Idk y’all, I see a lot of angry posts about Reddit still because of being essentially forced out, however!
I feel like lemmy is actually really amazing and has a lot of smart discussion happening instead of the constant circlejerking that happens on Reddit. I also feel the community here is a lot more hopeful/helpful! That’s all, thanks for reading 😄
Circle jerking about Lemmy while complaining about Reddit circle jerking is peak social media. :)
Ahah! Yeah you're right we are better than them
I also agree that the others are so dumb and we are so right! Hahahahahh
I was just trying to be positive instead of the usual Reddit hate we see. It feels like most comments about Reddit were mad they had to be here on lemmy, but lemmy is legitimately a great place. Wasn’t trying to circle jerk sorry
There is no need to apologize. I was just making a joke. In fact, unless you deliberately insult someone or in some rare edge cases I'd argue there is never a need to apologize for something you write.
I'm done for good. The core underlying issue that got me here is that Reddit has demonstrated that there is no ethical standard worth sticking to for them if it means slightly more money. Community building is about care and curation. Reddit doesn't want to foster community building and their entire draw is community hosting. Why would I stick around?
You can actually use rif still, as well as a few other reddit apps that officially closed shop, but it's not gonna last forever.
Personally, I'm sticking around (via rif), partly to keep up with a few communities I care about, and partly to watch reddit burn as they keep fueling the fire.
Weirdly, I increasingly feel like I won't even miss reddit all that much. More precisely, I already missed what reddit once was.
I've been using reddit for over 12 years. That site is a steaming pile of shit compared to what it once was. I'm done.
I'm in the same boat. Interested in sticking around for w.e. communities don't migrate this way and that's about it. I never really browsed all or new on reddit but am finding myself doing that here already
Reddit just removed NSFW access from everything else but their official app.. Fuk em..
Hopefully lemmy will grow strong in that aspect..!
I just pulled up NSFW through old.reddit
Yeh, but you KNOW that's next on the chopping block.
Not sure if I'd support old.reddit for premium only users. I'm really enjoying Lemmy, and the genuine conversations that are happening
Once they kill old reddit, which they likely will if they're truly worried about data scraping by AI companies, it's over.
On reddit I didn't comment much at all, because it mostly felt like posting things into the void.
Here there are mostly not so many comments that a single one gets lost and I've already had a few plesant discussions!
Same :) i enjoy the cozier feeling that many of the threads have. And the local threads of people on my instance really give a feeling of community since i belong to a smaller one.
Does it get any more cozy than Hogsmeade Lemmy?
It’s really fascinating watching something new grow
I’m not entirely sold on the fediverse as a feasible, long-term solution - there are definitely going to be hard truths, disappointments and lessons along the way… but I’m up for the ride, come what may
The fediverse is definitely not perfect, but centralized monopoly social networks are extremely far from perfect too. In comparison, with all the growing pains it still might be better than the alternative
I'm upvoting your post because the headline/title gave me an aneurysm. I've read it twice now and still don't understand it. 😀
"I still see a lot of angry posts about Reddit because people were essentially forced out. However..."
Yeh that's what they were trying to say, their punctuation was atrocious though.
Totes, we're right where we should be 👍
There is already a ton of subs I've had to unsubscribe/block because it's essentially shitposting. The internet is a crowded place.
Yeah. I’m very happy with lemmy so far especially now that the interface of lemmy.world is so smooth
I was really upset about the poor performance of .world and how Beehaw had good performance but defederated, but the devs have fixed .world performance overnight and I haven’t had any issues yet today.
Overall I’m happy with how it turned out for me joining .world :)
The reason I'm using Lemmy is that it's better than reddit. If it wasn't better, I'd still be on Reddit.
And what's better isn't Lemmy itself, it's the people here.
Yeah, it's fun watching this community grow. I'm not looking back
It takes people about two weeks to get inconsolably nauseated from seeing people bitch about their ex. We're not even halfway for the most recent group.
Yeah Lemmy has totally exceeded my expectations, I thought leaving Reddit would be a compromise for the sake of privacy, but I was so glad to be proven wrong
Lemmynites, assemble!
Still grumpy and I'll be annoyed for a while I reckon. Hard to forget about a place you've visited for a decade
I'm just here because of my herding instincts.
Hi.
Important that the pack stays together 🦙🦙🦙
Yeah, it's got a different atmosphere here, a bit more chilled and friendly. I miss the bigger community of Reddit but it reached its peak a while back; this place has a lot of exciting potential
Being angry at the users, or powerusers, who left reddit is like being angry at ants for fleeing their home after a flood for higher ground and starting over somewhere else. It ain't the ants that decided to drool all over its hill/colony before even IPO'ing all the work they had done.
Amazing to me that it was Spez that screwed reddit over BEFORE selling reddit out. Usually people like Spez are at least smart enough to keep things running smoothly up and until they sell it off - but I am sure the potential investors will appreciate the depreciated value of reddit. 😂
If I could award some sort of idiot currency or lemmy currency to mock Spez I would. The guy really takes the cake on being inept at what would have kept Reddit highly valued imo in the short, mid and long term.
They are pretty clear with their intentions to disregard the opinions of the users who produce all the content and generally give it a reason to exist. And mods who did countless hours of work for free probably getting it worse.. It's never getting better.
A real shame but it just shows that its a model that will fail at some point. As long as sombody can make a load of money by advertising and selling stuff a community makes than it'll go that way (see all previous times it's happened).
eh, there's always some vocal minority when major change occurs. ignore them.
I'm having the same experience on Lemmy that I had on reddit 13 years ago. It's fucking awesome
I actually said the same a few days ago. Lemmy now is how reddit was back in the beginning.
The question that remains to be answered is, are the normies that moved to Reddit responsible for what it became? Or was it a product of the corporate profit driven manipulation of the platform? Time will tell..
depending on how you see it, that's nice and cool or dark
I didn't realise how much I've missed this feeling, as a former redditor of 12 years
Totally agree. I started very sad to lose Reddit but honestly a blessing.