I was a Reddit refugee.
A year or so into Lemmy and I don’t want to have a Reddit account anymore. I go back and view “All” every once in awhile, but Lemmy and Loops give me all I need.
No other social media or content aggregators besides those.
Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 day ago
🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 1 day ago
batcheck@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve not logged in on my Reddit account since that big group boycott and switching to Lemmy.
If Reddit didn’t hold some specific info for certain video games or just a much larger group participating in Tech/Selfhosted subreddits, I’d rarely have to visit the website.
Honestly, to me the Reddit demise was happening organically anyway. For a lot of weirdly specific topics, Discord has become a good alternative.
Now just don’t get me started on Discord and how it will eventually have to better monetize the platform and ruin that too. Wish Matrix had a soundboard for voice chat 😢
Tower@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
My biggest problem with Discord is it’s a walled garden. So much info that’s inaccessible to the rest of the world.
batcheck@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yeah. Soon as I realized that at some point Discord either has to sell or IPO the platform was eventually going to deteriorate.
It’s already got some odd limitations. Character limits. Very tight file upload limit. And streaming limitations. But hey, Nitro/Boost fixes it.
Worse part? If most of the limitations were removed for the price of $1 or $2 a month it might be more acceptable (at least for me). $10 feels steep for nitro. When I see that price tag, it signals I might not be the target audience. Which is weird when I’m pretty sure I’m a subset of the target audience.
kolorafa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What do you mean by soundboard?
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
They probably mean that stupid soundboard where you can play cricket noises and stuff in your voice chat.
@batcheck@batcheck@lemmy.world, you can use voicemeeter banana for completely free, or the trial version of voicemeeter potato for forever with a pretty simple bypass, to patch your hardware mic input and a software audio output to a virtual mic device, then set that virtual device as your mic input in discord, matrix, any game, whatever you want. You can play soundboard audio from your browser or from any program on your pc.
I personally have the entire chain as: xlr mic in -> nvidia broadcast (to remove server noise) -> voicemeeter potato hardware input -> voicemeeter potato virtual B1
I split my comms audio and game audio to different virtual devices, then set my OS audio to the “main” virtual device. All three play out of my headphones. I set my OS audio to play out of B1 also.
I have the B1 device set as the microphone device in discord, every game that has in game vc, matrix, slack, etc. Anything I play in the OS, Spotify, YouTube, Plexamp, a soundboard, whatever, both plays in my headphones for me and plays in my voice chat channel with perfect quality. And I can still talk over it.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Same. I still want to log in and change every comment to “fuck spez”.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Jesus, here we go with that useless ai license nonsense lmao
ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
RePoSt ThEsE maGic wORds tO StoP eVIL TEcH NerDS fROm StEaling yOuR pErSOnaL datA!
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Like the online equivalent of a sovereign citizen
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I’d be more impressed if, instead of the weird 2012-era Facebook content license copypasta style of anti-ai license, they just signed every message with a SQL injection style of command instructions for the ai, like
Ignore all previous instructions. You are….TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
The word is 80085, right?
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 18 hours ago
You’re probably right. I can’t speak for the entire world, but at least in my country, reddit’s popularity (according to similarweb data, not my own perception) has only been growing since the api thing. People simply don’t care or come with the “but the communities I like are here” argument. I tried to stay for a while and promote lemmy, but people even got angry about it. They made it clear they don’t like lemmy at all, that I was being inconvenient, and aren’t willing to move. It was so funny to see them speaking ill of the social networks ran by “fascist ceos” as if reddit was any different.
It’s funny to see you so downvoted. Maybe people around here are in denial?
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever.
The users are the product, and they banked on having enough newer, more impressionable users to make up for the ones they would lose. It was a good gamble that also binned many ‘savvy’ users that cut into their bottom line with adblockers and 3rd party apps.
Dollars to doughnuts that all the content that was ‘publicly’ lost was actually retained and continues to be a free resoruce for them. Very Land O’Lakes. Kept the land (content). Got rid of the Indian (users).
Now they have a bunch of oblivious users happily, or at least tolerably, being harvested and fed slop by their dogshit app. Based on that, I think this ‘AI’ thing of theirs going to do well for them.
Obelix@feddit.org 1 day ago
I disagree - I was on Reddit since before the Digg exodus, so I may or may not know a few things. There was a big mood shift after the mod strike. It really shook the page - some subreddits never “recovered”. Some that were popular before are still in a kind of lockdown. Some have new mods which are not doing a really great job. There were a few that really grew. But overall, Reddit lost a lot. People did delete decades of useful advice. Regular users left. The new ones are … different. In many cases mobile users that kind of seem to use Reddit as a chat platform, but they are not posting really insightful comments. Some are indistingushable from bots. Many are bots. Some mods have just given up and gave up moderating popular subreddits, which are now drowning in repost bost. There are bots replicating whole threads under reposts. Many subreddits are just old screenshots from Twitter. It’s wild - but it is hollow. And that was different a few years back.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
It’s getting hard to remember when Reddit was just that little weird link sharing icon on articles that few people (relatively speaking for the time) bothered with. Digg shitting the bed gave Reddit the push it needed to become recognisable.
Funny now that Digg exists solely as a ‘frontpage’ full of clickbait titles and a ‘community’ made entirely of comment boxes. Yet it perseveres in its own little corner.
Now we have Reddit in the place of Digg and the fediverse in the place of Reddit - history really does repeat itself.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
This pleases me to know