Gotcha. That sounds like a good solution.

I’ve never moved, but I assume you just create a new account and start over. Or is there more you can do?

The difference is the way it is run. You got it. And if one day Midwest.social starts doing things you hate and treating it’s users like crap, then come on over to lemmy.world or lemmy.ca, or one if the other thousands instances.

People hosting the database are not the owners of the platform unlike Reddit. They get to tell us how we can use it just because they host the database.

It’s happening. I mentioned in another thread that there’s a good severance community that helps me feel like I don’t need Reddit for a show for the first time.

Well, those things you love about Reddit have only been getting better on Lemmy as time goes on.

I think major Reddit news is absolutely relevant to the Lemmy community. If nothing else, it is a good reminder of what we want from our communities and why we are here and not there. In addition, it may lead to a surge in active users.

The Reddit ecosystem relies on engaged users to downvote bad content and report potentially violative content.

I love how they refer to their corporate profit method as the “Reddit Ecosystem”

They make it sound like this is the universally owned and managed ecosystem that we all are responsible for maintaining and we all equally benefit from. The corporate overlords decide what they want the ecosystems to be, the rules, the content, the algorithm… All to benefit their stock prices and bonuses.

But all of a sudden it’s the community’s responsibility for maintaining THEIR rules for THEIR profit? How about fuck you Reddit.

I know this doesn’t affect me as I am plenty happy being on Lemmy, but the audacity still pisses me off.

Saying it runs poorly is a huge reach. Lemmy runs great and gives me 75% of what I wanted from Reddit.

If they’re coming from Reddit, they probably expect a little negging.

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I use Instagram only for recipes. I hope to someday be able to replace that entirely.

I actually wish this were true. Sure, they would show the snippet for the time we care about, but they MUST provide the source graph that contains all data back to the Big Bang. Specifically the Plank Era, we don’t want a graph where time doesn’t exist, that would make the graph useless.

Swapping Twitter for New Twitter.

Right. Just make great lemmy content and screenshot it. Then when people ask for the source you provide the lemmy link

You can upvote as many times as you downvote.

Yeah, true. I still jump to Reddit to view tv show discussions, just won’t log in or comment anymore.

The only thing Lemmy doesn’t have that Reddit does have is the immense history of quality content. This will only get better in time.

I don’t disagree. I’m just saying that so long as you’re putting content on this platform, you are powerless to stop any service from using the features of the platform in whatever way they want.

It was built for easy and open consumption of user content by other services.

Correction: it is built to make consuming users’s data not easy, but more human.

What does that even mean?

WHat you are thinking of is AP, not “Fediverse”, and even then that’s a stretch.

Honestly, I think Fediverse is inseparable from AP (or some similar protocol). You can split hairs if you want, but the thing that makes it different from all other social media services is that it allows the content created by users on one service to be imported into a different service.

You can hope and dream that it is only services like Lemmy consuming user content from services like Mastadon, but this same protocol makes it easy for services like ChatGPT to consume the same data.

I would rather my content be open to the world for however it wants to use it than owned by a single company that gets to profit off aggregating and selling it.