I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

  • jmp242
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been this for a long time - I can interact on the more FLOSS and federated stuff like it’s 2002 or so… And my computer running Linux is like the good parts of the late 90s Windows OS without all the crashing and slowness.

    I like parts of Discord well enough - I think the issue is most people just won’t run their own stuff. Heck, I was finally forced to give up on hosting my e-mail because it became too hard to work around all the blocks etc.

    • Matt@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      People will never run their own stuff - it requires some know-how regardless of what it is, and there are costs associated with it.

      Still, people not running their own stuff doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but most people will refuse to use things other than what they know even if there are alternatives available. People will come up with all sorts of arbitrary reasons but it comes down to familiarity and inertia.

      • jmp242
        3·
        1 year ago

        Still, people not running their own stuff doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but most people will refuse to use things other than what they know even if there are alternatives available. People will come up with all sorts of arbitrary reasons but it comes down to familiarity and inertia. Which is fine by me. What really annoys me is people bitching for years but doing nothing to change it. Like, sure - reach out to a company. Some will take your feedback and might even fix a bug or change something. But after doing that, if it’s been a year or more - don’t keep complaining while also saying “I can’t possibly use an alternative”.

        The marketplace only works if you change to things that fit your needs better. And if you’ve decided that product X fits your needs best - don’t complain forever about it. What’s even more frustrating is if someone is complaining for the 10,000 time to you about whatever, but then sigh and act all “you’re not being serious” when you say - have you tried a different thing? This is the one that fixed a lot of my complaints about X.

        I honestly think a lot of people are just either self destructive or just like to complain, which is fine, but stop complaining to me about it.