• Appie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t miss Reddit. I checked some comment sections and holy hell is it toxic compared to here. I think part of that is because of what you’ve mentioned in your comment.

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      1 year ago

      I used to work for this major company, biggest in my country by far.

      Whether it was going well or poorly, they tended to offer severance packages to “cut back” on their staff, to appease the grotesquely overpaid consultants that analysed their finances.

      What tended to happen, was that the most qualified people, who had no issues finding another job (often better paying), took those packages (I took home a one year salary after having worked there almost three, then had two months vacation and started a better paying job), which left those who didn’t really have other options, those who did the bare minimum and had a lot of useless meetings.

      I guess that’s what reddit is heading for. They are alienating those who contribute the most, the content creators, the mods and the ones who like to engage others. They will be left with their bots, lurkers, racists, reposters and porn-spammers.

      Good riddance.

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        1 year ago

        Completely agree. I’m kinda hoping the substance of reddit just moves to lemmy and none of us will have to deal with so many tools and trolls.

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          1 year ago

          The very minor and surmountable technical barrier of joining the fediverse will do wonders to screen out users capable only of the lowest effort.

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            1 year ago

            It’s really nice to have this “filter” of a complexity because many people who do that low effort stuff don’t want to put effort in even trying to learn a new system (geschweige denn) one of the complexity of the fediverse. If you are ready to go through the process of undertsanding the system you are most likely a valuable part of the community

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        1 year ago

        Good for you! I recently changed jobs to a more stable position after asking for years to be put on full time staff at my old one. Once they filled a position with an outside hire instead of bringing me on full time, I knew it was the end of the road. Now I get paid almost twice as much plus amazing benefits to do about half the work.

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        1 year ago

        I also think the Advertising subs don’t care much. You know the ones that are content rich from the posters but actually modded by the organisation the sub is for.

        For example /r/razer mods being linked to taking bribes and specific subs dedicated to a brand.

        They have nice communities but they’ll stay.

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      1 year ago

      holy hell is it toxic compared to here

      I cannot agree more! I went to reddit (wirhour an acc) and just… wow. Did it got worse or was I always blind to how awful that place was?

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        1 year ago

        I think you are seeing some withdrawal symptoms honestly. People are addicted to scrolling for their next dopamine hit. When that’s taken away they get cranky. Add the anonymous nature of being online and things get toxic real fast.

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          1 year ago

          I think you are exacly right.

          Cranky

          is the best word to describe it and your explanation as to the reasons sounds reasonable. I believe that people will also get more frustrated when they notice less quality posts and comments…

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        1 year ago

        I was IP banned from Reddit so I only got to use it without an account for the last few months. It’s very toxic. The front page (not logged in) is so fucked.

        I don’t miss Reddit.

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            1 year ago

            Oddly enough, the same thing happened to my partner. She logged out one day, and then she suddenly could never log in ageing on that acct. Then, she could not log in to a new acct more than twice before it got removed. She tried 4 it 5. Her only comment was saying that she loved the colour of something.

            We are stayng away from reddit now lol

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            1 year ago

            I was banned from /r/Android because I prefer a Google Pixel over a Samsung device (yay, corrupt mods!)

            I forgot, and I commented using one of my many alts. I was temporarily suspended from Reddit as a whole for “ban evasion”.

            My friends visited, who have Reddit accounts, and when they connected to my WiFi Reddit immediately perma-banned ALL of us, including all of my brand accounts for my company for “continuous ban evasion”, despite me not posting anything from any of my accounts.

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      1 year ago

      Ever tried having a discussion in any of the default subs? If your opinion differentiates from the hivemind you will be downvoted as spam, without any responses. It completely defeats the purpose of a “discussion”

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        1 year ago

        I don’t see his it won’t happen here. The vote structure is very similar.

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          Yeah that is true, but it wasn’t as bad on reddit back in the day (as far as I remember), it seems to have happened after reddit went super-mainstream a few years ago. So I am hoping lemmy will be like that until it “potentially” becomes super popular lol

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            What if Lemmy becomes so successful and then it gets acquired by Reddit? Lol.

            Think of the big corps like Google, Facebook, etc. buying the competitors for their products.

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                1 year ago

                Lmfao, imagine some corpo trying to buy up all the instances one by one while the users all migrate out of the instance immediately when that happens. That would be hilarious.

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                  1 year ago

                  Ooh, i wanna see that happen, like reddit trying to do that and going bankrupt in the process

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              The federated decentralized nature of Lemmy and it being open-source means that when this happens the users laugh at whoever paid for an instance and celebrate whoever got the bag and all migrate to a new instance.

              See AdBlock -> AdBlock + -> Ublock -> Unlock Origin for a story of idiot capitalists donating massive sums of money only to buy a product that is quite literally drop-in replaceable by design… and Lemmy makes this process even easier than that.

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      1 year ago

      I miss my smaller and niche subs. I don’t think I’ve waded into the default subs in a very long time.

      Oh well, to everything there is a season, right?

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      1 year ago

      I’ll be real. I miss it for very specific subs. It’s definitely more toxic but small game subs and stuff like that I miss

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      1 year ago

      It’s getting really bad. I’m noticing there being a lot of comments in subs where there barely were any and any mention of the blackout and what might happen after the 30th is met by tons of downvotes and removal. Tinfoil hat but it feels like there are bots making these bad faith comments.

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        1 year ago

        Considering Spez once edited another user’s comments, I would not put that tinfoil hat theory past him.

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      1 year ago

      Could not agree more with you. This has been a very positive experience and has really add transitioning away from Reddit a smooth experience