Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Lemmy should be viewed as "spite sites". If the entire focus of the community here is to point and laugh at Reddit's failures, rather than actually provide an adequate site's worth of unique content, people will quickly get tired of it and leave.

Of course, it's the hot topic at the moment so it's understandable, but I hope we'll move away from it at some point.

Agreed, I am incredibly confused by what seems to be the majority reaction to this.

I've never been particularly involved with the FOSS community, though I do use a few FOSS apps and generally appreciate their view on what FOSS means. I also strongly appreciate data privacy, and it was my observation that the FOSS community was (generally) relatively the same way. So to see this reaction is very surprising. It's quite literally the same terrible argument of "Why fear it if you have nothing to hide" used against multiple data privacy concerns throughout the years.

I think the worst are the bad faith "But Reddit...!" arguments. For one, we're not on Reddit anymore, this is about Lemmy's issues that can be corrected. And for two, whilst Reddit potentially outsourcing that data to the highest bidder is far from ideal, at the very least the data wasn't outright PUBLIC to anyone who wishes to set up a simple server.

I agree. I personally found the system was far too addictive, in the Cookie Clicker kind of way of "bigger number = happy". I sometimes find myself missing it almost, only to remember that it's worthless.

It also means I can more freely share my actual opinions, without that reflecting on some sort of global score if people generally dislike said opinion.

Not sure where to ask this, so I'll ask here. Linking to pirate sites (not content) is okay here as I understand it. However my account is with Lemmy.world, which in its "rules" specifically states "Protect our community from harassment, malicious or illegal content". Would I technically be at the whim of Lemmy.world by linking to pirate sites, or do I have some leeway here?

My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It's June 30th. There's a certain irony behind all this somewhere.

Not that guy, but last year they got acquired by Branch, an analytics company. Android Police article about it here. The same company also acquired Sesame of Sesame Universal Search.

To clarify, I'm unaware if they've done anything suspicious since the acquistion, but potentially giving an analytics company launcher level access raised eyebrows for more than a few people, myself included.

I also think there's an element of time spent with Reddit. For some of us who've been with the site for over a decade, this is the last straw with Reddit. For many others, its their first incident.

I agree with what you're saying, but that's not the point of this post. This post is about the fact that an individual user's vote history is semi-public.

i.e. if you were to upvote my comment, anyone who owns an instance would be able to see it was you who upvoted it. Likewise for if you downvote it.

Whilst I'm sure there are those who don't care, I'd personally rather not have any rando who can be bothered to set up a Lemmy instance know what I've voted on. I'd honestly rather just not vote.

Honestly PrequelMemes is the largest subreddit I'd likely miss the most from Reddit. That and lotrmemes. It's good to see it's found a home here already!

It's not. This community so far has a single mod, @vatlark.

To quote him from here:

I created this community because it was my favorite on Reddit and I couldn’t find one on Lemmy.

He is apparently holding a vote for new mods.

There was a patent filed back in the Wii U days (September 2015) which also described a scroll wheel trigger. Looking back at it now, it seems very Switch-like, though people back then probably would have assumed it was a Wii U Gamepad 2. Maybe it was an old prototype for the Switch that they've converted into a Switch 2?

Here's the patent, and here's the linked PDF with some images.

I think the issue with the Wii U was a combination of marketing issues and the name issue. To look at the Wii U's box, unless you're actually aware it's a new console, one may naively assume that the Wii U is actually just the gamepad, and a peripheral to the actual Wii. Like you have the Wiimote, Wiipad sounds a bit off, yeah Wii U sounds fine.

If they keep the Switch name, they need a strong indicator it's a sequel console, rather than something similar. "Switch 2" is the most obvious choice there, but not very in tune with their naming aesthetics. "New Switch" seems more Nintendo-esque but I'm not sure they'd go for it.

I think it would be wise to avoid the Switch name, but also emphasise that it's backwards compatible with the Switch in the marketing. It also depends on what gimmick they give the console, if it has the same gimmick as the Switch, calling it something like the Nintendo Swap might work? Maybe not the best, but neither was "Wii U".

I'm uncertain.

I won't be returning to Reddit, but I'm not sure about staying here either currently.

A fair portion of the communities I followed on Reddit were rather niche, so it might be a bit before similar communities pop up here. I'm also not completely sold on the fediverse concept, and there's a strong focus on Reddit hate here rather than actual new content.

On the other hand, I think it has a lot of promise, and the 3rd party app I used for Reddit is also coming here, so I think it has a lot of potential. I just hope Lemmy comes into its own eventually.

Last year they got acquired by Branch, an analytics company. Android Police article about it here.

It's what I dislike the most about the fediverse concept. It's nice in principle, but it's all far too fragmented, which not only makes it a lot easier to target specific servers, it also introduces the concern that is defederation.

The open source part is great, but the federation part will take a long time yet to convince me, if it ever does.

Ah yes, because the practical option is to be constantly switching accounts and instances based on what you want to look at for 5 minutes each.

"How about 10 tomorrow?" typically refers to the time, probably 10am in this case. However it can also be interpreted as "How about 10 coffees tomorrow?".

Yeah, I'm so angry about it I'm ready to implode.

I mean, the same was true with Reddit. The only difference here is that communities can have the exact same name so long as they're on a different instance.

Is this really a surprise to anyone? Github isn't exactly a piracy friendly site.