Memes

Can someone explain to me what u/spez does?

Got a mod message on reddit today linking to an updated article stating they lifted the free API calls from 60 to 100 queries per minute, allowing almost all bots needed for moderation to continue function and if they exceeded 100queries/minute the bot itself needs to be fixed. Seems reasonable.

I only have a meaningless empty subreddit, but since I'm the mod of that, I get those notifications.

Overall, I'm really unsure how things will continue now. Lemmyverse seems to be the solution to a core problem of reddit, but it's a learning curve.

IMHO the more - for the lack of better words - competent internet users will tend to stay on lemmy for discussions and use reddit as the cheap content bucket that it has mostly become by today. Meanwhile, the less competent ones will stay on reddit. Therefore, reposts and bot-aggregation will increase by a lot within the next months on reddit, turning it into what is basically 9gag today eventually, but with porn on it until that's not fine there either at some point.

I also expect quite the learning curve for Lemmyverse itself, as federations scaling up will cause segmentations. There will be instances for mostly techs, mostly memes, mostly conspiracy theorists and I'm pretty sure even extreme-right-wing people. And other instances will start blocking others for good reasons. However, that will only happen if people stay with Fediverses in general... we might be away from that for another few years maybe.

Except if reddit and probably twitter go belly-up for some unexpected reason within the next few months due to missmanagement or something, while super-simple guides for getting started as a user with lemmy get popular on youtube at the same time or something. We'll see. Exciting times we live in...

Wait, did something ELSE happen?