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Glad I was finally early to something for once. It’s been nice reading the reddit news from Lemmy for the last year or so.
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Submitted 1 year ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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sol6_vi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Looks like I dropped Reddit at just the right time.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you don’t mind me asking, how did you find it?
There are reports of Reddit banning Lemmy mentions.
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I googled Reddit alternatives. I see Reddit as turning into just the next Twitter cesspool. There’s no longer any constructive conversation.
The problem is you can’t have real conversations that stoke any flames because they’re a public company and answer to the shareholders, so they, reddit, deem what is appropriate to be posted.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It was word of mouth for me. But now you’ve got me curious about occurrences of the term Lemmy on Reddit.
return2ozma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I came over to Lemmy during the Great API third party disaster. The exodus had commenters saying to come over to Lemmy.
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Indeed, and welcome to you.
odelik@lemmy.today 1 year ago
What I find hilarious is all these companies doing this shit after all the advancements in programming languages and paradigms in the last few years.
Thanks to tools like Node.js, React, Flask, Reflex, OpenAPI Gen, GoLang, and more, people that are fed-up and have the know-how can stand up competing technology in record time.
I look forward to see what comes out of this corporate power grab. Hopefully there’s not a lot of pain and suffering alkng the way.
andxz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By far one of the easiest decisions was jumping on over here - and I barely understand it half the time.
Second best was ditching Facebook like it was cancer.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reddit: Here’s another reason not to use our site.
Users: Ok bye.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel like this is gonna be a cash cow for reddit, just not in a way spez can just openly talk about.
A huge portion of reddit is OnlyFans promos. Reddit is making zero off of all this, because traditional advertising doesn’t want to associate themselves with porn. A bunch of these “paid subreddits” will basically be a reddit’s attempt to compete with OnlyFans.
I honestly think it’ll work. There’s a lot of money in porn.n
HairTransplants@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i hope there is a mass migration here
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The more they do shit like this the more they will
I mean, honestly Reddit is a dead site walking. At this point is not if it will “die” but how fast and I guess more importantly where will its users go. Hopefully here but who knows
sma3in@lemmy.world 1 year ago
fuck /u/spez
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re gonna pay the mods then, right?
Right?
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Most likely it’s going to be some sort of onlyfans system where people can pay to get access to specific content and the content creator gets to keep a share of it
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
no
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Do it, please, the subreddits need to migrate here
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
well, not all of them.
I can think of a handful I would much rather see thrown into a furnace.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I wanna talk nerd shit about Sonic, Yugioh, and Sims again
CastorSulMush@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More ads? There’s already a bunch of them mixed with posts and comments. What more, force people to watch an ad before loading pages?
CHKMRK@programming.dev 1 year ago
There are ads in comments now?
BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep, ads masquerading as comments. It’s awful. I’m so glad I moved to Lemmy.
underfreyja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, people like me and I assume you, who used to browse reddit via a third party app or with RES + an adblocker on pc did not see it but it’s a bit insanely how much ads there’s already on reddit right now. I migrated to GNU and firefox last week and forgot to add the extensions as I was just looking for some information in the Endeavour subreddit and I was shocked at the state of “default” reddit… I’m glad I left and I hope most of the userbase will…
aushtan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yea adds have been in comments for at least a year now
Littux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
r/spezholedesign
Cheems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wave incoming
ZombApoc@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It does seem like a lot of ads for “3% of inventory”. I can’t ever see a reason to pay for a subreddit.
Toribor@corndog.social 1 year ago
I’m not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn’t figure it out or that it isn’t good enough…
I think as the enshittification marches on they’ll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not that everyone’s getting used to the current hellscape of the internet. Kids born today have never experienced a world without it. I watched my niece playing on my dad’s phone, and she was just blasting through every single ad, interacting with every ad until it took her to the install page, and then she moved on to the next ad. People were upset about the tiktok ban cause they didnt care about their data. Shit like that is wild to me, coming from the early internet era.
Unless countries step up with better tech laws, I only see it getting worse from here.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the internet was better when it was anonymous, where you were explicitly and forcefully told that no one should know anything about you but your handle.
EcoByte@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly, I was just giving up going here, lemmy is very complicated, also I miss my beautiful snoo :(
scaryvicar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I just joined yesterday because of this article. Honestly I feel like I’m using Apollo to access Reddit again. My Reddit account was 12 years old and I deleted it.
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Welcome
We’re happy to have you here
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
This is a cool guide for starting fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kholer, American standard, and other toilet manufacturers are scrambling to match Toto’s ad popularity in “the go” ad business.
If you’ve changed your extractor fan recently, you might have come out of the restroom humming something new or maybe something familiar like the McDonalds jingle. But such feats of advertising have never been part of the true #2!. Things like bidet splash modulation… Lara papa pa!!! Right in the butt! Or flush ads! A display banner integrated on to the flush tank, and if you open the lid you’ll get ads around the bowl and in the back of the lid.
Clorox is coming up with a brad new cleaning chemical family. If you forget to clean you’ll be presented with scum in the shape of the clorox logo and the proper code and link to Amazon.
Oh yes please! Enshittify the one and only sanctuary we believed we had!
Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In order for lemmy (or any alternative) to really take off, efforts need to be made to mass migrate content. The biggest inhibitor of adoption is the lack of communities, and the user submitted info backing them. Not only would it be beneficial for alternatives to have this on their servers, efforts should be made to index and back up the mountain of how to and general hyper specific sub reddit information for the good of society. The world already lost so much during the last purge of users comments and posts, further enshitification of reddit will only lead to more getting lost. Are any groups working to scrape all (or the most important data) from reddit and break it out in a searchable format here?
reiterationstation@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well Reddit started off with a bunch of sock puppet accounts to make the site look larger than it was. Now they have bots doing that so when you refresh Reddit it’s always new. Back when it was good there was a point where you’d just run out of Reddit. It was a meme. They figured out how to stop that feeling.
But that feeling is good! We will have to get used to the fact that real human sites don’t constantly update if we want nice things.
merari42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is something that some tech savy Lemmy users could already easily do. I repost stuff from all over the web. But some systematic preservation of good old subreddits aught to be automated.
Kalkarino@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s crazy how everything slowly turns into shit in the end
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Another day of thanking my past self for leaving
mrhenry77@lemmy.world 1 year ago
great, hopefully more people leave the sinking ship
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Ok tidy up this place. We have visitors coming soon.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Still no frictionless account migration…
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 year ago
On Voyager app you can “migrate subreddits” at least
Not sure what else would even be feasible
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
What’s to migrate other than your name? My reddit usage was limited to lurking so I genuinely don’t know.
robbinhood@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The announcement is why I created a username here. I doubt I’m coming alone.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Welcome! We can definitely still use a few more people, especially if they’re willing to contribute to content.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 year ago
well Hexbear is just about gone so that should help
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
great timing for them to lose both their domains
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Second influx to the Fediverse?
Brown_dude69@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just came to lemmy again after learning this shit!! mass exodus coming soon
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wouldn’t be too sure just yet, seeing how annoying youtube and it’s ads have gotten yet it isn’t replaced still.
We might have an increase, but plenty will never leave.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 1 year ago
Youtube is probably the most difficult platform on the internet to replace. Video content delivery is extremely resource heavy and technically complicated, especially once you start to scale. Many, many competitors have attempted it over the years, and while some found their niche, none of them have achieved anywhere close to the scale of Youtube.
It took decades of Youtube to become profitable, only doing so after achieving mind-boggling economy of scale. The majority of humans on earth have used Youtube. About half of all (global) internet users use it monthly. I don’t know if any other platform can claim stats like that.
Youtube is one of those platforms that only exists because it got a head start in the unique conditions of the early internet. I don’t know if it’s even possible to create a true competitor, though I could see multiple platforms taking over different niches.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Youtube is not easily replacible.
Creating quality videos are much more difficult than memes on Reddit/Lemmy type of sites.
No content creators is gonna move because of the issue of monitization. And most couldn’t care less about Youtube’s enshittification. You cant say “Just use Peertube” when there are like nothing interesting to watch. It’s like trying to stop watching popular Movies / TV shows because “big corp media bad”. Piracy would be the best mitigation in the Movies / TV situation, and that in Youtube’s situation is just using an adblocker.
In contast, Reddit/Lemmy type of sites are just strangers talking to strangers. You are moving from Stanger Group A to Stranger Group B. It’s the easiest transition ever.
Not to mention, the storage for Lemmy instances is like in the GBs. Get a 1TB harddrive and you’re good for a long time. A Youtube replacement? On you’re gonna need PETABYTES, and all the bandwith to serve the content.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
YouTube hasn’t been replaced because adblockers still work.
Grassgrowz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
same here lol. If they paywall subreddits ive been visiting for the past FOURTEEN years, i will lose my shit. by throwing it at the reddit headquarters.
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Digg: “join us reddit…”
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We all float down here 💩💩💩
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
watch them lock old reddit behind a paywall just because it’s the best part about reddit
eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Can’t wait to see the mental gymnastics subreddit moderators will perform to defend this!
schema@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was wild how spineless most of them were when the API stuff happened, and it showed how attached they are to their little bubble of power.
Some of them were even more pathetic by virtue signaling.
Like the r/de mods allowed memes for a full week in “protest”. Yeah… they sure showed spez with that one…
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I was proud of them for those subreddit blackouts, but when communities started to come back online after the mods were threatened with replacement - I knew I had to get out of there for good.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yeah it really was pathetic.
Like they took a stand while it was cool, but then capitulated rather than face removal.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
So, what’s the stage after “enshitification”? “Enspezed?”
boatswain@infosec.pub 1 year ago
What we’re seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don’t think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.
Grassgrowz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
entshitification 2: electric boogaloo
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
As much as we’d like to joke about the sudden influx of new Lemmy users that will result from this lets all be real, it will be a few new users. Most Reddit users will accept whatever is thrown at them from that company while crying about it on Reddit. I don’t know what the phenomena is but it seems that most people would rather stay on the bad platform than try something new and slightly different. I’m cool with that, I like niche platforms.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
Its a toxic relationship, I literally could not leave, became aware of lemmy maybe two months before I left and always had the intention to make an account but put it off til I was perk banned
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 year ago
if it’s the same amount of ppl trying out Linux we might be going places
designated_fridge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The key part here is that (at least initially…) they won’t put any existing subreddits behind a paywall. So users’ habits won’t really be interrupted.
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s fine. A more fragmented internet is better for the world
sphxre@ani.social 1 year ago
Hi, I think I’m doing this right. Just joined Lemmy lol because of this.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Not only do I see your comment, it’s not yet buried even 5 days after you’ve made it.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Awwww yeaaah. Welcome friend, stay a while
TrumpetX@programming.dev 1 year ago
hunter2
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Nope, cannot see this.
😉
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
yep, even from my solo instance
Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
There’s nothing on Reddit anymore. It’s really unfortunate but I don’t see how this is going to help them regain any consistent user base.