• rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    11 小时前

    There will always be one more thing.

    Every time it happens, the stream of people becomes less … pleasant on average. Not to say there aren’t still good people that might come over, but the people that come at this point are pretty accepting of toxicity and are more likely to spread it.

  • FluidBeef@quokk.auEnglish
    3·
    11 小时前

    I can’t wait for another wave of posters who refer to “this administration” and numbered amendments regardless of topic or international context.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      17 小时前

      Good to know!

      Personally, for the most part I left Reddit even before the Lemmy exodus. But this was the final straw. Since then, full time Lemmy.

  • ∃∀λ@programming.devEnglish
    13·
    20 小时前

    Only if the affected users know about the existence of lemmy, and many of them likely do not. If you happen to still be using reddit, you should use it to shill lemmy, hopefully in a diversity of subreddits so that lemmy doesn’t become any more of an echo chamber than it already is.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      16 小时前

      Problem here is it relies on people using redit after having found lemmy. I know some people do, but I can only imagine it’s a one-way valve for most.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        4 小时前

        i only remember lemmy was a thing, when the API disaster happened after i got banned, people were really freaking out how to get back in reddit.

        • lemmygarden@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          2 小时前

          The Reddit is Fun app told me to migrate to Lemmy because it was being shut down. I never heard of Reddit alternatives before that.

    • TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 小时前

      I’m doing my part, and if you still use reddit make sure to use an ad blocker and a VPN at least to make it harder to get any revenue from you.

  • Stolas@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    22 小时前

    It’ll be both good and bad if it happens.

    While it’ll be great for the threadiverse to have more growth it will inevitably put us in the crosshairs of bot farms and AI data farmers.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      8 小时前

      In the future, platforms like lemmy will probably have to find privacy-respecting ways of verifying that someone is a human. There are ways to prove someone is an actual human without relying on digital technologies at all. If you’re trying to prove humanity and not using human solutions, you’re going to fail.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      16 小时前

      I plan on going to smaller fediverse graphs if it ever gets too mainstream around here.

      The moment I see a fuckin brand I am out. Joining whatever network has a zero tolerance policy for that corporate fuckery.

  • aSaabD00d@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    18 小时前

    Feels like I’ve been here forever but however old my lemmy account is is how long I’ve been off reddit.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    1 天前

    they already aggressively starting to force a login popup, and also trying to redirect old reddit to new reddit. there ultimate goal is to make people use the APP.

    • MountainVeil@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      15 小时前

      Anyone else remember when forums were just for having fun, not making the owners money or collecting data? Can’t believe it used to be that way.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      16 小时前

      Yes, and

      their ultimate goal is to make people use the APP monetise every single interaction

    • Gjond@lemmus.orgEnglish
      6·
      20 小时前

      Also, recently they require you to login to access old reddit where previously you could browse without logging in. They do not require a valid email address (yet) to create an account, so while not a total crap show, it is rapidly approaching.
      This change is what led me to do a search for alternatives to reddit in which Lemmy here was suggested.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        4 小时前

        other browser forks seem unaffected, while another will force the login each time.(with the old reddit redirect), and a extension that makes old reddit usable on mobile.

      • mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        8 小时前

        Yeah the forced log in is super annoying. I’ll browse the homepage and immediately get a pop up asking me to download the app and make an account.

        Super annoying since that site has more of the answers to most questions typed into Google.

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      54·
      2 天前

      I can get out of lemmy what I got out of reddit a long time ago. It only takes a few hundred smart/funny people to make a chat board good. We’re here now. Hopefully some of the niche communities get ported over soon enough, but the real greatness of reddit was that it was mostly uncensored and intelligent opinion. That’s mostly dead.

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 天前

        Only in some communities it was…

        And, the lack of censorship wasn’t a good thing. It allowed absolute shtshow’s like thedonald or fatpeoplehate to exist way too long. There were also numerous pedo subreddits too which were allowed to exist apparently.

        I’d argue that Reddit is at least partially responsible for a lot of f’ed up shit that many countries are now facing, by empowering those weirdos

          • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            21 小时前

            Absolutely true

            In fact, here in Australia, someone has now introduced legislation in parliament to force social media companies to provide a feed without the algorithm / only posts by people you subscribe to

            Of course the right wing nut jobs don’t like the legislation, because they rely on scare mongering and rage bait to exist

            That’s why you know it’s great legislation

          • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            20 小时前

            The problem with reddit very specifically is that it was, in many ways, internet counterculture. It grabbed a very specific demographic which is much less likely to be active on Facebook - young men stepping out from their edgy teenager “it’s not a stage mom” stage, and into the throes of early adulthood. So now you have this very strange thing where “youth counterculture” is sometimes (often enough to be a problem) this unholy marriage between fascist nihilism and Christian nationalism.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      15·
      2 天前

      And some of them upon arriving here, noped out (either immediately or waiting a few years first) and went back:-(.

      That type definitely will not be so eager to return.

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    1 天前

    i’ve started recommending feddit.org (my lemmy instance) to people that i know irl, but the difficulty is the content: too much politics (especially trump and others), and not enough shitpost.

    • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      1 天前

      i try that too but its so hard to get people who are used to endless doom scrolling on reddit to accept the fact that u can scroll lemmy for 20min 2x per day and then u done (thats a good thing tho). Its even worse for the insta brained ones…

          • canthangmightstain@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            7 小时前

            Infinite scroll + influencer slop + real world news = crabs in a bucket.

            They can’t stand to not be able to see each other’s favorite reels and react back. If it weren’t so rotted and full of spyware it would be a laudable way to stay in connected. I consider it the empty calories of friendship.

    • lambaliciousEnglish
      34·
      22 小时前

      feddit.org

      Be mindful that that is a Germany-based right-wingoid cesspit that supports and excuses the Israel genocide of Palestinians, all under the guise that “legally they can’t ever be as evil as us, the Nazis”.

      • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 小时前

        yeah thank you for informing me about the details of the instance that i’ve been using for checks note 4 years and am very well familiar with

        also the feddit.org controversy about israel was mostly overblown. idk, probably 1 mod’s personal views got exaggerated as “the whole platform thinks like this”

        • lambaliciousEnglish
          1·
          11 小时前

          The fediverse itself. It made quite the rounds on the grapevine for a few months. During their moment of simping for Israel in the Palestine conflict, Germany passed a law regarding “Nazi Exceptionalism” too, that basically punishes people for suggesting anyone could even try to be as evil as Nazis were, and was largely part of the rationale.

  • cardboardboxfort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1194·
    2 天前

    Reddit is 80%+ bots so I don’t expect those accounts to shift platforms. But I do imagine some former reddit users will trickle over as it continues to alienate its fanbase with stupid choices like getting rid of old reddit.

    • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      561·
      2 天前

      Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.

      Reddit’s product is the ability to sell people the perception of a natural conversation between two ordinary people on the internet, where the conversation is shaped by corporations and state agents.

      Actual ordinary people get in the way of that. Reddit does not want users.

      • violetmirage26@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        8 小时前

        Can attest to that. I tried starting a new reddit account with an anonymous email just to talk to people. Apparently reddit assumed I was a bot and shadow banned me within a week. Never had that with any other emails.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        13·
        1 天前

        Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.

        Tbf the 90-9-1 rule applies everywhere on social media, ostensibly including here though many claim to have merely lurked there yet actually talk here. But we may still have a 51-48-1 distribution here?

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          16 小时前

          I definitely feel more motivated to participate here, because of the emphasis on human to human interactions

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      2 天前

      It’s a lot of dead internet with most posts being dredged up reposts and celeb gossip/worship (which has gotten way worse btw). It’s starting to resemble instagram "memes’ and the nerdier shit is definitely coming over here.

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 天前

    Not sure what you mean by exodus. I “left” Reddit for Lemmy, but Lemmy doesn’t do what I want, so it doesn’t replace Reddit. I went back to Reddit. Now I’m on both, for different reasons.

    I don’t have any issues with bots on Reddit, but all the subs I’m on have very small numbers of users. The “equivalent” Lemmy communities are ghost towns where people haven’t made a single post in 2 years.

    • mig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 天前

      I don’t feel guilty about looking at reddit now and then, but I do it through browser and I will NEVER contribute content or moderation, ever again. Fuck them. I used redact, deleted all my shit. Site is 90% dead internet trash 10% humans who haven’t been banned yet for saying a bad word.

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 天前

        Reddit has a long tail of small communities you really can’t find elsewhere. Some of the ones I frequent tried to move to Lemmy but it really didn’t work out. Ended up moving to Discord, which is far worse than Reddit.

        • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 天前

          The only thing I’ll kinda miss is the sub for my sports team because it’s a good aggregation of news and people with insight and information comment there.

          …but at the same time I won’t miss it because of the endless homering and doom n gloom anytime anytime happens

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      67·
      2 天前

      They’re doing the double whammy. Mandatory sign-in (even on old.reddit) and any account they can’t estimate as belonging to an adult through their use of invasive spy metrics and AI will be forced to do age verification.

    • Pamasich@kbin.earth
      81·
      2 天前

      I mean, they’re required by the law in certain countries. With their size, there’s no way around that.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        1 天前

        which is pushed by the same companies that wanted it in the first place, Meta is one of the oens behind the push for age verification

        • crispbacon99@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          17 小时前

          Yes, it’s no coincidence these laws started popping up globally since the trump administration entered office

      • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 天前

        Spez allowed a subreddit for child pedofiles to defend their actions and advocate for no age limits for statutory rape or porn. It didnt get removed until the fat people hate banning created outrage. Pretty sure the laws about not fucking children didnt dictate how he ran his platform and theyve been around a tad bit longer than age verification laws. Just sayin, dont confuse investor appeasement with choosing to follow the law. Plus i wouldnt put it past them if i found out they lobbied to have these laws past so they font have to track every click and person underneath their front end. This just made it their front door.

      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        23 小时前

        Im going to lift my shaft and take a front shot photo of my nutsack to send to Spez Reddit before i give in to age verification