Too bad, cause this is WAY better than reddit for my use case. I am interacting the exact same way, only more of what I like. I don't really wanna interact with a reddit hive mind one liner pun. I want to interact with human beings.
This place is pushing the envelope. That's a good place to be imo.
I would go proselytize to draw people in, but I literally made zero human connection there, so all I could do is dump random comments. Nah. Let it happen if it's gonna happen.
I am not a mod, mearly a user of Reddit. I completely support the blackout and continuation after the internal memo leak of Spez. I uninstalled all Reddit apps and have not logged into my account since. Now I am finding new communities being built here.
I guess that people who are participating in the protest are simply not on Reddit right now. So it makes sense that the only ones still there are the ones who don't want to protest and have the opportunity to whine.
A mix of the ones who actually care not being active on Reddit, along with astroturfing from Reddit itself. Plus, there's always the counter-protest types that whine and scream about everything.
I was already slowly distancing myself from Reddit before shit popped off. It's just noise. The internet is simply noise. There are things that I like to keep updated with, but a lot of it is just noise.
I also found myself questioning more and more why I give a shit in the first place to comment on things. Like, there's just no reason for it. Nobody is asking for my opinion specifically, and really what do I gain from it anyway? Discussions are more like arguments nowadays, so what do I even gain from publicly making a comment on a topic? Nobody gives a fuck whether or not I'm interested in going to the theater over the weekend and seeing the new XYZ movie, or even what my opinions are of that movie, and the feeling is mutual because I know I don't give a shit either.
Totally agree with you. Tbh this is the first time I've been active online since I quit Facebook two years ago. Used Rif to scroll through reddit, but wouldn't comment much because there was no point. Now that's going away, here I am. And I'm enjoying myself.
I'm getting downvoted in the /r/gis sub for agreeing with the mods that there should be an indefinite shutdown. It seems all that are left on the site are people simping for /u/spez. Some person even called me a "fucking idiot." Glad to be off that toxic dumpster fire of a website.
That's fair. I just think the whole "fediverse thing" will keep the toxic normies away while the OG redditors from the olden days will be more likely to migrate. Old redditors seemed to be more technical minded, so I figure it'll be self-filtering.
I agree though, I don't want that toxicity here. I've already experienced one such encounter on lemmy and was surprised.
Edit: Should have read the context first. I thought you were responding to my editing all old reddit comments to point users to lemmy, lol. My point still stands regarding that.
All of these subs should have been linking to a comparable Lemmy community instead of just saying they were protesting. The simple fact of the matter is that the lemmyverse is not mature enough of a platform to actually be a reddit replacement. It needs to get a lot of the kinks worked out and it needs a much better onboarding. Hopefully it can take these new users and steadily grow and while they grow they can fix these issues.
Yeah, but early adopters will weather the storm. Remember how shitty the Reddit servers used to be? Lemmy will continue to improve and more and more users will find a home here.
For sure. I'm enjoying it, but reddit's downfall really depends on how many divest from it and can join us here. I think it'll be fine because people are coming and there will be guides to help folks navigate, but only time will tell
there will be no "downfall" and i think that attitude will make things harder for a place like this to thrive
it needs to be kinda its own thing. we need more than one place for this type of shit. Reddit is fine honestly. they are a business (maybe a shitty one) but thats the game
it just sucks that there isint another option, so when people started jumping ship i joined em.
i just dont want one mega corp to own the data on the internet as much as i can help it (which admittedly is not much) so this seemed like a real easy way to try
Downfall was definitely the wrong word to use. I want this to be impactful and make Reddit change course, but that can only happen if enough people leave.
ya i get it but i still think the better way to think about all this is that Reddit will probably not change anything, they probs wont loose that many users over this specific thing
but if the people that are here now, just stay here and contribute, that can only be a good thing
we need more spaces on the net. diversity and all that shit. its not good for the internet i want to exist to have only one front page. we need more
I think the best case scenario for a place like this one here is of people stop thinking about Reddit at all.
It's kind of breaking up after a long relationship: as long as you're still thinking about what your ex is doing right now, you're not over the relationship.
I think this place will find its groove once people will have stopped comparing features, communities, apps, etc. to how things worked or looked like on Reddit, and once people will have completely stopped caring about whatever may or may not be going on over at Reddit.
For sure, but I am cynical about people's convictions when it comes to their sources of leisure and free time. I see it in all places. Folks are gonna watch the new flash even though doing so will help Miller's career. Activision/Blizzard has proven to be horrendous and for those that don't care about that, they also underdelivered on overwatch 2. Diablo 4, however, is the best selling game in the series. Even back in the day folks had wanted to boycott left 4 dead 2 only for them to end up buying it anyways.
Things like that make me hopeful, but my optimism is tempered.
I'm waiting for reddit to send me my personal data, so I can make my comments unuseable for anything, I guess they either are wise of it or there are a lot more requests than usual, but I'm done with reddit. And there is more and more big name sites i'm just... not wanting to interact with anymore.
That and I want to completely destroy my history so it hurts anyone using reddit for AI Training, just replace all my comments with markov chain nonsense
I have a feeling many of those critical to the protest don't yet fully grasp what a Reddit without 3rd party apps will look like. They'll soon find out how shit the base experience is without those apps. And we all know old.reddit won't stay around for long either
It's my understanding that the latest numbers just before the API nonsense put the old and unofficial users only at around 5% of the total userbase. While I suspect that they had disproportionate engagement and moderator numbers, I think most of the people who don't care really are in the vast majority who aren't immediately affected by the change.
Just as with any diversity issue (in this case, a diversity of personality types) the majority is going to find the quality of Reddit content will start to slip as the minority leaves. Failing to stand up for the people who are loudly proclaiming they've got a problem is going to affect everyone, even though it's not immediately obvious.
Also, most of the people who really care have already left.
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