• gkd
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    Wonderful news. It was honestly time for us to start moving away from Reddit anyway. This just gives us an excuse.

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      Agreed, the increased ads, detriment to user experience and general toxicity was becoming unbearable. I am very thankful to have found a new home.

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        Thing that was the most upsetting was the absolute refusal to accept any bit of responsibility or admit what they were doing. I think we can all appreciate the cost of running a huge service like Reddit, but in no way does that require them to do what they did.

        If anything, I am shocked they didn’t attempt to do something like require users who use third party apps to be paying for Reddit Premium or whatever it’s called. AFAIK there are no ads displayed if you’re a subscriber? So there wouldn’t have been a big difference in revenue there.

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          Agreed. Offsetting the cost of the service, including supporting moderators, was necessary. Trying to launch IPO and exploiting user content and moderators to turn a profit, not necessary.

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        Honestly I hope it remains small enough to not attract influencers and low grade content, but also large enough to become a significant source of useful searchable info. It’s a pipe dream but hey

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          One can hope.

          Right now, I love the size and the community feel. It’s as if we are all trying to make this place our home, so we are all figuring it out together, posting often and engaging. I know it won’t last forever, but I’m enjoying it while it is lasting.

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            That’s supposed to be the idea behind instances: that you can make your community as big or as small as you want. I think it’ll work

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            Right? The quality of the comments on everything here seems so much better than Reddit. i think it really shows how much the bots had taken over Reddit

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      For me it was the obvious bots and repost karma farming. It was all starting to feel stale except for some of the more niche subreddits I was on.

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        Holy crap, yeah. The amount of repost bots I’ve been seeing lately has been insane. Also noticed a massive increase in porn bots in the comments, almost all exactly the same kind of thing

        “Hey baby check me out https://linktr.ee/obviouspornscam

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      Yep, great motivator for moving to Lemmy.

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      It taught me one thing. Nobody uses the friends list or follow feature, aside from spammers.

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        Reddit and Lemmy are topic-oriented systems: most users find things to read by looking for topics they’re interested in. Despite the name “communities”, these are basically topic categories.

        Facebook and Twitter are people-oriented systems: most users find things to read by telling the site who their friends are (or which celebrities they want to get parasocial with), and looking at things from their friends or recommended based on friend connections.

        On a site with topic-oriented standards, it’s often kinda creepy to follow people from one topic to another.

        On a site with people-oriented standards, it’s often kinda rude to show up in distant friends-of-friends-of-friends’ mentions to tell them your enthusiastically held opinions on the topic they happen to be discussing.