Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs)
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months agoWhen the reddit API protests occurred, lemmy wasn’t really ready for the influx either. Historically, when a social network dies, it’s some combination of a protest and there being a pre-existing landing place that is ready to receive the influx. In the case of digg dying, that was reddit ready and waiting.
But lemmy had so many rough edges and was almost entirely unknown at the time of the reddit protest – bugs, missing features, no apps… For most reddit users, even with the 3rd party shutdown, moving to lemmy at the time was objectively worse.
You’re right though – the next time something happens, lemmy is now established, the apps exist, many of the bugs and missing features have been dealt with, etc.
Totally remember the lack of apps. Initially, I just had to use Lemmy through a mobile browser. Lots of devs were working hard to publish their apps, and after a few months we had lots of options. That was just amazing how quickly it happened.
BTW shout out to Bean, my favorite Lemmy client. It’s not perfect, so in some cases I still use Voyager to fill in the gaps, so bonus points for Voyager too.
lvxferre@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Another important detail is that Digg v4 pissed off most of the userbase, so the impact was pretty much immediate. Reddit APIcalypse pissed off only power users instead; the impact will only come off later (sadly likely past IPO).
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Well, there was also the DeCSS key censorship debacle…
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emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Could you explain what this was? I couldn’t find anything about it while searching.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/AACS_encryption_key_controvers…
Good overview. But it was a huge on-site protest, where a large percentage of all comments and posts contained the above string in some form.