OmniGlitcher

My logic behind joining lemmy.world was that defederation may be an issue, current or future, therefore it made sense to join the one that for one has the most people, and for two is the least likely to be defederated or randomly defederate others.

Granted, I believe beehaw did in fact defederate .world, and I think it was not long after, so maybe I did choose poorly.

I was tempted to join feddit.uk, but I wasn’t sure if that would put the unnecessary identifier of “This guy’s probably British!” on me everywhere I go.

“How about 10 tomorrow?” typically refers to the time, probably 10am in this case. However it can also be interpreted as “How about 10 coffees tomorrow?”.

My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It’s June 30th. There’s a certain irony behind all this somewhere.

I heard mention of it occasionally, but that was also years after the initial move from Digg, so I can’t comment on what it was like first hand during the initial move time.

However, I don’t think anyone viewed Reddit as a “spite site” for Digg, Reddit was around for years and was semi-popular before Digg committed suicide. It was simply the natural move.

Lemmy on the other hand has been around for a little bit, since 2019 as far as I can tell, but a rather minimal userbase.

Certainly if we get to the point where Lemmy (and its current userbase at minimum) sticks around for a few more years, it’ll likely largely move past the whole Reddit fiasco. But it also needs a large variety of non-reddit-related content to interest users, otherwise this site will likely die before it gets there.

Yeah, I’m so angry about it I’m ready to implode.

Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think Lemmy should be viewed as “spite sites”. If the entire focus of the community here is to point and laugh at Reddit’s failures, rather than actually provide an adequate site’s worth of unique content, people will quickly get tired of it and leave.

Of course, it’s the hot topic at the moment so it’s understandable, but I hope we’ll move away from it at some point.