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Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 80 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving

I saw one that said they would stay until Reddit charges a fee to use the site…like why are they staying??? JUST FUCKING LEAVE

One even said “there are no viable alternatives” when talking about Reddit, like excuse me what the fuck?

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'll probably get hate, but the content just isn't there. I tried using Lemmy as my main, but most of the communities I'd follow on Reddit just weren't on here, and if they were, they would have a couple hundred of subscribers at most, and there would be 7 different versions of the same community on different instances with no way to measure quality at first glance. Lemmy thrives for geeky hobbies that surround the FOSS space that gave birth to it, so communities like Linux or Unixporn have a strong enough presence, but for pretty much anything else it's just not there yet. Is this a negative feedback loop? Yes, but there isn't much to be done about it until shit REALLY hits the fan

    PD: As an added, Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times, even more so than Reddit already is. Like seriously at times 90% of the content on my feed is just shitting on Reddit plebs

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    yeah that's honestly what I found as well. once I discovered you can patch RIF to use your own personal api token, I've been continuing to use reddit. it's such a subpar experience compared to what it used to be tho

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m surprised they let you use your own API token. During the API apocalypse, Spez specifically said that was “not allowed.”

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times

    I always assumed that since both upvote and downvote counters are visible, it won't be the case. But boy I was wrong. The political/news posts are always a constant shitshow reminiscent of T_D.

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  • [+] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People forget how bad reddit was when we all moved from digg.com. It was bad. It would crash every other day.

    Lemmy is far more mature than reddit was during the digg exodus.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I wasn't an early adopter of Reddit, or Lemmy, but this sort of has the same issues of momentum as web browsers do. It doesn't matter how they started. Where they are now is the standard, and that's what you have to build to in order to be a viable replacement. With browsers it's the capability to serve pretty much any page with all the bells and whistles, with Reddit/Lemmy it's all the posts, comments, and user base. I think it can happen, but it won't be easy or fast. I'm not worried, though. I think we can rely on spez to send more users this way until a suitable number of users have joined.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm a trans woman here, and to be honest change of any kind is so scary that it is unbelievable. Like when I finally got approved for hormone, the prescription stayed at the pharmacy for like 2 or 3 weeks before eventually I decided to call a friend..

    I knew that if I went myself I would probably just chicken out or maybe I'd pick them up and just put them aside somewhere, simply because I knew that there would be no going back. I didn't even want to go back, but the fact that I couldn't was still scary.

    But my friend made me take them right then and there, as anybody would, as he always had a good ability to talk me out of my inhibitions.

    It's been about a decade since then and lemme tell you, life is better on two legs than three.

    Hell I had been wanting a Reddit alternative for the longest time because the place was a shit hole from the beginning, but traditional online forums are dead.

    It took a Perma ban from the whole site for me to make the switch, it's going to come sooner or later, it's a ban happy website it wasn't even the first time.

    Even then I felt like a criminal on the run.

    PS: a bunch of right wing trolls have reported my account for threats of violence, simply because I said something about Star Wars that they didn't like.

    I got a permaban, and had to write an appeal letter to get them to look at what I actually posted to realize that there was not even the slightest hint of a threat there.

    Ironically the second time was for abusing the report button, something that's not even listed in their terms of service, because that was easier than actually looking at all of the bigoted things that I reported. I try appealing that too, but never got a response

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving

    I think because they are uninformed. They are looking for alternatives, and don't know about Lemmy, or don't understand Lemmy, etc.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s exactly this, I only found lemmy through a sticky comment inside a post 2 days ago, and I’ve been wanting to get off Reddit for months

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Loki it might help if the special interest boards were more active, also the porn is way more well hidden here than it is on Reddit.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You haven't encountered them on your front page yet???

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Wait you're getting it on your front page?

    How?!? I subscribed to every porn instance I could find and still all I'm getting are politics, programming, and for some reason atheist memes.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, to understand lemmy is to be on lemmy. You have to be here and experience it.

    They have to make that leap of faith. There's nothing to lose anyway, there's no requirement to delete reddit to become a lemmy user. So what's holding them back. Mauve they believe the anti lemmy post on reddit or maybe they just say they want to leave reddit but has no real desire to follow through.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    But.... what about my 83k karma and 13 year badge!

    Gamification is a powerful addictive force.

    When Reddit locked down their API and Boost stopped working, I forced myself to do casual browsing on chrome on my phone. It was clunky enough that I didn't bother replying to comments, and navigation is a bit of a pain on mobile, and that was enough to ruin the game.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    these people are the same group of people that won't leave twitter. some people just live to be miserable and complain about things one hundred percent in their control.

    it's insane and i can't wrap my brain around it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It seems to be human nature that people are resistant to change, and it appears that are kombat instincts from when we were monkeys that can only be satiated these days by arguing on the internet and complaining.

    You're simply have to find a way to take the soul out of the human and put into something better. unfortunately I don't know that Souls exist

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering.... Leaving

    Reminds me of people who keep voting for politicians they supposedly can't stand.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    There aren't viable alternatives. We don't have the active niche (and not so niche) communities reddit does. And even if there was somehow a meaningful mass exodus, these little instances would break like wet toilet paper trying to hold a bowling ball.

    I don't say this to be critical of lemmy. I'm happy here. Just being realistic.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    There are no viable Alternatives because they won't come here, to the viable alternative. Seriously I would love to be able to go on special interest boards again but unfortunately the crowd is still on Lemmy.

    Who's prostate do I have to massage with a rubber glove in order to get a simple conversation about Dragon Quest going on around here?

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