I used to use Reddit a lot more back before the whole API fiasco earlier this year. After that, I stopped, save for posts promoting Lemmy (like this one) and one very specific subreddit that never migrated to Lemmy and that I just couldn’t go without. (The other subreddits I could either do without or were already replicated on Lemmy.)
Comment on Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lemmy is getting better and better at an exponential rate. I still use Reddit but eventually I expect to fully be on Lemmy.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
If I may ask, what subreddit is that, and how big it is?
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s /r/Toonami. It’s gotten about 35k members, but it’s not as active as that number might imply.
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
Ok, so I created !toonami@metacritics.zone. Follow-up questions:
- Do you want to become a moderator for it?
- If there is anyone you know from Reddit that you’d like to help migrate to this community, can you tell them to join via portal.alien.top? This will log them in *via Reddit and automatically subscribe them to lemmy communities that correspond to the the subreddits they joined.
- While the community here is empty, would you be interested in having the content mirrored to the community (via alien.top?)
JairJacom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I also used to rely more on reddit but just came to lemmy and can really see potential that with time will overpass reddit eventually
cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 year ago
I think we can overpass in quality some day but not in rough numbers(at least for now, reddit has to fuck up a lot to go down like twitter).
rglullis@communick.news 1 year ago
Even with “all the fuck ups from Twitter”, their traffic is down only 4-5%.
It’s going to take a lot more than just waiting for them to fuck up. Network effects are real and the big companies spent the last 18 years making sure that they built enough moat around their fiefdoms.
Protests are not enough. “Strikes” were the leaders announce beforehand how long they will paralyze is not enough. Depending on moderators who are more worried about losing their status with their masters is not enough.
We need to treat this as a fight. Get all the tooling that can be used to make as easy as possible to migrate and ensure that people can get their dose of dopamine away from Reddit. Then things will start looking better.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I honestly haven’t used Reddit since the API exodus. The only reason I still have an account there is for when I have weird tech issues and the only search results are from old Reddit posts.
I only check Lemmy a few times a day, (and I tend to browse /all so I’m not limited to only seeing my subscriptions,) so I always have fresh content whenever I open the app. My posts and comments tend to get better engagement on Lemmy anyways. They don’t get buried by power users and karma-farming bots, so I actually get real responses. Nearly every time I open my app, I have three or four comment responses to check.
gapbetweenus@feddit.de 1 year ago
I miss like one community and sort by controversial to enjoy a really nice shit show.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Some of my main communities didn’t take hold here, so I keep my toes in those subreddits. In the past week, the experience has gotten measurably worse. It’s wild.
I wish those communities had reached a critical mass here.
Someday.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I browse old.reddit when I finish a show or movie for review and to touch in on hiphop releases. But without interaction. Lemmy is where I am now, fuck reddit I’m not a complete fuck Spez but they’re a genuinely unlikeable company.
dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just quit cold turkey and moved to lemmy fulltime. I miss some communities but whatev, its no biggie.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s too many answers over the past decade to abandon reddit completely. Most google searches for specific questions go back to Reddit.
Heisenburner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve heard that Reddit is trying to kill that too so people will use their godawful search feature instead. I got a prompt from the site to take a survey about it sometimes last month and that’s what people were theorizing that it was about.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve had some searches lead me to old reddit threads where the answers are all deleted a few times since migrating here already. So even that is becoming less true than it used to be.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah I only get back on Reddit from a search engine hit. And even then I’ll use the cached copy if I can.
d3lta19@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
How do you get the cached copy?
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Same. I realised 95% of Reddit for me was just the bants and chitchat. There’s a few communities I miss, but I can easily get my kicks here.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just came over from reddit to check this place out and gotta say, I’m liking it so far!
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same here. I do go back for sore niche browsing, but mostly over here now.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll go back there if they have some specific discussion with good info. I.e. Linux, video games, something. But signing in and browsing? No way.