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i hope they allow porn again
It’s far too late for that. Userbase moved on. Tumblr is dead forever
If tumblr is dead lemmy is fucking extinct we’ve got way less active users
They allow nudity, but still quite restrictive
Is “female-presenting nipples” still a thing? Because someone seriously writing that in their terms and conditions is the most hilarious and baffling thing ever.
They have to specify because most places ban those, but not man-boobs.
This is the intention, yes. It’s still ridiculous.
I’m just imagining moderation trying to evaluate a pic on the moob-to-boob scale before taking a decision.
This is why I never want to be a moderator, lol
Whatdya mean used to be. I remember the 4Chan wars.
There was also DIGG. There were several large aggregators, but they all made changes that lead to mass exoduses to reddit. Back in the day there were sites like SomethingAwful, EBaumsWorld that served up memes and entertainment before we had purpose-built aggregation tools. Eventually reddit will make way for something else (and already has to some degree with its shedding of users to Lemmy).
Lemmy is a drop in the bucket compared to Reddit by any metric you want to use. It’s not even close.
But yeah, eventually Reddit will be replaced. Facebook is going through that transition now, and we’ll see how well they can retain users with Threads and Instagram.
I never made a claim that Lemmy was even remotely comparable to reddit in size. Just stating that reddit users fled to here, when reddit made staggering changes affecting many.
Eventually reddit will make way for something else (and already has to some degree with its shedding of users to Lemmy).
It’s a blip, a pretty insignificant one at that.
It’ll probably eventually happen, but I doubt Lemmy will be a significant part of it. But who knows, maybe I’m wrong.
for the past 4 years reddit (and most other community activities across the web) has already bled to fb groups. any google result of reddit content are on average 4-7 years old now, marking the date of when things began to change. the blackout was the beginning of the end though and there is no way they will recover now that the api is for all intents and purposes in permanent lockdown.
I don’t use Google, but I get plenty of DDG results in the past year, and I’ve been exclusively on Lemmy since before the API change. The older posts have a lot of deletions, but the newer posts are generally pretty free of them, and it seems to be business as usual. Reddit is locking down their site for search, but they’ll probably do for others what they did for Google and license it out for either AI or traditional search.
So from what I can see, Reddit weathered the “exodus.” In fact, since their IPO, the stock has approximately tripled.
If something takes down Reddit, it’s not going to be a community solution like Lemmy, it’ll be another for-profit corporate entity. Look at the Twitter/X “exodus,” they seem to be flocking to Blue Sky and Threads, not Mastodon. There’s a good chance that whatever comes next will be worse in all the ways that we came to Lemmy to avoid.
If one of these archive sites would not have the captcha loop that would be amazing.
Used to be slashdot. Some people say it still is.
