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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.

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[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy would be soaring too if it weren't for terrible database code allowing for easy ddos.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Try using a smaller instance. I recently switched from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip and it's lightning fast. While you still get all the content from lemmy.world :)

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I find it interesting how many people are looking for the overall lemmy experience. The first thing I did was find the community niche that interested me and the relevant instance, then when I've exhausted that instance I switch to the Everything tab and all find the generic content.

Edit: I accidentally wrote fine the community niece...

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How did you like the community niece?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They fined her, so they obviously thought she did something wrong.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

Man, this is what I get for being illiterate.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I said after my first community niece too.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find it interesting how many people are looking for the overall lemmy experience

I'm one of them. I use Sync so the whole caboodle feels like just one site to me, whether it's the Everything feed or my subscribed.

(I am not a techy person)

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also use sync, although I bought the lifetime ad-free version for Reddit years ago for like $5 and now it's $100 which I can't afford here which is a shame. Still, it's my favourite app and I'm very familiar with it.

[–] bug@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A hundred dollarydoos for an app to view a free website!?

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the reddit pricing swapped over exactly, I'm not outright against an independent app creator having a paid option, because it's a very high quality app that deserves support, but I do feel it's soo steep. There are also subscription options but I never take those, and the ads are reasonably unobtrusive.

[–] bug@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the developer has no underlying API cost to justify it and is pocketing it all? Obviously they can charge what they want and people can spend their money however they like, but this seems like an absolute con!

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

The developer is definitely pocketing it all, however they were very active on Reddit in maintaining and improving the app with the most quality of life options I've seen across any app. Honestly if the paid option was $10, I'd go for it, since I get hundreds of hours of use out of it. Also back in the reddit days, you could find the paid version for free online pretty easily.

[–] Tygr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think I’m up to 5 lemmy instances now. Various reasons that others will figure out as they gain experience.

[–] tlit341569 3 points 1 year ago

switched from LW to discuss online

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

At least it's open for collaboration so people who can or help contribute to fix bugs for them are able to do so. That's the beauty of open source, anyone can help out.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully they can fix that issue and the communist communities stop having hissy fits.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they're prob ddosing themselves for failing the purity tests.

[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I had one tell me “you know nothing about communism, stop talking,” and I was like, oh, that’s right, I know nothing despite being well informed about the history of workers movements going back to the 1840s, Das Kapital, the Manifesto, and despite these noble ideals, the fact that every single communist government relied on purges to accomplish its goals, formed an exclusionary ruling class, and were corrupt as fuck. Fucking teenagers and their black and white thinking.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

But you see, that wasn't real Communism. Communism is a great and perfect egalitarian society by definition, so when it inevitably devolves into just another brand of stratification and oppression then it's not Communism anymore. Next time it'll work, though. We'll still follow exactly the same formula that's failed spectacularly every time it's been tried, but this time it'll work. For reasons. And if you say otherwise you're just a status-quo liberal (never mind the fact that those supposed status-quo liberals are the ones implementing real tangible change that actually affect peoples' lives while all the Communists do is endlessly wank about some glorious revolution that'll happen some time in the nebulous future.)

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

When people say stuff like that it's not about politics, it's straight up about gatekeeping.