They took my RiF. The CEO seems like an absolute bastard. It got more and more toxic over the years. I can take some abuse but this was a bit too much. If it continues to be popular I’ll use it for information gathering just like always, but they wont get any content, interaction or ad revenue from me.
This blackout thing, while surely sending a message, will be pointless in the end imo. The bosses have decided how they want to proceed and that’s that.
It ain’t pointless. The message is what get me here at lemmy.
Yeah. I meant pointless in the sense of “we as the reddit community want to change the companies business strategy shortly before an IPO”.
You being brought here (same as me) through the backlash-posts is great. But unless certain highly frequented subs go dark PERMANENTLY I dont see much that could sway the reddit leadership towards a more community friendly approach.
@starrox
The point to be taken here is that you can NEVER trust for profit companies because its just a matter of time before they turn evil…and during that time, you’ve wasted years of effort. Time to build something new!
@lowleveldata
The CEO is an absolute bastard. He’s twisted the words of his “friend” Aaron Swartz, the real founder of the site, and bastardised his creation while trashing his legacy.
The blackout isn’t pointless, it’s just not yet enough. Reddit needs to die, and the blackout is a step towards that. It started as a way to try and get admin to change, and in that respect it has and will fail, but it is the first step to reddit going the way of digg.
Maybe not, look at lemmy activity numbers. Those people all won’t forget.
It’s the 1% who create all the content that matter on any website, and those are the redditors using 3rd party apps.
All a matter of posting more varied content
a lot of subreddits promised that they won’t come back unless reddit removes the api restrictions
The admins will probably reopen it manually
And if they do the mods still won’t come back and those subs will devolve into a cesspit for the worst kinds of people on the internet.
Maybe, but that will galvanize the members of those community even more.
Either way, be prepared for lots of new Lemmites (like me!)
I’ve just finished deleting the past 9+ years comment and post history on my account, I’m just waiting until I have copied some of my saved stuff elsewhere then I’m deleting my account. Fuck Reddit and the cesspit it has become.
Better than every user from Reddit coming to Lemmy, for a few reasons:
- servers would crash
- the reddit “hivemind” would move to Lemmy
- the shitty jokes would continue here
- just check r/redditmoment, do you want that to become c/lemmymoment?
- right now the community here is big enough that there are enough posts to keep us entertained, but small enough to get to interact multiple times with the same people and not get drowned in a sea of posts/comments
- the Lemmy community rn is also formed of at least mildly tech-savvy people (that could figure out the whole instances thing), that isn’t the case for Reddit
I don’t really agree on the whole tbh. Specifically, the one thing that’s still keeping my Reddit account alive is that there’s a bunch of communities that don’t exist on any other platform because they’d need enough of a “critical mass” of users for it to make sense; and they’re too niche otherwise.
A huge influx of users certainly comes with… Challenges, I do not deny that. But I’d also love to not have to use Reddit anymore solely because of its active user count. And new Lemmy users are unlikely to come from Twitter or something; as it’s a different kind of format.Also, I think the sentiment of “the Lemmy community rn is also formed of at least mildly tech-savvy people […]” is kind of exclusionary for no real reason, I don’t think you have to be tech-savvy to have a good perspective on things, make a good joke or all in all be a positive person to interact with.
I Wholeheartedly agree. Especially on the exclusion of non-techies. Kinda worried Lemmy will become a techie circlejerk with that mentality.
But i think lemmy is a good way for a community to control their own destiny. Instead of the whims of a corporate overlord
the shitty jokes would continue here
You’re posting in a meme community lol. Are memes not shitty jokes?
No. Shitty jokes like “I also choose this guy’s dead wife”
Yeah, instead we’ll form our own terrible inside jokes
better than “inheriting” the years of terrible jokes that already are on reddit
Lemmy moment
And the puns. My god the puns.
I just wanted more info about what’s going on in a video, and now I have to wade through hundreds of low effort puns. And most of them the exact same dumb joke repeated over and over.
What about that time Reddit got the wrong guy and they killed themselves over it?
Yes but there was also the time a guy in Africa took a machete to the face defending an orphanage from looters, and reddit got together and raised a couple hundred thousand to help the orphanage. They built walls and set up security, as well as providing loads of learning material for the kids.
Point being, there were a lot of good things about reddit - if there weren’t, Lemmy wouldn’t be so similar. The problems with reddit all revolve around the admin, and in particular their efforts to monetise the site and “increase user engagement” by promoting controversy and hostility.
What happened? I’m out of the loop on this one
The Boston Bombing. Reddit called someone out for it, he killed himself (although iirc it wasn’t quite so closely tied together, as in he was already planning on/did kill himself, but it brought a lot of unnecessary hassle to a family that was already grieving).
I’ve been around long enough now to know that that sort of thing is unavoidable long term (and with popularity). The good thing about Lemmy is it’s pretty low-friction to set up a new community on a different instance if need be.
The best of subreddit, where it was just a quote from a random Redditor, really annoyed me due to uselessness
I won’t… I primarily use Reddit through SyncPro, I won’t be downloading the Reddit app as it’s a steaming pile of garbage. My Reddit use has already dropped by 90%, as I do sometimes use it from my PC.
Louis Rossmann really made some great points that a 2 day blackout doesn’t mean anything in his recent video. People need to understand that it won’t hurt Reddit at all of subreddits just start functioning normally after 2 days.
Well… a bunch of them are shutting down indefinitely. Plus who’s gonna be happy modding for reddit after they see how spez respond to everyone’s concerns?
Lmao responded? More like just ignored thousands of questions and copy pasted some answers.
And edited comments that trashed him
Boost app stops working -> I delete Boost and never use Reddit again.
It’s simple
I’m still waiting for an announcement from the dev of Infinity. But things don’t look any better. The only one I feel bad about is them. Spez can eat shit while watching his platform meet the same fate as Digg.
infinity is the free and open source one, right?
basically there’s zero chance that they’ll be able to afford any commercial-grade , let alone reddit api pricing.
there’s absolutely no hope.
As an Apollo user I can at least say I won’t forget
Neither
I think it will be quite different afterwards, especially for those subs that permanently go black. If Lemmy can provide a alternative community for those subs and enough content is provided the people might stay there
Don’t forget to advertise Lemmy to these sub owners so they can consider moving. Explain to them what it is and how it’s different from Reddit.
My whole Reddit experience was Apollo, even on desktop after the release for M1 Macs.
So they’re not killing just an app to connect with Reddit, they’re killing the Reddit experience (at least for me).
I’ve stopped using Reddit web years ago, I installed the official Reddit app last month and uninstalled it after 5 minutes because it felt like a piece of shit.
I will stick with lemmy and even think about starting to create content.
We can all contribute to improving Lemmy. I will also not go back to reddit.
Nah the major players on reddit use third party stuff. Reddit dies.
The Rexit begins!
@Silviecat44 @CookieJarObserver
Even if reddit doesn’t die, having a surge in usage for federated tech is really amazing. Even though not everyone stuck around, mastodon has a lot of new folks because of Twitter nonsense.
Very true. If not for the twitter and reddit things happening I would know nothing about fediverse stuff
I agree, the majority will go back to Reddit but maybe that’s a good thing, hopefully all the good people stay here and it doesn’t become as toxic as reddit
I think many will forget. Meanwhile the rest of us that continue to use Lemmy, can hopefully mirror a load of the more popular communities, even if they have a very low numbers of moderators. That way, if there ever is another protest, many will be able to blend into their favourite communities without missing a beat. May even stay here. I think if the communities exist, even if it’s just the basics, more users will come and stay.
