And yet Apollo was made by one guy and it’s far better than anything Reddit made

I think Lemmy could use some more ads. I feel like I don't have enough material things, and I don't know what to buy. /s

the interface is just so clean. it feels like early internet and I love it.

I might be pretty ignorant here but what is so proprietary about Twitter/Threads? It just lets people make public status updates and share photos. Unless they literally used the same lines of code, how is it infringement and trade secrets?

I think he would be more interested in covering the Reddit story - he is the internet historian after all.

I created one of the "big subs" on Reddit, and have felt particularly frustrated that whether I protest or don't, I will still get angry messages from both mods and users either way. Which makes the whole "you're not even paid for this" hit much harder. But here I am on Lemmy with a username different than my Reddit account breathing fresh internet air where no anonymous strangers yell at me

That's sort of what I feel like this is - or at least that's what I've felt from browsing Lemmy. No ads and no ragebait/doomscrolling. There's nothing requiring that I stay engaged - in a way it's almost respectful of my interests and time.

Careful - feed it once and he will keep coming back.

How does one know when their instance is updated?

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but Reddit did send the creator of /r/jailbait a golden trophy for his contributions to the website. Here is an interview about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8xuYRPnWM&t=458s

PCs are brilliant! But I like console

I agree - what would you say those pitfalls are? Of course the decentralizing nature takes care of some problems - but the main thing that made me feel awful browsing reddit was the constant argumentative nature of every discussion. When I first discovered web forums 20 years ago it was the magical aspect of it that had me engaged. It was actually cool to be able to chat with other people online about anything - and that itself put everyone in a good mood; after all, why waste your time being really negative if you're doing something cool and interesting? Now, it's very common place. Added with people being more comfortable that they can remain anonymous, huge sites like Reddit are prone to a lot of....crap. That's what I can think of so far.

If you make an account on one instance, you can read and write on the others!

I agree, I'm the same way.

When you say there is a new version of Lemmy being distributed, does that mean servers update or something individually? Sorry I am new here.

Maybe they realized that Apple's is so much more premium that whoever would buy the Quest Pro would instead by the Apple Headset.

I think part of what makes communities special is that you can reply to OP - especially hyrule engineering where iterations of designs go back and forth

Skyward Sword HD! The visuals and dungeons are so fun. Also, it turns out it's the only Zelda game that's HD and 60FPS. I hadn't realized this before. I really hope they remake other Zeldas.

I mean when you chew your potatoes, they get mashed. So all I'm saying is that when you eat potatoes vs eat mashed potatoes, your stomach doesn't really know the difference now does it

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