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Lemmy is getting better and better at an exponential rate. I still use Reddit but eventually I expect to fully be on Lemmy.
I just quit cold turkey and moved to lemmy fulltime. I miss some communities but whatev, its no biggie.
There’s too many answers over the past decade to abandon reddit completely. Most google searches for specific questions go back to Reddit.
I’ve heard that Reddit is trying to kill that too so people will use their godawful search feature instead. I got a prompt from the site to take a survey about it sometimes last month and that’s what people were theorizing that it was about.
I’ve had some searches lead me to old reddit threads where the answers are all deleted a few times since migrating here already. So even that is becoming less true than it used to be.
Yeah I only get back on Reddit from a search engine hit. And even then I’ll use the cached copy if I can.
How do you get the cached copy?
archive.org has it. I self host searxng, and it gives me a link beside every search result to load it from archive instead.
Same. I realised 95% of Reddit for me was just the bants and chitchat. There’s a few communities I miss, but I can easily get my kicks here.
Just came over from reddit to check this place out and gotta say, I’m liking it so far!
Same here. I do go back for some niche browsing, but mostly over here now.
I’ll go back there if they have some specific discussion with good info. I.e. Linux, video games, something. But signing in and browsing? No way.
I used to use Reddit a lot more back before the whole API fiasco earlier this year. After that, I stopped, save for posts promoting Lemmy and one very specific subreddit that never migrated to Lemmy and that I just couldn’t go without. (The other subreddits I could either do without or were already replicated on Lemmy.)
I also used to rely more on reddit but just came to lemmy and can really see potential that with time will overpass reddit eventually
I honestly haven’t used Reddit since the API exodus. The only reason I still have an account there is for when I have weird tech issues and the only search results are from old Reddit posts.
I only check Lemmy a few times a day, (and I tend to browse /all so I’m not limited to only seeing my subscriptions,) so I always have fresh content whenever I open the app. My posts and comments tend to get better engagement on Lemmy anyways. They don’t get buried by power users and karma-farming bots, so I actually get real responses. Nearly every time I open my app, I have three or four comment responses to check.
Some of my main communities didn’t take hold here, so I keep my toes in those subreddits. In the past week, the experience has gotten measurably worse. It’s wild.
I wish those communities had reached a critical mass here.
Someday.
I browse old.reddit when I finish a show or movie for review and to touch in on hiphop releases. But without interaction. Lemmy is where I am now, fuck reddit I’m not a complete fuck Spez but they’re a genuinely unlikeable company.
Translation: If we can’t track you, you’re of no interest to us.
Basically. They need to know who you are.
Correction: They need to know how they can market you to advertisers.
Reddit is the new digg
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What does this mean?
JFC
DON’T LOOK AT THE NUMBER!! YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE IT!! YOUR BRAIN IS AN ILLEGAL OBJECT IF YOU MEMORISE IT!!
Pathetic
Edit: thanks for educating me
Aac S
Lemmy is quickly embodying the worst of reddit too.
I’d argue that, for Lemmy, it depends on which communities you subscribe to. Even if you subscribed to one community that now has stuff you don’t like, there’s a decent chance that another community on another instance has what you’re looking for.
Lemmy at least has alternative instances and instance blocking.
“Lemmy” is not a platform, it is software you can use to make a platform (unless you’re on .ml I guess).
I’m out of the loop but I’ve seen this stated many times now re: .ml. What’s the deal with it? I thought it was mostly dev focused with memes and left-leaning stuff?
It’s the instance owned and operated by the main Lemmy devs. Most instances are run by totally unaffiliated people using Lemmy software. .ml is the only one where you could say the software devs are also the community Admins and moderators.
.ml belongs to Malian government, hence Marxist websites register the domains with that TLD.
Good ol Mali
Of course it is, it’s a reddit clone marketed to redditors.
The censorship is already worse here than it was on Reddit.
Depends on the instance. Lemmygrad is the most restrictive.
I’ve been meaning to say this, there has been surge of influx of users recently. Maybe this has to do with it? My VPN IP has been targeted. This isn’t a problem if you switch to a different location as certain VPN IP addresses are flagged by websites. VPN providers tend to change the addresses so this shouldn’t be a long term problem.
Since the debacle of Reddit and curtailing of privacy in their site, I log in to Reddit via Tor on Onion. It’s awkward to do so, but I won’t go back to the original site. They have gone in the way of Facebook with predatory harvesting of data.
change your user agent to “fuck reddit and fuck you spez v. 1.2.45”
old.reddit.com still works (for now…).
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Once the majority of the old guard mods dip or get removed then they’ll get rid of it, but not sooner. Of course, with how things are going in that regard…
Wtf are they doing?
The only time I use reddit instead of Lemmy now is when I want to read discussion of TV shows I just watched.
If I may ask, what is stopping you from discussing here on Lemmy ?
Effort!
I don’t usually want to contribute my own opinion. I just want to read other people’s and silently judge them if they disagree with me.
This is the way.
Also it helps to get super highly up voted opinions and then recycle them for my friends so they think I’m more insightful/smarter than i am.
The water coolers never came here organically. The communities exist here, but the bots are forwarding the articles from Reddit, the moderators are meta moderators of 50 different communities that sprung up on the first migration happened. Trying to actually hold conversations in most of the communities you’re just screaming into the void.
Then there’s the problem of the community existing in six different nodes each with four life humans in them.
A lot of the niche communities haven’t hit the user density required for self-sustaining discourse.
Then of course when you do start to get a community with a couple dozen active people moderation starts demanding tags and strict rules. I mean it’s good to get out ahead of things if you can, but if you only have a couple dozen active users don’t run them off.
Even the big communities feel small compared to reddit. You post something on a news comment section and you might get one to two polite replies fact checking you or giving their opinions. On reddit you would get dozens of people telling you how your post is wrong, and even if it’s an opinion your opinion is worthless and you have no value in life.
Much more engagement on reddit.
Yeah quality versus quantity is a serious problem over there.
For me it’s the fact that I am one of approximately two people on Lemmy that has ever seen stuff like Haibane Renmei or Shin Sekai Yori, and there isn’t almost a decade worth of discussions about them to read on this platform. I could start communities for them, but I’m not cut out to moderate, and I’m not quite a big enough fan of either to justify taking on the role of a community leader
oh hey, I must be the other guy
We should start a forum and argue about whether Squealer was right all along (he was) or what the walls actually represent (honestly idk)
Community sizes are much different.
I still use Reddit for this same reason. It’s the lack of communities. Every TV and every movie having a thread available. I’d love if lemmy started doing live discussions.
“Woah there, pardner”? What the fuck is going on with Reddit? Do they think they are like cool cowboys in the old west?
Uh, didn’t you read the thing? Reddit’s awesome and all!
What’s Reddit?
A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.
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As a first-time user I’m enjoying Lemmy. I feel like I want to contribute mostly because I won’t have an immediately antithetical comment to follow my own. Am not looking for an echo chamber, I’m looking for conversation and sharing ideas. Reddit has devolved and this seems like the best way forward, for now.
Happy to hear that! While we may not have as many communities, its most good folk here. Mostly
I hope you like Linux memes and weekly updates on what reddit is doing
I get this even when signed in. Reddit really doesn’t like VPNs at all these days.
Advertisers probably don’t like an anonymous user base.
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I just keep opening new accounts until they ban them, rinse and repeat
Change the url to old. instead of www. and you can bypass it.
