• KillaBeez@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    2 years ago

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

    • eselover@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 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

    • Appie@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        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?

      • SpookySnek@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        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”

    • AwkwardPenguin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Alkalyon@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 years ago

    This comment is incorrect as well.

    The people that cared left and what’s left behind is people that wouldn’t leave anyway and the strike only bothers them.

    This person is living in a bubble and can’t see further than their nose.

  • qprimed@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    we have had the first wave - and its gone well. second wave is incomming on or about the 30th - probably smaller, but no less committed (long term). after that its a war of attrition.

    • CyanFen@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 years ago

      unrelated to your comment (sorta), but I just saw your comment update in real time after you edited it. I just thought that’s a really cool feature and wanted to point it out :)

  • instamat@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 years ago

    The fediverse is the way. I’m not smart enough to say if it’s the best option, but it’s a hell of a lot better than a profit driven monolith run by out of touch investors. Reddit won’t implode but it won’t be the same as it was even a week ago. This decentralized structure is what the internet wants to be.

  • melonpunk@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 years ago

    I think people are seeing Reddit as their only solution right now due to the lack of awareness of this place. It’s been a bit sad to see all the news articles written about the event but very few plugs for alternate options to visit.

  • root@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Eh, I used Reddit daily for 14 years, and quit cold turkey. The first few days were rough, but between the feddiverse and inoreader, I’m doing fine.

    Sure the communities I left behind were much larger, but honestly the responses I get here are of much higher quality.

  • Debs@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    The hardest part for me was realizing how shit Google search is without appending reddit.

    • pumerogo@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      It’s crazy, I never noticed before. I wanted to search something about a game yesterday and the first five hits were Reddit threads, the others were clickbait. And I didn’t even append “reddit” as a search term. It was a simple search.

    • got2best@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      Completely agree. We need to start building that stuff and contributing more in the fediverse so that can’t be a thing in the future

  • vamp07@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I have no intention of unsubscribing from Reddit. The recent move that company has taken has made me hostile to them as a platform. I am far more probable to engage over here and just lurk over there when I need to find the answer to something. To the extent that I can I want to help the Fediverse takeoff and replace Reddit and twitter.

  • Xenxs@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 years ago

    I have a feeling many of those critical to the protest don’t yet fully grasp what a Reddit without 3rd party apps will look like. They’ll soon find out how shit the base experience is without those apps. And we all know old.reddit won’t stay around for long either

    • Liz@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      It’s my understanding that the latest numbers just before the API nonsense put the old and unofficial users only at around 5% of the total userbase. While I suspect that they had disproportionate engagement and moderator numbers, I think most of the people who don’t care really are in the vast majority who aren’t immediately affected by the change.

      Just as with any diversity issue (in this case, a diversity of personality types) the majority is going to find the quality of Reddit content will start to slip as the minority leaves. Failing to stand up for the people who are loudly proclaiming they’ve got a problem is going to affect everyone, even though it’s not immediately obvious.

      Also, most of the people who really care have already left.

  • p05@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    I noticed that. I made a comment saying something along the lines of me disagreeing with mods going public after only 2 days and got downvoted like crazy but not three days ago it would of been the other way. Just honestly done with that site anyway so going to download wikis from the subs that come back and be done with it.