I don’t know if this is the right community, but I suppose it’s close enough.
You can’t even make posts like this on Reddit anymore, Reddit has become such a hog on the internet traffic it’s ridiculous. It wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit didn’t take such precious internet space.
They censor people, regular people who aren’t even doing anything too controversial. Reddit’s automated filters constantly remove people’s posts, only conformist content is allowed there, and so nothing of value remains. Just generic conformist post after another generic conformist post.
Why is this platform still popular is honestly just beyond me at this point. No really, can someone please, please explain to me why do people keep using this broken website anymore?
The only thing I truly miss is meme dumps. I know that is a weird thing to miss. Crazy that Reddit had basically become a new google, too, with added benefit of user context. Like if I need a know something. “Query + “reddit””= some dude in Lithuania who did the exact same thing 4 years ago and 12 people’s comments with additional tips.
Youtube similarly on DIY fixing. Had to add commercials. I’m looking for a video on how to replace a latch in a fucking dishwasher, I do not want a video about dish soap.
Enshitification of all nice things is the way of capitalism.
Where’s the StandupComedy community on Lemmy, with a comparable amount of quality material?
Outside of that, I use Reddit to doomscroll through random junk and have drunken arguments. I don’t see why it’s unfit for that. Though it’s gradually turning into Facebook with all the sob stories and the endless videos of dogs being reunited with their owners.
I miss r/nursing. I’m lucky if I get 1-2 commenters on memes that used to get 100+ upvotes and 20+ other nurses commiserating with me about some common work frustration. Tbh a big part of the problem is that a lot of nurses aren’t crazy tech literate so the barrier to entry for fedi in general is higher plus when they get her they have to content with the “I Use Arch” types.
When my 50 year old sister started telling me how to use Reddit, i knew Reddit wasn’t for me anymore
I miss the nfl meme war subs, but to be honest a lot of it is recycling the same posts over and over with some possible corporate sprinkling.
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I’d say the network effect is a big part. A lot of the established communities are there, so people stay there.
I do my best to stay off there, though. One thing that helped me drastically cut down on Reddit interactions is donating an Euro to PieFed for every comment I make on Reddit. (besides, either it works, or I help keep the fediverse running and improving. It’s a win-win :P)
Ok but the most effective way to cure ourselves from reddit is to get so permabanned that every whisper of our likeness gets rejected from participating over there.
Yep that’s exactly what happened to me. I’m still really fucking bitter about it. I didn’t even do anything bad. Just absent-mindedly posting from different accounts to a sub I had been banned from. Didn’t even think about it honestly and boom Perma band
Me too. I’ve seen many people with the same story. They set AI to do it and AI is bad at it.
That’s a genius idea, I love it
I also made c/takeyourtimeback and kept track of it there (forgot to post about it last month tho) https://piefed.social/c/takeyourtimeback/p/2077191/piefed-donation-pledge
Love this idea
Because at their core, most people are basic, conformist, weenies
Something like 95% of people
They don’t know better.
This is the age of convenience.
It’s not a new phenomenon, humans have been pretty lame since agriculture
You are speaking to the band right now. I only check reddit for the latest news.
i visit the niches occasionally. look at the news, but never participate, no one should.
Most people aren’t very savvy with going outside normal areas, so they follow where others are. Unfortunately even after a few years Lemmy and the rest are still very niche and not mainstream at all. When Reddit first became ridiculous and the first people started looking for alternatives, Lemmy was just one of a number of potentials and ended up the bigger draw, maybe because it was the only one that could handle the sudden traffic. But this was a small part of the Reddit user base, the ones who knew enough to look around and find other places. Trying to spread the word to others on Reddit became a battle, otherwise I think we’d be a lot larger by now.
So why do people deal with how Reddit is now? I ask that a lot about other platforms, even hear it from family griping about how terrible places like Facebook or Instagram are, and yet they stay. People don’t like change from familiar, even when it’s difficult. And when they don’t know of other places or how to transition, they’ll hunker down even more and deal with it.
Well if you’re serious about this than this definitely isn’t the right community.
Reddit has better shitposts than this!
There will come a reckoning for the Internet. Corporate social media will eventually crumble. Nothing lasts forever and these corporations are overextending themselves.
I really wish it will turn out this way, but I fear it won’t.
People are really slow and it has to be convenient. They still use Facebook and reddit. Or worse, WhatsApp is absolutely dominant in some countries.
Facebook didn’t exist 25 years ago. All it takes is a couple years of bad decisions by management, a shift in market conditions for them to fall apart.
It’s still popular because people are addicted to it. I only escaped because I replaced reddit with Lemmy. If you want people to leave, tell them about Lemmy.
They’re all going to end up here after getting banned for expressing unsanctioned ideas.
It doesn’t take precious internet space, internet space is practically limitless (by the time ipv6 addresses run out we’ll be well on our way with ipv7 or 8). It just takes as much space in your mind as you’re willing to give it. Instead of highlighting something that’s negative to you redirect that energy into building lemmy into something more positive
It does ,however, use real electricity and hardware. Which could be used for something else.
If we run out of IPv6 addresses, there is either something wrong with how we are using it or our current understanding of the universe. There’s 2128 IPv6 addresses and about 233 people on Earth.
I’m really trying not to go back there but Lemmy is doing its best to alienate me.
I’m still blocking tankies and incels one by one.
Tankies is still a new one for me. Maybe my interests just keep me removed from them.
I mentioned I am fat on Reddit and had a bot admonish me for being insensitive. I guess I should ostracize myself.
On another note, reddit is only against inciting violence via comments.
Posting videos demonstrating it, however, is completely fine.
