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I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.
Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.
Yeah, the drama over there is pure reality TV level right now.
Wow, that bad, eh? Haven’t been there for a month now. Just bot accounts everywhere?
I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.
Try sorting by “Top Day” if you haven’t already until it’s fixed.
New is good
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
The jump is caused by Spez being a twat.
This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.
The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.
spez’s continued jackassery. I made the switch about 24h ago.
The post by the Apollo creator was the final nail for me. It really laid everything out there pretty well. Let it go be Tumblr somewhere
I saw that post too. I can’t even begin to imagine the July 1st surge when all 3rd party reddit apps are forced to shut down.
Honestly, I’m excited! We are potentially the early comers to get the ball rolling if/when a huge number joins. We are the early people (not to discount those who came before everyone coming from reddit originally) that can help out and grow the communities
I witnessed the digg to reddit switch in 2010, now potentially seeing the beginning of reddit to lemmy/kbin. Fresh start, new communities, better connections. Can’t wait!
This also was the realization point for me that was the last straw for me. It was a hard struggle not opening Apollo first thing in the morning and all throughout the day for the first time in such a long time. But now I do my best to avoid touching anything on reddit at all.
No idea myself but we have to remember that not all the users that come try this will stay, so I anticipate once the Reddit nonsense blows over the community will shrink a bit. I am going to stay, but I was “lemmy curious” before the reddit business.
Someone made a great site for people coming from Reddit to find communitie they were a part of. https://sub.rehab/
Most likely it’s because of Reddi’s bots, targeting all the other good options and making content pro-staying
What do you mean?
For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I’m extremely happy to be here!
Edited: messed up posting the Dev’s name. Thanks @DTFpanda@lemmy.world
gaining critical mass?
Some of the big things that happened in the past 24h or so:
- r/LegalAdviceUK wants to move their 800k+ community to another platform. Their members might be testing Lemmy.
- Apollo developer posted another lengthy post about Reddit and their leadership.
Also r/ModCoord has started recommending moderators to move their communities to other platforms, like Lemmy.
Do you have a link to the new post by the Apollo dev?
Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up
Someone mentioned it on a Reddit post about mods so I’m giving it a go. Stopped Twitter a while back and don’t use Facebook. I like the concept of aggregated content around topics I’m interested in just not by evil companies.
not that surprising really - many, MANY people are fed up with centralized link aggregation/social media/reddit in general & the fediverse is an excellent option
I’m tired of capitalism and greed ruining everything I love!
For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.
Hear Hear!
I’m sick of the internet being only 5 websites!
I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.
I don’t even use third party apps. It’s just that I can’t give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.
That’s a good reason to jump ship. And wow, I think you missed out on not using the 3rd party apps, but they’re coming to lemmy soon.
Im really enjoying my experience here on Lemmy. Kinda like how I enjoyed reddit in the beginning
