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I kinda get this. It’s not reddit that I need, I just need aggregated links of shit I’m interested in. A “front page” to my internet, so to speak. There are plenty of the smaller communities that don’t yet have much presence here, so I feel a little itch occasionally, but hopefully they’ll start to develop too.
As long as this place continues to grow, it could be really easy to just abandon that old site. I’m trying to contribute and help that process.
I agree. At this point, even if Reddit backed down for everything it seems like the future there is doomed no matter what. I got a lot of joy out of connecting with people and getting content out of Lemmy this weekend. Looking forward to seeing what this site grows into.
Even if they backed down on the API stuff, they likely would not back down on the intrusive ads stuff. I’m tired of the internet turning into ad hell. I’m not leaving lemmy/fediverses. The openness here means that my front-end can do anything I want it to do as long as it talks activitypub as a protocol. And if instances start pushing ads in the activitypub itself… just block those instances. This is a better solution that keeps me in power of what I’m actually consuming.
Reddit went all in the last few days, and tipped their hand. It’s up to us if we have the balls to call, or if we fold. We have the cards, let’s use them, call their bluff and never return.
We need to show them that we care about communities not reddit or subreddits.
They have shown us that they fully intend to kill 3rd party apps. The API is an excuse and they have made that abundantly clear the last few days by announcing that they will prohibit all NSFW material and after randomly blocking some users from using mobile the other day.
They could have killed reddit by a death by a thousand vuts, but they brought out the guillotine… let’s all jump ship before reddit becomes discombobulated.
Great post. It is indeed about the links and reactions to them, more than actual known people.
Great blog! I’m optimistic and really agree that it does not take that much to make this place run just fine. Even if just a fraction of people will migrate, it’s okay. All we need is just a handful of people and all will be fine.
Nailed it! Noone cares about who writes what but everyone cares about what is written.
I too realized how easy it is to jump ship, I started here before the AMA and even if it’s been only a few days, I already feel at home, lots of interesting discussions and news going and that’s all I need.
I don’t agree on going back if reddit backpedals though, I mean, of course everyone has to decide for themselves and I respect that, but being on a platform led by the most arrogant, disrespectful, blatantly lying, stupid, dangerous even individuals (let’s not forget spez editing user’s comments) is not for me.
I want to be on a service managed by smart people that I can trust, reddit lost my trust completely and it won’t get it back.
It’s not even the first issue - remember when they hired and defended that British paedophile too - even when he was covering up news stories about his own family?
Yeah it’s been an escalation of bad facts, we’ve been very forgiving, but for me now it’s the moment to say enough is enough.
I agree about going back myself. Unfortunately I suspect most others would take the path of least resistance, especially if it means Apollo and other apps might come back.
I haven’t personally used Apollo (I’ve just used Joey on my tablet because the reddit app doesn’t support landscape), but it would be great to see the dev host a lemmy server and point the app to it.
@joyjoy testing a reply to my new Lemmy friend… 😁
This is a fantastic point. On lemmy you follow communities and the people specifically arent as important. On mastodon its all about people as it was designed to be
That succinctly summarizes how I feel about Mastodon; I really want to like it, but I just don’t have the energy to join in on a constant flow of random thoughts, even from people I like.
Yeah, i was telling a masto friend the other day that reddit and lemmy are much less personal. You may very well never see the same username again which is fine imo because that person was only interacting with one of your interests. On mastodon you follow the person and get to know their opinions on topics you really had no interest in
I had been hoping for some reddit alternative to emerge just in case, but whenever that happened it would be due to hate groups leading the movement making the sites that opened up become unappealing.
But, then something that finally angered more mainstream audiences is leading the charge, and finally led to the reddit alternative filled with less deranged people. It won’t overtake reddit, but it doesn’t need to.
the only issue now is user engagement. lemmy instances are filled with empty communities. people need to post more, especially in smaller communities.
It really feels like there are already enough people here for me to stick around. Hopefully that is true for most new users.
This is a really poignant article that hit the nail on the head for exactly how I feel.
