I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…
Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit
This is not the way. By using Reddit you are essentially giving money to the shareholders. You are fattening the rich. It is pathetic. Stop using reddit, fullstop.
You are here on Lemmy. Help the community instead of trying to redirect traffic back to reddit…
Wtf dude!? How much time since you are on Lemmy, 1 week, 2 weeks?! How much time you were on Reddit? Probably years. Imposition is not the way, of that way you are not so much difference of Reddit’s staff with the API stuff, the unique difference would that you haven’t millions and a legendary community.
I’m free to do whatever I want, using Reddit and Lemmy, share ways of still using Reddit to people who doesn’t know but they would like. Lemmy would not exists if weren’t for Reddit concept probably in a first place. You’re pathetic saying what is possible of do and what not. Luckly you don’t have power, because you would be even so much similar to Reddit staff.
Stop saying bullshit, you’re in a federated community, and freedom is the rule here, you like it or don’t, idgaf. People will do whatever they want, not because you don’t like to use Reddit anymore, no one else can use it. I will be here on Lemmy making growing it and aporting my salt’s grain, and I will be on Reddit also with Infinity and my personal API: let people decides for theirselves!! They can use both. You’re no one for decide for nobody.
For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.
Hear Hear!
I’m sick of the internet being only 5 websites!
I miss when StumbleUpon
The air was warmer then. It was like the old days of finding a “other links I like” on someone’s about me page.
I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.
I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!
This is the way
When Digg put business above users and reddit growth exploded it (reddit) wasn’t a great “alternative” at that time either. But at that time they were putting users first. Isn’t that what makes this (lemmy) a great alternative?
Just continue to post and make content!
Same!!
Idek what goes into his head. And at this point, it’s too scary to know.
What do you mean?
For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I’m extremely happy to be here!
Edited: messed up posting the Dev’s name. Thanks @DTFpanda@lemmy.world
LJ Dawson, lol
A fellow RiF user, do I detect?
Nope, Sync for Reddit, here! Soon to be Sync for Lemmy.
RiF user here
In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .
Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.
I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I’m not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I’m not buying it.
What happened to the blind community?
It’s terrible, but most of them have lost their sight.
( i am very sorry for this post)
too soon :)
Is there a link to this, wasn’t aware of a zoom meeting
How can we help ensure that Lemmy is accessible?
Good web design and App makers being aware that for these demographics, these apps may be a users only link to community.
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Yeah, the drama over there is pure reality TV level right now.
Wow, that bad, eh? Haven’t been there for a month now. Just bot accounts everywhere?
I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.
Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.
it was reddit banning the mods of /r/mildlyinteresting that had me sign up with lemmy an hour ago.
They are back now, but still
They’re back? When did that happen?
very recently some other subs still have no mod team though
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14eq8ip/the_entire_rmildlyinteresting_mod_team_has_just/
I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.
I don’t even use third party apps. It’s just that I can’t give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.
Same here, I’m a software dev for a living and it resonated differently/pissed me off hearing about the API pricing changes and what happened with Apollo’s developer
That’s a good reason to jump ship. And wow, I think you missed out on not using the 3rd party apps, but they’re coming to lemmy soon.
I am the opposite. I had a Reddit login for years but never used it. When I found out about Apollo, I gave it another go and it quickly became my Number 1 Internet time sink.
With Apollo no longer functional, Reddit (for me) is no longer functional.
The fuckery was just the icing on the cake to force me to delete my account.
I’ve been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version
I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.
Try sorting by “Top Day” if you haven’t already until it’s fixed.
New is good
I do that sometimes, but that’s not even close to what I’m looking for. If they had a top hourly, that word be close
A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.
Would anyone find it helpful if I wrote a simple bot that pulls Reddit RSS and pops a little bit of top content for various subreddits into community posts here? I can’t tell if that would be useful or spammy.
I mean, the poor Webcomics community has exactly one post, while there’s a deluge of good content out there waiting to be linked to.
Respectfuly, please don’t. One of the reasons I started going on reddit a decade ago and one of the reasons I come here is to find content that other people, with either similar or distinct tastes, find interesting, and talk about it. To automate or defer to a machine, however technically interesting it might be for the creator, defeats the purpose of a social network. I abandoned many subs on reddit and have abandoned Facebook and Instagram because they are no longer human. Advertisers and a machine decide what you see. Barely tolerate YouTube but they’re honest and it has never been about following people and more like browsing TV channels.
I think my point is, if I wanted an RSS feed, I would setup an RSS feed.
People that have ~1 week of ping time (as yours truly) are finally getting to their todo list item of checking alternatives to Reddit and making an account and first posts :)
I love that analogy. Same for me, been meaning to check out Lemmy for weaks and just made an accont yesterday
Yeah I am on the same boat, I found a lot of downtime at work today so I decided to check lemmy out and loving it so far.
/u/spez brought us here.
Thanks spez!
In another way: “Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns.”
Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.
Soon we will look back amazed at these growing little numbers. They’re growing quickly but I expect it to grow by one or two more orders of magnitude over the coming months!
Could be, reddit might go out with a whimper instead of a bang. A war of attrition from thread to thread, sub to sub. Slowly they’ll lose a base of people who don’t take it personally until it hits their favorite sub.
All it takes is one viable alternative, and thats the key.
I’m really hoping this can become that viable alternative. I’m not of fan of social media in general and I miss the old Usenet groups from back in the early 90s before it all became porn, MLM ads and other junk.
It really already is, from the very little I’ve seen so far, this has more of the “early” Reddit days for me feel, it’s not overrun with bots and hidden corporate interests at every post and comment thread.
Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up
Same
Yuuuuup. Where sync goes, I go
I’m so excited.
This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.
The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.
