• OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Especially given the scabs mods (no, actually scabs was right the first time:-) that they brought in. Shudder - it’s foxes running the henhouse now, there will be blood.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        10 months ago

        From what I’ve been told, out of the three active subs I modded that got yanked and restaffed with whoever, only one isn’t a bot ridden mess.

        And that one is kinda shit (again, that’s second hand) now.

        Not that I was some paragon of modding, it’s just that you can’t have random assholes put in place after actual users are pissed off and expect things to work out well.

        • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
          6·
          10 months ago

          I noticed reddit changed since the strike but I didn’t know how, it felt faker now I think this may be why

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          The kind of person that would step up and mod your subs after first the protests and then you being booted… let’s just say that they would not be “random”. All across Reddit those people that mods were forced to ban for harassment of others, who REFUSED to follow the rules, are now sitting on top of the thrones - but not to serve the community, and rather to see how they can get it to serve them, just exactly in line with Huffman’s vision:-(.

          Don’t worry about your subs though - those who decided to remain were warned, so it is on their own heads. Your subs essentially died, and what remains are their animated corpses:-(. At which point no wonder they seem a little “different” now!:-P - a little less usable, less friendly, less relevant.

          Meanwhile, we seem to be doing JUST FINE over here on the Fediverse:-). I’m far happier with this than I ever was with Reddit (which I joined quite late, 4 years ago). Most niche topics are basically gone over here, but discussing general topics is actually possible now whereas with Reddit it was not (at least, not without a LARGE possibility of being hit with a veritable army of hostile commenters, almost regardless of what was said or where it was delivered).

          Edit: this is not relevant in any way shape or form but… I wanted to add it anyway, enjoy:-). JO

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      Hey, that’s not fair to drug dealers. I’ve heard many kind stories about dealers helping people. If something happens to their customers then they can’t buy anymore. If something happens to Reddit mods, they just replace them.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
        7·
        10 months ago

        Ive known some people of a very criminal inclination and most of them were actually really good people if you didnt equate laws and morality.

  • JPSound@lemmy.world
    20·
    10 months ago

    I left the day they made the switch and, after 12 years as a daily user, i haven’t logged into my account since. Because of Lemmy, don’t miss it one bit. The only reason I ever see reddit posts is when they happen to show up in any of my DDG searches. Usually, they show up when I’m trying to seach for info flabout a game or mods, at which point my reddit usage is purely utilitarian. I dont login and i no longer use it as any source of entertainment or online social interactions.

    Lemmy reminds me of very early Reddit, which is unrecognizable in its current state. After years of stupid decisions, the overwhelming barrage of adds, trackers and corperate greed, the reddit I found so engaging and entertaining was lost years ago. My exit was just an acknowledgement of that truth.

    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Feel basically the same way you feel except that curiosity has gotten the better of me more than once.

      Feels like Lemmy should be seeing more growth?

      • JPSound@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        IMO there’s certainly nothing wrong with going on reddit. There’s still stuff there but it’s just not the same and it’s not for me. They don’t respect their users at all and I’m just not going to give them anymore of my time.

        I haven’t been here all that long butI think Lemmy is growing and real growth takes years. It seemed like reddit was this little secret for the first few years, then BOOM! Massive growth and it was a slow decline after that. Lemmy is on the upswing and with any luck, this place won’t fall into the same pitfalls ar reddit.

        • wowwoweowza@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          10 months ago

          There was a glitch with my instance this morning — Lemmy.ml. Haven’t used what happened but these enterprises are not a piece of cake to keep going.