See? Spez isn't all bad. His charisma-less incompetence is good for something!
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Wonderful news. It was honestly time for us to start moving away from Reddit anyway. This just gives us an excuse.
Agreed, the increased ads, detriment to user experience and general toxicity was becoming unbearable. I am very thankful to have found a new home.
Thing that was the most upsetting was the absolute refusal to accept any bit of responsibility or admit what they were doing. I think we can all appreciate the cost of running a huge service like Reddit, but in no way does that require them to do what they did.
If anything, I am shocked they didn't attempt to do something like require users who use third party apps to be paying for Reddit Premium or whatever it's called. AFAIK there are no ads displayed if you're a subscriber? So there wouldn't have been a big difference in revenue there.
Agreed. Offsetting the cost of the service, including supporting moderators, was necessary. Trying to launch IPO and exploiting user content and moderators to turn a profit, not necessary.
Honestly I hope it remains small enough to not attract influencers and low grade content, but also large enough to become a significant source of useful searchable info. It’s a pipe dream but hey
One can hope.
Right now, I love the size and the community feel. It’s as if we are all trying to make this place our home, so we are all figuring it out together, posting often and engaging. I know it won’t last forever, but I’m enjoying it while it is lasting.
That’s supposed to be the idea behind instances: that you can make your community as big or as small as you want. I think it’ll work
Yep, great motivator for moving to Lemmy.
For me it was the obvious bots and repost karma farming. It was all starting to feel stale except for some of the more niche subreddits I was on.
Holy crap, yeah. The amount of repost bots I've been seeing lately has been insane. Also noticed a massive increase in porn bots in the comments, almost all exactly the same kind of thing
"Hey baby check me out https://linktr.ee/obviouspornscam"
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Uh... that is starting to look exponential...
it'll probably plateau; saw similar during Twitter/Mastodon migration waves
Which is a shame. I hope more people see a reason to leave reddit.
Most people are apathetic to this sort of thing; they just want whatever content they are already getting. They'll use the official app or the web app as long as possible. Onboarding onto federated alternatives is also complicated for normies.
Doesn't change my own reasons for leaving though 🤷♀️
There was a picture of one instance's user count that was mostly a flat line until recently, now it looks like a right angle 😂. Can't remember if it was Beehaw or a different one though
Probably beehaw or lemmy.world, although a lot of instances are getting new users.
Quick, we need to get the /r/wallstreetbets folks in here to tell us how not to read it!
Did anyone create the !wallstreetbets community here yet?
Looks like somebody has, but no posts for 2 years lol
Fuck that guy! Corpos suck
How did you get these numbers? Especially the server count one.
goooooooood 😈
Thanks spez!
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I was part of the Digg exodus. I'm now a r/efugee but glad to be here. I like how decentralized everything is.
I like GitHub stats for jerboa and lemmy-ui.
Currently using Jeroba. Nicer experience overall than using lemmy in a mobile web browser, but still a bit rough around the edges, and I hope they fix the leggy scrolling.
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Haha, lol!
I nuked my twelve year old account yesterday and I'm literally not even sad. That joke of an AMA sealed the deal for me.
The best part for me personally is, I got an excuse to finally migrate to fediverse. I'm joining a discussion on lemmy from kbin while following stuff from mastodon and beehaw.
It's nerdy and fun. Also, interestingly, feels more reliable. You don't like the people running one service, did the owner turn out to be an utter sociopath? Go, make an account on somewhere better suited to your style and keep engaging with the same communities, maybe at the cost of a different UI experience. It's much preferable to losing an entire platform to the whims of a few at the top.
But if you move to another server, do you loos all your subscriptions, messages, stats or can you migrate your Profile?
Afaik you can't migrate yet. It has been raised, though, but idk more than that. I support migration, tbh.
Thanks for the clarification. Hope the devs will implement this feature.
Oh wow. This looks eerily similar to the Digg exodus. Oh the memories.
Jumping ship is the easy part. Now we have to keep this up. Let's make sure this isn't just something that'll disappear in a month or two. Make Fediverse more active than before permanently.
Well, when the Twitter exodus happened, I too feared that the (4-5x!) increase in traffic would quickly come down. It's been several months and Mastodon is still just as strong!
I don't use Mastodon/Twitter so I had no idea. That's definitely reassuring. Thanks!
I'm more of a lurker myself but that was due to Redditor's attitude towards me aha. I would say my opinion and I would get downvoted to oblivion as well as a bunch of mean replies. And DMs I have never checked lmao. Over here though, it looks a fucklot more friendly and that makes me want to engage more!
It's certainly more about discussion here. I've made mistakes already and no one has criticized me (yet). Just someone responding about why my opinion/statement was wrong in their opinion.
If I did that on reddit I'd probably never check my inbox again lmao. Not saying all reddit subs are like that, but a lot are.
I am biased (of course), but you are experiencing the best of the best - the core of what made reddit good. people who take that leap of faith and break free from the reddit shackles (like you) are just plain built different and I am glad you are here.
I have to agree about many users from a certain group/type of people affected enough by the reddit fiasco are those that are here rn. I'm biased as well, but I appreciate the compliment. Tbh, I'm just going with the flow. I saw a recommendation from reddit and was curious enough to check lemmy out.
But many of the users here (most probably you included) are here because they actually give a crap. Some are pretty active. Some are already starting communities and posting. I'd love to see the fediverse grow but I'm afraid it'll end up like reddit.
I'd love to see the fediverse grow but I'm afraid it'll end up like reddit.
federation will go a long way to keep things in check. current server not your cup of tea (rules, content, etc)? then switch to another or run your own. create your own exactly named and curated community on a different server and federation propogates or prunes it across the network.
we are in brand new social teritory here and I am thrilled.
I'm so interested in how it works out as well
Reddit and Twitter are incredibly hostile places.
I have a friend who privated her Twitter account a few years back. She made the mistake of replying to a tweet to state that non-white people can be racist too, and ended up getting doxxed and harassed.
Also, I remember the time when I kept getting DMs on my Reddit account stating things like "just reminding you that you're a c***"
I've not been in a situation this bad before but sometimes I do find it funny to get a random DM without any context say "You're a cunt". I would just rofl and go on with life😂 Like what does one achieve woth saying something that doesn't even land in my brain lmao
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Looking good, you love to see it!
long live lemmy 💙
Just wait until Monday / Tuesday. Lemmy is about to get hugged to death.
Hopefully this will help the rest of the fediverse grow as well
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