Solution: blahaj in each hand

It’s so wonderful that Reddit, by making a decision that benefits no user/mod/sub, and actively harms users/mods/subs, all in the name of corporate greed, gave Lemmy the boost it needed to become a viable alternative to Reddit.

Thank you, Spez. We couldn’t have done this without you.

Yep! the period of time between when reddit bought alien blue and just paid the developers to keep working on it, and shutting down that app and making an official app, is the closest thing there is to a second party app.

There will probably eventually be some commercial Lemmy sites. I honestly think it would be awesome if large game studios, and software companies, and anyone else who has need for a forum, made their own federated Lemmy instances as their official support forums.

Not everyone puts being beautiful and attractive to others above their own desires and needs.

Reddit sent me an email promoting a post on Reddit on a SubReddit about alternatives to Reddit complaining about how much the Reddit mobile app sucks.

all the little things where you look back at your life and in retrospect it’s like “how didn’t i figure this out sooner?”

There are some forms of commercialization i would be super down for, specifically: any large game studio, publisher, software company, or any other company that has support forums and communities, could make a Lemmy instance for their official support forums (they could even reasonably hide the “all” view from their own web ui, but stay federated so people on other lemmys can still post there)

lemmy itself is clearly trying to tell the user “hey, at least i’m not written in java”

because we can