Guardian article on the reddit drama: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/17/there-is-no-moral-high-ground-for-reddit-as-it-seeks-to-capitalise-on-user-data?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Article that talks about how previous social media companies have died:

https://www.faceted.social/p/3169aedd-3f06-4db4-b51c-ed4690e9f5a6

I’m not sure how to make a link to communities so that it works for everyone sorry. But yeah the ! Does indicate a community usually

r/piracy with a message to use lemmy:

[email protected]

The rust subreddit is apparently considering moving to Lemmy:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1205713

r/programming is private even though I think a lot of the mods were reddit employees, I think even u/spez. what is going on lol

I am on both and kbin seems less active.

Perhaps the numbers are counted different?

lemmy might be counting people who have posted this month and kbin might be counting anyone who has visited the site.

Big respect to all the devs for handling this growth so well.

There was talk of someone populating a Lemmy instance with reddit data.

There is a lot of reddit data on a torrent somewhere aparrently.

Lemmy go brrrrr

ahhh thank you!

@[email protected] is the creator I believe.

not sure if that is the right way to @ some so here is their profile:https://feddit.de/u/derivator)

Review from the verge

Review from the Guardian

Review from techradar

Engadget

I don’t really think Lemmy.ml will have very good retention of new users. Because:

1. New users will mostly come from reddit or mastodon.
2. Most users of reddit and mastodon willing to leave are anti corporate, anti authoritarian, anti-war, pro human rights.
3. A lot of posts that you see on Lemmy (either from Lemmy.ml or lemmygrad) are pro-russia, pro china or anti-western to the point of being really annoying. Its not fun to talk to people without a hint of nuance.

So it is not surprising that new users will get turned off by this and leave (or move to beehaw).

They have decided not to contest’ this territory, it’s very simple 😂