Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse.

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All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving
I saw one that said they would stay until Reddit charges a fee to use the site…like why are they staying??? JUST FUCKING LEAVE
One even said “there are no viable alternatives” when talking about Reddit, like excuse me what the fuck?
- I'll probably get hate, but the content just isn't there. I tried using Lemmy as my main, but most of the communities I'd follow on Reddit just weren't on here, and if they were, they would have a couple hundred of subscribers at most, and there would be 7 different versions of the same community on different instances with no way to measure quality at first glance. Lemmy thrives for geeky hobbies that surround the FOSS space that gave birth to it, so communities like Linux or Unixporn have a strong enough presence, but for pretty much anything else it's just not there yet. Is this a negative feedback loop? Yes, but there isn't much to be done about it until shit REALLY hits the fan
  PD: As an added, Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times, even more so than Reddit already is. Like seriously at times 90% of the content on my feed is just shitting on Reddit plebs
  
  Honestly that's been a bit of a plus in the sense I'm spending much less time scrolling mindlessly on my phone. Of course I'd prefer that reduced time to be of a higher quality but the pros outweigh the cons for me
  
  yeah that's honestly what I found as well. once I discovered you can patch RIF to use your own personal api token, I've been continuing to use reddit. it's such a subpar experience compared to what it used to be tho
  
  I’m surprised they let you use your own API token. During the API apocalypse, Spez specifically said that was “not allowed.”
  
  It's usable for bots and such, I've seen reports of some users getting banned for using it in patched clients when detected
  
  I was banned several times. Now i moderate a private subreddit and it's fine.
  
  New communities, you'll just have to yell into the void for a while until people start to yell back.
  
  Ehh, I'll just wait and check back in a few months or so.
  
  Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times
  I always assumed that since both upvote and downvote counters are visible, it won't be the case. But boy I was wrong. The political/news posts are always a constant shitshow reminiscent of T_D.
- All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving
  I think because they are uninformed. They are looking for alternatives, and don't know about Lemmy, or don't understand Lemmy, etc.
  
  It’s exactly this, I only found lemmy through a sticky comment inside a post 2 days ago, and I’ve been wanting to get off Reddit for months
  
  Loki it might help if the special interest boards were more active, also the porn is way more well hidden here than it is on Reddit.
  
  Unfortunately, to understand lemmy is to be on lemmy. You have to be here and experience it.
  They have to make that leap of faith. There's nothing to lose anyway, there's no requirement to delete reddit to become a lemmy user. So what's holding them back. Mauve they believe the anti lemmy post on reddit or maybe they just say they want to leave reddit but has no real desire to follow through.
  
  But.... what about my 83k karma and 13 year badge!
  Gamification is a powerful addictive force.
  When Reddit locked down their API and Boost stopped working, I forced myself to do casual browsing on chrome on my phone. It was clunky enough that I didn't bother replying to comments, and navigation is a bit of a pain on mobile, and that was enough to ruin the game.
  
  What a shame. Imagine if all those users were aware about the Fediverse
- these people are the same group of people that won't leave twitter. some people just live to be miserable and complain about things one hundred percent in their control.
  it's insane and i can't wrap my brain around it.
  
  It seems to be human nature that people are resistant to change, and it appears that are kombat instincts from when we were monkeys that can only be satiated these days by arguing on the internet and complaining.
  You're simply have to find a way to take the soul out of the human and put into something better. unfortunately I don't know that Souls exist
- All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering.... Leaving
  Reminds me of people who keep voting for politicians they supposedly can't stand.
- There are no viable Alternatives because they won't come here, to the viable alternative. Seriously I would love to be able to go on special interest boards again but unfortunately the crowd is still on Lemmy.
  Who's prostate do I have to massage with a rubber glove in order to get a simple conversation about Dragon Quest going on around here?
- There aren't viable alternatives. We don't have the active niche (and not so niche) communities reddit does. And even if there was somehow a meaningful mass exodus, these little instances would break like wet toilet paper trying to hold a bowling ball.
  I don't say this to be critical of lemmy. I'm happy here. Just being realistic.
  
  Yeah we don't need to be like reddit. I'm happy if rss usage becomes stronger . So those niche communities can stay wherever they can thrive but still be reachable through rss.

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