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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Reddit as a company has too much influence and control over the platform for the protests to work effectively on the ‘average user’. People have been conditioned over the past decade to accept all forms of exploitation for a small convenience.

    I don’t think there will be a great migration that people are expecting, but it’s a good opportunity for others to start something new. I think the overall adoption will be similar to Mastodon, where it’s good enough but nowhere near representative of the Twitter engagement or userbase.



  • Looks good but you might find some very dated stuff in there. I just checked the iOS one and it’s based on XCode 8.3.3 which was released back in 2017. The recipes may be relevant but they won’t be plug-and-play and if you’re really looking to learn you’re better off with more recently updated courses from the likes of Udemy, and the free Stanford course on YouTube that include things like SwiftUI


  • At a similar time as The Verge was threatened I noticed some articles changed their tune and switched to downplaying the Reddit situation. The one I recall is Gizmodo reporting that Reddit traffic was back to normal.

    It’ll be interesting to see how things play out at the end of this week when the 3rd Party Apps go offline, but to be honest I’m happy to say my new home is Kbin.social and don’t see the need for an active Reddit account, though I may lurk from time to time if I’m looking for some particular information that’s not yet on Kbin.

    The game changer for Fediverse is stable mobile applications, once the Apollo shaped hole on my phone is filled I think it’ll be pretty much a drop-in replacement.




  • Nope, no need for open-source. If it was so easy to make an iOS app we’d have one available on the App Store already. There’s works in progress and TestFlight releases just to cater for the increasing demand but even those will take time to reach full maturity and polish.

    There’s no reason for someone to work so hard and give away their IP for free. From what you see from many apps, the authors are continuously working hard to work on it, adding new features, fixing bugs and with it being still the relatively early days of the Fediverse, keeping up and reflecting changes on the platform.

    App developers should be free to decide how they protect their IP and how they market their product. I gladly paid for Apollo and would be more than happy to pay for my preferred Fedi app to support the effort behind it.

    A better approach would be for the Kbin/Lemmy project to open-source an SDK for iOS










  • Posting here at the moment feels like posting on Reddit in the early days. The sense of true community was real, it was more organic content from everyday people instead of the corporate machine that it became with sponsored content, brigading, shills and even subs changing their nature from IAMA Bricklayer to IAMA Movie Star with a movie releasing tomorrow which I’m here to promote. The whole voting system went to crap and the vote numbers were completely out of touch with actual user sentiment.

    As long as the fediverse has a more sustainable model and does not go down the corporate route we should be ok until the marketeers, SEOs and advertisers arrive with their thinly veiled attempts at self/client promotion.