I was so happy to find an alternative in lemmy. Didn’t know about it until I made the decision or rather reddit forced my hand and search for something similar.
I was hesitant but im getting the hang of it now. Lemmy is everything reddit used to be. No spam accounts for OF coming up or stupid bots telling you that you have made a slight error, post something not to their vauge and ever changing specifications, it gets deleted and you can’t argue it because the mods dgaf.
I feel happy here and my protest will remain because I know Aaron wouldn’t stand for this shit.
Lemmy and reddit are natural products of peoples need to share and exchange knowledge, you can’t hold a capital on that…
Its too soon to call a victory, we won’t see any real problems until a few months have past.
Lemmy and is now activated by my shortcut key for quick access.
When we start getting the OF spam accounts is when you know Lemmy has made it
Same! Lemmy definitely feels like early Reddit. Before the mods were gods and before shills and spam and porn were the norm.
Feels weird for them to frame this as if the protest has definitively finished and Reddit won. Reddit is bleeding users, many of whom will probably never return.
I’ve peeked around since the first and boy has the quality shifted. It’s honestly so much worse than I would have even joked about prior.
That’s me! :) I made an account on Lemmy out of general interest in foss projects, and am now a resident. :) The only thing I have noticed so far is more civil conversations and a much less stable app compared to boost (currently Jerboa crashes whenever I press back).
I batch-nuked my Reddit history, comments and posts, but kept my account open so that it doesn’t get necromanced by Reddit and I lose control of it. I can’t say I miss it at all - occasionally I’ve got curious about the odd thing and looked, but it’s surprised me. :)
Yeah, I’m really only ever going back to Reddit for comic book movie news and /r/motorsportsreplays because there isn’t a good sub on Lemmy for that yet.
It’s the same with Pro Wrestling! There’s a couple of small subs, but SquaredCircle has all the news in a tidy place
Yeah for me, the only draw back to reddit is in its history. There is a wealth of knowledge in those archives, and when I’m looking for balanced and useful answers from actual people (without affiliate links or bot-generated seo bs, or being “marked as duplicate” of another post with 13yr out of date answers lol) it was the best source for the longest time.
Used to be, anyway.
We’ll get there, we just haven’t had the time yet.
When I do open an r/ link that answers my question now, I’m doing it with their tracking, “features” & ads fully locked & blocked, then dipping right back out again. They really ruined a good thing.
They really have - it was a huge place that felt like a community, with no-nonsense access to knowledge and creativity. It’s a real pity how it’s gone down. I hope there’s a shift towards human efforts like Lemmy and Mastodon :)
That’s mainstream tech journalism for you.
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Reddit and big tech will fall
I’m not sure yet, but I’m working hard on it ;)
