Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse.

Oh, okay. I had no idea. I was like "How far do I have to scroll to find out what reddit did this time?"

Wouldn't affect me anyway, because I use an ad blocker.

This really doesn't sound legal.

Neat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn't that great?

reddit has ads?

Why are these people still there, do they just stick around on reddit to complain about it?

For what it's worth, I was on Reddit for over a decade and I think I clicked on a stickied thread from any subreddit maybe twice in that whole time. I think a lot of people's eyes just automatically skip over them. Plus, stickied threads disappear under some sorting options. Posting the occasional meme about it might be more effective.

IIRC stickies are also excluded from feed once they get this attribute.

But yeah, we don't even understand what a barrier switching to fediverse sites is for regular joes, jemmas and jermas. Like, for many people the internet is suggested apps' feed and, rarely, their browser's default start page. They don't choose anything, and why would they? And here we are, challenging them to do something on intent while they are pretty happy with what they have now.

People who would leave a site like Reddit because of a principled stance often mistakenly believe that the rest of society cares as deeply as they. Spoiler: society mostly doesn't care; at least, not enough to go out of their way to change anything.

I'm technically from elsewhere in the fediverse, but I'm also a Reddit migrant (back in June). Thank you for setting the community up, I've missed it from Reddit days

Even the head mod of piracy subreddit was ousted from the subreddit for attempting to migrate the sub to a lemmy instance, and the redditors that remain there actually cheered! It's wild, you would expect pirates, who always at risk of having their subreddit shut down, would understand the need to migrate.

It's also likely that most visitors don't go to the sub directly so the stickied post is easily missed

Literally swap the word Fediverse in that pinned post for Lemmy and you'll get more engagement with it. Because you're right, even if the current reddit user has heard of lemmy and mastodon, they still most likely don't know what the fediverse is, don't understand the site linked to is a lemmy instance / reddit alternative. Subbed to !futurology@futurology.today btw, if the current activity there can be sustained I think it'll shape up to be a nice community

I don't even know what fediverse means

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

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.

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.

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.

I missed it this time. I left in June.

Care to summarize what happened?

Same. I was super frustrated with the killing off of Apollo. This is more than frustrating, it should be illegal. Oh wait, it is is some countries just not the US…

Never mind. I seen it further down.

Welcome to the club

I stopped using Reddit the day boost went offline.

Thankfully Boost came out the same week Relay went to monthly subscription only. I actually forgot I had set Boost to install automatically when the app was released.

I spent the few days before Boost was released giving the official Reddit app another shot, and remembering why I hate it so much.

Boost making it easy to sign up and get started was the final step on my path away from Reddit.

Fuck reddit! I'm never going to contribute to that website.

What is Boost? Searching for it pulls up a bunch of different things.

Apparently this: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894023/reddit-opt-out-personalized-ads-privacy-update

27. 9. • so it's posthumous

I’m American and confused by what the 2023 day is. YYYYMMDD ftw

Quinvigintember of course.

It’s the second marchcember of the year!

This is a reddit or even Twitter level shit comment. Please take your ignorant self back to either of those platforms. The dumb American trope is overused, largely inaccurate, and tired. Steal some new material from someone more witty and try again.

I don't understand it they go through the same Bumtober as the rest of us

funnily enough whenever I point out that Privacy ≠ Secrecy in conversations like this I always get the surprised pikachu face and they (indirectly) immediately admit defeat

Religion and Politics were categories you could not opt out of

Reddit New Atheists (including the CEO) stop being opportunistic hypocrites challenge. Difficulty level:

I was eventually banned because I kept reporting people for bigotry, and they just didn't want to do their job. So they banned the complainer instead of actually addressing the problem.

Also for some reason I kept getting directed to atheism and skepticism related subreddits, in addition to Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris, and I wasn't sure why.

That's very true!

Thanks to the whole blackout thing and the many amazing apps that came to Lemmy (like Sync that I'm using rn and loving), Lemmy is now good enough to replace Reddit for the new content (at least in my opinion)

But Reddit is not (or at least not only) an "what's happening now" social network like Twitter and there is a huge amount of old content on it that can still really useful. So I guess that, in the best scenario, we'll have Reddit and Lemmy cohexist and complement each other :)

Self-hosters donating to themselves

And the Lemmy devs

With the sheer number of @Civility@hexbear.net liberals that get mad at the existence of people more left than them in federated spaces but go out of their way to "dae both sides" justify the presence of nazis, I'd say the chances are higher than that.

Well, its a federation. So the instances that wish to be associated with such, will be. And the ones that don't, won't be. Your language is limited by your concept of a website. Reconsider the concept if you wish and update your language accordingly. It will make your comments more clear.

It will be like that, plus political posts.

Because people are addicted to spreading their political opinions like evangelists of old.

And they never think you mean them when you ask them to stop, becuse then other team is evil, and inserting their political opinions in to everything is their personality now. It's tut only way they can get them likes.

Social media changed society and sadly, I don't think escaping to the Fediverse can out run the political borest.

Bring back MS Comic Chat

If you’re the one “remembering when”, you might be the boomer ass.

What are you talking about? Most of reddit is left wing.

I'm assuming this comment is from Mastodon? If so, yes. You show up as "Andrew Tropin@null." I'm replying from Lemmy, home instance pawb.social.

@ZWho63 It seems pictures from mastodon don't get it to lemmy.

So on Mastadon do you see Lemmy posts as the Mastadon equivalent of a Tweet?

I never see posts and comments from Mastadon users on Lemmy even though I believe it's more popular so you would expect there to be more or at least a similar number as from Lemmy users. I think your comment is only the second I've seen from Mastadon users.

Like the other reply says, the user tag of the last Mastadon user I saw was [name]@null, though yours is fine for me now. Also odd that your attached images don't show even though Lemmy has that feature too. Maybe these issues will be ironed out soon

https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

Mind the caveats.

Not until people stop using it.

no, it won't, nor will xitter of facebook. it's delusional to think multi-billion-dollar-platforms backed by big money, the content industry and several clandestine consortiums will cease operation because a single digit percentage of users decided that some hobbyist internet platforms held together by tape and a hail marry are the future. we'll be lucky if places like this are still around in a few years.

then it wont contain the toxic users

Until they kill old.reddit

I'd say face. I'm fine with lemmy not being so US centric.
But I'd appreciate it if we just all moved to yyyymmdd