I wish there was an alternative to leaving Reddit

  • WhiteBreadBuddha@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m feeling pretty good about Lemmy, honestly. I wasn’t sure how I was going to fill my downtime, but this and mastodon may just pan out for me

  • Morcyphr@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s a bummer Reddit went the way it did. But here we are. I’ll miss it to a point. Still figuring out Lemmy, we’ll see how it goes. I’ve tried Mastodon a bit as well but it feels more like Twitter to me, which I used for maybe a week years ago. No thanks.

    • Dan_Rachevaski@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      well, for me at least, Mastodon IS an alternative to twitter, though it may change since it is federated (?) with lemmy? And yeah, my mastodon account is just collecting virtual dust there lmao

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I never got into Twitter and was freaked out by the content on Mastodon. I just want a nice chill community that shares interesting information/news/facts/pics.

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    1 year ago

    I prefer non-corporate alternatives, like lemmy or mastodon. However, if it’s going to last, users are going to have to contribute what they can to keeping the lights on, otherwise, if lemmy grows, they’ll have to resort to things like ads to cover their costs and it will become reddit all over again.

    • FearTheCron@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well, we are on the ground floor here. Let’s find something that keeps the lights on and gives everyone the incentives they need to make a great community!

      Perhaps a good start would be a page that gives statistics about the time and money required to run an instance. I really appreciate those who have dedicated their time money and reputation to start things up. Lets find a way to build a better social media experience together.

      I think many of us would be OK with a number of different models, donations, non-intrusive ads, reasonable subscription fees, etc. Perhaps there could even be incentives for people who put time into building communities by moderating or other tasks. The important thing in my opinion is that everyone feels they contributed to the structure in a way that they want to keep participating.

      Edit: I found a budget page from the donation link on the side bar of the main page of lemmy.world.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Glad to see it go. It was not as useful as it once was and the community had grown very angry and bitter.

  • ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For sure, but what makes Reddit special are the users, the content, and the discussions. The admins add no value.

    We can recreate the communities in a distributed and federated way so that we never find ourselves in the same situation again.

    • Varadin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This. One thousand percent - this.

      We are ground floor. Be active! Make this the community you want it to be!

  • godless@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At this point I’m wondering whether people will stick to reddit even if they pull a 180 on api pricing and all. The whole smear campaign against Apollo and others just underlines they can’t be trusted.

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure most redditors won’t care enough to leave. I predict the only people actually leaving will be old guard (like 35+) and FOSS nerds who pine for the good old days of the internet and/or otherwise have ideological qualms with the changes. Everyone else will just grumble and get the ad infested, inferior official app.

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        1 year ago

        I want the more the merrier as long as we can moderate the more toxic tendencies, but at this moment I’m also pleased that much of the folks and vibes are much like reddit when i first joined

    • guyman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Even if they reneged on everything, I still wouldn’t go back. The problem with Reddit at this point is the quality of its users. It’s next to impossible to find any kind of legitimate discussion because everything is buried under reddit-comedy and virtue signaling. Most of the major subreddits have just become political tools for their mods. It scares me thinking how curated the posts are there.

  • psychothumbs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It is tragic. But on the plus side I think this transition will be a lot smoother than trying to leave twitter since here you don’t have to individually find everyone you want to follow, just show up at the proper forums.

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      1 year ago

      idk, i’m having kind of a hard time. i have a lot of niche subs on reddit that don’t seem to be on lemmy. i feel like i did when i first started reddit and just saw all the default pics/music/gaming subs

      • Syo@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        You can still use Reddit, just now many users have a motivation to diversify their information platforms. Fediverse does that, and only ask that your new content, discussions, and questions be added in the fediverse instead. To help growth here.

        For example, I curious about SFF PC building and, yup, Reddit already had a sub for that. If I have future questions I’ll just post them on /m/technology instead.

        • AdmiralSnackbar@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          I agree with this. As part of the Fediverse while it’s still small, it’s our job to build it up by creating content here.

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    1 year ago

    Life on the net is the life of a nomad fleeing a string of manmade apocalypses.

    Missing Reddit is better than mourning what it’ll end up as when the screws start to tighten (when you have a captive audience, stage 2 is ramping up the ads).

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    I’m sure it’s a pipe dream atm, but I’m just hoping fediverse will have a unified method to look up archived posts across all platforms. Unfortunately, it’s probably very difficult to set up because indexing would take forever given the exponentially increasing amount of content. I used to use Reddit to look up a lot of video game info/memes. Reddit’s search engine was garbage, but at least I could find info from older game guides from 10+ years ago. My main concern is that a lot of indie game devs are directing people to talk about their games on Discord, which is terrible for archiving information.

    • hallucination@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      With Google getting increasingly worse, reddit is usually where I find what I’m looking for in a sea of blog spam. And while I personally think Discord is absolutely great as a chat plaform it is nowhere near close as being a reddit replacement. Everything posted in there is silo’d and not searchable from outside.

  • dougg3@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This reminds me so much of the mass digg exodus of 2010. It’s going to be interesting to see how this goes.

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      1 year ago

      Tricky thing is going to be the onboarding process for laypeople. Problem with the fediverse is helping people wrap their heads around servers. People think the server is the “community.” And it kind of is, and it kind of isn’t. Servers are a community of people, but severs also host capital C “Communities” within them.

      This is probably the biggest thing holding back the adoption of the fediverse. This user experience problem hasn’t been cracked. Onboarding isn’t intuitive.

      • Photographer@lemmy.world
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        The confusion is the signup process and front page

        If when you joined instead of picking a user name it was username @lemmy.world or @beehaw.org then people would see it more like an email address.

        Then when you reach the front page instead of showing server admin picks, it should show a list of popular communities across servers and then the alternative local version with some text at the top explaining multiple versions of some communities exist and you can subscribe to both.

  • Proud Papa@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m glad to be a part of something new. Still confused a little bit that’s part of the excitement lol

    • Panda@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Me too!

      I felt kind of bad last night knowing I might not ever be able to see my favourite subreddits again but honestly, I just moved to Lemmy and so far the community seems super nice and it’s nice to be a part of something new and refreshing.

      People actually feel like people here, not some randoms, if you know what I mean. Reminds me of the good old days where I had a bunch of forums I frequented instead of just Reddit. I like it!