After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
  • ZeroDrek@lemmy.world
    73·
    1 year ago

    So is everyone actually staying here? I hope so. I am. I don’t really miss Reddit at all and I’m incredibly impressed how fast the community here is growing. I hope we can keep it going and let Reddit burn to the ground.

    • macniel@feddit.de
      18·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I will stay hear. And not just because I burnt my account. I nearly found all communities I were active in. I try to be way more active and post more stuff than I used to because these new Comms really need all the love and content each and everyone of us can hring to them.

      This is how Lemmy and co can survive and thrive not by waiting for content to arrive.

    • golli@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 year ago

      Personally I do miss Reddit. Mostly because it was just so convenient: easy to use and you got active communities for basically anything you’d want.

      However quiting it so instantly has shown me how reliant I was on it to serve as a single gateway to information on the internet.

      So I guess as a consequence I’ll try to stick around here (find instances for my interests), but also diversify my online presence a bit more. Maybe look at some specific forums and browse a few more websites directly

    • DesGrieux@sh.itjust.works
      144·
      1 year ago

      I miss it. There’s just not enough people here. Refreshing doesn’t bring hardly anything new, none of my favorite communities exist, and where they do they’re so small that nothing gets posted for an entire day.

      I mean, I know these things take time but I’m pessimistic.

      • zipsglacier@lemmy.world
        14·
        1 year ago

        I miss reddit too, but I’m realizing that I miss what I thought it was, and not what it is becoming. It’s useful to remember that for mastodon it took years, and many separate waves of migration, for it to have its current use base. So, when people say it will take time, and it will be hard, this is what they’re talking about.

        • Confuzzeled@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 year ago

          It’s different but not in a bad way. If we all stick at it we can make it what we want it to be. I just can’t see reddit changing course at this point. Decentralisation is really the way forward.

        • Goldenderp@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I do too, tbh i miss the less techy people. People that aren’t particular comfortable with new fangled technojiggeties just figured out reddit, they’ll take a long time and a lot of client improvement to come here…

      • Gormadt@beehaw.org
        9·
        1 year ago

        Honestly I kinda like how slow things progress around here

        I refresh and nothing changed so I go do something else for a little while, it’s pretty nice NGL

        • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, yesterday I was bored and went on Lemmy, I just had gone a bit much and didn’t have anything new interesting, so I went and relearned Plant Tissues and relearn about atoms on a new website I had discovered, had a great time

      • hydra@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think it was about time we slowed down the Internet, corporation backed megasites are becoming unsustainable after the end of ZIRP and venture capital drying up. Also it’s so full of bots and mindless people right now it isn’t funny.``

    • Pixlbabble@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      Day 2 and counting… Old Reddit was great. After a while I had no idea where all the smart people went.

    • metic@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      It all depends on if the communities about topics I’m interested in start gaining some activity. So far it’s mostly meta, memes, and remakes of the very largest subreddits, which is the type of stuff I typically ignore over there.

    • jontree255@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      Like others have said, this is an opportunity to build something new and be the change we want to see. This mindset has led to me posting more here in the past week than the 10 years or whatever I was on Reddit.

      • pixel_witch@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        I don’t really have a lot to contribute, its only recently I went from being a lurker to really engaging with the community on Reddit, perhaps here I will feel more like engaging instead of just doomscrolling until my eyes fall out.

    • underisk
      1·
      1 year ago

      The reddit admins are probably counting on it playing out more like the Twitter-Mastadon “migration” rather than the Digg-Reddit one. Twitter had a less technically literate user base than reddit, and there was a lot more friction in the ways the platforms differed. I think it’ll probably fall more on the Digg-Reddit side of the spectrum.

      I’d probably guess 10% of this influx wont return to reddit, 40% will use both for at least a month or so, and the remainder will return immediately when the blackout is over (regardless of how it concludes). Where it goes from there is more unpredictable.