seen several people requesting porn, but to me that kind of lowers the level or seriousness of a community. I'm OK if a platforms allows NSFW content, but there's a difference between actively browsing for porn and getting spam to your account. Porn is a very distracting stuff with addiction potential.
To me the best thing about forums, reddit, lemmy, etc. is the aggregation of general human knowledge, and it's better if you don't have to swim over a load of attention-grabbing content for it.
Not overloaded with porn. Reddit is full of bots and porn accs. Not the greatest issue ofc
Thank you so much!
I plan to open an instance focused on Latin America communities and topics, if anybody else have similar ideas and we can join together, hit me up!
Let the tankies run their place as they please, don't join their instance and that's it. So is it a requirement to not be in a political blacklist to post here? I don't like that at all. This is a beginning open source project, if the devs screw it they will face backlash and a fork. That's all. Don't overpolitize. We're here because we want freedom from corporate control and enshittification. Let others isolate themselves if that's what they want.
It doesn't even shows everything. In my experience the integrated Lemmy search engine was better for subscribing to an specific online community that I already knew the name for, but feddit.de wasn't showing anything at all.
I'm sorry, but I think the statement "You will be able to see content from anywhere" might be misleading. There are three type of instances: open, blacklisted, and whitelisted. So, as far as I know, controversial instances such as lemmygrad.ml don't have access to beehaw.org for example. Admins can choose to un-link or un-federate their instances. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Just curious, why you prefer Kbin over Lemmy? I also witnessed the upsurge of that r/KbinMigration but finally chose Lemmy because of two main reasons:
edit: sorry if this is post hijacking, didn't intend doing that. Answering your post, maybe you need to change sort options? If you put it as Hot or Top you'll see posts with lots of interaction. But I think it's set on "Active" as default, so any recent interaction will pop up, also new posts.