• @[email protected]
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    823 months ago

    Prediction: This change comes to life, people make an uproar about this. Then they forget this in a few days and continue using reddit.

    This same old keeps happening with reddit, Twitter/X, etc.

    Hopefully we do receive some refugees to Lemmy!

    • Keshara
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      403 months ago

      Reddit refugee here! Really enjoying Lemmy so far, I hope more and more people start jumping over

    • @[email protected]
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      293 months ago

      Reddit likely won’t die from one bad change, it’s going to slowly die to attrition as they keep putting shit like this in.

      • @[email protected]
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        233 months ago

        It’s been slowly dying from attrition . It might be gaining users, but meaningful interactions and content production is down from 3 years ago.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Hi!

        For Lemmy usage my preferred approach is always sorting by all and blocking communities (and instances) I don’t want to see instead of subscribing to the ones I do want to see. This way you get more content and dont miss new sublemmies! :)

          • @[email protected]
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            53 months ago

            You’re welcome. Spread the word of the fediverse, may one day Lemmy be bigger than Reddit, Pixelfed bigger than Instagram, Mastodon bigger than Twitter, …

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      I see more and more people moving to Bluesky, which means Xitter is becoming less and less relevant by the day. Except for nazi shitheads, that is.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      Well Reddit wouldn’t be the juggernaut it is now if Digg hadn’t done similarly stupid things and paid the ultimate price. Social media sites do fall, and Lemmy grows a little every time this happens. I honestly don’t care. I like Lemmy how it is now.

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        This is the reason. I can get all the Linux discussion I want on Lemmy, but discussions about an Acura RSX? That community does not exist here.

          • azl
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            There are definitely high-IQ car guys and they are soul of car forums/reddits. But based on my observation of the diagnostic and critical thinking skills of the other 90%, they are probably never going to figure out how to use Lemmy.

            And somehow we need both types (maybe for sample size?) in order to have a thriving niche community about anything.

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          Tbf, for me, that’s more of a forum territory. I wasn’t even using the subreddit for Aprilia motorcycles, but been on Apriliaforum for years

      • @[email protected]
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        There are some pretty basic communities that are non existent or dead on Lemmy and I hate it

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          A good example is the Usenet community, in Lemmy there is barely any activity, on reddit people post at least once a week.

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      73 months ago

      A lot of people dont use an app at all, much less third party apps, so the whole thing was lost on them to begin with, if they were even aware of it.

  • Einar
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    In other news, Lemmy will keep all its content open for free, making everything accessible to everyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      As a sidenote, do tip your instance operators, especially if you’re on a small instance. Upkeep isn’t free.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      I was so happy when I found lemmy. A great alternative to reddit with a small and kind community. I hope it doesn’t turn into the cancer that is reddit.

      I joined reddit in 2013. It was great until it wasn’t

      • @[email protected]
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        I blame the 5 mods who control the top 200 subs. I still think posting was better years ago. Could actually post comments.

  • @[email protected]
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    I moved here and took a break from Reddit for a year after the whole API thing.

    Recently been dipping my toe back in the water, lurking only.

    It is noticeable that a lot of posts are obviously bot accounts trying to spur debate on contentious topics. And in general, it’s a sad echo of the community it used to be.

    On the other hand, there are some communities there that are still pretty active and interesting just based on the sheer volume of people that still use Reddit. So it still has a place in my life… Kinda.

    Only expect to get worse over time, it’s like a slow decline of a friendship

  • @[email protected]
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    I wonder if that’s what all the banned subs thing was about. Maybe “some content” = NSFW subs

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      i’m guessing older posts, maybe 6+ months. so basically any question you google with an answer on reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        So if the accepted solution is behind a paywall, the question gets asked (and answered) over and over again. It’s an insidious way to generate infinite content.

    • Jin
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      13 months ago

      Could work well if it is implemented like a patreon community.

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        In Patreon, the users are selling their content, in this case Reddit is paywalling user content without paying the users.

        • Jin
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          13 months ago

          Creators are providing extra content to users. Often comes in form of tiers, which is paywalled. But the platform sucks with engagement between these users. So they often rely on private discord server for that.

          No one knows how it exactly will work yet on Reddit. I’m just saying their could be a market for it.

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    The site has become utterly useless. I got banned for god knows what, they don’t actually tell you. But just disagreeing with someone else and they report you and you’re auto banned without question.

    I tried opening new accounts and every single one would be banned for evasion. I guess they track ip? In any case the users have become x10 more toxic and the site itself is trash

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      At least you got banned. Last time I tried to return in 2024, I was shadow banned. Zero indication that none of my comments were showing up until I saw the page logged out…

    • @[email protected]
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      I had multiple accounts suddenly they all got system error, which in Reddit means you are banned. They couldn’t be bothered to implement a notification system to inform the users they were banned.

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          From my experience they almsot never reply, it is better to make a new account using vpn rather than trying to get unbanned.

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    another dick move from spez! I’m sure the outcome would be more lemmybuds joining

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    I don’t really get it why would people want to post to a sub that hardly anyone can see and likely you won’t get any good amount of karma.

    likely I’m missing something but yeah I wouldn’t pay to see a sub I’d just look for a free one which likely already exists.

    • Jin
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      I don’t think people really care about karma? Can easily farm that by bots or just by posting cats in place that likes cats.

      People on patreon are often using private spaces like Discord. This could work well for Reddit if done right

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    63 months ago

    Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don’t have any content worth locking.