Am I the only one a bit confused as to what Threads has to do with Lemmy, beyond them both using ActivityPub…? Like, these are completely different kinds of websites, Lemmy is a Reddit clone and Threads is a Twitter clone. What purpose would federation serve?
Seriously lol. These are social networks, what is the point of using this stuff at all if you don’t care about anybody being able to view your posts or interact with you
I won’t defend Meta but I don’t see the advantage of defederating when Threads activates ActivityPub.
By federating, we have access to all the people and content on Threads, removing a major barrier to entry for Mastodon/the fediverse for casual users. And because our accounts aren’t on Meta servers and we don’t need to install the Threads app, we aren’t subjected to the same level of privacy issues, at least not any more than what Meta would get by scraping our posts on the web in general.
It’s really amazing how much Lemmy has improved in just a few weeks. At this point I genuinely prefer it over old Reddit, the only exception being an option to change how comments are sorted by default
Same, and also an OG Reddit user. My Reddit use has probably went down at least 75% since Apollo stopped functioning. The official app UI is so bad that it’s not even worth me scrolling through all the ads or fighting the horrible layout to try and find the stuff I’m looking for.
I now only check the desktop site maybe once a day. And funnily enough most of my favorite subs have been dead since before July 1st anyway. I would love to see Reddits metrics because there’s no way they haven’t felt this dropoff, even if most of the TikTok crowd continues to consoom the big meme subreddits.
Many of the smaller to medium size subs have either been abandoned by their mods, set to restricted, or have just lost a lot of their most active users. There’s a very noticeable drop in engagement, for example posts that would’ve once gotten 1k or 2k upvotes within a few hours are now pushing like 600-800.
The quality of posts and especially comments has gone down the shitter, way more comments from trolls or low IQ types looking to pick a fight. It’s not like Reddit is dying per se but you can just tell something is missing. I think it’s a mixed effect of many mods getting removed or resigning + many 3PA users moving to Lemmy + Reddit’s dogshit mobile app messing with stuff because it uses some shitty algorithm instead of just letting users sort by Hot.
You also have to remember that the only good UI left on Reddit at this point is old reddit with RES, but even that isn’t the best for just casually browsing memes and video related subs. For me it’s basically a Digg 4.0 situation where there may be content I’d like to see but it just isn’t worth crawling through that shit pipe that is the official app.
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