Life on the net is the life of a nomad fleeing a string of manmade apocalypses.
Missing Reddit is better than mourning what it'll end up as when the screws start to tighten (when you have a captive audience, stage 2 is ramping up the ads).
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Your first sentence was actual poetry.
Their username checks out.
I'm sad to see what's happening to reddit but excited about Lemmy
It IS exciting. I really like what I see so far on Lemmy. There aren't 10,000 comments on every thread. I think it will be easier to gave real engagement with people.
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This is just the evolution of forums, ngl. We've moved from dislocated hobby groups to a consolidated place where anyone can find the forum they need, to realising the problem with pure consolidation.
You're using it.
Yeah, it's a bummer Reddit went the way it did. But here we are. I'll miss it to a point. Still figuring out Lemmy, we'll see how it goes. I've tried Mastodon a bit as well but it feels more like Twitter to me, which I used for maybe a week years ago. No thanks.
well, for me at least, Mastodon IS an alternative to twitter, though it may change since it is federated (?) with lemmy? And yeah, my mastodon account is just collecting virtual dust there lmao
I never got into Twitter and was freaked out by the content on Mastodon. I just want a nice chill community that shares interesting information/news/facts/pics.
Freaked out by the content? What was there?
They might have been on an instance that federate with things like poast and noagendasocial
not heard of those but I'm guessing they're 'free speech' servers for 'honest everyday people'
Basically yeah, "free speech" and shitposting, basically right wing bigots doing bigot things.
Pretty much and felt like I was being put on an FBI list for just having visited the place lol...
Iβm sure itβs a pipe dream atm, but Iβm just hoping fediverse will have a unified method to look up archived posts across all platforms. Unfortunately, itβs probably very difficult to set up because indexing would take forever given the exponentially increasing amount of content. I used to use Reddit to look up a lot of video game info/memes. Redditβs search engine was garbage, but at least I could find info from older game guides from 10+ years ago. My main concern is that a lot of indie game devs are directing people to talk about their games on Discord, which is terrible for archiving information.
With Google getting increasingly worse, reddit is usually where I find what I'm looking for in a sea of blog spam. And while I personally think Discord is absolutely great as a chat plaform it is nowhere near close as being a reddit replacement. Everything posted in there is silo'd and not searchable from outside.
Letβs just hope the blackout works, spez sucks
If the blackout works, Lemmy is fucked π.
Well, maybe. Maybe fucked for the time being. But part of me thinks the cat is now out of the bag. If Reddit doesnβt end up shitting on everyone now, surely they will at some point later down the line.
I remember Digg before Reddit.
I remember Slashdot.
Freshmeat anyone?
At this point I'm wondering whether people will stick to reddit even if they pull a 180 on api pricing and all. The whole smear campaign against Apollo and others just underlines they can't be trusted.
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It is tragic. But on the plus side I think this transition will be a lot smoother than trying to leave twitter since here you don't have to individually find everyone you want to follow, just show up at the proper forums.
idk, i'm having kind of a hard time. i have a lot of niche subs on reddit that don't seem to be on lemmy. i feel like i did when i first started reddit and just saw all the default pics/music/gaming subs
You can still use Reddit, just now many users have a motivation to diversify their information platforms. Fediverse does that, and only ask that your new content, discussions, and questions be added in the fediverse instead. To help growth here.
For example, I curious about SFF PC building and, yup, Reddit already had a sub for that. If I have future questions I'll just post them on /m/technology instead.
I agree with this. As part of the Fediverse while it's still small, it's our job to build it up by creating content here.