Do people expect a fully functional Reddit clone with all the same features to conveniently exist somewhere they can hop to?
Yes.
EDIT: Ok, I should add something more. Sadly, yes. I've seen comments from people say pretty much that. "I went there and there's no content and the UI isn't great". hrumph. Of course there isn't and no one should expect there to be. Reddit didn't start with all that shit either, but Reddit exists now and it pleases a lot of people, despite the cracks forming all around them.
I've seen it talked about a few times across different platforms (Hackernews) where people have pondered the idea of cloning old posts, keeping the poster name but to a non-existent account. Acting as both a way to populate a community and archive content away from Reddit's control.
I haven't seen any examples of this done yet, not sure if anyone has.
Something I often find with mech ("It's mech-aaah") games is the scale of them. They often feel human or tiny. I think this is down to how nimble they can move. They feel much lighter than you'd expect for a 100+ ton metal machine. There's the obvious of pulling the camera in closer to give them more presence on screen, but I don't think that's the necessary solution.
I was going to ask for some recommendations on this vibe. I basically have this https://www.youtube.com/@Meisio channel's WOW OST playing on loop as I work. I like to mix it up a bit but often don't find the right vibe for music to work to as it's too distracting.
I think it's better for everyone if we can find a way where one entity can no longer own/control the contributions of a community and unpaid moderation.
What can Reddit possibly do now to ensure that it won't act in a way that's against the interests of the community? Reverse the API strategy? They already said this year that the API wasn't changing, then they changed it. If I was an app maker there's zero chance I'd trust anything they said now. It's done.
Lemmy has some momentum now with the rush of new users. This will hopefully start to create some quality content. When the next wave of protests come, maybe after the 30th, hopefully those that come to seek a new home will find these places filled more with the kind of content they expect, along with some UI improvements and stability that people are feverishly working on right now.
I started reading this a few years back and I was kind of enjoying it but found that I dropped it and never went back. I think there was something about the writing rather than the plot that wasn't holding me.
It's something I've been thinking about going back to but have always prioritized other books.
I'd be interested to hear from people that have read it to say it's worth it and pays off.
There's something to that. Hearing stories of subreddits reopen and ask the userbase what they want to do, well, who exactly are they asking? I'm not there, and I've seen plenty of posts from others who are also not there. Are they taking silence as votes against? I doubt it.
One way I'm looking at this opportunity is like email, anyone can set up an email server thanks to how it got established. So if this pans out and eventually we get funded hosts in the vein of Gmail and Hotmail, who spend money writing fancy UIs and on marketing, we still have a fundamental base where we can shuffle away from the big players and go set up our own servers.
I do hope to see some funded options come into this space, they can control/own their interface into the data, but they can't control/own the data.
I think people are seeing Reddit as their only solution right now due to the lack of awareness of this place. It's been a bit sad to see all the news articles written about the event but very few plugs for alternate options to visit.
Running the Memmy update today with dark mode and I had moments where my brain thought I was scrolling through Apollo. Gonna be very happy with the app if it continues down this route.
Nice, I’d totally forgotten about this game. I had this on the Spectrum. Seem to remember it came in a double height cassette box. Had a lot of fun playing it back in the day, though I think I was easier to please back then.
It’s odd that I never forgot owning and playing Powerdrift but now looking back I’m feeling like I played this more.
I'm not hugely familiar with SEO, but I seem to remember there could be a penalty applied to content that is duplicated as it's seen as spammy. I might be wrong on how this works though, and it could be based around only content pasted within a single domain.
I just wonder how search engines will deal with seeing the same content across a lot of instances in terms of ranking and noise.
Yes.
EDIT: Ok, I should add something more. Sadly, yes. I've seen comments from people say pretty much that. "I went there and there's no content and the UI isn't great". hrumph. Of course there isn't and no one should expect there to be. Reddit didn't start with all that shit either, but Reddit exists now and it pleases a lot of people, despite the cracks forming all around them.