I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
I came here! Not everyone followed because the didn’t understand the concept of lemmy, and in general fediverse.
I found lemmy very confusing at the start. Instead of signing up to one site and all sub reddits are there, you can sign up for one of multiple sites. But they all somehow show the same sub lemmys. But then again they may not.
Yes, it’s one way to think it. Other way is to say “It’s like emails, you singup on an instance/email, and then you can email/speak with others from other emails/instances, which are owned by individuals and not companies. You can access communities and have conversations with others, as well have personalized feed page.”.