[AMA] Hi, I’m /u/spez, CEO of Reddit, coming to you to talk about my recent acquisition of Lemmy and some upcoming changes. Ask me anything!

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Thanks for joining me today! I'm here at the Reddit corporate parking lot, spot 269 (nice!), and being assisted today by Victoria all by myself because friends only tie down your ambitions.

Founded in 1978 as a men's discount shoe store on the west side of Philadelphia (born and raised), Reddit has, despite our best efforts, experienced an unprecedented explosion in popularity in the past decade. As of this morning, we are now home to over 16.5 million subscribers, of which a good 11% are associated with human beings, creating over 13 original posts each and every week!

As a business, our primary goal has been maintaining this platform at the expense of our users. As a result, we recently made the decision to acquire one of our upcoming competitors, Lemmy. This sale finalized as of Sunday, July 2nd, for a price that will not be disclosed because our VCs might be reading this.

Effectively immediately, we have enacted a few new featifits (a benefit and a feature combined) that will hopefully pay for the new sous chef will benefeat the Lemmy community. These include:

  • A newly revamped federation system that will allow Reddit posts to be viewed on Lemmy. This will be limited to one randomly selected subreddits every month, as chosen by myself, and I've been pretty much into cat girls this year, so they'll probably be cat girl-related
  • A unique new post sorting algorithm that compliments the above, boosting all posts that do, possibly may, or will feature cat girls after I have edited them
  • 500 Spezbux that can be redeemed for Speztokens at any point
  • An unshakable sense of dread about the future course of technology
  • Full length ads for Carl Jr's that will be sent directly to your inbox each hour and can be viewed for additional Spezgild
  • New scents

And much much more! Also, as is tradition for this AMA, we will not be answering any questions at this time, but please, feel free to waste your time and ask anyway!

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I tried to comment but Lemmy kinda sucks and only works maybe 40% of the time.

oh of course this one posted...

I'll have you know the unposted one was better. a real zinger

Switch instances. Join vlemmy.net or feddit.nl.

Question from a noob: are you guys making new accounts for every instance? How do you keep track of that? Or are my login credentials supposed to work across instances as long as they're federated? I went to vlemmy.net and neither of the above is working. But also there's a button that says "support Lemmy" and Lemmy.world is where I made this account... so wouldn't I logically be able to use the same login credentials? I'm so lost!

Nah, I have a few (like 5 👀 😁) mainly because of my multiple personality disorder (gotta divide your personal life from what you secretly like and/or admire, people might ask your Lemmy account link one day and follow you, lol 😂).

No, your login info works only for the instance you've got your account on. Federation only works for content, not accounts. Moving accounts from instance to instance is planned as a feature, but not there yet at the moment. Communities as well, it's planned to be able to move them from instance to instance, just not being worked on currently cuz of the influx of bugs and other more important features.

You have to make an account on vlemmy.net in order to be able to log into that instance. Same goes for any other instance. But you don't have to make an account on every instance. 2 of the accounts I have are alts/backups, just in case something goes down with some of the instances I currently have an accoount on.

lemmy.world is overloaded, it's understandable. This happens to any site that goes through sudden massive growth.

As a benefit of Lemmy and the Fediverse though, you're free to join any instance and have basically the same content. And the smaller ones should be running faster.

you need to change instances stat. lemmy.world is massively overloaded on the client side

Are you using an app? Memmy was throwing an error when the server returned HTML instead of an API (“JSON”) response - probably an error page. Seems to be sorted in the most recent update (although yeah if lemmy.world is overloaded then you still might not be able to)