• Psyc@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Hopefully we’ll get some juicy leaks about the internal discussions on API changes from some employees on the way out

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    1 year ago

    From the threads on this over there the comment is that this has already been going on for a bit. They’re definitely preparing for the IPO in the usual ways, the site is being strip-mined and everything good about it is going to end.

    I am a bit worried about Lemmy, Reddit has millions of users while Lemmy currently only has less than a a few thousand across all servers (edited, looks like I was severely off) . I hope even a fraction of the fleeing users decide to set up servers, because if most of them are just normal users the network won’t be able to handle that traffic.

    I am also worried about Internet search, up to now the trick to getting decent search results with minimum SEO garbage was to add “reddit” to the query to find threads about what you’re looking for, if Reddit falls there won’t be a good substitute and at this point i dunno if there’s enough incentives for anyone to build a decent replacement.

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      Search is also something I was thinking about the other day. It’s fine that Lemmy replaces, in part, some of the core functions of Reddit. But each Lemmy instance has it’s own url. People won’t be able to add site:lemmy.ml or site:beehaw.org to their search since they don’t know the full list of instances and which one would have the content that they’re searching for.

      Time will tell how this issue will be resolved if at all.

    • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
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      1 year ago

      I’ll apologize. I don’t have the gear needed to set up a server. I’m just gonna be a whore (⁠☉⁠。⁠☉⁠)⁠!