Or made any kind of commentary on it? Or are they depending on being deathly silent to reduce the chance of anyone finding out?
I think we can safely assume the large majority of Reddit users don’t even have the slightest clue about the existence of Lemmy - unfortunately.
That’s fine with me, I can’t stand most the people on Reddit
Pretty much. I still occasionally have to go to reddit for some random questions, and the difference in tone is often rather jarring.
I remember suggesting Lemmy to mods of a popular subreddit, during the API Shutdown 2 years ago
They told me they had no idea how to even use it and would rather just use Discord. I check a couple months ago and they still exist on Reddit…
How does Discord even enter one’s mind as an alternative to Reddit?
Also, they have no idea how to use it? Bullshit. If they can use Reddit, they can use Lemmy.
I would never have known that Lemmy existed, if it weren’t for redditors telling me about it around the time Spez went nuclear on 3rd party apps. And here I thought that everyone on Lemmy came from reddit.
FWIW, I’ve heard that they’ve recently been censoring any mentions of Lemmy. They’re obviously afraid of reddit becoming a repeat of digg. Which is why they’ve been slowly enshittifying the place instead of doing all at once like digg did. Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez.
Fuck Reddit and fuck spez! Like you said, the second redditors became an ad commodity that site should have died an undignified death.
Now it’s a place for Nazi sympathizers and boot licks.
Several subs have automods set to autodelete any comments referencing Lemmy or links to it, not to mention the manual deletions by mods. It’s definitely being talked about, despite these attempts.
There’s a French speaking /r/ over there that bans an @jlai.lu user and remove their post when they link to Lemmy.
There’s also an astroturfing campaign against it as well over there - I’ve noticed a lot of bot comments and bullshit when I post links to here from there.
Reddit:
Ya b/c it’s not plastered with ads, what’s even the point of this place if the advertisers haven’t swarmed it? :)
I learned about Lemmy from reddit.
Soooo…
by “The Reddit” you mean the owners/shareholders? Why would they do that?
I don’t see much talk of Lemmy on Reddit, but I’m primarily only on Reddit for a small handful of niche subreddits where no one talks about these things anyway.
I do see redditors bringing it up from time to time, but those who know about it and stayed usually complain about not understanding instances or not getting enough engagement with niche communities.
Which is understandable, if you’ve never been one of the first people on a social media platform. They have no clue how utterly surface-level their issues are.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but, were they to get the level of engagement they wanted, wouldn’t most broadly federated small instances close due to increased hosting costs? I don’t think we’re physically able to support the number of people required to create broad niche community discussion.
