"Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year [...]"

Yes I have my account on feddit.de but mostly post to communities of other servers. I also follow/join nearly all communities that I can find on lemmy xD

@Ashwag @Leperhero Yep, both on beehaw and on communities from other instances.

Yep. For example, I'm on the developer-run Lemmy instance, but I can see and interact with the communities on Beehaw.org just fine.

The main difference is moderation styles (Beehaw has more strict moderation) as well as what they federate with. Beehaw doesn't federate with certain communities, so those communities don't show up when you look at "All".

@DJDarren On Mastodon, search for "@ technology @ beehaw.org" (no spaces) and you'll be able to see the posts from there.

Of course, since Mastodon is a Twitter-esque platform and Beehaw is a Reddit-esque platform, the layout on Mastodon isn't ideal. But it is workable.

@DJDarren Lemmy communities seem to be treated like users on the Mastodon side of things, so you can just input @ username @ domain (minus the spaces) into Mastodon's search bar and follow them like normal. The posts then get boosted into my feed where I can reply to them like any other Mastodon post. There does seem to be a warm-up period if you happen to be the first person on your Mastodon instance to follow a community, but once that's done I've found the interop to be reliable.

@SaintPaul Well, IDK the specifics of following a user on Lemmy because I'm only a Mastodon user, but finding content on other platforms I can do. You just pick largish servers since those tend to be well-federated and type hashtags into their search bar. Like I went to Calckey's flagship instance just now to search for nature pics, so I typed in #nature and it gave me a bunch of nature pics from a variety of platforms (though mostly from Mastodon and Pixelfed). From there if you see content you like you build up a follow list. Nothing too complicated. Other platforms like Mastodon and Calckey also give you the option to subscribe to hashtags if you prefer that.

https://calckey.social/explore

There's a link if you want to take a gander for yourself.

Don't worry, Matrix is developing voice rooms, has video rooms, and has a Discord-style interface for chat channels via Element.

There are lots of spaces for online communities left.

There are many spaces but they don't have as many users.

@RedditCastaway I already love the alternatives. I just have to hope more people start doing the same :)

@noodlejetski

Oh, it’s so much worse than that. They purchased Alien Blue, built their own app that utilized some of features of Alien Blue (the reason they had to purchase the app due to IP), launched their hot pile of garage that they call an all, and then threw Alien Blue in the trash.

such a badly run business

Pepperidge Farm remembers. And me, because i'm old. Lemmy reminds me of early reddit, all of those years ago.

Can't maximize profits if enough people jump ship. I dunno if that'll happen though, if this ends up being a Digg moment for the larger Reddit community.

You're technically correct, but go to any of the various "This is the Fediverse", "Join Fediverse" and the like, and many, many times you won't even see them acknowledge the existence of Lemmy, happened to me when i decided to jump in last month. Compare amounts of people, Mastodon instances can number in the thousands while the best you get here is dozens, maybe low hundreds. Lemmy is tiny, and it's focus on communities isolates it further from the rest of the Fediverse, the federation doesn't help in the slightest, open Lemmy and all you see is the same dozen posts for days, you don't see on Lemmy posts from the rest of Fediverse because they just don't apply. This is fine, lemme emphasize, but it's early stages and it's undeniable.

Have you tried /kbin ?

the Fediverse which is enormous.

Is it really? I mean, compared to reddit, how many users does the Fediverse have?

I'm of mixed mind on this. I'm not sure we've really figured out how to scale beehaw or if it even can be scaled. I can't imagine a smaller community like this actually adhering to it's principles at a size of even 1/1000th of Reddit.

While I greatly appreciate the influx of users and hope it helps to sustain this environment with lots of wonderful content, I also worry about decisions we may need to make in the future to ensure it stays a nice place. The more attention and the more mainstream it becomes, the more difficult it becomes to keep things civil. People like to misbehave on the Internet and part of the reason places like this work is people being upset with this paradigm, but that can only be successful if it's mostly people upset with the paradigm registering and not the people who are out there being mean to others.