I just saw this post over on r/modcoord which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I’m being honest I haven’t seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus.

Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it’s going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I’m trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It’s absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course…

  •  アルケミー船長   ( @CaptainAlchemy@lemmy.one ) English
    6•1 year ago

    #1 Same with a lot of new social media, discord actually meant something different before 2015

    #2 They don’t need to at a technical level

    #3 If you find it challenging to decide which server to join then I really don’t know what to tell you. Its a small barrier to entry and objectively a good thing. An small IQ test of sorts.

    #4 I’d imagine this is for spam / bot protection, and it may change in the future. I kinda like it, it keeps a lot of toxic users / trolls out. Sure the community is smaller but its more inviting for those that took the time.

    #5 How is that different from reddit? View r/all at anytime and it was composed of left wing articles and users.

    #6 Not 100% sure what your arguing here

    #7 I actually find the idea of similar communities on different instances confusing (eg. !memes@lemmy.ml & !memes@beehaw)

    edit: spelling

    edit 2: it may be a little confusing to users that all servers can talk to eachother through federation so thats probably what confuses people. This could be explained better on the join-lemmy webpage. either way this will probably be similar to mastadon in terms of how it’ll go down, lots of users join, instances have a hard time keeping up at first, then they stabilize.

    •  Melody Fwygon   ( @Melody@lemmy.one ) English
      13•1 year ago

      Personally I think the requirement to explain why you want to join a lemmy instance is 100% brilliant. If you can answer coherently you’re clearly not a robot, and probably don’t intend to spam.

      The text field itself doesn’t require any minimum or maximum character counts so there’s no pressure to be wordy. In fact I think those who read that information appreciates when you can achieve some brevity but still communicate clearly in your own words why you’re signing up.

      Additionally different instances have different priorities and needs; so I suspect they can ask for even more information or writing samples if needed; or ask for as little as possible to discourage users from being too crazy.