…to keep running as is.

creator of Apollo, a popular Reddit client for iOS, relays his talks with Reddit about upcoming ridiculous API pricing.

  • Chris Remington
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    1111 months ago

    Too bad Lemmy is still in very early stages…

    Lemmy is only one platform on the Fediverse which is enormous.

    • @jherazob@beehaw.org
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      911 months ago

      You’re technically correct, but go to any of the various “This is the Fediverse”, “Join Fediverse” and the like, and many, many times you won’t even see them acknowledge the existence of Lemmy, happened to me when i decided to jump in last month. Compare amounts of people, Mastodon instances can number in the thousands while the best you get here is dozens, maybe low hundreds. Lemmy is tiny, and it’s focus on communities isolates it further from the rest of the Fediverse, the federation doesn’t help in the slightest, open Lemmy and all you see is the same dozen posts for days, you don’t see on Lemmy posts from the rest of Fediverse because they just don’t apply. This is fine, lemme emphasize, but it’s early stages and it’s undeniable.

        • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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          411 months ago

          sure seems to integrate better with the rest of group platforms on the 'verse, including Friendica Forums, Gup.pe groups, and Lemmy Communities, in addition to their own version of subreddits, that they call magazines for some reason.

      • @morrowind@lemmy.ml
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        411 months ago

        Plus maybe it’s just me but when I open lemmy, I don’t want to see the rest of the fediverse. Lemmy serves a very different purpose from mastodon or plemora.

        It’s one thing I never understood about the fediverse. These platforms are separate on the normal web for a reason.

        • Ada
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          411 months ago

          @morrowind Yep. I really like the fact that even though the fediverse can interact with lemmy content, the default view within lemmy is still only groups content and not the whole fediverse

          @noodlejetski @jherazob @admin

    • @Neuromancer@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      the Fediverse which is enormous.

      Is it really? I mean, compared to reddit, how many users does the Fediverse have?

      • Chris Remington
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        211 months ago

        Personally, I don’t give a fuck about Reddit. Approximately, 3 million and climbing on the Fediverse. It’s not about quantity but quality.

        • @Neuromancer@lemmy.ml
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          211 months ago

          Actually more than I would have guessed. Still not “enormous” by any reasonable definition. I don’t think the Fediverse as a whole is ever going to leave the tiny niche if currently occupies without acknowledging said niche, and it really needs to get past the niche to replace reddit as the “front page(s) of the internet”.