Boost is still up at the moment but Boost for Lemmy is already up for pre-registration, so I don’t think it’s a hard cutoff or anything.
Boost is still up at the moment but Boost for Lemmy is already up for pre-registration, so I don’t think it’s a hard cutoff or anything.
Votes are public here, as are moderator actions, so we can actually see everything going on, including empty accounts only used to bot upvote stuff. In addition, not every platform works the same way. Some have upvotes and downvotes, some only have upvotes, some are wonky like kbin where upvotes don’t count toward reputation but boosts do, etc. An upvote isn’t just an upvote like it is on reddit. They also can’t “enshittify” something that users can self-host their own instances of to interact.
Edit: Also, we’re in the early stages right now, reddit has a decade lead.
I wouldn’t be so hopeful, Twitch has pretty much remained unbeaten and the only “ad block” solution I’ve found still gives a 30 second interruption of the stream, it just doesn’t show the ad anymore. It’s why I don’t use the site anymore, even with Twitch Turbo as an option these days.
Perhaps block the “RedditMigration” magazine if you’re not interested in seeing it. It’s not like this place was founded out of politeness.
That’s what I’m hoping for. I don’t want a bunch of accounts depending on what device I’m using, I want to have one account on a platform that I like and have good interfaces for using it.
That’s why I left reddit, they removed my ability to do that by killing Boost.
Honestly, what’s really important to me is that my top stuff was deleted, rather than all the other horseshit I posted day to day on reddit. As much as possible would be good, but what I really want is to leave behind holes in major discussions, turning the place into Emmentaler. Thankfully, this is my third account wipe so I’m not that worried.
Edit: Plus I haven’t actually deleted my account yet and continually run a delete script every time I see comments come back. Hell, I cleared it out early today manually at work while I had free time.
I didn’t even think, I just used the same as my reddit one.
Which is fine, I have 99 on everything else, being just gk would be weird.
I don’t wanna be mean to the guy who effectively just lost his job but like, come on bro. Reddit wasn’t exactly hiding their negative intentions, outright lies, and lack of respect.