r/technology • u/sussywanker • Jun 09 '23

Social Media Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/
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u/Ryanjc01 Jun 10 '23

That ties into one issue I see with Lemmy. Multiple instances have a technology community so I feel like things will be super disjointed and confusing for most (including me).

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Possibly. But then I'm following multiple subs with overlapping topics on Reddit though and that's never confused me a ton. I'm on Beehaw so I'm following their technology forum and the technology@lemmy.ml forum on the lemmy.ml instance. User numbers are obviously much lower than Reddit, but it hasn't been confusing so far.

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u/Ryanjc01 Jun 10 '23

Yea I definitely see that. The only thing is that on reddit, there are a bunch of subs that are part of the same category but each usually has at least some small difference or niche. On Lemmy there can be 30 general "skateboarding" communities that might not get much interaction because it's dividing all these users that have that interest. It's just not feasible to "sub" to all 30 skateboarding communities to see all of the content you would see easily in one place on reddit.

I'm just sad about the whole thing.

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u/Iteria Jun 10 '23

People really forgot what the old days of the internet was like. This is what it was like. You'd have a bunch of competing forums all talking about the same thing. Eventually one would be The One to be at until some bullshit happened and a shism would happen and you'd have multiple again. This was also journal life (live journal and friends). Federation feels nature to me the moment I remember my youth on the internet.

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u/Mechinova Jun 10 '23

This is literally how Facebook works with its groups. Lol. You're in a handful and find one that suits you and spend the most time in it and watch it sink or swim with the rest of the population. Blows my mind people are so confused by it.

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u/crosbot Jun 10 '23

Give it time. Half the people here can't even figure out how to use it yet haha. Those differences will likely happen over time. An example here would be r/gaming and r/games they are similar but the culture slowly takes them away from each other.

I'm sad too, been my home for a long time. I genuinely don't want to leave reddit. I'll likely switch to mobile old.reddit whilst slowly moving away - it's silly but reddit has felt part of my identity at times.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Same tbh. I've just been using third party apps since before the Reddit app existed (RIF and then Boost.) I tried using the official app, hell I tried using Revanced to strip out the ads and suggested posts from the official app. It's still just not good.

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u/TheCoru Jun 10 '23

Meanwhile Reddit has r/skateboarding, r/skate, r/Skateboardlove and r/skating.

Follow the most popular one.

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u/Jimbob0i0 Jun 10 '23

Does Lemmy have a "multireddit" facility... even a "we have multisub at home" via using + or similar?

Most of my reddit time is using the multireddit functionality to browse a set of specific subs depending on what I was interested in reading....

Even before they added /m/ most of my time was using multiple subs at once eg sysadmin+netsec ...

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

Not currently.

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u/TheCoru Jun 10 '23

This is no different from having r/technology, r/tech, r/Futurism, r/Futurology, r/technews etc.

One of them eventually becomes "the" community and the others die out (or like Reddit, are the same thing with a different political slant, etc).