Seems like a good portion of the activity in the communities is reddit oriented. If the goal is leaving/hurting reddit, it seems we should be continuing on like it doesn't exist, instead of continuing to drive interest to the site. Thoughts?
It’s been said before, but talking through it is a coping mechanism. Like it or not, a lot of people are/were heavily invested in that site, and talking through it is a way to help clear the air and start to move forward.
It’s drama is dominating social media right now, so it’s hard to NOT see it and hear about it, but we all need to let each other move on in the way that’s best for each of us.
Yeah, I definitely feel like I can't shut up about it/stop engaging with it because that's how I'm processing my decision to move away from it. (And because, like @Breafulus_Emphotoga points out, Reddit is/was really addictive, so I'm struggling to go cold turkey and need a support group lol.)
I think about it this way: this protest/blackout was the most interesting thing I've gotten from Reddit in quite a while--so it only makes sense that I want to go somewhere else and talk about it, right? XD
This is very true, I've noticed I've had more free time and others have as well since the start of the end for reddit, reddit was extremely addictive and now people either have to find an alternative, which isn't easy if you use reddit for most of your information or entertainment, or stay on the platform where worse mods are replacing the subs' old mods and most the site is dead.
I say give it a few or 2 and it should die down a lot more as people become more comfortable with the alternatives they chose.
It will change. When everything happened with Twitter and a number of people switched over to Mastodon, all people talked about on Mastodon was Twitter. Within a couple of months that shifted dramatically and now I come across much less Twitter-related content. Most of my mastodon feed now is just the topics that I’m interested in. Give it time.
It's similar to when a work colleague comes back from holiday and you can hear them recount their holiday stories to everyone else.
Yes, it gets boring quickly but the novelty will soon wear off and at some point the colleague will become self aware that they are repeating the same stories over and over and die a little inside.
Take it upon yourself to post comment other than Reddit or about how everyone posts about Reddit
YES!!! It's lame. It's become obligatory to post some kind of thoughts on Reddit vs Lemmy. Take that effort and go find a link or something and post it.
I feel as if the reddit discussing is dragging on, getting kinda annoying ngl. But as others have said, I think it will eventually die out since the big ol' migration will eventually come to a slow, meaning that lemmy can grow on its own
Personally, it's nice to be getting news of Reddit without giving them any traffic. It'll be old news eventually and I'm not a huge fan of shutting down natural discussion.
I do find myself almost reflexively returning to Reddit at times but I ended up unsubscribing from like 80% of the subs I was in including everything that has a relevant community here. That's really helping me care less about what is going on there and I have been consistently interacting more on here than there for a week now.
Word up, but it's still the beginning of this overall transition, it'll get better (hopefully within the next weeks). People just need to vent their frustrations. I just hope it doesn't become like VOAT.
Bruh seriously, I'm glad the community is growing and have been waiting for a good enough reason to leave Reddit, but half the posts here about how we're so much better than Reddit and Reddit sucks. I came here to lurk original and non-bot content, not to pat each other's backs
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