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   Christian Selig (christianselig@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 02:39:16 JST Christian Selig

   Got off my call with Reddit just now about the API. Bad news unless I come up with 20 million dollars (not joking). Appreciate boosts. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

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     Gracjan Nowak (gracjan@ieji.de)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 04:52:59 JST Gracjan Nowak

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     • Charlie Fish

     @fishcharlie @christianselig There’s a #Reddit alternative that’s a part of the #Fediverse (just how Mastodon is). It’s called #Lemmy. Maybe people can move to that. 🤔 https://join-lemmy.org

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     Charlie Fish (fishcharlie@mstdn-social.com)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 04:53:00 JST Charlie Fish

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     @christianselig Just another reason to push for decentralized social services.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 05:42:00 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • sj_zero
     • James Dreben :mw:
     • maegul
     • Alex
     Are there any that aren’t full of antifa troons?
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 05:42:05 JST sj_zero

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     • James Dreben :mw:
     • maegul
     • Alex
     Besides lemmy, there's also lotide which has a number of instances.
     
     I recently discovered that I can follow friendica groups using lotide, so I suspect you can also follow the same using lemmy too.
     
     Diversity is important in this space(and I'm referring to diversity of topics, diversity of ideology, all kinds of people interested in being in different ways), and imo there isn't enough of it. Some people want all kinds of different communities and so we really need more people in that corner of the fediverse to get a critical mass where all kinds of people can enjoy all kinds of communities.
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     Alex (alexture@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 05:42:14 JST Alex

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     • maegul

     @maegul @Jdreben @christianselig I'm a beehaw.org fan myself :) and yes we need more instances and more non-lemmy.ml users

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     maegul (maegul@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 05:42:15 JST maegul

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     • James Dreben :mw:

     @Jdreben @christianselig all I know is that lemmy happily has a hard separation between its backend and frontend, including having a semi official alternative frontend that is more like a forum. So I’m betting it’s more than possible.

     There probably need to be note Kenny instances put up. The sort of flagship has a particular vibe that isn’t for everyone and takes a while to get an account on. Some diversity could go a long way in this moment.

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     James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 05:42:16 JST James Dreben :mw:

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     @christianselig #Apollo is the only way I use #Reddit. Can Apollo be rebuilt for #Lemmy? Would love to see an alternative to Reddit we can move to. I haven’t used Lemmy enough so far to comment.

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     JackFromWisconsin (jackfromwisconsin@wikis.world)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 07:03:31 JST JackFromWisconsin

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     • Alex

     @alexture I can vouch for them. They have a solid admin crew and an active user base. They aren't extremist on any political side. They just run the Lemmy software.

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     Alex (alexture@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 07:03:32 JST Alex

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     • Charlie Fish
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     • Slushee

     @chocolatefossty @gracjan @fishcharlie @christianselig @LemmyDev beehaw.org is really nice

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     Slushee (chocolatefossty@im-in.space)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 07:03:39 JST Slushee

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     • Lemmy
     • Charlie Fish
     • Gracjan Nowak

     @gracjan @fishcharlie @christianselig @LemmyDev nah, Lemmy is run by Nazis so never using it

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     Erlend (havn@writing.exchange)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 00:29:47 JST Erlend

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     • Fu
     • Charlie Fish
     • Gracjan Nowak

     @fuat2mb @gracjan @fishcharlie @christianselig @realcaseyrollins Now I've heard the people behind Lemmy are both nazis and marxists... What is it? 🙃

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     Robert Petersen :startrek: (sonikku@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:10 JST Robert Petersen :startrek:

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     @christianselig We’ll make our own Reddit…?

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     Robert Petersen :startrek: (sonikku@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:11 JST Robert Petersen :startrek:

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     But yes that is absolutely absurd.

     Were they really expecting any of the third party clients to be able to afford this?

     Or was this just a convenient backdoor to killing off said apps under the guise of “well we offered them a way forward but for $ome reason they declined”.

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     smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:14 JST smellsofbikes

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     • Charlie Fish
     • Gracjan Nowak

     @gracjan @fishcharlie @christianselig Also one called kbin.social fwiw.

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     Reuben Walker (mobileatom@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:19 JST Reuben Walker

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     • Charlie Fish
     • Gracjan Nowak

     @gracjan @fishcharlie @christianselig There is also kbin -> https://kbin.pub/en

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     Nelson (skyfaller@jawns.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:32 JST Nelson

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     @christianselig Time to copy Tapbots -> Ivory and invest in the Fediverse Reddit alternatives!

     Lemmy is the most mature: https://join-lemmy.org/

     But there is also kbin: https://kbin.pub/en

     And brutalinks: https://brutalinks.tech/

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     James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:45 JST James Dreben :mw:

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     • Alex

     @alexture This looks very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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     James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:47 JST James Dreben :mw:

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     • maegul

     @maegul @christianselig Reddit has been a valuable resource historically imo but it’s that way because of the user contributed content not the platform itself.

     This is why it sucks these resources are centralized. If we all use Lemmy or another FOSS Reddit-like backend we can stop this BS that’s happening with Reddit pricing out the app ecosystem.

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     Jo (jo@blahaj.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:48 JST Jo

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     • maegul

     @maegul@hachyderm.io @Jdreben@mastodon.world @christianselig@mastodon.social kbin also worth checking out. Flagship instance is https://kbin.social/ cc @ernest@kbin.social

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     James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:56 JST James Dreben :mw:

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     • Jo

     @jo Thank you! I think I heard of this before in passing but haven't checked it out. Awesome.

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     Jo (jo@blahaj.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:30:58 JST Jo

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     • Ada

     @Jdreben@mastodon.world My admin @ada has been playing around with #kbin and just wrote up a few thoughts.
     
     RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9fgc8wqewv

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     James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:15 JST James Dreben :mw:

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     • Jo

     @jo Wow!! Ty ty

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     Milan (milan@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:17 JST Milan

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     @christianselig sooo... its time for a #lemmy hype?

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:18 JST fu

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     • Resuna
     @resuna @christianselig LULZ!
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     Resuna (resuna@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:20 JST Resuna

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     @christianselig I guess they don't want competing apps. At all. Which is probably a logical thing for them to want. But I think it's past time to go back to Usenet.

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     SalarRahmanian :scala: :nixos: (softinio@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:22 JST SalarRahmanian :scala: :nixos:

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     @christianselig How about create Apollo instance of this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy and do what @tapbots team did 😁 #mastodon #fediverse #lemmy

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:26 JST fu

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     @cassidy @christianselig why do you see value in this as opposed to say increasing the usability of free and open federated services like kbin or lemmy?
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     Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh: (cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:27 JST Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:

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     @christianselig serious question: would it be cheaper—or even possible—to basically proxy the Reddit API through your own Apollo servers so you only make any given request from Reddit once? Any way to investigate if that would actually be a feasible solution?

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     Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:31 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

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     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

     @christianselig time for Apollo to have its @ivory moment and become an interface for @LemmyDev and @ernest’s kbin instead of Reddit?

     Reddit’s value is in its content, which it doesn’t fully own since it’s user-generated. Apollo can join the #fediverse

     1. Set up an ActivityPub-based link aggregator.
     2. Continuously import key sub-reddits onto that instance (especially front page)
     3. Apollo app interfaces with self-hosted API and other #activitypub instances.

     I would so gladly pay for this.

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:38 JST fu

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     • Lemmy
     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:
     • Erlend Sogge Heggen
     @mariusor @LemmyDev @christianselig @ivory @ernest @erlend never heard of brutalinks before, THANKS!
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     marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 09:31:39 JST marius

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     • Lemmy
     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:
     • Erlend Sogge Heggen

     @erlend don't forget #brutalinks: https://brutalinks.tech

     @christianselig @ivory @LemmyDev @ernest

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