It could be worse. At least they didn't move to discord or facebook.
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Discord is ok, it hosts many open source projects and can be bridged to matrix https://gitdab.com/cadence/out-of-your-element
Are you aware of any project that maintains a good bridge to Matrix? Because I'm in like 80 discord servers and not one of them has a high quality bridge
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It helps keep the more caustic linuxers away from lemmy.
Correct we only want the sour linuxers here.
My experience has been the opposite. People are nicer here.
You are right, it's not very often I see fights here.
Regarding migration to Lemmy, I think it will happen ~~originally~~/slowly and in a few years the majority of questions will be asked here.
The call is coming from inside the house
Reddit is unified, Lemmy has a small layer of complexity on top and "sh.itjust.works" is a weird name, maybe the Lemmy system drives to such complicated names. Its not a big deal but I add that to the other causes.
Additionally, Lemmy would be a hostile place if you happened to be a conservative-leaning Linux user. I know quite a few, but they aren't on Reddit either.
They're on youtube complaining how people should be understanding to everyone's opinion when their opinions are hate, racism, and violence against minorities.
They never speak up when the little guy is being oppressed though, just when they feel their right wing audience feels attacked.
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Because Lemmy is quite silent relatively. It’s a hard sell outside of those who enjoy selfhosting.
If no one discussed the value of software freedom on proprietary platforms then (hopefully) we'd be preaching to the choir here.
Linux has proprietary binary blobs in it. If any part of a software is proprietary then even if most of it is free then why do people not call "Linux" proprietary? Libre Linux removes those blobs.
Because it's fine the way it is. They can ask newbie questions over there, while we try to have more interesting discussions over here. /s
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Linux is a great platform for developing things like bots in.
Reddit is 90% bots.
Makes sense to me. 🤣