Pretty great on the web browser front-end to be honest - haven’t had an issue when I have used it on my phone. Not sure about the app side of things since I’ve been trying to limit my doom scrolling to when I’m at a computer

Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.

Surprised it’s not mentioned here, but Bzflag.

Super fun tank shooter game that doesn’t take much to run, and reminds me of a cross between the very old bolo game and Mario kart’s battle mode.

Yeah - this was a tad annoying at work today. Thank god for terraform if outages had become more severe

In all honesty, there are a ton of us tech enthusiasts who have no problem paying 10-20$ per month to run an instance out of our own pockets. We get the ability to subscribe to content we used to use Reddit for, and we can have a few folks hop on with us. Multiply that by a bunch, and add in community funded instances, and we’ll be fine.

Gotta consider server costs were only a fraction of Reddit’s costs. Salaries are quite pricey, and we have lots of folks volunteering time which will make it all work.

Ran it around Christmas - was still an intense resource hog. Lots of features and great for corps, but too much otherwise

I just run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.

I’ve heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it’ll work for you)

This is basically why I’m sticking around, besides being able to have a copy of the content I consume on servers I can do something about (ie, backup.)

Not expecting things to get better after IPO personally

Same. I know it’s more work than caddy etc, but I’ve been doing it for eons now so it’s muscle memory at this point.

Take a look at https://browse.feddit.de/

There’s a auto-updating list showing even the popularity level - helps a ton finding them!

Current communities are popping up like crazy today and the previous couple days, so it’s a bit to keep track of.

Use a web archiver on old.reddit.com and store the stuff away for now, is my recommendation. There are concerns about ownership of the content on reddit from a legal perspective, so best to archive as a reference more than anything

I’ve barely got any posts on there, so I’ve kind of just left my account for now. I’ll purge it later on once I feel like all of my niche communities I need are elsewhere.

I however, do not visit it more than once a day now though, and I expect that frequency to drop-off (primarily for local level news right now - too small to expect them to migrate elsewhere for now)

Yeah Reddit would make an excellent private company with the right owner and likely some re-structuring, but as a public company ooh boy.

Outside some niche subs I’m not on there more than once a day just to see if my lemmy subs missed something, and it’s my last form of social media outside discord/matrix, so if lemmy does take off enough I’ll probably only be there for the odd technical search, which I suspect lemmy will take care of in time.

Did it for years - takes a bit to get used to the tower you are attached to swaying when you’re 300’ up.

Before my company I was with would send people for the expensive training, they’d have people try climbing up one of their towers 50’ or so with experienced techs to see if they could manage it (proper safety gear and all of course). I’d say 2/3 would panic and come down at about the 30’ mark

Probably restrict them more before IPO would be my guess

This is also very true. Tech sector has been doing layoffs and admittingly these ones are pretty tiny in comparison to some other places, which is another factor why I think there will be more. And burning cash is quite true, which is part of why their investors are probably pushing hard for them to be ready for an IPO.

Initial Public Offer. Basically, the company going public on the stock market. They tend to try and look “shiny” before going public to make them attractive to buyers who want to make money from investing into the company.

In my experience (from working a place that has done this) they will do some waves of layoffs and make some operational budget cuts, as well as sometimes freeze some capex spending so the books look juicier. This includes things that may cause long-term harm, for short ish (under a year) gain.

Script is pretty similar with most companies that do this in tech, with predictable results.

Ahh here it comes. Expect more - IPO layoffs (from personal experience) are definitely a thing

The only two I am aware of that are actually good are Teksavvy and SaskTel. But, Teksavvy is just a reseller, and SaskTel is a crown corporation only available in Sask. Not sure about the smaller mobile providers anymore - there have been too many buyouts for me to keep track of.

Maybe, maybe not, but the instances have the option of closing registrations for a bit if they get overwhelmed and need to regroup. This is why it’s nice to see lots of other instances popping up across the fediverse