This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
Don’t worry, they will notice a difference when the content eventually stops or drops in quality, or at the very least a large portion of it will move here
As for the app thing, they’re clearly ignorant and don’t know what they’re missing. That or they grew up with gross filtered feeds that were literally engineered to be toxic and addicting. Even I remember how addicting that shit was before they went a bit too crazy with ads and irrelevant posts. Used to be you could scroll and scroll thru Facebook and you wouldn’t run out of interesting posts from friends, groups etc. Now it’s all pages I don’t even like or follow. Adpocalypse 2.0
Until Apollo is officially dead I’m still redditing, but I’ve bookmarked the Lemmy homescreen and placed it where Apollo used to be.
I’ve noticed that since the blackout reddit has gotten noticeably dumber.
The people staying are mostly the dumb ones so people will slowly leave as they get sick of sifting through all the dumb shit and migrate here. Then I’m a few years, just like reddit, the dumb ones will get sick of sitting in their own shit and migrate here and ruin Lemmy.
As new platforms become easier to adopt the bar to entry becomes lower. As new communities become more popular they get targeted by advertisers and trolls. Then something new comes along, people bail for a newer but less- refined community and the cycle repeats. It’s disappointing, but it seems to be the circle of the internet.
I’ve seen it with MySpace, Facebook, Digg, and eBaum’s World. It’ll happen here too.
Guess we will just have to mod the shit out of this place until then
I think we can take it easy for now. We have some time before reddit is all the way down and the trolls get bored of trolling each other.
This is what’s better known as a thinly veiled warning…