• @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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    371 year ago

    I havent used reddit at all since August and from June 12 to August i was on the site for ~10 minutes total. I am a total lemmy user now with no need to use reddit at all. I dont even miss it since i can get everything here i did over their.

    • SeaJ
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      31 year ago

      I’ve only been there when DuckDuckGo has directed me there in a search.

    • @Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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      281 year ago

      Same. I had an account that was probably 12+ years old. Reddit was a huge part of my recreational schedule.

      I genuinely prefer Lemmy. The lack of algorithms pushing engagement is good for the soul. It’s here when I want it and I can leave it whenever I’m done.

      • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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        61 year ago

        Reddit was a big part of my day too. I had redreader easily accessible so i could just pop it open whenever i wanted to. Now Thunder has taken its place.

  • ArugulaZ
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    191 year ago

    Hey, I’m over here in Methadone Reddit, getting by. It’s not as fun as Reddit used to be, but after the bug-eyed lemur boy decided to be a leading tech giant™ and fuck over his users in the process, I decided it was time to amscray. Sorry, King Julien. It was fun for a while, before your embarrassing power trip, but now you’re just going to have to kiss my mad-ass-gasgar.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    01 year ago

    It banned me lol and banned so many people that Congress wants to ban banning

  • Stamets
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    791 year ago

    I started using reddit in 2011. Was nuts to see the changes it underwent. A lot of them bad.

    Since leaving reddit during that protest, been more than happy to call Lemmy home. Especially when I go back to browse reddit occasionally and see how incredibly toxic and negative it is all the time. I don’t know if I was blind to it before or if it got worse. Every comment thread is awful. They focus on the negative of everything and are just bitter and angry.

    Place sucks ass.

    • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      I’m one of the mods of a few subs even though I’m no longer active. I hopped on yesterday and had a chat with the remaining mods of a couple of subs. They’ve been SO busy moderating assholes, propagandists, aggressive conspiracy theorists, and spam bots. They’re suspending and banning accounts every day or two when it used to be an account or two every month. These are all small to medium sized, niche subs dedicated to helping people and sharing various ideas and people are trolling and harassing users like they’ve never seen before.

      I checked out some of the subs’s contents and in short order found I let myself get sucked into trying to educate an anti-masker in a sub that really shouldn’t attract that type. It went how you’d expect, and it made me realize I haven’t had a single interaction like that on Lemmy. It’s nicer here.

    • FlavoredButtHair
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      181 year ago

      I’d you disagree with the wrong mod or say something “offensive” banned. They look at your appeal and nothing changes.

      At this point it’s just adult children “working” in their parents basement not making any money.

      • Stamets
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        111 year ago

        Bro if you comment in a subreddit the mods don’t like you’re instantly banned, even if ironic. Mods over there are on a power trip and the lack of a modlog means zero accountability.

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          Even with a modlog, the mods are clearly removing comments. I can’t tell you how many times I’ll click on a link that reads anywhere from 10-25 “more comments in this thread,” only for it to tell me there are no more comments when I click to load them.

          I don’t know how bans work over here, but I have seen lemmings complain that they got banned temporarily, but never got any notifications of the ban.

          It’s clearly better than what happened to Reddit, but there still seem to be some bad faith actors about.

          • Stamets
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            41 year ago

            Well yeah they’re going to exist everywhere. But with Lemmy you have some accountability. On reddit you have none.

            As for bans with no notifications, that’s not on the mods. That is on the developers of Lemmy and why so many people are frustrated with them. They’re ignoring admins, have no real timeline on feature development, and aren’t focusing on major issues that have been reported. The Lemmy Devs keep dragging their feet and if they’re not careful it could end up with someone making a lemmy competitor that still works with Lemmy. I know I’d go straight for it as a mod and as a user.

        • @selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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          I used to go to the The Last of Us subreddit to just vent about the horrible writing in the second part of the game. Jesus, that was s cult. People had to create s second subreddit just to criticize the game. Now, the original subreddit calls names and bans anyone mentioning “the other” subreddit.

          Now, I’m from Mexico. The subreddit /r/Mexico is the equivalent to /r/Conservative to the USA. But named after my country, people goes there without knowing this, it’s so damn alienating.

    • @Lutra@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      same. reddit is populated with users who’s comments are generally indistinguishable from those of a 12-15 year old.

  • @zcd@lemmy.ca
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    1461 year ago

    Crushed? Or drove away tons of OC creators and active members leaving a bot filled wasteland?

  • @onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    This video is from August. Doesn’t reddit still have millions of users? There’s still bots copying content from there onto the fediverse and the number of active users on the threadiverse is dropping. 40k or so? That’s a drop in the bucket.

    It doesn’t feel to me like anything changed besides there being more lemmy users.

  • @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    -71 year ago

    I went back to reddit recently. The content is still much better and the comments way more than here. (Also not as many Linux bros) Lemmy for mobile and reddit for PC seems to be a good balance for me.

      • KSP Atlas
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        11 year ago

        I’m a linux user, i feel like the users who would bother to sign up for lemmy, a niche network, are also the kind of people to use Linux

  • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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    21 year ago

    I deleted my Reddit accounts on the morning of the apicalypse, I still read Reddit though, but Lemmy has mostly replaced my social media use, and I spend more time on Lemmy than on Reddit these days.

  • @c0c0c0@lemmy.world
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    841 year ago

    I know how everyone just wants to pipe up and say, “well it didn’t crush me hur hur”, but I actually watched the video. It’s a good record of what went down. I wish it would’ve mentioned Reddit alternatives, but it’s still solid work.

    And to anyone who still maintains that the protest has fatally wounded Reddit, look, I’m on your side but Reddit is still the 800 lb gorilla of link aggregation, and most folks still don’t get why they should care about API pricing.

  • b000urns
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    501 year ago

    The only thing that matters to me is that the vast majority of my interactions on Reddit are shite ones with negative assholes, while the vast majority of my interactions here are pretty chill. Reddit won’t die, but if it did… I wouldn’t miss it one bit.

    • Corgana
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      131 year ago

      That’s because instance admins have zero incentive to tolerate even the slightest bit of bullshit. Reddit didn’t care because trolls and jerks generate engagement.

  • @RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
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    IMO they didn’t crush anything?

    The apathetic remained.

    Those who have niche communities that aren’t available elsewhere likely remained.

    Several of my subscribed subs are completely gone or functionally extinct due to lack of participation.

    Anecdotally I find reduced participation in other subs, people seem less willing to have a discussion.

    Personally I’ve moved on to Lemmy/KBin/etc. and spend most of my time there now.

    But “crushed”?

  • @Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    Went back to Reddit and immediately saw some homophobic trite. Friend of mine also had something happen to them and Lemmy users have said they experienced similar things.

    Reddit is no better than Elon’s plaything at this point. In fact I’d say they’re just as bad. (and yes, I know Spez is influenced by Elon)