So I didn’t even know avatars were a thing on Reddit because I’ve used sync for so long. After migrating to Lemmy this is a thing I noticed they have and I actually added one. Will S4L include these? It’s not a huge deal I’m buying it anyways, just curious if it will be added to it.

  • Vangarell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Well, reddit had chat and we weren’t allowed to have it because they decided they didn’t want to create an AP for 3rd parties to use.

    I wouldn’t presume Lemmy will lock features to its own app or site in an effort to monetize them or keep their users in their own apps.

    I expect that ljdawson will bring in the features of the Lemmy site over to the app as he sees fit. And that we’ll have a pretty complete experience.

    • iso@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy doesn’t have “their own app” nor does it have “its own site”. It’s all open source. There is no one company behind it. The one issue that might arise is that the open source project is being led by a bunch of developers who could in theory go rogue, but people would just create a fork (kinda like a copy) of the source code and create their own lemmy instances. On top of that, Lemmy instance admins would likely not install the updates from the main developers.

      Don’t worry, we’re safe here.

      Forever and ever :3

      • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        “here” is subjective on federated platforms. If the people running kbin.social or lemmy.world go full Spez/Musk and start doing restrictions and ads, there’s nothing to do but leave. It’s just easier to leave when a fair amount of the communities you’re in aren’t hosted on your home instance.

  • FlightyPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Sync for Reddit also has avatars. I had my weird little snoo character, but I have seen plenty of people’s uploaded avatars. I imagine it’s a setting you had disabled.

    • atocci@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s a setting that’s off by default it looks like. I reinstalled the app recently and remember having to turn it back on to see them again.

  • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I downvoted this post. One thing that made Reddit better than other social networks was that it focused on content and not on users. The mere fact that Reddit is called a social network now instead of a link aggregation platform is IMHO the result of adding more and more personalization features.

    On other networks the look of a user or their public image is always front and center and is almost more important than the content.

    Hacker news is in its own way the better reddit (again: IMHO) as the only thing that distinguishes users is their username. So we always have to engage with a users content.

    I hope lemmy will not go the way that Reddit did in adding all these personalization features. They didn’t make Reddit better, they simply increased the dopamine hits that people get. Reddit didn’t improve because engaging with it was becoming more satisfying in the psycho-chemical department. It just became more profitable in the ad-revenue department.

    Lemmy doesn’t need to be optimized for ad-revenue. It can be optimized for thoughtful, civil discussions instead.