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poudlardo ,
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No they did not win. People just expect people to move out from an historic platform overnight. This just doesn’t happen like that. Like Twitter, they’ll be small events that will make users want to find alternatives and migrate here.

That crisis made Lemmy way more populated, just for that we won in a way

sturmblast ,

Lemmy won imo

VampyreOfNazareth ,

If Reddit won, why are we here?

zerbey ,

They won, but hopefully the hit they took gives them pause. Lemmy won too, it’s become a nice little community and I’m happy to be here.

cazool ,

A shadow of its former self but they managed to clear out the troublemakers

herrwoland ,
@herrwoland@lemmy.world avatar

Hey I’m here so guess what

dude187 ,

Same

MrFagtron9000 ,

There’s two problems…

  1. There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)
  2. Reddit is such a large social media site now that all the nerds getting angry and leaving doesn’t matter. 10 years ago this change would have killed Reddit, but now that normal people like my mom are on Reddit they don’t give a shit about using the official Reddit app, in fact they were probably already using it.
FlyingSquid ,
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But your mom was probably not part of the 1% of Reddit posting things people cared about. A lot of those people left and, I’m told (I haven’t been back to look), the change is noticeable.

MrFagtron9000 ,

Here are the subs I used to go to…

  • Askgaybros - Doesn’t exist on the fediverse
  • Gaybros - exists but barely gets one post per day
  • Politics - I’m banned because of my username, but plenty of subscribers. Interestingly I can’t figure out how to contact a moderator to get unbanned. The information page doesn’t list who the moderators are. I had a similarly “offensive” name on Reddit for a decade and never got banned from r/politics
  • askreddit - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
  • Android - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
  • Linux - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
  • Economics - maybe a post or two a day

When I go back to Reddit, on desktop, all of those are operating as they normally do, with no perceptible change on the amount of posts.

Boinketh ,

Plot twist: you’re just a British smoker.

chalupapocalypse ,

No surprise here, just like Bernie Sanders, Mueller, and everything else, le reddit blindly overestimated what was going to happen. I’m willing to bet less than 10% of reddit even knows there were other apps, they just want cat pics and reposted tiktoks.

CosmicCleric ,
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Assuming that this is not just Reddit paying Gizmodo for an article to discourage people from using Lemmy by shaping the narrative that everyone is back on Reddit, then I would say it’s just way too early for Gizmodo to make this call.

Enough people have come over to make a push/pull environment happen between the two sites. Time will tell which one pulls the most over to their side.

chemicalwonka , (edited )
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Just If you consider the growth of 7000% of a competitor in the era when many players fight for the attention of the users a victory. Time will tell

AntifaNI ,
@AntifaNI@lemmy.ml avatar

The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented,

Some small subreddits are still protesting and planning on doing so indefinitely. Others have migrated to Lemmy/Raddle/Squabbles/Etc

NathanielThomas ,

I never cared about the Reddit API war. For me, leaving Reddit was about how moderators have absolute yet arbitrary power to permanently ban users who do not agree with them. And I’m not talking about breaking their rules (racism, misogyny, transphobia) but simply having a disagreement of opinion that provides the mods an opportunity to ban you for life.

For the Reddit API thing, the funny thing was finding out I could have been using a better app the past seven years but didn’t know.

Voltage ,

Can’t community moderators ban users too?

opensourcedeeznuts ,

I think the idea here is that if mods are bad on, say, [email protected], everyone can just leave and make [email protected] or wherever. There should be more competition here, at least in theory. Time will tell how well it actually works.

JesusFistus ,

They still have that power on Lemmy don’t they?

Buttermilk ,
@Buttermilk@lemmy.ml avatar

They do, but the difference is I can’t go to another reddit instance when they pull shit. It’s not flawless, but it certainly changes the power dynamics.

wesley ,

And they don’t have ownership over a single community name as well. You can start a community with the same name on a different server

Boinketh ,

I’m not 100% sure on this, but unless there’s an actual system for it, IP bans are also infeasible on Lemmy, right? Since only your home instance has your IP, you can just switch to a different instance, even if the admins try to ban your IP.

Compactor9679 ,

You sub to a subreddit and gen banned on others that had nothing to do with it. Try talking anou how bad the vaccines are… Get banned. It does not matter if you are right or not, cant even have the conversation

NathanielThomas ,

If you’re banned for an opinion, that’s not right. If you’re banned because you’re spreading easily disprovable vaccine misinformation, that’s on you.

Compactor9679 ,

“Missinformation” lol everything on the vaccine has been missinformation until is not… “Virus came from a lab in china” “once you are vaccinated you wont get covid (depends on when you say it if its " missinformation” or not)" etc…

dude187 ,

Not to mention the extreme attacks on those who refused to get the shot, when they knew all along it did nothing to prevent the spread

dude187 ,

Where did he say that? Are you seeing things?

NatoBoram ,

Oh, please don’t worry about that, Lemmy’s API will make it easier than Reddit’s to automatically ban plague rats

dude187 ,

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    NatoBoram ,

    I’m saying I want to ban plague rats

    dude187 ,

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    original_ish_name ,

    The victor is not victorius if the vanquished does not consider themselves so

    Never stop fighting, we will win!

    cosmicboi ,

    Why fight when you can just delete your account and be done with it? :)

    NanoooK ,

    They might have won but now that Rif doesn’t work anymore I’m testing Lemmy. I’ve noticed that reddit content is less updated throughough the day so I suppose that some active posters have left.

    ours ,

    I bet the “Reddit won” statement is a bit premature. Yes in a sense it pushed forward what they wanted to do kicking out third-party apps and moderators who didn’t toe the line. In the end, they kept the traffic but it must be mostly the silent majority of lurkers. I bet a significant chunk of the minority providing content and discussion went away or at least is trying out alternatives and finding a new home in the likes of Lemmy.

    Time will tell if Reddit stagnates/declines content-wise.

    Magister ,
    @Magister@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m using Sync for Lemmy (with a lemmy.world account) it’s like Sync for Reddit, same!

    dynamojoe ,

    Reddit won? Good for them. I’m still not going back.

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