I think a lot of the same API issues are going to hit.

Reddit wants to stop OpenAI from crawling all “their” data (that was given to them for free by their users), so any kind of algorithmic fetching of comments beyond web scraping will be removed.

Likely Project Managers, who are above the day-to-day developers. PMs take any product and squeeze the life out of it.

Yep, they sure can.

If you go to the Communities tab and hit “All”, you can see a list of communities you can subscribe to based on what your instance has federated with. Then you just hit the “subscribe” button and you’re good to go.

I wish I wasn’t boycotting Blizzard.

I’m not going to bend about it, but part of me is curious what the hubbub is about. I’m surprised they’re still capable of putting out a good game tbh.

Sadly, my German isn’t the best or else I would’ve looked more into that one. ;)

I applied for an account over at Beehaw.org, but they’re slammed since they have been hit the hardest by Reddit users (as they are the closest culturally to Reddit).

I’m also not 100% sure if I’ll switch or not… I’ve had this account since 2020, which makes it a relatively old account in Lemmy terms. Not that I’ve used it much, mind…

Fair enough. It’d be nice to centralize all my social media in one place - Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc. It’s actually super-cool that this works the other way at all - I’ve followed a couple communities on Mastodon and it’s neat seeing posts pop up in my feeds.

But I totally get why Lemmy works the way it does. I almost wonder if maybe it makes more sense to be able to follow Mastodon hashtags? I’m not familiar enough with the ActivityPub protocol to know how easy that is, though (and I get the feeling it’s not easy…).

Haha, I was here 3 years ago, before Federation even worked. It was very slow, to say the least. ;)

It’s been my first time back since 2020, and it’s kind of wild to see it taking off. I’d imagine it’ll only grow as the enshittification of Reddit continues.

I am very curious what’s going to happen to the larger instances like lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org. Lemmy.ml was struggling to load for me a bit earlier; come July 1st when everyone gets their access cut off I’m very curious how slammed this’ll be.

It’s a little annoying - I’m a “normal” user and if I choose to see “all” then I see everything that my instance has federated with. Which is fine… but it’s annoying having to manually block communities when I don’t agree with their instance’s moderation policy.

I’d much rather denylist an entire instance and never see them, even if my instance has federated with them.

There is mlem for IOS and Jerboa for Android.

I’ve been on Lemmy for years now (before it could even federate!), but never really used it because there was nobody really here (and at the time there weren’t any good Android apps - that’s changed with Jeroba though).

The biggest competitor I’ve seen appears to be Tildes. I actually got an invite link to Tildes and have been trying it out.

The main difference is that Tildes is focused on high-quality discussion, trying to replicate old-school Reddit - before it went mainstream. Tildes purposely doesn’t have memes or cat pictures, and comments are closer to paragraphs than anything else.

I think that’s valuable… but I also know one of the big things that attracted people to Reddit were the memes. Not having memes is going to cause a lot of people to not want to stick around.

Lemmy is a lot more loose, so those people will be right at home. The main complaint I’ve seen from Reddit is that a lot of people are turned off when they see Lemmygrad as one of the most active instances, and they’ve been associating Lemmy with hardcore tankies.

I’m an Android user, but /u/parentis_shotgun on Reddit mentioned mlem as the IOS app.

I’m using jerboa.