For me it was the total fuckery of the reddit owners. I quit twitter. I’ve put zuckbook on read only. I can do without reddit too. The internet needs to be de-oligarched.
Hear Hear!
I’m sick of the internet being only 5 websites!
I miss when StumbleUpon
The air was warmer then. It was like the old days of finding a “other links I like” on someone’s about me page.
I really hope Lemmy becomes a Reddit alternative. It really has so much potential. I wanna stay here.
I have signed up to so many communities on here with the hope that once Lemmy gets bigger, I can leave the ones I don’t actually want to be involved in. I also posted my first-ever meme. Let’s contribute to make this a reddit alternative!
This is the way
When Digg put business above users and reddit growth exploded it (reddit) wasn’t a great “alternative” at that time either. But at that time they were putting users first. Isn’t that what makes this (lemmy) a great alternative?
Just continue to post and make content!
Same!!
Idek what goes into his head. And at this point, it’s too scary to know.
What do you mean?
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Yeah, the drama over there is pure reality TV level right now.
Wow, that bad, eh? Haven’t been there for a month now. Just bot accounts everywhere?
I haven’t “left” Reddit yet, but I also have been avoiding the site as much as possible. If they’re going to be a terrible site, the least I can do is try to avoid going on and making them money from ads.
Or at least only doing so at home where I have my PiHole box to remove them.
I’ve avoided Reddit since Sunday and am missing being able to see what’s going on without having to visit tech blogs/news sites/etc…
Decided might as well make the next jump and propel the death of Dig, I mean reddit
This is not the way. By using Reddit you are essentially giving money to the shareholders. You are fattening the rich. It is pathetic. Stop using reddit, fullstop.
You are here on Lemmy. Help the community instead of trying to redirect traffic back to reddit…
Wtf dude!? How much time since you are on Lemmy, 1 week, 2 weeks?! How much time you were on Reddit? Probably years. Imposition is not the way, of that way you are not so much difference of Reddit’s staff with the API stuff, the unique difference would that you haven’t millions and a legendary community.
I’m free to do whatever I want, using Reddit and Lemmy, share ways of still using Reddit to people who doesn’t know but they would like. Lemmy would not exists if weren’t for Reddit concept probably in a first place. You’re pathetic saying what is possible of do and what not. Luckly you don’t have power, because you would be even so much similar to Reddit staff.
Stop saying bullshit, you’re in a federated community, and freedom is the rule here, you like it or don’t, idgaf. People will do whatever they want, not because you don’t like to use Reddit anymore, no one else can use it. I will be here on Lemmy making growing it and aporting my salt’s grain, and I will be on Reddit also with Infinity and my personal API: let people decides for theirselves!! They can use both. You’re no one for decide for nobody.
I’ve noticed that Lemmy is getting more and more usable as more users join and add more content.
Um, I am desperate for them to fix their main page algorithm. I browse Lemmy cause fuck Reddit, but the main page is mostly useless.
Try sorting by “Top Day” if you haven’t already until it’s fixed.
I do that sometimes, but that’s not even close to what I’m looking for. If they had a top hourly, that word be close
New is good
New is only good in small communities. A feed with, I’m guessing, 10,000+ users, it’s a challenge to read titles before new posts causes them to scroll off the screen.
A related contributing factor: as instances gain users, more federated content is showing up in all, so new users don’t have to jump through hoops to find it.
it was reddit banning the mods of /r/mildlyinteresting that had me sign up with lemmy an hour ago.
They are back now, but still
They’re back? When did that happen?
very recently some other subs still have no mod team though
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14eq8ip/the_entire_rmildlyinteresting_mod_team_has_just/
For me, LJ Dawson, the Dev of Sync for Reddit posted that he is making a Lemmy app. I was planning on leaving Reddit at the end of June, so I signed up! I’m extremely happy to be here!
Edited: messed up posting the Dev’s name. Thanks @DTFpanda@lemmy.world
LJ Dawson, lol
A fellow RiF user, do I detect?
RiF user here
Nope, Sync for Reddit, here! Soon to be Sync for Lemmy.
RiF user here, would be a dream if that app worked with Lemmy (though at the same time not great because I was trying to break bad phone habits)
Do you happen to know if it’ll be iOS and Android, or Android only? Either way that’s great news and should help with even more adoption of the platform.
That’s a great question! I had assumed it would be for Android as that’s been my platform of choice for over a decade. I agree with you. Here’s to hoping both platforms get a release!
/u/spez brought us here.
Thanks spez!
In another way: “Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns.”
Think he has an account here to check it out? I hope he does and sees this: Fuck. You.
In my opinion, the output of the disastrous Zoom meeting with the moderators & community of /r/Blind .
Reddit leadership made it clear that they have nothing but contempt for their users. They essentially refused to answer essential questions for the disabled Reddit community.
I guess Spez thinks nobody will care as long as they get their fill of GIFs and pics? I have no idea. I’m not closing out my account, but whatever reddit intended to sell to me, I’m not buying it.
What happened to the blind community?
It’s terrible, but most of them have lost their sight.
( i am very sorry for this post)
too soon :)
Is there a link to this, wasn’t aware of a zoom meeting
How can we help ensure that Lemmy is accessible?
Good web design and App makers being aware that for these demographics, these apps may be a users only link to community.
I’m not closing my reddit account either, I feel like I should but a part of me just wants to hold on to it for some reason. I’m certainly open to deleting it in the future though.
Keep in mind too that the expiration date for many of the mainstream third party Reddit apps is June 30
Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days
Reddit is already turning into shit. Like literall shit, except it’s digital shit, but still shit.
Feeling horny? Visit r/horny. Oh wait, that’s christian minecraft discussions!
Wanna learn something new? Visit r/InterestingAsFuck. Oh wait, that’s interesting porn positions!
Wanna see what is going in gaming community? Just visit r/steam! Oh wait, it’s choo choo shitwreck powered by steam engines!
No wonder why people are looking for Reddit alternative, and Lemmy might be just the right option. :)
Malicious compliance at it’s finest! Screwing with the Reddit admins like that will always get a chuckle out of me
Just think of the spike in users when that rolls around in 10 days
I’m here now trying to get ahead of it.
I personally jumped ship because of the API pricing changes of Reddit.
I don’t even use third party apps. It’s just that I can’t give an entity my business when they treat folks who volunteer to make their platform better like that.
That’s a good reason to jump ship. And wow, I think you missed out on not using the 3rd party apps, but they’re coming to lemmy soon.
Same here, I’m a software dev for a living and it resonated differently/pissed me off hearing about the API pricing changes and what happened with Apollo’s developer
I am the opposite. I had a Reddit login for years but never used it. When I found out about Apollo, I gave it another go and it quickly became my Number 1 Internet time sink.
With Apollo no longer functional, Reddit (for me) is no longer functional.
The fuckery was just the icing on the cake to force me to delete my account.
This is probably just the first big wave. The biggest will be when the apps themselves actually shut down - fence sitters will then have to make a choice to download the official app or try an alternative and I think a lot of people will be curious to see if the grass is greener.
The grass is always greener where one side has grass and the other side is a desolate nuclear wasteland created by the incompetence of the land owner.
Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.
Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don’t have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!
Just so you’re aware, you can subscribe to communities from other instances as well as from the one you’re logged into.
I’ve been thinking about joining for the last few weeks. The reason I did today was because the developer of my favorite app (sync) announced they would be releasing a lemmy version
Ljdawson said he was making sync for Lemmy so I signed up
Yuuuuup. Where sync goes, I go
Same
I’m so excited.
