I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.
Hello Lemmy
Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.
Reddit is different… I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.
So I’m not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don’t give me something to read over breakfast…
I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I’m trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.
We might have to accept we’re on the “losing” side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We’ll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.
That sounds like the winning side to me.
I made the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when, and like you didn’t see a lot of the toxicity of Reddit likely by having a honed list of subreddits. 99% of my time was spent lurking tho over the last years - so now I’m going to take more initiative and engage more with the platform
Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I’ve been using Apple News as my “read over breakfast” app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.
I hope you consider an open news alternative, or even a closed one slightly less bad than Apple. Good for you for not using Reddit though.
I fear that sounded too condescending, I seriously want to encourage you to not use Apple without making you sound like an idiot.
I don’t think you are an idiot, just the same as the other millions of people who were taken in by Apple’s ‘privacy’ and ‘simplicity’, while not realising the price gouging, right to repair smashing, closed source, keeping everything ensnared its ecosystem that it really is.
I hope it gets a good following because it is nice it exists at all
I was never big on Twitter myself… I made an account when it first came out and never used it… and then for a high school unit for something we were required to make accounts (I graduated 10+ years ago… so that in and of itself is scary). I’ve never liked twitter. It always seemed to be screaming into the void.
Mastodon I really appreciate the real conversations with real people, especially when they are interested in what I have to say. I made a post about getting rid of lawns and had people from all angles of the argument discussing with me about it. It felt… healthy?!
Well, as healthy as internettin’ is.
Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞
Can’t even watch porn on there anymore. LOL
I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.
Talk about a damn boner killer.
Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.
What is really terrible is that, Twitter is considered mainstream social media alongside Instagram here in Japan. So even the normies ends up stepping into that right wing cesspool. I was really shocked to see my normie ex friend retweeting transphobic shit😿😿
While I really really hate Twitter, and tend to be more on Instagram, Losing Twitter means losing the single biggest information source for the majority that can’t read English. Even I sometimes have to open Twitter to see wtf is going on in the society (also it’s useful to get the most up to date information during emergency situations, like earthquake)
I saw the impact of them siloing their user base yesterday when a trade was made for one of my sports teams. The news broke on Twitter and I heard about it on a local radio show. I tried to find it in the news but I couldn’t. I don’t use Twitter so I wasn’t able to see any info on the trade for another 2 hours until local news and other services started to confirm and replicate the Twitter post.
It’s incredibly short sighted of them to do this.
Audience capture is a bitch
I learned the best way to avoid all the lunatics is to block anyone with a Blue Checkmark. There are block list’s for that to I think, though I was doing it manually.
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It’s strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn’t noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.
I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.
I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump’s account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.
It’s a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.
I still have my Reddit account, but it’s becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it’s to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it’s the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don’t unless I have to.
I make one post a month on Facebook. Usually within the first couple days. This month’s was about how since the supreme court wanted to rule dumb last week, I was going to play along and disallow certain people from shopping at my etsy shop. Got me a handful of orders, too… which is nice.
Reddit I just use still to check in on if any weird news happened… but that’s about it.
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How does this comment have nearly 50 up votes?
Same.
I had deleted my main reddit account that I had for 13/14 years a few months ago. I created a new alt so I could check in and talk about some of more niche interests, but I deleted that 3 weeks ago, just couldn’t be dealing with the increasing enshittification.
I’ve had a Twitter a/c since 2009, have a lot of mutual followers and a lot of people I know only for there, but decided today that it’s definitely not going to get any better. I had a Mastodon account since last year, but it was very slow and quiet, and again, not a lot of niche interests I have over there yet. But this weekend’s bullshit (and obvious lies from Musk) makes it clear twitter isn’t going to get better. Even if the stupid rates thing improves in the next while, it will just be something else Musk decides which will be making twitter worse.
So I’m just going to enjoy the chill vibes and explore all the different communities here.
500 upvotes in 2 hours?! Fuck yes bois. Fuck that jailbait mod spez, and his shit website full of toxic spakkers.
Long live the fed!
Vive la Fédération
Same. It was nice to break up from Reddit after 10 years
16 years here. Hard but that’s life.
16 years too. We’ve been through these transitions before with Digg!
13 for me, and a few days ago they banned me without even telling me why. I asked and I got no response. Fuck them, I was getting done with them anyway and when I found out that blind mods couldn’t moderate their own subreddit, I’m glad I didn’t even attempt to appeal.
Same; I’ve been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can’t take it anymore. It’s all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can’t shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn’t quite do it just yet.
The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.
BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.
Have you tried invidious as YouTube alternative?
Thanks very much for recommending this! Tried it and am quite happy. Also just tried NewPipe on my phone and it works really well. Bye bye YouTube
For Browser there are actually two YouTube Frontends: piped and invidious
Oh yes I’ve still not been able to get out of YouTube. :(
Got out of pretty much every other social media platform!
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A lot of it seems to be repost bots these days, and it’s impossible to know whether the upvotes they get are real or coming from other bots.
I’m largely ignorant to the mechanics of the attention economy in mass social media spaces, but what’s the point of having bots post on social media platforms, only to be mass upvoted and interacted with by other bots? Like who benefits from that and how? Why is that a thing?
My guess is bots circle jerk other bots and those accounts will (at least appear to) have large audiences, which may be valuable to advertisers or the like.
Karma farming, where you boost up the reputation of an account so you can sell it. Propagandists and marketers will pay more for an account that looks like a real user in good standing. So you keep the account busy and raise its karma by whatever means, including repeating formerly popular posts and using bots to boost them.
Whom do they sell the account to? How does the purchaser benefit from the account? I’m sure these are probably basic questions. I’m just curious
Dodgy organizations who want to pose as regular people and spread propaganda/disinformation/guerrilla advertising. Here’s one forum I found which has reddit accounts for sale. There would be more on the “dark web” I imagine:
Wow. I’ve heard about this kind of thing before but haven’t actually dug to go and find it
I dropped Twitter as soon as Musky took over since I rarely used it anyway. Reddit has been significantly more difficult to let go of, so I haven’t deleted my account yet. I’ve tried to open Apollo at least 50 times since the 30th.
I was surprised by how much muscle I memory had to click RIF. I opened it almost instinctually all weekend.
I opened sync to a blank page about 6 times before I had to uninstall it and I still find myself opening the folder it used to be in. I pause every time and sigh before I go find something else to do. I’m excited for the upcoming mobile apps for Lemmy and hope this can be a new home / refuge from the sadness that is now Reddit
There are already mobile apps like wefwef.app and I believe that Apollo, RIF, etc are being switched to Lemmy now as well
I’m honestly waiting for sync to be ported. I loved the experience the developer created and want to support their migration to Lemmy. As much as I want a mobile app today, I’m willing to wait for one of my favorite devs to get their app ported over. :)
Rif isnt
I’m definitely using reddit less after they got rid of RiF. If they ever kill old.reddit.com I think I will be permanently done with them. Loving Lemmy so far though!
Welcome to the Fediverse! It is smaller but it is growing! So far I think it feels more civilised than the chaos out there in the corporate internet.
Gave up Twitter the day of Musk mocked that disabled employee/partner. Didn’t delete the account though. I’m still on Reddit. Hope Lemmy would go a long way!!
PS: I still automatically ignore some image posts on Lemmy thinking it’s an Ad cause I’m so used to it on Reddit App 😂
I was on the edge, but this event with Halli showed clearly that Elon is not right person to lead Twitter.
Exactly. I had a very high regard for Musk before he opened his mouth during early lock down. His technological initiatives (Specially SpaceX) has being great drivers. (Though he’s not the one doing the innovations) But he as a person have the qualities of worst human beings. If he kept his mouth shut, could have gone a long way, still.
It makes me respect billionaires who aren’t insanely juvenile attention whores who try to be the coolest edgy meme lord in the world while pushing shitty politics. Take Spez, basically everyone hates him lately, but at least he doesn’t have a front page post on reddit every day like, “look at me, I’m cool right!?!!” All Musk had to do was shut up and he’d have mass respect.
I also had a thought that “All Billionaires are not like that”. But recently saw a very decent millionaire giving money advice on Facebook Stories saying “Your low amount of money can’t do anything. Try to grow it to higher amount and then we can talk about investing”. (Paraphrasing here) It’s very common. All these people have lost touch with reality.
PS: Check Spez’s AMA. He is just the same edge lord.
Oh sure, wealth seems to make people completely loony and incredibly out of touch. Even having a net worth of $5 million is considered pathetic to some people, and the way they waste their money (and society’s resources that could have helped hundreds or thousands of people) is insane… and then they’re still obsessed with getting more. This is also what fucked over the economy for everyone else.
Splez sucks for sure, I am familiar with how he is a survival prepper and his statement about how he thinks after an apocalypse he would be a ‘leader’, plus he was such a douche to the Apollo developer. Also his vision for reddit is apparently to make it steadily worse, certainly a slap in the face to everyone who has enjoyed how the site used to be. If anything though I appreciate that Splez isn’t out trying to make himself the center of attention the way Musk does, which is really the most objectionable thing about that dude.
Same here. I’m getting more into abandoning projects and companies with insane leadership as I get older. The older the get the more I realize that we should have been destroying these idols from the start.
