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Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
If someone like Musk were to take control of Reddit, be prepared. Let's be real, Spez is not even in the same league as Musk in terms of being unpalatable to Redditors so claiming something like "already has been" is ... a choice. But for sure, if someone far worse takes over, there will be an exodus. And frankly, the Fediverse is fully unprepared to handle that, so that'll be fun.
Which is why Musk will keep spez to take the blame, just tweaking the site slightly to not allow it to ban links to X anymore.
When Musk took over Twitter I deleted all my Tweets and never even visited the site again, blocked on parental filters and through NextDNS.
I had been there since 2006.
I would definitely do the dame for Reddit if Musk took over, and I have been there since like 2010 and have some million total karma across several accounts (mostly on one).
I actually did quit for about a year when they killed 3rd party apps.
That will be when reddit.old is culled. They have been preparing to qwell future dissidents for a year now and this decision would be the only one that I can think of which would bring that much outrage
Unpopular opinion: they like it there, and aren't going to switch no matter what happens. We'll see.
They're far too addicted to the algorithmic brain rot to switch of their free will.
Tbf there is FAR more content there, and also somehow less authoritarianism and echo chamber effect than here - like we have the modlog but they have modmail and the ability for people to continue their already started conversations on posts after removal from the sub, while here (without even a notification sent to the user) we simply have a message like "Rule 1" (which says nothing at all about why a message might have been removed...?).
If we want to attract more users, then like Bluesky, we need to do better at meeting the desires that users actually have, rather than like Mastodon simply complain why nobody wants to come here. PieFed, Mbin, and Sublinks are attempting to do that, so there's hope, but we are still a long ways away yet.
There will, some day, be a mass exodus away from reddit. But it's not gonna be to lemmy.
Do you think it will be to Bluesky?
One day it could be to PieFed, or Sublinks, but everyone banned for Rule 1 from ML knows that it won't be to "Lemmy".
Bluesky has a lot of momentum and no one cares about mastodon. So I do think bluesky will likely remain a fixture. But I don't think it's the thing that replaces reddit. It's the thing that replaces twitter.
Well I'm here to stay because fuck reddit
Yeah, ever since Apollo died, I can't go back.
Having Voyager on Android has been a real life saver.
The online version of Stockholm syndrome?
That, and if you need actual information from Reddit rather than just want to find a place to hang out and chat. The people who need certain content must go to wherever that is.
I left after they closed off the API and shut down third party apps. I could never go back, whilst Lemmy hasn't always offered the same amount of content, its always still offered good content, plus I know I'm guilt free of supporting Reddit and what a shit show they've become 🙂
I got used to Lemmy eventually and like it. I spend less time scrolling which is good. Now just to ditch Instagram....
Same but with piefed. It's the same communities. Love the extended capabilities on both platforms. And fedi integration makes it so anyone can use anything.
My friends aren't on piefed
I was in meme withdraw for a bit adjusting to the slower content. I even touched grass that one time.
The thing is that the more people use Lemmy the more content there will be
And there has been. I also joined Lemmy after the API shutdown and even then there were hardly any new posts, and barely any discussion on them. Now it seems that I have a brand new front page at least once a day and there's plenty of discussion on the posts.
I intentionally sabotaged my account to get banned so that I couldn't go back. Lol
Same, but then I immediately returned to reddit. Today I suddenly realized I wanted to leave reddit, so here I am again. Any good tips for Android apps?
Voyager is my go-to.
I see sync recommended too, but I would recommend against that one. I had to buy it for reddit twice because the dev invalidated the license and took away premium features on an upgrade. So I'm not using their shit ever again.
The 2 specific communities I want to read without a mirroring one in the fediverse I still read through RSS.
Yead is better than using web or their app. And still get my fix.
I use Boost for Lemmy (paid for, so no ads etc.). It's what I used for Reddit, so the transition was super easy, but there's lots of FOSS Lemmy clients on F-Droid that are good too.
I also use Boost as I was using that back on Reddit. Voyager is also an excellent Lemmy app too.
What happened this time?
I'm curious, too. I suppose I'm out of the loop!
I came here a week ago from Reddit! There are dozens of us!
Welcome !
Welcome! I hope you stay.
I left during the whole API thing awhile back. I really like it here. With less people it feels more like a community. People are generally more respectful and when they're not they get very lonely very fast.
What'd I miss?
Nothing yet but to speculate Steve Huffman’s rolemodel Elon Musk has been whinging about subreddits banning links to Twitter. They might replace some moderators again and covertly reverse the community ban.
Yeah, it kind of feels like we may only be a few days away from Rexxit 2.0 depending on spez's next move. Musk's comments have been short on this but given the fact spez is already a fanboy and, as Vice Dictator, Musk's merest utterances get taken very seriously in certain quarters, I could see the Xitter ban being overturned.
This struck made my Spidey-Senses tingle when I read it the other day:
Reddit drives significant traffic to X, particularly for discussions related to trending topics on the platform, so a ban on X links on Reddit could significantly impact Musk's company.
Now Musk has favoured ideology over profit but if he can get a bootlicker to improve his bottom line with minimal effort on his part, then he might get spez to harm his own site for Xitter's gain.
It may not happen, but as a Lemmy Instance Admin, it's something I'm keeping a weather eye on and making a few plans.
I'm amazed there were still moderators left that were willing to do protest actions after last time.
As we've seen from the Trump admins, there's never a shortage of bootlickers who would polish that boot for the smallest amount of power.
Obligatory: fuck u/spez.
