After years of using reddit, i finally deleted everything including my account there. Personally, i am not affected by the api prices, BUT, i couldn’t live with me supporting people, who see their userbase, moderators and creators as nothing but noise. The point i’m making? Greetings Lemmy. I joined a few days ago and i’m here to stay so cheers everyone and, hi
I deleted my 13 year old account.
I just cannot support what Reddit is doing and the direction they are going.
They are now trying to restore deleted content
I mean, i saw something like that coming, but it still renders me even more spiteful towards reddit. I hope their snapshots get nuked or something like that. Thanks for the input my guy
I’m in exactly the same boat. I love Reddit and I love the community. I’m a mod of a couple great small subs. But the site management has broken my trust. And that means it’s time for me to ‘grow up’ and start putting serious thought into which networks I’m supporting with my participation. Decentralized is the future. ‘Big Tech’ platforms are the kiddy pool of the internet, it’s time for us as a society to swim into the deep end and take back control of our content and consumption. It’s good to be among friends :)
It is about time we take back OUR internet, as it once was OURS. I could not agree me on that part right there. Good having you put some thought into it and good having you here, so welcome to lemmy and have a pleasant stay. The future is Decentralized. The future is Open Source. The future is Ours.
It is about time we take back OUR internet, as it once was OURS.
Yes exactly!
I remember the days when ‘online community’ meant someone with a cable modem and a laptop would set up a ‘server’ with an IRC bot or a Shoutcast stream and people would gather on forums and the like. It wasn’t as slick as the Facebooks and Reddits and Twitters and all that, and it took a >90 IQ to figure out how to make it work, but it was ours. There was no billionaire owner in California deciding what you could and couldn’t do or say or post according to what his advertisers would tolerate, and no giant machine learning algorithm vacuuming up your every keystroke to show you more relevant ads.
Those were good days.
There’s a harsh reality of any service, regardless of type. If you aren’t the one paying for it, you aren’t the customer, you’re the product. The lurkers, commenters, posters, and mods are all part of the product to be sold to the real customers, the advertisers.
This move is like the ranchers deciding that veal will sell for a higher price, so now we’re all being shackled so that we stay tender.
The rolling back and undeleting of comments, as well as the censorship of the feddiverse is the most egregious thing so far.
My principals align with this platform much more, and ultimately is a much more fulfilling social experience for me.
I don’t miss reddit.
Looks like we too are in the same boat here. I’ve read about them restoring deleted content and demodding moderators in order to open up the subreddits themselfs. Let’em burn.
Lemmy ui is amazing, better then I expected
I agree. The minimalistic design is pleasant for the eyes and everything you need is there
I would prefer words over icons if I am honest, but the Icons are very simple none the less, and the learning curve isn’t long at all.
Me too! Here, here!
Hello, welcome, I joined a few days ago as well, because of the same reasons too. What a coincidence.
Not really I know, lot of us came here from reddit because we don’t support it anymore. And that’s to be expected with latest actions reddit took exposing their greed and need for control.
Anyway each day here I see more and more content, so it seems things are going good and I love seeing it grow. So guess who’s going to stay here too. Cheers.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, this no karma currency thing is awesome.
The no karma thing is a great point and one I overlooked. I wonder how that difference will influence how people post and comment.
Ah i welcome you just the same my guy. What can is say, let’s keep pumping that sweet content here and enjoy our time. I’ve been sorting things out as of late so this is just the next step to getting to what the internet once was imo. I’m happy to see this website grow too and yea, about that karma, i never really gave much of a shit about it tbh, so works for me. Hope you’ll have a pleasant night/day
Hi, i’m edd grubberman, and I came here when one of my anime subs went private. NGL I had no idea it was because WWF style royal rumble between the reddit admin vs users vs mods. kbin.social and lemmy reminds me a little of websites from back in the day. Constant 411, and 505 errors while some servers are trying to keep up. I wonder if the admin will demote the mods. I also wonder wth funny af high octane anime and popcorn movies to watch. and where the hell did I put my car keys?
Well a min karma and a CAPTCHA check to filter spam was only r/mildlyinfuriating . On the subs I’d lurk in Karma was abused and farmed. My “favorite” (ironically) was temp bans because some people couldn’t and or didn’t want to read. like I said, I mostly came from reddit because some subs I was using to fix a email problem. then I found out about how weird, and psychotic haufman was, and the entire clusterfuck for going public.
It felt really weird to leave. I still have yet to delete my account but I am still getting used to the interface here. Once the learning curve is over, I plan to go back and delete.
You take it at your own pace. I mean, technically you are stepping out of your comfort zone by checking something new (which is a good thing imo) and i’m sure you’ll getting used to the ui sooner rather than later. It’s rally minimalistic and not bloated with hundreds of buttons. I welcome you as well on lemmy.
PS: If it helps you somehow, remember that there was a time where reddit was not a thing until someone made it and it was.
Agreed
I was over Reddit when I saw the news from Christian (Apollo’s dev), then Spez’s AMA really cemented Reddit was a shit hole, then news came out that they were also laying off 90 staff members, and the final nail in the coffin for me was getting accosted by another user that I was “spreading misinformation and lying” about Reddit when I commented about supporting the black out.
I’m partially affected because I use desktop + mobile (on third party app), but I’ve decided just to stop using reddit entirely.
Its quieter here, but I imagine it’ll pick up slowly. The slower pace also helps because I’ve been spending too much time on reddit.
Things are going quite smoothly here (except for picture upload but i heard that it already gets worked on) and the content is indeed growing every day. Maybe the perfect opportunity to correct some things or have a better start. I’d take it as such and i’m glad to hear that the convertion over to lemmy is helping you out. Social Media sure does a good job on sucking you in until way too much time is gone, but with less busy shit going on on the screen and the platform relying on real social interaction (you know exactly what i mean by that kek), one might be less forgetting of touching some grass. Either way, glad to have you here and i hope it goes better for you as time continues. We live in times that are way too fast paced, to the point where we forget to just exist from time to time. I wish you luck with maintaining that part of life that you regained through this and a pleasant stay.
I also feel the same, though I am not savvy on the current changes happening, they don’t make sense to be. I just find the mods and rules over there too stringent especially after getting banned for making a joke on a satire sub. Been on the search for a new site ever since.
Well lucky you, for you have found said desired site. Cheers mate and welcome. By the tone of it, i’m guessing that you’re fresh of the boat as well
Definitely lol still figuring out how things work but enjoying the ride
Ayy that’s the spirit. It is kinda weird with those instanced links, where you click on it and suddenly you’re not logged in, but then you look at the url and realize, that you are but not on that instance, but other than that, it is way smoother than i expected. Glad to have you here and feel free to let me know if you encounter anything spicy :'D
Ditto. Been 7 years for me. Still figuring out kbin and lemmy. but decentralized, open source and ad free is my speed …
If anyone remembers the digg wave ,this feels very much like it in reverse. Where Digg got it so so wrong is they totally dismissed the cause of the issue and then assumed it would go away.Instead the active user base just left. I think this is happening now to reddit.
Yes absolutely. Digg actually had multiple waves to reddit. I left on the first one but most left on the second.
It really feels to me a similar effect is happening
All of these platforms go through phases of decay. First the power users and top quality moderators leave. They do it for a variety of reasons. Many will be for philosophical reasons. Others will just want to find a platform that works before the changes roll out so they can get comfortable.
The second wave is mostly more power users. They move when the actual change rolls out. These are largely people who wanted to have their last hurrah and had already decided to leave. The majority though are just people who hadn’t heard about the change or who thought it wouldn’t impact them as much as it winds up doing. This wave will see an abrupt spike, and then a long swell as more people realize how the changes impact them.
The third wave is where we see the rank and file regular contributors move. This group stuck around because they just wanted to stay connected with their existing communities and for various reasons thought things would get better. Maybe they thought the platform would reverse course. Maybe they believed the platform owners promises that the changes would come with improvements later. Better first party moderation tools, accessibility improvements, better performance, better first party apps, whatever it is they were waiting for that ultimately never materializes.
The final wave is the lurkers / content consumers. These guys never cared. They just went where the content was. Now that all three prior groups are gone, wherever they went, that’s where this group goes. This was me when I realized everything on Stumbleupon was just from Reddit the previous day
Very well said! Also Stumbleupon! That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time! Do you remember The Nethernet too?
Hey, I couldn’t find any information about the nethernet. Care to send a link my way? (And maybe post it to a You Should Know community?)
Thanks! I was able to find it after that. When I was searching I kept getting “Ethernet” even if I quote wrapped “nethernet”
Before you all leave Reddit, you should take your stuff with you, and then delete all posts and comments using one of the several ways to automate that.
Ideally turn them into gibberrish or some random phrase, but nothing with sense so they can’t train ai with it
