should we be discussing reddit less?
should we be discussing reddit less?
Seems like a good portion of the activity in the communities is reddit oriented. If the goal is leaving/hurting reddit, it seems we should be continuing on like it doesn't exist, instead of continuing to drive interest to the site. Thoughts?
reddit was like this when digg died. it won't make the front page in a few weeks but it'll come up randomly in the comments for decades after
No?
Let people grieve, man. Beehaw getting more popular as a discussion platform is 99% because of the overnight management collapse of Reddit. Of course people are going to feel down and want to talk about a community space that was home for many, many people for over a decade.
I understand if you're getting weary of the constantly discussion, but it'll gradually taper off over the next few weeks as this drama dies down. Or until Spez gets tired of constantly making angry, short-sited decisions and statements to any media outlet that will listen to his rants.
People will make alternative platforms their new home rather than dwell on their lost one eventually. Even if the bad press makes Reddit eventually walks back their decisions, the way they're handled the API change fallout has been so overtly aggressive and dismissive IMO they've permanently incinerated all trust in their leadership amongst many. I definitely never want to go back.
I've never seen a social media platform treat the wishes of its users with such contempt so abruptly. Some shareholder must be breathing down Steve's neck real heavy.
Reddit was important to a lot of us for a long time. It's natural to talk about it, especially while the dumpster fire is still burning. If half the conversations are still about reddit after things calm down I'll start to worry, but for now they keep finding new ways of pissing everyone off, so there keeps being new stuff to talk about.
Personally, it's nice to be getting news of Reddit without giving them any traffic. It'll be old news eventually and I'm not a huge fan of shutting down natural discussion.
I'm of the opinion that the fediverse (and more specifically kbin) is my new home to talk about stuff. Reddit's been in the news and on my mind, so why not talk about it? Talking about other platforms isn't necessarily advocating for them. And people are gonna wanna talk about stuff. if not here, then where?
I do think it's important to encourage discussion of topics other than reddit, but to just avoid discussing reddit entirely? idk. Like I'd still talk about facebook, twitter, instagram, etc here if they're relevant and in the news.
I'm thinking of this as a grieving period. I was on Reddit via Sync for over 10 years multiple times a day. I'm angry, annoyed, and sick over the entire situation, and commiserating with other Reddit orphans is helping me transition to Lemmy. It will slowly die down over the next few months and we'll find something else to direct our rage at. 😉
Tbh as long as it's relevant news, I don't see any reason why not to. Like. The reddit discourse will die down, but watching a site implode in realtime is worth talking about even if we weren't active reddit users at one point yknow, like. It's interesting and worth talking about, add on to that the fact that there's some semblance of personal stakes and it's gonna be p prevalent around here. But that'll die down with time.
This is what's happening now. This is what's in the news. This is what a lot of us care about. So it's natural that this is what we're going to talk about.
Don't worry, it will all blow over, and we'll naturally move on to different topics.
Just give it time. People are still in the process of discovering Lemmy, so the reddit talk will go on for a bit. I also expect a “spike” at the end of the month, when most 3rd party apps shut down.
Beyond that, I don’t think reddit will be the subject of many posts - unless something major happens.
I think one of the reasons we might be discussing Reddit so much is because it's the one unifying topic that everyone on here can relate to.
Whenever anyone questions what 'we' should do I strongly suspect Hall Monitor tendencies and hamfisted political aspirations. The passive phrasing hides nothing.
I'll talk about what I want. Lets talk about that well worn contradictory canard where you promote something by pretending you want it stifled.
In short, 'we' is just working its collective self out and attempts to steer it at this stage is naive, premature and revealing. IMO
Your premise rests on driving people towards reddit by mentioning it. Hardly a sturdy premise.
Yes. You will never get over your ex if you keep bringing up your ex, talking about her non stop, and asking everyone what she's up without you. You have anew gf now. Let the old one go. She never really liked you anyway.
Half of the content I see on here is about reddit, and they're also some of the most active posts. I feel like anyone looking for an alternative to reddit might take one look around and conclude we don't have much to offer besides bashing reddit.
There had been a daily reddit megathread showing up on my front page, and I thought that was a good middle ground.
Some complaining is natural.
However, one problem I have with Mastodon is people talk way too much about Twitter on it. IMO they should just let Mastodon be Mastodon. But, on Mastodon it's been months, with Reddit it's been like a day haha. Let people vent a little bit. But I think you're on the right track.
I disagree. We should be discussing Reddit even more. It's only a matter of time before web crawlers see Reddit being mentioned so much, it might just end up being on the first page of search results. Advertisers are going to see less value from Reddit as it slowly becomes just low-quality posts, users who don't spend money, and adblock users on the platform.
It's similar to when a work colleague comes back from holiday and you can hear them recount their holiday stories to everyone else.
Yes, it gets boring quickly but the novelty will soon wear off and at some point the comedies will become self aware that they are repeating the same stories over and over and die a little inside.
Take it upon yourself to post comment other than Reddit or about how everyone posts about Reddit
It's a nice idea but right now reddit is a very interesting topic. I hope they crash and burn and it's nice to hear about their insane things.
Yes
I agree. The more we talk about Reddit, the more curiosity we drive up about it. I don't think we'll ever completely stop talking about it though since a lot of people have only moved over recently and are still in the process of adjusting and comparing!
It’s been said before, but talking through it is a coping mechanism. Like it or not, a lot of people are/were heavily invested in that site, and talking through it is a way to help clear the air and start to move forward.
It’s drama is dominating social media right now, so it’s hard to NOT see it and hear about it, but we all need to let each other move on in the way that’s best for each of us.
Let me grieve, man!
It was like this on reddit after the Digg exodus. It'll fade.
It's okay to discuss reddit, eventually it will go away but I want to people to discuss lemmy on reddit moree. I want all the mods who are still protesting to ditch reddit and make a new community here and link it in the subreddit is private message. It will make an impact and people will actually move because they have no where else to go.
I think it's kind of the natural flow of things considering the migration but I also feel like it'll die down over time as people get used to lemmy.
Nah, it's really topical and helps ease people into the community by having common ground to start off on. Plus, it's cathartic to slam them in a place where they have no power.
People are mourning the loss of a platform. I think it's okay that a majority of Reddit alternatives are talking about its death (at least for them).
I still use Reddit but have been exploring alternatives.
I mean, sure, I'd rather not hear that much about it, but people are grieving. I'm sure it'll die down and people need room to work through their feelings.
Reddit is just the hot drama, it'll fade over time.
As a transplant, my view is that the most productive discussion around reddit is how to replace the spaces people lose when they stop using it. I enjoy beehaw way more than reddit overall, but a lot of my favorite communities don't have equivalents on Lemmy. I didn't use it as a content aggregator, I used it as a community space, and that's much harder to replace.
I am missing the front page of my time wasting app not being entirely about internet drama (as much as I want to see reddit fail now)
I'm not too worried either way. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/38559/Killing-a-giant-Reddit - basically whatever happens, happens, and just by being here and not there, the end will probably be accomplished given due time.
It’s fine. Some shit just went down so Reddit is going to be negatively in all news for a bit, but it should fade to the background as more people generate content here instead of there. Reddit seems determined on being the next 9gag, just have to wait for a few weeks
I think it'll die down on its own over time. I remember when I first joined Mastodon back in November, it felt like my entire feed was full of people who were migrating from Twitter but were still talking about Twitter this and Elon that, and eventually those people either left or found something else to talk about.
I think it's natural that reddit will be discussed a lot during the next few weeks. We might see a new spike around june 30th when the API get restricted (cost money). From then on it will slowly die down, I hope. As a topic it might never die completely. People still talk about digg, and true old timers bring up BBS's and such. Many of us, me included are reddit refuges, I think it's natural to help vent some frustration by discussing it with peers on this instance.
YES!!! It's lame. It's become obligatory to post some kind of thoughts on Reddit vs Lemmy. Take that effort and go find a link or something and post it.
A change of relationships takes time. At first, the old relationship still has a persuasion-pull upon someone, but as time moves on that all changes.
A single daily (or weekly) thread would be nice. Get all the people to talk in there, let us discuss eh, how much we enjoy the silence! :)
The two biggest topics I keep seeing are questions on how a redditor can transition to this different format, and how reddit keeps setting fire to itself as it pretends everything is fine. I see no reason to stop talking about either. We can't pretend Reddit never existed and how its content that we provided is important to the internet. I'm all about moving on to the next adventure and trying to do it better, but we do have to remember examples of the past that both did and didn't do things well.
I don’t mind it and it’s helping me who’s trying to transition off reddit feel more at home
It's to be expected during the transition period. Honestly if that's what it takes to get users over here, I say more power to them.
Yeah, totally. It’s a place to vent and others will come here and see all the crap Reddit is doing.
Mastodon was on about Twitter for like a month before people stopped caring about it.
Plus, I need to get my drama dose from somewhere.
Just think of it as an opportunity to watch something burn in the rearview mirror.
Even if a lot of us weren't on reddit before, it's such a big social media site that it's very relevant and for a while will definitely be an interest on any general forum/link aggregator.
Kinda feels like someone going on and on about their ex while on a date with a new person
I feel the vast majority of new people joining these federated sites are coming from Reddit, so having the discourse centered around getting them in, explaining how things work and so on is pretty important for user adoption.
I know there's an underlying feeling that these redditors are all going to flood the place but the more people using these sites and the more engagement can only be a positive
Word up, but it's still the beginning of this overall transition, it'll get better (hopefully within the next weeks). People just need to vent their frustrations. I just hope it doesn't become like VOAT.
Thoughts? Your time would be better spent creating new content/ engaging with content you like instead discussing the discussing of reddit…
The discussion about reddit will naturally die overtime but it's probably going to get worse before it gets better.
Yes, please! I can't wait for non reddit/lemmy/fediverse oriented subjects to rise to the top of the feed. I'm guessing it will take months.
Yes
I feel like I'm just about done since Reddit is pretty much irredeemable to me at this point. However, I think we've got at least another month of it to go before everybody's done.
It has been nice and have more free time… but I also do enjoy reading the dirt on what’s going on ngl.
I think many of us are coming from Reddit due to the actions of that one guy in charge, so it makes sense that there would be an increase of Reddit discussions. I do think that it would be great if we could eventually just forget they ever existed 😁
Yes
It’s still fresh, is this thing. Mastodon was like that for a while; there was a lot of talk of twitter and angry posts and Elon Musk. People were still hurt and angry. It takes a while to work through that, so there’s likely going to be a lot of talk about it for a while. But it’ll stop on its own as people start moving on.
I say we go a step further and make sure to at least mention Reddit in EVERY post so the web indexers start bringing up these threads when people search “blah blah blah reddit” because Google is terrible without adding reddit to the end of a search string.
I think it depends on how invested you were in that other site initially. I had been there over 11 years and used to doom scroll it about 30-45 minutes a day. It's not been easy, but I have deleted my content and my account and have completely committed myself to the fediverse and the content on here. I haven't been back to the other site in a few days, hopefully never will but we are all different. Ite been really refreshing to have actual discussion on here as well; been thoroughly enjoying myself.
This is a natural result of most of the influx of new users being from Reddit as they're still keeping an eye on it to see how the situation evolves. I expect it to continue happening until at the very least a week after the beginning of July, which I expect will also be a second migration wave since that's when the third party apps will stop working.
It'll settle down eventually. In the meantime, users seem to have been doing a good enough job of keeping those threads on the communities/magazines dedicated to talking about Reddit and/or the relevant migration, so it's probably best to unsubscribe from/block them if you are sick of seeing those in your feed.
It's the one thing that all (or most of us, I guess) have in common; we're all here because of what's going on there. It's natural to want to talk about it.
It'll pass; I'm already seeing a lot of non-reddit content on my home feed now, whereas day 1 it was probably 95% posts of the sort you're talking about.
Honestly, I really like the idea of when somebody googles reddit, and they start seeing all of the lemmy posts popping up instead.
I think there are two aspects to this...
- The majority of people on federated message boards (lemmy, beehaw, kbin, etc) are former Reddit users who migrated specifically because of actions by Reddit, so it is natural to talk a bit more about Reddit at least for a short while. I believe this happened for quite a while on Mastodon (Twitter) as well.
- It's kinda fun to watch a dumpster fire in action ngl and I don't think this will pass until Reddit finally figures something out themselves...
There are a couple reddit focused communities that I am following but my goal is eventually to just focus on these new spaces and less on reddit. I think it will take some time, and the amount of time will differ from person to person.
I'm just here for the general "news", I can't get on my reddit feed anymore, tech news included. To that end, I'm for it being talked about as long as spez is still stirring the pot. I think it'll die down over time as others say as well
I think it is fine to talk about developing news regarding Reddit just as we would any other social media site. Part of the issue I have with these threads though is that it's still basically the same comments being made. The big news revolves around the API decisions, and the really scummy leadership. That's what all of the comments really fall back to, understandably so. It would still be nice to hear some discussion about what former Redditors think about new developments, such as the recent threats to have the community vote out mods who keep their subreddits private
It will change. When everything happened with Twitter and a number of people switched over to Mastodon, all people talked about on Mastodon was Twitter. Within a couple of months that shifted dramatically and now I come across much less Twitter-related content. Most of my mastodon feed now is just the topics that I’m interested in. Give it time.
TF is Readit?
Bruh seriously, I'm glad the community is growing and have been waiting for a good enough reason to leave Reddit, but half the posts here about how we're so much better than Reddit and Reddit sucks. I came here to lurk original and non-bot content, not to pat each other's backs
