Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak?
Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak?
First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
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The reddit exodus is comparatively very small. Tens of thousands of users, many of which will not stick around. Reddit has millions of users (hundreds of millions?). They barely notice.
true enough, but I don't think i'm going to care that much as long as the community stays big enough to stay somewhat active. I feel much more engaged in the community here than I ever did on reddit.
To me, day 1 here, it feels like a niche subreddit about something you enjoy but that's the whole platform. The federation and the ability to have multiple of the same communities moderated differently is intriguing idea to me. I think reddit's troubles began ultimately with it's popularity. More content, less quality, more of an inclination of reddit for monetization. This is going to be an interesting month that will test the capabilities of this idea we are participating in. I feel like it is entirely possible but I hope that not too much strain is placed on each instance operator and their mod team. I want to be somewhere to anonymously socialize without being the commodity. I do have some concerns about Lemmy, primarily, it's lack of a privacy policy and a tos. Really my concern is, if I delete my account for example does it and my content also get deleted? What's the data retention policy? We are seeing this federation could easily be made into a archive like what pushshift for reddit l became which was a major frightening idea that everything you ever posted or commented was archived without your consent or knowledge. This truly is the wild west right now. It's exciting and I'm glad to be here. Just want some understanding of what we are signing up for. Lemmy's dev did say there is no logging of your IP address anywhere except web server logs which is to be expected.
I have some similar concerns, although reddit does hang on to deleted comments and posts for themselves/their monetization and tracking purposes. That's why those reddit account deletion scripts edit all comments before deletion, and people are (were?) advised to let the edited comments sit for 24 hours before finally deleting them. I don't know if that actually works anymore to delete the comment from reddit's servers, though; somebody said they started keeping the pre-edited versions of comments to get around it.
At least with Lemmy you also have the option of hosting your own instance, which I would think could get around some of these concerns? I haven't looked into it much.
If you post on multiple communities, too, I think your info is spread around multiple servers. And there's no monetary incentive for people to be trying to track us, except perhaps on instances hosted by companies.
But the only company I know of that currently has an instance (I think) is Mozilla, and since I use Firefox, they'd have a heck of a lot of other options if they wanted to invade my privacy.
Edit: I dislike that when I delete a comment, it just deletes the text and leaves my username there above the deleted comment marker. I can kind of see why it might be desired for accountability purposes, but also, ehhh.
For sure, reddit became less transparent with the data retention the further their success increased. In the past they claimed that ip addresses on your account would be removed after 100 days except for the signup IP. I did the GDPR requests for all my old accounts. I have one remaining that I deleted all the content off of until I was permenantly done (which looks soon now).
I just really dislike being targeted for ads and tracked for companies purposes to "advertise" to you. I run a dns sink hole, VPN, ublock on all my devices and I know it's still impossible to be truly anonymous online without being a weirdo and unable to live modern life.
I'm the sameway. I use firefox exclusively and have for years, love it, began using their password manager for a few years now and I'm thinking about an alternative to that I manage. I've already been a part of huge databreaches. I would sure hate for my passwords to be out there. I mean, it's dangerous AF.
You could submit that as a bug report. If the devs don't think that it's a bug, they'd probably explain why.
Yeah, I unsubscribed from almost all the default subs and have endless block list of subs, since I stopped enjoying most of the content and lot of the communities got way too big to follow the rules of why certain subs were created in the first place. Upvotes and downvoting just don't work effectively once communities get past a certain size to curate content.
Although, there are subs where really large userbases are needed and useful like /r/gamedeals and /r/buildapcsales. But, lot of the discussion based ones don't need to be that big.
I wonder if we're big enough to have a hive like "PC Builders" or just "PC Gaming", so we at least have somewhere to discuss parts / ask for parts advice, offer build help, and so on. But then, I suppose "Technology" or "Gaming" would both be suitable spots for that at present.
I have to wonder just how many genuine users reddit actually has based on the amount of account harvesting that utilizes reposting content.
The thing with these sites is that only a tiny proportion of users create content. For Reddit it's even worse, since they also need subreddit moderators, essentially employees working for free. So, tens of thousands of users leaving will definitely have an impact since in this case it's old power users who make content, and mods. Will the site "die"? Nope, we'll see it working for a long, long time, but will be a shadow of what it used to be, for example i remember the Obama AMA and many similar high-profile ones, that's not gonna happen anymore or will be reduced greatly.
The thing with these sites is that only a tiny proportion of users create content. For Reddit it’s even worse
Exactly. You see a sub with 5 million subscribers and when you sort by new it's essentially empty. A small minority keeps Reddit going. The karma nuts are making Reddit what it is.
I think the AMA stuff has really died already. But I'm not sure the big content creators will leave. They are doing it for the audience and the karma and Lemmy doesn't have either.
I also think that others will rise to fill any gap. Over time this leads to lower quality content, but the peak of reddit is well over so probably people still won't notice.
As long as it is an exodus of enough interesting users. Lemmy needs roughly the number of users appearing now to make posts frequent enough. But still the lack of communities needs more.