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kat_angstrom ,

Left Reddit over a year ago, haven’t been back once. It was surprisingly easy, and a year on, it’s getting easier for others too.

JudahBenHur ,

I left also, the API thing was the nudge I needed; I admit I’ve gone back for niche things: the fan groups of 2-3 bands and two TV shows. Reddit is their defacto fan forum for lots of things

Sabata11792 , (edited )

I was desperately waiting for an alternative to show up years before even the API changes. Anything that came up got taken over by Nazis and died shortly after. Lemmy is the only one that managed to actually take off.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Eh, I’m still looking, but this one seems better than the others. I’ve been here a little over a year and it’s getting the job done.

Quill7513 ,

I’m looking forward to more piefed and Sublinks traction

Streamwave ,

I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.

Asafum ,

It makes sense, those that backed off Reddit were more than likely against Corpo greed while conservatives cheer it on. Lemmy was created by leftists supposedly and more left leaning people joined after leaving reddit so it’s no surprise. Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left so we were sort of destined to be an echo chamber unfortunately.

Streamwave ,

Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left

sigh…

Quill7513 ,

The only problem is the Lemmy creators are also bootlickers, just the boots were made by a different colonial holding. I’m very thankful for instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone, beehaw.org, and slrpnk.net, as well as to a lesser extent lemmy.db0.net, but the fact is there’s a large number of bootlickers here who like a different flavor of boot

WeirdGoesPro ,
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Aww, DB0 appreciates you to a lesser extent too, buddy!

Quill7513 ,

Almost joined there. Its a really good instance. Its just the core political philosophy is less directly aligned with me than the ones I listed. Again. Its a really good instance and I DO respect the core political philosophy, its just like… A slightly different kind of libertarian than I am to where its like… I’ll coalition with y’all but it would be disingenuous of me to claim to be part of your movement. Me speaking on what I believe while saying I’m aligned with y’all would hurt your messaging and I don’t want to hurt y’all like that

WeirdGoesPro ,
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Maybe that’s the misunderstanding—we aren’t political, we’re pirates. Our only messaging is arch, btw.

That’s why I’ve enjoyed it there—we are more active about sharing our hobbies than our social opinions.

pivot_root ,

Tasty, tasty capitalist boots with a lipservice communism sticker on the heel.

TrickDacy ,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is,

Yeah I really miss the trumpers responding constantly to anything about him with absolute bullshit lies. That really added perspective to my worldview. Now, if we could only get some more people to join Lemmy who despise Linux /s

Streamwave ,

There are centrists and even conservatives out there in the world who have valid perspectives and values but who are not Trumpers.

TrickDacy , (edited )
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, valuable perspectives like UnIpArTy!!!1 and bOtH sIdEs!!!1

Edit: I want to agree with your sentiment though, really. I’m just jaded after several years of seeing disingenuous views expressed. Trump isn’t really one I can abide by letting off the hook but I’ve seen that attempted by MANY centrists to the point that I no longer can believe there exists a such thing as a “centrist”.

Katrisia ,

I mean, it’s our fault as leftists that it is an echo chamber. We have forgotten how to talk about polemic issues among ourselves. I bet we lemmings have big differences (in the details) but we are afraid of bans or talking to walls, so…

Waveform ,

The worst part to me is the shadowbanning. It’s easy enough to tell if you’re shadowbanned (check subs or comment threads when signed out and in private mode to see if your stuff shows up), but you can’t see comments from other people who are shadowbanned. I want to see all points of view. And after the API changes, the sites for viewing removed or hidden comments stopped working :|

kat_angstrom ,

Hear hear

Shadow banning has been out of control on that site for years

Nuke_the_whales ,

I tried checking it out recently just for the amount of content. The site is unusable now. Don’t bother to comment anything beyond a useless lol comment or you’ll get banned for every little thing. The mods really went power mad over there

ryper ,

They’re already demanding search engines pay to search Reddit; will they have to pay even more to search paid subreddits?

floofloof ,

Maybe the search engines could pass on the cost to the user, so you can pay to search the subreddits you pay again to view, which link to websites you pay to view. Add a sprinkle of tracking and targeted ads and some email offers from trusted partners, and you’ve got yourself a business model.

Streamwave ,

Thanks, I hate it

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Cool, I’ve heard that people love paying for access to their own content that used to be free.

This is a good time for anyone still on the site to share some Lemmy links.

Crackhappy ,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

Oh dear Lord. Please don’t. This is still a nice place.

Good_morning ,

Right, the few good posters left aren’t worth the flood of the others. Remember the first bit of Facebook, when you had to have an invite or a college email? Wasn’t so bad, then they opened the flood gate and continued making poor decisions and today it’s a wonder that anyone uses it, but if you sign on you’ll see not much but political memes being shared making laughably false claims.

systemglitch ,

Fucking exactly. It’s regular users that turn everything to shit, or allow it to happen at least.

TrickDacy ,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Very sad but very true

Nuke_the_whales ,

No please. The Redditors that stayed are insane,I don’t want them in here

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit has that effect. I admit I was a little unhinged when I came here, but either people calm down and start acting like real human beings, or else they realize they can’t have their fun being trolls and they leave. It’s a funny thing that happens when an entire platform is centered around people, not profit. Bots and ragebait are great for stonks - they drive “engagement” and inflate MAU - so they are pervasive on every platform with shareholders.

Asafum ,

That’s an interesting way of writing “Reddit CEO proves there’s no such thing as enough when you suffer from dragon syndrome.”

leaky_shower_thought ,

I think he already got pay-to-search and AI-infiltrated subreddits.

He’s just trying new combos.

itsathursday ,

Can’t wait to pay for the privilege of visiting /r/sinkpissers

nutsack , (edited )

what a goddamn shithole. the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it. it’s where the most users and content are. so many communities were completely erased during the mod strike and it didn’t matter. they knew they would be completely fine. the future is an authoritarian world effectively governed by companies like this.

brucethemoose ,

the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it

That’s what many social media companies have said, lol.

But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.

Quill7513 ,

I’m getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell

systemglitch ,

Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.

TrickDacy ,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Discord is such a piece of fucking shit

restingboredface ,

I still don’t know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn’t work at all the same way and search sucks.

Veneroso ,

Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.

AbsoluteChicagoDog ,

They’re not private. Advertisers have full access and that’s what actually matters.

Veneroso ,

I meant from people like you and me that are Googling an obscure topic or researching something or troubleshooting information, those things are disappearing behind the walls of Discord

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Yah, I don’t get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it’s not like it’s going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It’s utterly bizarre.

If you’re running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.

brucethemoose ,

The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions…

Yeah it’s kind of a nightmare lol.

brucethemoose ,

It’s the most popular alternative, simple as that. There’s (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.

AbsoluteChicagoDog ,

The future?

SpaceNoodle ,

The present, but also the future, too.

AbsoluteChicagoDog ,

Don’t forget the past

SpaceNoodle ,

I think we agree, the past is over.

jprice ,

To go along with your shitty AI written articles!

Treczoks ,

Last time I’ve been using search on Reddit (ages ago) normal search already produced shitty, useless results. And now he wants to make it even worse by throwing in AI?

Nuke_the_whales ,

Reddit has become unusable. I had an account there for 7 years and no problem. I tried checking out Reddit again this year and I got permanently banned within a day. You can’t say anything there anymore cause you’ll inevitably piss off a power hungry mod who will ban you for nothing. There’s no longer discussion to be had there.

I made a comment on the Gladiator 2 trailer, asking why Danzel is playing Micrinus, who was North African but of Roman blood and born in Alegeria and raised in Africa as a provincial. And pointed out how it’s similar to that Cleopatra documentary inaccurately thinking that all people in Africa, even Egypt and North Africa were black. I pointed out Micrinus was Berber which were originally a more white race who mixed with Arab blood, so they were like a slightly darker skinned Romans, but not black.

I was banned for “racist commentary and bigotry”

Monomate ,

Sorry to disappoint you, but this kind of behavior is not exclusive to Reddit. Lemmy has its own share of power-trip mods in some communities. I thought (wrongly) that someone that took the effort of leaving Reddit and coming here would think differently than the average Reddit mod, but I guess the allure of demonizing anyone that disagrees with you is too irresistible for them.

pivot_root , (edited )

Whaaaa. You mean the volunteer scabs appointed by Reddit admins to replace the “power tripping mods” (pissed off Redditors, 2023) are even more power tripping? I’m shocked, I say! Shocked!

Eezyville ,
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Subscription models are finally coming to Reddit! It’s about time those greedy bastards start milking their userbase.

probableprotogen ,

Imagine if reddit makes porn subreddits paid

BallsandBayonets ,

If there’s one thing that united the Internet, it’s don’t fuck with our porn. It’s how Tumbler died, pornhub lost over 95% of their videos, and it’ll put the final nail in reddit if they try it.

probableprotogen ,

Tumblr isn’t fully dead it is just dying. I still find many people on there posting art.

UsernameNotFound , (edited )

Fuck reddit, I got banned from Worldnews for asking when Ukraine would attack other targets. I was banned for “call for violence” it was a post about the war. So stupid

Goodmorningsunshine ,

Pretty sure worldnews is modded by the same people as r/Zion. It’s so easy to get banned from there - just call a genocide a genocide

Crikeste ,

I got banned for suggesting a man who violently pushed a woman off a bike should be pushed himself. Lmao “advocating for violence”

Fuckin’ spineless idiots

franklin ,
@franklin@lemmy.world avatar

I know the average person usually doesn’t care, but surely most of the population of reddit must have realized how shit it is by now.

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