laxe

joined 2 years ago
[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it's almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.

Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

I wish Reddit apps were promoting Lemmy in their shut down message to users.

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

When Chrome was first launched, so many people thought Incognito would be useless. Little did they know.

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder if search engines will see content duplicated across multiple instances and derank them thinking it’s SEO spam. Or maybe I’m overthinking since google is already full of SEO spam.

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I fully migrated but the vast majority of users won't. In fact, a significant portion of users that try Lemmy will likely go back to Reddit.

This is what happened with the Twitter -> Mastodon migration: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m glad to see this but app stores have anti review bomb measures so this might not make a difference

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Makes no difference to me.

I stopped using Reddit and I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about this kind of user hostile changes.

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

On desktop the market share is somewhat higher.

I switched back to Firefox ever since the Quantum release and have been loving it.

I wish Mozilla would spend their resources on the browser instead of wasting time and money on so many other useless projects.

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe a jailbait mod who also secretly edits user comments with his admin privileges is not suitable to be CEO.

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

Can't believe that in 2023 we still rely on passwords so much, even more so when there are silly rules for password "strength".

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Moderating is time consuming, tedious and done by volunteers. I'm not surprised that they get overrun after the latest influx of users.

[–] laxe@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the discussions have been going on for that long, why this exact moment in time, and why such a short deadline?

Why any moment in time? We did it when we did it. We could do it a year from now and we’d probably have the same conversation. We could do it five years ago, we’d be having the same conversation.

I guess what I still don’t quite understand is, if this has been thought about for a long time, is the goal just to meet this deadline and move on? Like just turn a new leaf from there?

We don’t have to meet our deadline. We told folks hey, we need to come up with a plan, or we’re going to start billing you on July 1st.

Complete mess of a CEO. I'm so glad that I'm not using Reddit anymore.

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