Filters. I use Voyager and I have filters blocking pilotical crap. It works quite nicely.

Your personal experience does not define the platform. Yes, the fediverse got an influx of new users right after the Reddit API change. So you observed the similarities and concluded that this was designed as a replacement. That is just not the case. It got your attention because of that incident, but it had been its own thing for a quite a while already. The design is merely a sensible approach to the framework. You will find the same on many other social platforms because it’s a good design. Also, all these things are just front-ends to databases and often the designer will tailor that based on what they know is already popular.

But for Lemmy there are numerous front-end apps already that are not all the same. They’re designed slightly different from one-another, but mostly follow the same basic structure because - once again - it works well for the platform.

I’m not disagreeing with you that there’s a lot of similarity, I’m just saying there’s nothing about Lemmy that is intended as a reddit replacement. It merely serves that purpose fairly well. But there’s a lot of difference too, because it is not a replacement by intent.

Yes an alternative. One of a few but arguably the one with the most potential. It’s just you seemed to imply it was an intended replacement, that’s all. No sweat.

No it’s not a replacement fabricated for that purpose. It looks similar because the structure is a sensible one that makes sense for its design. It has no relationship to Reddit other than the fact that it’s a good alternative.

Yeah I know. Was just pointing it out. No big deal.

In my experience with new hardware, it’s always been Ubuntu that works it perfectly where everyone else is like “what’s that? I don’t know that hardware”

A while back I got a new laptop and the audio hardware would only work with Ubuntu which is fine because that’s what I was already using on the previous hardware. Ubuntu with KDE is a very solid setup.

I’m curious why are people going to bluesky and not mastodon? Is bluesky corporate? Do they just market more?

Yeah, methinks this will be one of those alerts pretty much everyone will be like “yeah, yeah, I know” and click to silence those notifications.

Don’t know if you’re joking but this is not supposed to be a clone of reddit. I’m not bothered really I was just being nitpicky. I mean, of it’s all the same, may as well use the right word.

They’re called communities on Lemmy, not subs. And if there isn’t one yet, feel free to make one! This platform is young still, and needs people to start filling the void.

This stuff is truly fascinating as well as mystifying.

Yeah basically what I meant.

Yyyyeeeah, all ideally. Things don’t always go ideally. Something will always happen. That’s the truth no matter what, and I’d think it’s best to eliminate externals as much as possible. That’s my position. No actual right or wrong here.

ROFL thanks for this; gave me a good laugh 😀😃😄😃😁🤪

Hubnob?

So it’s the default. Big deal. You can change that when you start the app first time. If that gets them funding that’s not a horrible price to pay. Also, that’s not money getting influence exactly, that’s a transaction. “We will pay $x to get this status.” Not the same at all as “I donated lots of money therefore I get to say how you develop the software.”

Honestly I’ve been saying for some time that Mozilla’s resources would be much better spent making Firefox a soft fork of Chromium

No no nonononono. The moment you do that you become at the mercy if whatever they choose to do, including changes that will sabotage you. There are examples out there such as Novell, who should have made a Linux-based client OS for the Netware architecture. For the longest time prior to a brief period where they had their server GUI (sloppy, inefficient and barely completed as it was) that you literally could not do any GUI-based configurations without a Windows client. How is that not begging for the competition to screw you every chance they get?

Firefox stands on its own and that’s how it needs to be.

Everyone seems to have missed or ignored the pun. 😄 I liked it.

That’s exactly the worst way to prioritize. Money should not be influence. That always works out worse in every example in the history of everything.

What part of “untouchable” do some people still just not comprehend?