The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

  • BReel@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    It’s obviously not Reddit numbers, but been a lot of posts about how much lemmy/etc have grown in the last week, largely due to the Reddit fallout.

    Clearly it’s not going to replace Reddit overnight, but it’s made large strides very suddenly, and can def close that gap over time. Especially for people like me who enjoyed Reddit, but were just browsers, not really power users

    • anlumo@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      People are signing up, but the number of posts and comments is still very low. In my subscription feed, there’s a new post every few hours and maybe 10 comments per hour. I’ve been on local message boards with more activity than that back in the 90s.

      • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        It sounds like you want a firehose. Most of us do not, from the comments I’ve seen here.

        But, hey … great thing about Lemmy is you get to find a server that suits your needs. If sheer volume is what you’re after, other instances are geared toward that.