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Cake day: August 18th, 2020
  • mishuritoReddit•I left Reddit after 3 years
    6·
    4 years ago

    I expect that eventually they’ll get rid of the original design since it’s a maintenance cost

    Good, just wait for lemmy’s federation support and then they’ll be signing their own gravestone 😆
    People have been itching to leave reddit since redesign now.

  • mishuritoReddit•I left Reddit after 3 years
    74·
    4 years ago

    I hate to break the circlejerk but Reddit is still better than Lemmy in many ways, often Lemmy is a disappointing step backwards. Reddit is:

    • Better UX and web-design. The content looks much nicer and more pleasant to read and follow.
    • JS free.
    • Great mobile support. I’m using Boost and it’s brilliant browsing experience.
    • Indexable, means you can use search engine to search reddit rather than rely and hope sites search is working.
    • Bigger communities, you can find subreddit for almost every niche.
    • Better media support.
    • Porn, reddit is brilliant for exploring pornographic fetishes and I hope there’s a pornographic lemmy instance in the future.
    • Weirdly enough Reddit feels more free sometimes.
    • Huge enhancement community ranging from greasemonkey scripts to whole addon suites (e.g. RES)

    The only negatives are:

    • Mainstream reddit propaganda and astroturfing, however if you avoid major subreddits and stick to niche forums as it was intended with the platform you’ll be fine.
    • Draconic administration that bans a bunch of perfectly fine subreddits, though this isntance of lemmy isn’t much better.
    • Hides down-voted comments and secret modlog (though there are 3rd party open modlogs out there).
    • 6 month archive kills a lot of long-term threads.
  • mishuritoIntersting web projects•reviving this community, appointing myself mod
    53·
    4 years ago

    wow, not sure why are you being down-voted. I too came here from a hacker news thread though honestly it seems every reddit clone is destined to shitty moderation. If nobody wants you on heavily centrist reddit then it’s highly likely you’re an extremist of some sort.

    On the bright side, at least low score comments aren’t hidden here and modlog is a brilliant idea though not a new one.

  • mishuritoGeneral Programming Discussion•Most loved programming languages
    2·
    4 years ago

    Forking a big project is really really hard. That’s main criticism of Bitcoin btw that the protocol is almost impossible to fork and it’s a very sensitive involved medium compared to something like typescript. For example if Microsoft would introduce unwanted minor feature even with community outrage forks would be very unlikely. Now add up many minor sneaky changes and suddenly you’re at the wheel!

  • mishuritoGeneral Programming Discussion•Most loved programming languages
    2·
    4 years ago

    Does typescript have any sort of foundation or is microsoft basically in full control of it?

    Weirdly enough Facebook’s open source project have good reputation. There was just a guy on lemmy who works at facebook but doesn’t use facebook itself at all and is a big open source contributor! :D
    Somehow facebook is scooping up great engineers and give them enough freedom to release a bunch of stuff as open source software, it feels weird to praise facebook like this.