Reddit has done this before when it really wants to, there is past precedent, but usually it’s been along with the communities wishes.

From what I saw the lower mod probably contacted the admins to make this happen by claiming that the inactive head mod went against the wishes of the community.

It’s happened before to other subs like /r/wow but back then it was a positive move to circumvent a man child making the sub private over an expansion release that didn’t go so well because he couldn’t log in and play the game. A lesser mod was made head and the original head striped of his position and all was made right again.

In this case it appears that the community overwhelmingly supported the blackout and move to go private instead. The mod that took over was the only loud voice against the blackout.

Biggie knew. Treat everything like it’s your first day because nothing is guaranteed.

It is perplexing that if Reddits goal was to make money from AI that it didn’t also reach out to the popular third party apps and come up with a deal to keep them operational instead of the current situation.

Talking about hardware is such a nightmare on Reddit these days that I completely avoid it. There’s a never ending crowd of people/astroterfers/fanbois posting confidently about shit they have no clue about and are often completely wrong. Their arguments usually boil down to their feels and not objective facts at all.

Apart from the couple of occasional subject matter experts that you see pop up occasionally the tech subs are a write-off now.

Domain names are cheap, like $25/year.

I initially felt the same way after a day or so of use, however once I got the app and figured out the clunkyness and rough edges it’s really grown on me.

You’re definitely right about discoverability but you’re probably comparing this to Reddit that’s had like 15 years to mature and sort it all out. Lemmy is made by like 2 developers for free and it’s pretty impressive already what they’ve achieved.

I think if you give it more time and lower your expectations a little you’ll appreciate it more. And you don’t have to leave Reddit or whatever either, you can just use both and see what happens too.

Is it just me or is there no content really on these yet even if you look at the website directly?

What does this mean?

Is Lemmy made by them?