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See, if reddit had just let the upvote/downvote system work as intended, instead of banning people for no reason at all in a lot of cases, this entire problem likely would have been avoided. And no matter what the bans should have never been permanent! We dont put people in prison FOREVER, social media accounts should also be treated with some decency.
Permabans with no way to appeal are ridiculous.
And then to add that if you create a new account to get around a subreddit ban then that makes you eligible for a sitewide ban is even more ridiculous.
A lot of this is because the prevalent attitude has been ‘it’s the internet, it doesn’t matter’, and that allowed people to do things that we, as a society, decided long ago that people weren’t supposed to do.
Small suggestion - Is it possible for you to pin this comment to the top of the comment feed? I missed the comment when I first looked to be honest
Not possible in Lemmy…
Ah fair. I’m sure it will come in time.
My only real concern is iOS app support but it’s still early days.
I can’t say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won’t return to Reddit.
Same here. It’s already gotten sucky, and it’s only going to get worse.
If you want to know the future of Reddit, look at Facebook.
Same here. Reddit is going downhill real fast.
Reddit has been going downhill for a decade. The problem was that there were no viable alternatives. Now that /u/Spez has pushed the issue, he forced enough people into Lemmy that it is suddenly a viable alternative. I call that a win!
What wil you do? Where will you go to browse?
Do you guys not have phones?
Yes. For the time being. Would love to see larger migration from reddit.
I’m quite large, and I’m here
Same
This is the way
Yes, but
The site needs a ton of UX polishing to keep “lazy users” hooked (something I think it’s critical if you want to harvest as much users as possible from this fire). I feel like software developers tend to be more conscientious internet citizens that fight for their rights and seek independence, so I’m hoping that gives an influx of fixes/bug reports on lemmy’s github repo leading to stability, but maybe we also need to find ways to collaborate with front-end/brand design people (?)
I’ll stay and hope it becomes my go-to Deddit replacement. I like the lack of karma, and the posts and comments seem of a higher quality.
Time will tell. Digg was great until it wasn’t. Reddit killing my favorite app of 10+ years can fuck off (long live Bacon Reader). Lemmy by design is fragmented which is great, but will introduce momentum problems. Really it’s going to come done to; Is their a Lemmy app and server that I can encapsulate most of my interests into and be able to ignore the rest?
I think it’s looking very promising. I’ll agree with others here that if the users come on, some of the bugs get worked out, and an Apollo like app gets created Id be happy to call this home.
I’ve been a serious Reddit user since the digg incident so it really is like the end of an era.
Also “a serious Reddit user since the digg incident” and won’t be going back. There are some communities I’ll miss, but I look forward to rebuilding them here.
Spez really really fucked up on this one. A few tweaks and mobile app with the same no-bullshit styles like narwhal, apollo, and RIF on android and this place wins every time
Same on all points, I was over there for 15 years because it wasn’t like that - that’s why we all left digg and also why we’re here. It got sucky
Agreed, and I hope so. But this “migration” from Reddit already happened before. Remember Voat? Very promising, but failed unfortunately. I hope Lemmy instances could support the massive incoming of Reddit users.
Faar less Nazis so far on lemmy, which was the main issue with Voat
The problem with that migration was its anti-censorship nature, which naturally led to bigots flooding voat. Here, it’s a sitewide protest against changes that hurt most power-users of the website, which means alternatives won’t just become political echo-chambers.
I realized how much of a marketing cesspool Reddit has become once I left it. That along with the whole doom scrolling has been toxic to my mental health. So I am much better off without it.
That said, the fediverse seems to be a little too small especially for niche topics. Plus the this world still needs some tool/interface to unify it and make it easier to use. I still go back reddit once in a while for those niche communities but I have logged out for the first time in a decade+ from reddit.
I have started focusing on my hobbies more, the whole reddit fiasco has been a reminder that it is not just FB that is bad, it is everything including Reddit and in time possibly places like this if it grows.
I remember joining reddit a few years back, and it was on the cusp of when it became a cesspool. I wouldn’t post often (Maybe twice a month), but every time the engagement became less and less useful. Kind like how stack overflow users can never actually give you a helpful answer, they only link to other vaguely related ones, Reddit became “Oh, it’s because x and y” to “Oh god you’re so fucking stupid it’s obviously Z”.
And I just kinda dipped out to lurking on twitter, and then twitter became so god awful that I can’t even open the app without feeling like humanity lost its way.
Anyways other than that Kbin has been doing me justice. I’ve never been more active on any other platform.
I feel like the key to all those places that get bad for general use but still has use is moving to access through unofficial means without bothering with any accounts, and taking interacting completely out of the equation. Like Twitter for example just setting up a RSS with nitter.net or Fritter app. So you get nothing beyond what you specifically want. No algorithms suggesting random unrelated stuff to you. And there’s extra benefit of not providing extra telemetry either by using official means.
RES and third party apps were essential to get a happy experience from reddit to block a bunch of material from places you didn’t want to see or had no interest in.
I like Lemmy so far and I’m definitely not installing the Reddit app once RiF is dead, we’ll see how things go.
Probably, if lemmy become searchable in generic search engine. The one thing that made reddit great is searching a keyword + reddit, and most likely you’ll find others who haved reviewed, discussed, fix, experience, what i’m searching before. So far can’t do it with lemmy.
the issue with that seems to be all of the separate instances not being indexed and backlinked enough on google. so eventually you’ll have to tell google <question> + lemmy + domain, and that’s not even taking into account lemmy instances that aren’t even called lemmy.
Worth noting this will naturally evolve as the userbase increases. Google will index wherever the most content is to be found. If that’s here, then more resources will go into crawling over here.
I feel like I’ll only use reddit if I have specific questions for my more technical hobbies(ham radio, astrophotography, lockpicking, etc) I’ll ask over in the larger community subreddit there. Otherwise, for my daily browsing and time killing, I’m here.
Depends on the content, really.
I really hope this migrating-from-Reddit thing will work. I’d really like to stay.
No, unless at some point, most content is no longer about Reddit and Lemmy! Trying to give it a good chance for now.
When people look up things on google, they specifically look for a solution posted on reddit, I know I do. Lemmy needs to be used as a way for people to solve problems, before it can take over what reddit is used for now. I’m staying on Lemmy because I like the idea of a functioning reddit alternative.
For me, Reddit is now only a place to look up solutions, and not a group of communities to participate in.
The kind of solutions I would formerly post on Reddit, I will post on Lemmy instead. And I will participate in Lemmy communities as they pop up.
With time, as niche communities set up shop elsewhere, I expect I will have to search Reddit less and less.
And this is how we’ll grow the community; stop posting shit on Reddit. It’ll reduce visibility, sure…but that’s just how it’s gotta be.
Exactly. I spent years answering all sorts of questions. those comments are gone now and I will use lemmy from now on
I don’t know if I want this to become reddit 2.0. Maybe there’s another way. I’ll hang around and see what happens.
I used to be the same but I’m going to be pretty devoted to looking for alternative sources of information. They’re definitely out there, just not as reliable/easy to find 👀
IMO that’s why we should all edit over and burn our data on our way out
IMO that’s why we should all edit over and burn our data on our way out
That’s not effective at all, and not cool because:
- Most of that data is in web archive anyway.
- When you want to find a solution to some gaming or linux bug, or help with some project, it’s frustrating to see the user who posted the solution has deleted the comment.
Totally agree with this, Reddit still has a lot of “collective knowledge” stored there.
I wonder, is there an instance here that has tried porting over subrredits?
I have seen a lot of comments about looking up solution on reddit. I have never done that. Most problems has solutions on blogs, stackoverflow, YouTube, Wikipedia, other forums about the specific product, the brands own dokumentation and so on. I don’t know what I should use reddit for. Maybe reviews? But I use YouTube for that. What do you search for on reddit? Reddit has only been for entertainment or news (but newspapers and blogs can give me that too) for me.
I want to, but I think the content still needs some help
Yes. I’ve been been on lemmy.world and kbin.social for the past week and the growth and content maturation is good enough for me now, and improving fast.
I deleted my Reddit account and all my post history yesterday.
