I’m currently browsing Lemmy with a third party app.
Reddit wiped out that capacity, and I in turn wiped out my participation on reddit.
i use a minimalist app written in rust that i prefer to the reddit or default lemmy experience
No advertising. No algorithms driving content at me.
It’s one of those things I don’t notice until I make a trip back to Reddit to pick up something I left (moving out takes time).
At least once per visit I end up clicking an ad by accident, because they’re everywhere.
I downvote every one . Even the ones with a puppy dog or cat.
That might be worse than not engaging at all 🤷♂️
Reddit advertising was particularly toxic. Ads were unskippable and often predatory. Beer and gambling ads in addiction subs, Jesus ads in atheism and minority religion subs, etc.
Yeah, not missing reddit. Missing some of the peeps, tho.
I hate the adds…and the bots
They serve no purpose for which I have a need.
It really makes you wonder about the type of people that see an ad and say to themselves " I’m going to look into that ".
I see an advertisement and the first thing that pops in my mind is “ok, I’ll stay away from that for sure, i definitelydont want that in my life”
I was checking my weather app, and they fed me an ad for something that I didn’t even know what it was, so I went to the website, clicked around a bunch, just so they thought I was interested. All Praise be to VPN! Sometimes reinforcing a mis-impression is the best thing one can do.
No fucking Spez messing with the API.
I like the idea of contributing to something built by users.
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People are nicer here. For the most part.
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There are a shit ton less corporate ops manufacturing consent.
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Smaller user base means discussions move a bit slower.
Better blocking and other tools for sorting content and users.
No ads.
Far, far fewer petty mods and admins. There will never be zero, but it is much better here overall.
Banned.
Lemmy hasn’t been enshittified.
People are slightly less stupid, which makes conversation not as frustrating. I also don’t get banned/suspended because a mod got uppity (and even if it happened, the solutions are easier!). I mean, it happened on .ml but I had to get at least one ban, lol.
Removed by mod
Perhaps the communities are not as fake because updoots cannot be farmed (either to sell the account or just so you can feel your existence validated, lol). And maybe monotheistrevolutionaries.lemmy.ml could exist? 😅
So who do I talk to so I can sell my reddit account. It’s got to be worth at least $150 but I’d take a gram of pure MDMA
Lemmy doesn’t give a shit if I’m on VPN, which means I can still access it when working from home.
Lemmy as a platform doesn’t care. But Lemmy as a community certainly does: You should absolutely be on a VPN in this day and age.
In real life, I prefer to live in a big town.
Online, I prefer to live in a small town.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Nobody is making profit from my content or selling my data to advertisers.
Most of the posts on Lemmy are still made by humans instead of automatically reposting the top posts from 5 years ago forever.
The bots ran me off. I want to read human comments and converse with humans.
Caught a permaban for my, uh, spicy opinions on Russians. I rarely go back to look at something and every post has 10,000 bullshit replies.
The people here are much nicer and inquisitive. It feels like im talking to a real person instead of just content bait. I dont need 1000+ comments per post for it to be successful, I just want real people talking to real people.
Plus we can have anyone talking with anyone here. Mastodon talking to lemmy talking to piefed, etc…etc…
I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities - people haven’t completely closed themselves off into tiny echo chambers so discussions are actually discussions, and not brigading agreements.
I was reddit faithful for over a decade. Lemmy is like reddit’s early days, I recognize users across multiple communities
In Reddit’s really early days, there weren’t any subreddits.
goes back to archive.org to find out when that was
Looks like their snapshot on January 10, 2007 lacks a subreddit sidebar, and the one on January 13, 2007 has one, so probably somewhere in there.
The first snapshot they have of Reddit is August 4, 2005, so it was like that for about a year-and-a-half.
I know I wasn’t there that early, but I was around for rage comics, Spacedicks, and the rise & fall of the novelty accounts.
The fall of novelty accounts? That’s a new one on me.
For a couple of years there were accounts where all the comments they made had a theme, usually the username was related. That’s how ShittyWatercolor started; someone would describe something in a comment and that would make shitty watercolor artwork of it.
There were tons of them. I remember another that would replace words in the comment with a link to a Magic the Gathering card where the title of the card would fill in the rest of the sentence.
There was another that would
witre cmeomtns lkie tihsso your brain could read them even though nothing was spelled properly.
There were a few threads where they’d Assemble like the Avengers and it would be a bunch of folks all playing off one another. It was glorious, and then it all just kind of faded away…
Ah, gotcha. I don’t remember seeing a decline, but maybe I wasn’t looking for it.
EDIT: It looks like /u/ShittyWatercolour is still posting as of two months ago:
Does anyone remember 9M9H9E9? I stumbled on that account around the time of the “magical space pussy” part of the story.
