Reddit Migration

This question may be moot but it's something I've been thinking about. I've only recently jumped into this brave new world so you'll have to forgive my ignorance.

I'm wondering if there's any etiquette or conventions for which instance a 'migrated' subreddit should be hosted on. More specifically, I'm thinking about the communities where the subject matter is more regional.

For example, if I use an account on a UK-based instance because that's local to me then it might not be optimal to create a community on the UK instance if the subject matter is US-centric. Would that ultimately lead to a worse experience for the majority of those community members that are based in North America?

The difference in speed for me connecting to something in the UK vs the US is basically negligible, but it's non-zero and potentially exacerbated for those that have slower or unstable internet connections. This may be particularly true while rapidly-expanding instances are a bit unstable anyway.

It's obviously up to the mods of each subreddit to decide what to do for their "official" migration. However, what I'm afraid of happening is:

1. A migrated subreddit is hosted on an instance which has a detrimental effect on the experience of a significant number of its users.
2. To combat this, former Reddit communities get splintered into multiple, region-based communities.

The latter wouldn't be so bad but one of the things that made Reddit so appealing to me was the differences in perspective from all walks of life that sparked discussion. That sense of being part of a diverse, active community might be lost if the overall Reddit migration is handled in a haphazardly way.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Am I worrying about a non-issue?

~Is~ ~it~ ~time~ ~to~ ~crack~ ~each~ ~other's~ ~heads~ ~open~ ~and~ ~feast~ ~on~ ~the~ ~goo~ ~inside?~

Reddit and its communities are preparing for a life after the platform's API changes forced popular third-party apps to shut down.

Well, had my content curated on Reddit and despised the recommendation stuff on the official app (that I never used lul). But now that I'm on a new platform, I want to have recommendations lol. The Random stuff on the sidebar's pretty neat, could've sworn Reddit has similar like 10 years ago.

#RedditMigration

the feeling of dredd i've had (and i bet many are with me) since reddit announced the changes to the API and elon bought twitter, has been perfectly represented in this essay. Once again we migrate from a place where we built a community, because a bunch of greedy assholes can't fathom a world where people embrace human interaction over consumerism.

I definetly think that this essay is worth Our while.

I only ever used the official app never the website or any 3rd party apps so what were they like and why do people miss them so much.

It's almost as if reddit's first party app couldn't even compete with third party apps. I used Boost for Reddit and now I'm waiting for Boost for Lemmy

Still trying to wrap my head around the cross-community, cross-server talk, but then again I'm drunk so I should just try again in the morning

For me, Apollo is reddit. U used reddit long before Apollo but Apollo was a game changer. I mostly browsed reddit on phone so without Apollo reddit is unusable.

I tried googling reddit visit/post stats after the API Shutdown but didn’t find anything

Anyone got anything? I could probably dig more myself but I’d like to start a discussion on lemmy too

Have you ever seen blatant vote manipulation on Reddit?

#RedditMigration

For the first time ever, I’m getting Reddit notifications, outside of when I get a dm or a comment/post reply from someone. 🧐 Hmm, I wonder if that’s just coincidence…

Anyone else? Or just me?

I can tag @Foreplay241@mastodon.social AND @Foreplay241@pixelfed.social and I will be able to see their accounts through this portal/view/media?...

On Reddit at reddit.com/r/redditalternatives, people are talking about a "Reddit 2.0." What do you suggest?

One of the hurdles to change for users switching from reddit to a federated platform is less content. The logic goes: “smaller community, less content, I can see i’m missing out on stuff over there so I’m not going to switch away”.

One potential solution to this would be automated cross-posting, using bots or similar. Obviously there are cons to this approach, which we are all likely aware of.

What are your thoughts on focusing efforts in this direction to drive faster user growth? Good because it will drive more users to consider jumping ship given that it reduces FOMO? Bad because it makes the place look less community spirited and genuine and different?

Most search results were putting Reddit links at the top and I kept accidentally clicking them. Even when I remembered not to click them it was very annoying.

I recently discovered ublacklist and wanted to share it with others who are trying to stop visiting Reddit. I know it's available on iOS, Firefox and Chrome.

Not sure if it is on Android, but probably is or an alternative should be that hopefully someone else can share.

It isn't only for Google, seems to filter most if not all search engines.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublacklist-for-safari/id1547912640

A lot of people are boasting here like "well I just deleted my 15+ year account with quintillion karma."

I'm not going to delete my account yet (but probably won't be posting anything on Reddit either). Instead, I came up with a Strange Hobby.

Because password managers are so ubiquitous and easy to use and everyone should use one, I somehow found a complete list of all Reddit throwaway accounts I had over the years. (You know, from back when you could create accounts in seconds and Reddit didn't make you sign a blood pact or whatever.)

So I've been deleting those accounts. There was a pile of them.

And I like to every time I delete an account, a little siren goes off in Reddit HQ and Spez is like "Aaaaagggh! Not another one!"

#RedditMigration

If you are looking for assistance in trying to interact with pages found on instances other than the one on which you have an account, here is what I believe is available so far.

you can see the same information as a table here.

note: this information will certainly become out of date in the near future. I advise you to conduct a fresh search for up to date information

Update July 3, 2023: I fixed the links hopefully. While I was doing that, I included links to chrome store where developer provided them. But I didn't search the chrome store itself.

Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin

• Install Firefox, Chrome coming soon
• FF dev page cynber (Support developer)
• Description Ensures that the Lemmy instance you are on is the one you want to be on.
• This extension will create a button on a Lemmy community page, which will let you easily jump to the same page on your home instance.
• Users 24
• Reviews Reviews Rated 3 out of 5
• Permissions Access your data for all websites
• Links Support site
• Version + size 1.0.1 (See all versions), 97.22 KB
• Updated a day ago (Jul 1, 2023)
• License GNU General Public License v3.0

Lemmy Home Instance Helper

• Install Firefox
• FF dev page RedKrieg
• Description Adds a 'Search' link to Lemmy communities on servers where you are not logged in.
• Users 11
• Reviews There are no ratings yet. 
• Permissions Access your data for all websites
• Links Homepage, Support site, Support Email (note July 3, 23: The first 2 links are not working for me but they are as listed on the firefox page)
• Version + size 0.2.2 (See all versions), 12.23 KB
• Updated 17 days ago (Jun 15, 2023)
• License The MIT License

Kbin Link

• Install Firefox, Chrome
• FF dev page Lixus
• Description Find it annoying to copy paste [!memes@lemmy.world](/c/memes@lemmy.world) to look at a Lemmy community? This extension is for you.
• This extension looks for Lemmy style communities and replaces them to direct you to seeing that community on your kbin/lemmy instance.
• Users 162
• Reviews Reviews Rated 5 out of 5
• Permissions Access your data for all websites
• Links Support site, Support Email
• Version + size 1.3.9 (See all versions), 29.42 KB
• Updated 17 days ago (Jun 16, 2023)
• License Unlicense

Lemmy Link

• Install Firefox, Chrome
• FF dev page fcuks
• Description Extension to make it easy to interact with different Lemmy communities
• Users 191
• Reviews Reviews Rated 5 out of 5
• Permissions Access your data for all websites
• Links Homepage
• Version + size 1.3.5 (See all versions), 19.45 KB
• Updated 18 days ago (Jun 15, 2023)
• License Mozilla Public License 2.0

my killer post in modcoord, called How come r/fuckreddit is allowed to stay private while everyone else has to reopen, do the rules not apply to everyone?, is currently dying in the god damn mod queue where nobody can see it and I don't think they'll ever unlock it, because they never do.
why is there never a mod around and how messed up is it to block every single post by default on a sub. nobody can talk to anyone, that's nuts!

are mod queues a thing in the fediverse? I hope NOT.

First try, Reddit post in r/Kbinmigration (I think) and it didn’t let me see the real post. Second time, it doesn’t even include Reddit posts and all about citing a magazine in APA style, and the like. Google dropping Reddit search? Because of API costs? No, because searching Reddit news yields Reddit as the top 5 entries. So maybe Reddit is just rejecting API calls based on the search terms? Any API search with kbin or lemmy sent to Reddit is rejected? I am not that knowledgeable about this stuff, so if I’m way off, just let me know. Just thought it was interesting.

The Future of the Threadaverse. Is a Lot More Growth a Good Thing?

I’m a recent refugee from Reddit and a very long time social network user. When the Apollo app announced its demise, I joined kbin.social and beehaw.org and love these new networks. The discussions seems much more reasoned and friendly. I do miss some of the more esoteric groups such as music theory and jazz. I’m sure they’ll be created as the threadiverse (kbin and lemmy) continue to grow. In this case, growth will be good. Is there, however, a point where these new networks get too big?

Imagine 56 million daily users (the current figure for Reddit) using the threadiverse platforms. If they were divided evenly into groups of 10,000, that would be 5,600 instances. Surely, such growth would take years, unless Huffman pulls another catastrophic move such as making you pay to be member and having to view ads as well. Even if he did, I doubt Reddit would completely go away. It would join myspace and AOL in the backwaters of the Internet.

Back to my point. Let’s say there are 20 million daily users. Magazines on kbin and communities on lemmy would have 100’s of thousands or even more that a million subscribers. The subreddit r/worldnews has 32 million subscribers. There could also be 100’s of thousands of magazines/communities. Reddit has 2.8 million subreddits. I know communities are tightly limited on beehaw.org, only being added when there is sufficient interest and support for them. On kbin, it appears any member can create a magazine. I could be wrong. Lemme.ee also allows members to create communities without restriction as far as I can tell.

Assuming there were enough instances to support such a volume of users, would that be a good thing or would discussions turn into flame wars, vitriol, and personal attacks? Even if such things were kept under control would threads become full of pointless or uninformative comments that kept you from reading quality posts. I don’t know one way or the other although I suspect, at some point there would be such a thing as too big. Most likely, it will take years for the threadiverse to grow so there’s plenty of time to plan and implement mechanisms to handle it.

#RedditMigration

Please let me know when we get there! We can do this!

We shall overcome!