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Shall we embrace cross posting?

Shall we have links in our bios if we have accounts on both? Is anyone here actively using both at the same time? How's it going?

Any advocacy on the sub-reddits by cross posting lemmy threads/comments and maybe doing more?

Or we just ignore each other?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There isn't much OC in Reddit posts. It's strength has always been as an aggregator with community discussions. I think repost the original sources but not the Reddit links.

Eventually our technology and civilisation will surpass them and we will have to consider if they have achieved the required maturity to join our Federation. Until then we should observe and keep our presence secret.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We must be compassionate to our lost brothers and sisters, and guide them gently to the light of federation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Civilly? I deleted my reddit account but I really don't feel aggrieved by people who stayed there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shall we embrace crossposting? -- Absolutely. Most content on Reddit is crossposted from god knows where. It's how sites like this work. EDIT: Content, not straightup full posts.

Shall we have links in our bios? -- Depends. I certainly won't-

Advocacy? -- I was never active enough over there to speak to that, but... up to you. I'm waiting to hear that speaking of alternatives has become a bannable offence.

Ignore?

-- I think that's wrong. See 1 as for why.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’m not going back to reddit so “interacting” for me will be limited to if they come here

I bear ongoing users no ill will, I’ve just already deleted my account and I’m just not going to support reddit by using it anymore even as a lurker

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ever go on a date with someone and all they talk about is their ex?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One of the most annoying things about Mastodon during the Twitter migration at the beginning of this year was that the only thing Mastodon wanted to talk about was "the Birdsite."

It sure would be nice if we could get through that phase of the Reddit migration at a vastly accelerated pace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m fine with the site being a black sheep, but most of us are refugees. We are going to have growing pains and people will trickle/stream in over time. The best way to ensure the fedverse dies before living is to make talk about Reddit a taboo or a thing to ridicule. People are going to complain, just don’t engage and over time it’ll die out.

At the moment I personally welcome cross posting. I’m dying for content right now. Haven’t found a lot of mags to join. I would start some but I would be shit for modding or content creation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to make a request to the devs to autocorrect "Reddit" to "Cabbage" just to spice things up a bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can we do John Oliver instead?

“Shits really gone downhill on John Oliver since all the subs started only posting pics of John Oliver”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is going to happen again in July when the 3PAs die. Allowing people to vent about reddit will make them more likely to want to spend more time here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Speak for yourself, sir. I plan to shit talk forever."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Regardless of how everyone feels about Discovery, remember how the crew had to leave behind all their families, friends, and loved ones for the greater good when they were flung 1000 years into the future? I think that's us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regardless of how everyone feels about Discovery

You know what I haven't seen yet? Literally anyone complaining that Spock >!cried!< in the latest episode of SNW.

Keep that in mind next time you come across someone complaining about Burnham.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

BACK IN MY DAY TWO MEN WOULD NEVER BRUSH THEIR TEETH

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Fediverse is Michael Burnham?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm proud to serve with you all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We are certainly taking the (Reddit-)Sphere data away from (spez's) Control as far as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OK I love this analogy XD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we the Romulans or are we the Vulcans?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Escaping to Romulus when the purported followers of Surak became rigid and demanding in their pursuit of an ordered technocratic society, to an intolerable degree. We leave the hallowed halls of our ancestors: their katras, their monuments, their desert cities. We arrive refugees, but here at least we can build a new republic where power is willingly shared.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit feels like addiction to me, while the fediverse feels exciting and like I’m having real conversations with people.

I have popped on to Reddit a couple of times to help with a couple of subs I’m a part of but god it’s just trash over there to me now…I really don’t want to be there. I deeply resent what they’ve done to it over time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The amount of times I have been bored and opened my phone to reddit out of reflex is shocking. I need to do a technology fast or something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're just going to end up being bored again, opening your phone to lemmy out of reflex someday.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s actually wild. The addiction is very real.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've taken the new reddit direction as a challenge to the users to see how much trouble we can cause.

First to the Key!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post on fediverse first, then screenshot it and share with other socials saying it's from lemmy or wherever in the headline. Maybe even say which community it's from. And it could be a watermark of some kind too.

The more people are aware of the fediverse communities, the more they might check it out and just leave reddit entirely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why not directly link to the Lemmy post as a source?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently posts with lemmy links have been actively taken down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

well, that's not my fault, when they don't want to host post with links to useful information

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am going to keep my reddit for the time being but try to see how I can go with using purely Lemmy, and learning how it all works.

If it becomes appropriate to mention in subreddits that this is a viable alternative, or there is already a parallel server, then I don't think there's harm in letting people know and letting them decide, I won't however be blatantly advertising it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are all dead to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would at least give it some time. currently I don't want to give Reddit any traffic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally, my goal is to set aside the time to post or comment on the most interesting, informative, helpful tutorials that cannot be found here. To scrape reddit data via RSS and if it's interesting and not on lemmy or kbin see that it is mirrored here, so that it has the same plus more content. Getting lemmy and kbin results to show up in search results. If there is a way to improve the webui I would like to be part of it, if not the development part then at least the conversation. I'd donate $$s to make this place look and feel better than it does.

But posting on reddit...I had already stopped or reduced posting due to how often I was downvoted for not following the grain, or my replies not showing up or being deleted automatically. Some forums telling me I could not vote because my karma was too low but karma always getting deducted because I didn't think the same way as the majority subreddit. Here is the first time where I haven't been less afraid to speak...where I can be upvoted/downvoted and it doesn't even matter. Reddit is dead to me, and I will never cross-post interesting information to it except to say come join us in developing an alternative - and I can't even be bothered to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We should copy content from reddit, but label it "repost from 4chan", so they have to try to crawl 4chan archives to see if the content was actually first posted on Reddit

make it expensive for them to claim ownership of UGC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it should just be a personal choice. If you want to interact and reference reddit, great. If you want to stay off reddit, great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I'll be staying here and not going back to Reddit. I'd been winding down my use of Reddit recently anyway so the blackout was just the little push I needed to delete my account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ditto. I was looking for a reason to bail from Reddit, then they gave me a really great one. I wanted out of my main account because it was my 1st+2nd initial and last name, and there was no way to change it. I didn't like that info being front and center. So I was looking for an out anyway

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