Well then… I wouldn’t do that again if I were you.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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You're just not explaining it easily enough.
Feel free to copy/paste this.
i saw your reply. did exactly that in other subreddits! fist pump
Why in the world would anyone want to stay on a site with people like that? Good riddance to that crowd. I understand that some people may be afraid of losing what they have in reddit and lash out at a perceived threat to that, but they just don't realize that they have already lost what made reddit special. It's never going back to what it once was and over time it will diminish further as more and more people get tired of the same low-effort commentary over and over again with fewer and more overworked moderators eventually closing communities because it's just not worth it anymore. It won't happen overnight, but slowly, unless spez decides to go full Elon on the site, which wouldn't surprise me.
Did you see the post a couple of days ago that showed ai language bots replying in reddit threads?
The admins are making bots shit on alternatives and downplay the protests. There's a very real possibility that you're being responded to by ai.
I tried reading the replies to gain context but it just sounds like cryptobro nonsense so i checked out
I'm an older millennial, and I don't understand this trend lately of labeling anything slightly technical as "crypto/techbro" shit. It's like people see the word "server" or "IP address" or some shit and just get triggered by it. WTF? Can someone explain this trend? Back in my youth we didnt mind learning new shit, you HAD to in order to make effective use of your time online. That's how the early Internet was built. By "techie" people.
I mean, I'm not a certified mechanic and have zero interest in working on cars, but I figured out how to change my own timing belt with a youtube tutorial.
I don't know if its directly related to the present reaction, but us older millenials grew up with a different exposure to computers and the internet. It was still evolving so much, we had to figure it out. Younger millenials and Zoomers especially never had to deal with all of that - most of what they grew up on were iPhones and iPads and Chromebooks where everything is apps and userfriendly and "just works." For example, Zoomers don't even understand how file systems work. They never had to deal with them. It might not make sense to us, but the phrase "federated servers" is probably gibberish to a lot of younger folks.
I agree with you, but I think this is more an issue with the way crypto and its advocates have firehose-marketed that corner of technology, than an issue with laymen who aren't interested. Crypto, web 3.0, etc. have been hyped as the future of the internet, coopting general concepts like decentralization as belonging to scheme-y crypto stuff rather than just a principle that crypto (ostensibly) aligns with.
I never got into any of that myself and am hyper-skeptical of it, but (hopefully) I know enough to determine that the Fediverse is not on the same plane as all that. I also wouldn't blame anyone who can't tell the difference.
The loudest aren't the majority. The loudest are often shills, trolls or AI bots. Just post that there's an alternative, leave the link, and walk away. There will be people coming and joining quietly, in my experience.
Please stop advertising for Kbin. Have you see the history of the people you were talking to? You want them in our mags? You want them to upvote their own content and make Kbin the next reddit shitshow? Stop.
People left reddit and it wasn't just about the 3rd party app thing, it was also about the abysmal quality of the content. Reddit became too big and turned into a fest of attention whores. Keep Kbin at a reasonable size. Then people who matter will find us by themselves.
Also, should we be linking to Reddit at all? Every click/tap just gives them ad revenue, doesn't it? The whole Reddit discussion is really starting to sound like people talking about a toxic ex they broke up with but haven't yet moved on from.
ill just delete all those post i made in a couple of days LOL. you are 100% correct
edit: im keeping it alive for a while just for the lulz.
Ok the person who said "sorry for not understanding something that is only popular with nerds" made me laugh because... Bro you are on reddit. You are using the outdated nerd gathering place to complain about nerds?
I will never in my life understand people that think of intelligence and curiosity as negative traits.
I don't know what those communities are (Is there some kind of "truth" to be discovered about the AVGN? If there is, why should I care?). But I would say that at this point, Reddit has been ad-saturated for the time being with Mastodon, Lemmy, and KBin. You're not getting new reach and instead, you're hitting ad fatigue. Unless you can present Lemmy & KBin differently to what people have seen before, it's best to back off for a bit and work on developing a new campaign.
Instead, trust people to know whether they want to be on Reddit now or not. Some people do, some don't, and some people like to be spread everywhere - Reddit, Lemmy, KBin, Mastodon, etc. Give it some time to rest and don't hit them with the same off-topic stuff. Work to create interesting content on Lemmy or KBin. Then when you have something good that's related, crosspost it to Reddit and see if the Admins don't remove it.