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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (29 children)

Maybe all of those in favor of the protests kept their word and only those who are against it remain?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    I don't miss Reddit. I checked some comment sections and holy hell is it toxic compared to here. I think part of that is because of what you've mentioned in your comment.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I used to work for this major company, biggest in my country by far.

    Whether it was going well or poorly, they tended to offer severance packages to "cut back" on their staff, to appease the grotesquely overpaid consultants that analysed their finances.

    What tended to happen, was that the most qualified people, who had no issues finding another job (often better paying), took those packages (I took home a one year salary after having worked there almost three, then had two months vacation and started a better paying job), which left those who didn't really have other options, those who did the bare minimum and had a lot of useless meetings.

    I guess that's what reddit is heading for. They are alienating those who contribute the most, the content creators, the mods and the ones who like to engage others. They will be left with their bots, lurkers, racists, reposters and porn-spammers.

    Good riddance.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    Completely agree. I'm kinda hoping the substance of reddit just moves to lemmy and none of us will have to deal with so many tools and trolls.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The very minor and surmountable technical barrier of joining the fediverse will do wonders to screen out users capable only of the lowest effort.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    It's really nice to have this "filter" of a complexity because many people who do that low effort stuff don't want to put effort in even trying to learn a new system (geschweige denn) one of the complexity of the fediverse. If you are ready to go through the process of undertsanding the system you are most likely a valuable part of the community

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I also think the Advertising subs don't care much. You know the ones that are content rich from the posters but actually modded by the organisation the sub is for.

    For example /r/razer mods being linked to taking bribes and specific subs dedicated to a brand.

    They have nice communities but they'll stay.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    holy hell is it toxic compared to here

    I cannot agree more! I went to reddit (wirhour an acc) and just... wow. Did it got worse or was I always blind to how awful that place was?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I think you are seeing some withdrawal symptoms honestly. People are addicted to scrolling for their next dopamine hit. When that's taken away they get cranky. Add the anonymous nature of being online and things get toxic real fast.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I was IP banned from Reddit so I only got to use it without an account for the last few months. It's very toxic. The front page (not logged in) is so fucked.

    I don't miss Reddit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Ever tried having a discussion in any of the default subs? If your opinion differentiates from the hivemind you will be downvoted as spam, without any responses. It completely defeats the purpose of a "discussion"

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    I just switched over to lemmy from reddit, and it is much nicer here isn't riddled with ads and toxicity. I just hope that more users do join over here, since there were a few subreddits/people I followed and would still like to see there updates/posts

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I think this might actually be the case. Let's see how things work out. Lemmy surprised me as a proper alternative it's just not as content rich as reddit at the moment. Something about chickens and eggs.

    Let's just expand and improve it further than the original lemmies did. Don't be afraid to post content, heck scrape content and make this the better option. People will follow content.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I’d like to add that there’s already been a significant increase in the amount of content and comments in just the last few days. I joined a whole 5 days ago (so many ages ago, I know) and back then it was somewhere between 1 and 2k users on this instance. It was way emptier - you could read all of the posts in most of the “big” communities in an hour or so. And the new feed was pretty stale.

    Lemmy’s not the firehose of content that is Reddit yet, but it’s making real progress.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There's something to that. Hearing stories of subreddits reopen and ask the userbase what they want to do, well, who exactly are they asking? I'm not there, and I've seen plenty of posts from others who are also not there. Are they taking silence as votes against? I doubt it.

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