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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.
My only real concern is iOS app support but it’s still early days.
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.
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.
I haven’t been on facebook in about 10 years. How’d that turn out?
I haven’t been on facebook in about 10 years
Exactly
What’s left?
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!
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 (?)
Yes. For the time being. Would love to see larger migration from reddit.
I’m quite large, and I’m here
This is the way
No, unless at some point, most content is no longer about Reddit and Lemmy! Trying to give it a good chance for now.
Don’t worry, it will pick up. There are now 1.2 million users and when Reddit third-parties apps stop working on June 30th, there will be a flood of new users.
Many of them are bots. ~50k active users.
@FarLine99 maybe, but could be that you have to be a user for a while before being counted as active user.
Sort of the same thing with the Twitter alternatives like Post and Tribal. I haven’t visited either for a while, but when I tried to use it regularly, EVERY post it seemed was about Twitter and Elon Musk or dog pics.
I like Lemmy so far and I’m definitely not installing the Reddit app once RiF is dead, we’ll see how things go.
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 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.
Just tried it for a few hours. Seems good, similar to reddit. But yeah, the fediverse part is confusing.
Some issues I have so far are, (1) when searching for communities, it seems that they are fragmented throughout the fediverse, whereas in reddit they are in one place. which makes it kinda odd and well (2) it’s kinda small-knit. which I guess is good but feels odd coming from a large site to a small one.
Still, I’m gonna give it a try. to me its something new but similar :)
Am of the same opinion - thank you for voicing it ;-)
Looks good so far - too soon to say for definite. But hopeful.
I think so. It was hard to leave reddit at first, I didn’t realize how hooked into that ecosystem I was. Now that there are more people interacting with Lemmy and more communities popping up, I think I’ll continue to stick around. Lemmy does seem to be turning the corner from reddit bashing into its own environment, which is refreshing.
Lemmy seems promising, its rough around the edges and needs work, but so was Digg when I first joined and the same with Reddit. It seems like the Lemmy developers and the iOS developers (I’m sure the same with Android, but I only have iOS devices) are working hard on both bug fixes and quality of life updates, which is encouraging.
Time will tell, I like it atm.
Been looking for a viable alternative to reddit for a long time!
Yeah! Fills my reddit void
Ive found the transition to be seamless. I put Jerboa in the spot where RiF used to be on my phone, and now I dont even think about going to the old site.
Its actually nicer to he around at the nascent stages of Lemmy’s popularity. Im catching different communities just by sorting through all/new that I wouldn’t have found otherwise
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