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Downvote to disagree, upvote to agree
See, if reddit had just let the upvote/downvote system work as intended, instead of banning people for no reason at all in a lot of cases, this entire problem likely would have been avoided. And no matter what the bans should have never been permanent! We dont put people in prison FOREVER, social media accounts should also be treated with some decency.
Permabans with no way to appeal are ridiculous.
And then to add that if you create a new account to get around a subreddit ban then that makes you eligible for a sitewide ban is even more ridiculous.
I got permabanned from r/pics a while back because under a generic Facebook photo of an interracial couple at their wedding somebody asked why it was posted there and I responded “Reddit loves interracial couples”. That was it. The irony is that my marriage is interracial.
A lot of this is because the prevalent attitude has been ‘it’s the internet, it doesn’t matter’, and that allowed people to do things that we, as a society, decided long ago that people weren’t supposed to do.
Small suggestion - Is it possible for you to pin this comment to the top of the comment feed? I missed the comment when I first looked to be honest
Not possible in Lemmy…
I can’t say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won’t return to Reddit.
Same here. It’s already gotten sucky, and it’s only going to get worse.
If you want to know the future of Reddit, look at Facebook.
Same here. Reddit is going downhill real fast.
Reddit has been going downhill for a decade. The problem was that there were no viable alternatives. Now that /u/Spez has pushed the issue, he forced enough people into Lemmy that it is suddenly a viable alternative. I call that a win!
Yes. For the time being. Would love to see larger migration from reddit.
I’m quite large, and I’m here
I realized how much of a marketing cesspool Reddit has become once I left it. That along with the whole doom scrolling has been toxic to my mental health. So I am much better off without it.
That said, the fediverse seems to be a little too small especially for niche topics. Plus the this world still needs some tool/interface to unify it and make it easier to use. I still go back reddit once in a while for those niche communities but I have logged out for the first time in a decade+ from reddit.
I have started focusing on my hobbies more, the whole reddit fiasco has been a reminder that it is not just FB that is bad, it is everything including Reddit and in time possibly places like this if it grows.
I remember joining reddit a few years back, and it was on the cusp of when it became a cesspool. I wouldn’t post often (Maybe twice a month), but every time the engagement became less and less useful. Kind like how stack overflow users can never actually give you a helpful answer, they only link to other vaguely related ones, Reddit became “Oh, it’s because x and y” to “Oh god you’re so fucking stupid it’s obviously Z”.
And I just kinda dipped out to lurking on twitter, and then twitter became so god awful that I can’t even open the app without feeling like humanity lost its way.
Anyways other than that Kbin has been doing me justice. I’ve never been more active on any other platform.
Yeah!
Yes. I’ve been been on lemmy.world and kbin.social for the past week and the growth and content maturation is good enough for me now, and improving fast.
I deleted my Reddit account and all my post history yesterday.
For me it depends. I’ve deleted my Reddit account entirely. Gone with the wind! And I’ve registered a Lemmy account. Then I realized how much more life time I’ve have without Reddit. Later I’ve realized I miss some specialized subs for retro gaming here. This is a much bigger community on Reddit. But Lemmy is growing and I hope what I’m missing finds its way to the Fediverse soon.
Yeah! Fills my reddit void
Yes I’d be an idiot to go back to a closed system under corporate control. Its not the first time this has happened and it won’t be the last. We are seeing the web closing up now and if we don’t vote with our choices and content we will only be left with corporate walled silos with paid subscriptions to read, ads to watch, tracking on everything… Skip and few steps and we and up with black mirror.
The narrative needs to be democratic. Same thing with privacy , if youbcant have a private conversation you can’t bring about change. I hope you’ll all stay too
I’m liking it, especially with this WefWef web app thing for iOS. Staying because I’m not going back to Reddit
Definitely! Immediately before switching to Lemmy I found myself scrolling looking for something interesting, meanwhile everything on Lemmy is fresh and exciting. Loving it so far!
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Yes, obviously.
Yes
I’m trying to but honestly its got so many problems.
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I often see random post appear on top because I’m guessing its a web socket connection and a recently post top decks due to the algorithm. It sometimes causes me to click on the wrong post.
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On the topic of wrong posts I often click on a post and get a different post than the one selected as though there is conflicting Id’s.
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The back button is stopped by a dirty wisywig but it does not trigger an alert for loss of information so its effectively just disabled if your abandoning the post.
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The votes seems to randomly fluctuate.
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having to confirm a reply as read is super annoying.
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When I come to lemmy I have to change to top day or something otherwise I see the same posts over and over and there seems to be no way to set a different default
I will say that I am a software developer and happy to help fix some of these issues. At the moment because of federation I am unsure where to contribute but I definitely see no path forward for lemmy while these issues persist.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/
Some of these issues are already fixed
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