Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification

• Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even as someone that's still active here, this would never happen. Neither lemmy or Kbin were ready to replace reddit in either features, stability or support, not then and not even today. It's unfortunate but reddit is not going to go down when there is no actual competition available.

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  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least when reddit fuck up again, the alternatives are already pretty mature, at least compared to last year.

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    • nytrixus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can they really fuck up any more than they’ve already fucked up?

      I don’t know about you, but the only thing I can see that Reddit could do that’ll fuck them up is either taking porn away because their shareholders demand it or they fall out of favor with the stock market because Wall St realized how much of an idiot spez really is to them.

      KBin did exist back then last year. The problem with KBin right now is the guy running it is having personal issues and the magazines there are getting swamped by bots and spam. And there’s nobody there to kick them out.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lemmy is to reddit right now is what reddit was to digg when reddit first started. Eventually reddit will go a step too far.

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    • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reddit was always better than Digg too. I prefer the smaller community.

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    • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except instead of having an evangelizing atheist neckbeard problem, we have tankie problem. A lot of people that see unfiltered discourse on instances outside LW will think it’s Voat 2.0.

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        yea because not accepting US propaganda and trying to uplift marginalized people and help workers not be trodded upon, is about the same as open fascism, bigotry and constant hate speech /s

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wasn’t a mod, but I did participate in the blackout as a user and I did not immediately switch to Lemmy when it was over. It took about two weeks to get over the whole ‘FOMO if I leave Reddit’ and ‘I’ve spent over a decade here’ sunk cost issues.

  So I don’t blame anyone for not immediately switching to Lemmy, but if you haven’t jumped ship from Reddit by now, especially if you’re doing thankless mod work for people who don’t appreciate you, I have little respect for you at this point.

  And let me take this opportunity as someone who mods several lemmy.world communities to say that I do not feel that the .world admin are unappreciative at all. In fact, exactly the opposite. And they’re working for free just like I am, so it is a whole different scenario anyway.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As someone who moved a million-users community to lemmy successfully, if those mods had already started moving their communities to lemmy during the blackout, many many more users would have moved already. But they never planned for that, so it was just a weak bluff that reddit called.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But that would have been to assume the blackout would fail, and I think a lot of people didn’t think it would. I was dubious, but I think I was in the minority there.

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      • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was obvious that Reddit wasn’t changing course at all. Especially with how they handled communication with Christian Selig and other 3rd party devs.

        I came here during the blackout and deleted all my content on my account. The last day Apollo worked was the last day I used Reddit and I was a Reddittor since 3/10/2011

        If there was better mod organization we could have better translations for the non tech and piracy related communities but I’m overall happy how we ended up.

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not really, I started moving /r/piracy when I saw spez doubling down. By that point the writing was on the wall.

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  • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I tried to get other people off the site before I left, but the mods decided to be douchebags about user retention.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If anyone looks up my profile there, it says something like ‘Fuck Reddit! Reddit sucks! Go to Lemmy!’ but that’s the best I can do at this point.

      I’m pretty sure it’s why I didn’t get an IPO buy-in offer despite having super high post and comment karma too.

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      • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They kept sending their IPO shit to me with no way to opt out. I reported them to the FTC for not having an unsubscribe on their email.

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• nytrixus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We don’t need them. If they’ve spent years, shitting on the communities they’ve hogged all this time, what does one thing they’ll do when they come here?

  The worst that they can do is run their own instance, but it’ll be away from the rest of us.

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