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[–] PixelPioneer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Not going back to Reddit ever, too much bs.

[–] Alkalyon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This comment is incorrect as well.

The people that cared left and what's left behind is people that wouldn't leave anyway and the strike only bothers them.

This person is living in a bubble and can't see further than their nose.

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[–] vamp07@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I have no intention of unsubscribing from Reddit. The recent move that company has taken has made me hostile to them as a platform. I am far more probable to engage over here and just lurk over there when I need to find the answer to something. To the extent that I can I want to help the Fediverse takeoff and replace Reddit and twitter.

[–] Hindufury@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I'm doing my part. I hope others do an exodus and not a hiatus.

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[–] KillaBeez@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Maybe all of those in favor of the protests kept their word and only those who are against it remain?

[–] Appie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I don't miss Reddit. I checked some comment sections and holy hell is it toxic compared to here. I think part of that is because of what you've mentioned in your comment.

[–] soulless@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I used to work for this major company, biggest in my country by far.

Whether it was going well or poorly, they tended to offer severance packages to "cut back" on their staff, to appease the grotesquely overpaid consultants that analysed their finances.

What tended to happen, was that the most qualified people, who had no issues finding another job (often better paying), took those packages (I took home a one year salary after having worked there almost three, then had two months vacation and started a better paying job), which left those who didn't really have other options, those who did the bare minimum and had a lot of useless meetings.

I guess that's what reddit is heading for. They are alienating those who contribute the most, the content creators, the mods and the ones who like to engage others. They will be left with their bots, lurkers, racists, reposters and porn-spammers.

Good riddance.

[–] other_world@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Good for you! I recently changed jobs to a more stable position after asking for years to be put on full time staff at my old one. Once they filled a position with an outside hire instead of bringing me on full time, I knew it was the end of the road. Now I get paid almost twice as much plus amazing benefits to do about half the work.

[–] snarsher@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Completely agree. I'm kinda hoping the substance of reddit just moves to lemmy and none of us will have to deal with so many tools and trolls.

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[–] SpookySnek@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Ever tried having a discussion in any of the default subs? If your opinion differentiates from the hivemind you will be downvoted as spam, without any responses. It completely defeats the purpose of a "discussion"

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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I miss my smaller and niche subs. I don’t think I’ve waded into the default subs in a very long time.

Oh well, to everything there is a season, right?

[–] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

holy hell is it toxic compared to here

I cannot agree more! I went to reddit (wirhour an acc) and just... wow. Did it got worse or was I always blind to how awful that place was?

[–] Ravenzfire@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you are seeing some withdrawal symptoms honestly. People are addicted to scrolling for their next dopamine hit. When that's taken away they get cranky. Add the anonymous nature of being online and things get toxic real fast.

[–] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I think you are exacly right.

Cranky

is the best word to describe it and your explanation as to the reasons sounds reasonable. I believe that people will also get more frustrated when they notice less quality posts and comments...

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[–] AwkwardPenguin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think this might actually be the case. Let's see how things work out. Lemmy surprised me as a proper alternative it's just not as content rich as reddit at the moment. Something about chickens and eggs.

Let's just expand and improve it further than the original lemmies did. Don't be afraid to post content, heck scrape content and make this the better option. People will follow content.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Like I normally don't post, but I've started even making root posts in different groups.

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[–] melonpunk@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's something to that. Hearing stories of subreddits reopen and ask the userbase what they want to do, well, who exactly are they asking? I'm not there, and I've seen plenty of posts from others who are also not there. Are they taking silence as votes against? I doubt it.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I'm going to go back to reddit for a bit, but only to encourage mod teams to setup shop here.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Literally. The people in favor of the protests are.... Protesting! Everybody else doesn't care.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

and you know what? I am happier to be around people that keep their word.

[–] eselover@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just switched over to lemmy from reddit, and it is much nicer here isn't riddled with ads and toxicity. I just hope that more users do join over here, since there were a few subreddits/people I followed and would still like to see there updates/posts

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[–] liontigerwings@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] melonpunk@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think people are seeing Reddit as their only solution right now due to the lack of awareness of this place. It's been a bit sad to see all the news articles written about the event but very few plugs for alternate options to visit.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

investor class protectng its latest cash-cow.

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[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I just wonder if all the anti Lemmy posts I've seen have been Reddit employees

[–] artillect@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I understand that the fediverse isn't the most intuitive thing to understand, and that many people won't immediately understand it, but I've seen so many comments saying that it's too confusing (even in response to direct links to instances with the simplest explanations). There has to be an astroturfing campaign of some kind going on

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[–] instamat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The fediverse is the way. I’m not smart enough to say if it’s the best option, but it’s a hell of a lot better than a profit driven monolith run by out of touch investors. Reddit won’t implode but it won’t be the same as it was even a week ago. This decentralized structure is what the internet wants to be.

[–] melonpunk@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One way I'm looking at this opportunity is like email, anyone can set up an email server thanks to how it got established. So if this pans out and eventually we get funded hosts in the vein of Gmail and Hotmail, who spend money writing fancy UIs and on marketing, we still have a fundamental base where we can shuffle away from the big players and go set up our own servers.

I do hope to see some funded options come into this space, they can control/own their interface into the data, but they can't control/own the data.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

as long as we are vigilant for the microsoft method of embrace, extend, extingush/enshittify we will be good.

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[–] instamat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I’m brand new to the fediverse concept so funded hosting hadn’t occurred to me. Yeah, let the big boys throw some money at it and we reap the benefits!

[–] PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The fediverse has one thing going for it that any other alternative lacks: a credible approach to dealing with the network effect. In isolation, it is very difficult to start an independent social media website. This becomes much, much easier when you have neighboring sites that you can interact with. Federation serves as a catalyst. I've been longing for the proliferation of open source social media for over 15 years. Nothing has changed the state of affairs more thoroughly than the introduction of federation.

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[–] HyperCube@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of people are forgetting about survivorship bias as well. If all the people who supported the blackout left Reddit, then the only people left would be the ones who aren't in favour :)

[–] neal@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is a very good perspective. I haven't been on Reddit since the blackout started. Probably would have gone back as well but the AMA comments were the final straw for me.

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[–] Dandroid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have noticed this so much today. I pretty much lived in r/hockey for the past 5 years. They had a vote and decided to black out for the 48 hour protest. Once it was clear that the vote was in favor of blacking out (and that the championship deciding game could be played during the blackout), people started pleading to move the blackout to after the championship was decided, which completely defeats the purpose of the protest.

Well, during the blackout, the championship was decided. Now that it's open again, everyone is again flipping out about how pointless the protests were, and how we ruined their experience of watching the championship game.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

we have had the first wave - and its gone well. second wave is incomming on or about the 30th - probably smaller, but no less committed (long term). after that its a war of attrition.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You say smaller, but I'm thinking a lot of people will realise that their clients actually don't work anymore on that date 😂

[–] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah I think they're underestimating how many people just won't use the official app. The people who use Apollo, RiF, Relay, etc. are pretty attached.

I know for me reddit is just the app on my phone that I press when I'm bored now. I figured when the app doesn't work anymore I'll just find entertainment elsewhere, which is how I found the fediverse. Now that I'm here the whole concept of decentralized interconnected communities has totally sold me on the project.

The problem with reddit, Twitter, twitch, etc. as I see it is that they're all just trying to profit off their users somehow. That's not conducive to fostering healthy communities of people. I think this whole thing is the future of social networking, take the big corps out of the equation.

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[–] Lilacwitch17@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I used Reddit because I was bored and watching tv. I barely interacted. I am interacting on Lemmy. There was a lot of angry, toxic people on Reddit. So I am glad they are staying there

[–] Pseu@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Man, this is true. So far my experience has been less stressful and more wholesome on the fediverse. It feels more like Reddit from 8 years ago than modern, angry Reddit.

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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Under lots of the "we're back, let's talk what's next" announcements, comments pop up that say basically - "ah well, guess that's it, just use the app, it's great" and they get positive rating, where a week ago they'd be downvoted to oblivion.

I guess everyone for whom this was actually important, has already found an alternative and at most is waiting for their 3rd party app to break.

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[–] p05@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I noticed that. I have been really had made a comment saying something along the lines of me disagreeing with mods going public after only 2 days and got downvoted like crazy but not three days ago it would of been the other way. Just honestly done with that site anyway so going to download wikis from the subs that come back and be done with it.

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[–] GoochGuardian@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I just hate the stock Reddit app so much. Maybe in the future I’ll use it on desktop. Third party apps are really the only reason I was on Reddit so much lol

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