Remember when Reddit said they wouldn’t touch old.reddit?
People understand they can just leave that site, right?
I wish more people would leave and bring their niches over here. There’s still so many things missing on Lemmy.
I feel you. Really miss 40klore and an endless stream of bunny pictures. The only two things I miss on Lemmy. Everything else I care about arrived or is arriving.
Shout out to !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org and their bunnies
Have you tried posting about lore on !warhammer40k@lemmy.world ? It's mostly minifig pictures, but they would probably welcome lore post as well
I have so many posts to share, questions to ask, and things to do....but Lemmy is not as robust with users. And I refuse to participate on reddit. I need an /c/ xbox360hacks.
I got answers and engagement from communities that seemed dead on Lemmy due to lack of users. You should just try to ask your questions... One answer that truly helps is already enough usually, you don't actually need 100 users upvoting the same answer or 12 different answers where only 1 is good. For many things, low engagement is already sufficient.
Anyone paying attention knew it was just a matter of time. I used to think my last day on the site would be when they got rid of old. Turns out it was before even that.
Good, this will push more people to alternatives
More, yes, but still almost nobody...
The amount of people in the world is a pretty insane number, which makes "almost nobody" 8800 users visiting per day just on lemmy.world, and it's still growing pretty fast.
I'm fine with reddit doing their shit for the masses, and the ones with a bit more critical sense coming here.
45k monthly active users is already something
It’s not nothing but reddit claims about 270 million weekly active users. So it’s ultimately a difference of about 270 million (especially given that some active users here likely still use reddit and aren’t strictly a loss for them)
It’s a good thing though. The fediverse needs to grow a bit to feel less like a ghost town on less popular communities but when you grow too much you become a shitty community filled with bad decisions and poorly thought out compromises
Lemmy has a high enough user base to be entertaining and somewhat useful.
Mark my words. This is just testing the waters
They aren't testing anything. They are just enacting a stealth twilight of old Reddit like they've been planning ever since they thought up the new UI.
People should talk about Lemmy more. Irl, on other social media, in game chats, etc.
Just sharing a personal experience here: I reached out to my country subreddit mods yesterday to ask if I could create a post about Lemmy in the context of the latest Reddit decisions preventing strikes.
They told me they would not allow it as it was self promotion, and that I should stop mentioning Lemmy in comments where people complain about Reddit.
Very frustrating when you see how active communities like !ich_iel@feddit.org is, as the subreddit mods promoted Lemmy during the 2023 strike
It just means the existing mods are more interested in holding on to power than for the wellbeing of their community, even if that means they're unpaid disrespected jannies for spez.
Mentioning Lemmy will get you censored on reddit.
Not in my experience. Just do it and don't worry about it.
My guess, break existing old links on other sites so that they can show a graph with a drop in usage of less-ad-riddled way to access the website and drive more to the ad enabled views.
They already do that. www.reddit.com goes to the new ad-ridden useless interface.
I love the two comments calling out that this thread was posted to the help subreddit rather than any of the other more appropriate subs for changelogs.
Like come on, you know that wasn't an accident.
-.-
Fuck spez.
Seems like millions of redditors say just that through the many slaps in the face to users, then hang around anyway. :S
They have already been trying to bully old.reddit users for quite some time by forcing a regular cookie acceptance prompt which automatically changes the settings to new reddit.
I'm very disappointed about the removal of r/randnsfw.
For what it's worth, the primary reason I joined lemmy.world, in particular, was their offering of old.lemmy.world
I'm old and stuck in my ways. I love the old-timey feel of the "old" UI in light mode with endless scrolling turned on.
I'm already less and less on reddit except for a few nieche subs. The day old.reddit is gone will be the last time I visit that site.
Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn't know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I've always found stupid. So I don't think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.
OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??
OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??
It's generally desirable to remove old code and features to make the code neater. It's also possible that some bug happened because of those features.
It's usually better to not touch code that is working, it won't become "clean" just because you deactivate some stuff and if you do try to actually remove code (to "clean" things, whatever that means in a setting bigger than a small project), good luck not breaking anything.
Source: oldtimer software dev
Code that exists still needs to be updated and maintained. It interacts with the rest of the code. Sure you can leave it lying around, but at a certain point the technical debt is going to catch up to you.
they even got rid of the login button lol. having a small userscript to insert the login button as html works tho as the method/css remains.
you will use the web 2.0 bloated javascript filled internet and you will like it.
The live version of that link only has 50 comments wtf
The leftover redditors are thoroughly domesticated by now. They just passively take what spez gives them and like it.
Another day, another disappointment from Reddit. I deleted my account the day you made your instance and thankfully things over here picked up pretty fast. I haven't felt a need to go back.
being able to sort saved posts into categories was my favourite Reddit Gold feature.
tbh if you need to see a reddit post use a frontend like redlib it doesn't have signing in with a reddit account but atleast you can browse a post without tracking
So... being able to use the site at all then?
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