How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

        • creamatine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Just started lemmy and Memmy today. It’s been a great experience so far. The learning curve isn’t nearly as large as has been reported

          • macarthur_park@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            A big part of that smooth experience is all the progress that’s been made in the past month, on both Lemmy and Memmy.

            The Memmy app only started out as a beta in TestFlight ~4 weeks ago, and was limited to 10k users. The developer has made a truly inhuman amount of progress in that time - he was (and still is) pushing updates more than once a day. It’s only been in the regular App Store for a few days now.

            Additionally, the largest Lemmy instance (lemmy.world) was having stability issues with the massive influx of users. But just a few days ago they figured out what was causing the problems, and the latest version of Lemmy has those fixes.

            • creamatine@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              1 year ago

              Wow, when you put it like that, it really highlights how much work got put into this because the experience, especially for a brand new app, is very reminiscent of Apollo. They’ve done a great job so far. Obviously not near where Apollo was, but that was over 9 years of development. Memmy looking gray so far

    • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I have been using liftoff also but it is very difficult to find new communities not on your instance or on lemmy.world through the app I couldn’t figure it out at first glance so I add them through a web browser and then can access them on the app

      • Aviandelight @mander.xyzEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been adding and blocking communities through the browser since I joined. None of the apps currently seem to be able to add or block communities from other instances flawlessly just yet. I am enjoying watching this whole work in progress that is Lemmy though.

        • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah it does seem the apps are currently limited in that regard, hopefully development pace will continue and we’ll be up to a point where we can do that in the next few weeks.

          Once the apps are in a good state we can see how viable this will be long term.

      • jandar_fett@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s what I am having to do too and thought I was just missing something, but that makes sense since everything is in flux and that might not be the greatest priority since the exodus is ongoing and stability/keeping up with updates is way more important.

    • Kom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have stuff all idea how half of this works and how I’m doing it, I saw a post recommending liftoff and it’s been easy enough to blunder through. I’ve tried using the mobile web interface for Reddit and it’s like pulling teeth.