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I won, because I found lemmy.
Exactly how I feel! I don’t care at all what happens on the other site. This whole thing opened my eyes to what it has become, and it’s not just the API, that place has become toxic af.
They didn’t win shit. What they did broke the site for everyone. It doesn’t stop being broken because they seized control over the subs, something they could have done at any moment.
Reddit has detonated all its credibility, leaving a hole in the side just big enough for most of the site’s users to escape as they decide reddit isn’t worth it, or find good-enough alternatives. It won’t happen all at once, but it’ll happen.
Yeah and they broke bots which actually were core to certain subs. The quality of say Buildapcsales isn’t what it was.
I’m sure reddit will limp along, Tumblr did, myspace is still technically running although I don’t know anyone that would use it.
Maybe a younger crowd will get attracted to the site, maybe it will live again on fresh blood but I’m just not going to be a part of it. I’m not going to endorse their actions with my presence.
There’s a trend of using old point and shoot camera instead of the mobile phone or a mirrorless cams. The older the camera the more prestige you get.
Maybe they’ll use MySpace to post those photos. Haha.
Let’s see. Retro websites being used by gen z to try and see what it felt like during the times of their elders. To get a feel of the nostalgia posts they keep seeing in social media.
Huuumm, I don’t know. This whole thing gave birth to that garfield picture. Personally, I’d call that a win.
That garfield picture?
The fediverse won
We’re too busy over here winning
Don’t care, Infinity is finally for Lemmy, there’s nothing I miss anymore so I’m never going back to Reddit
Last I saw, you had to compile it from source, can you drop a link?
Here’s the F-Droid link, you can also download the APK from the codeberg releases, too
Thank you!
More than welcome!
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” Sun Tzu
Good for them, but the damage is already done. They seeded this place with a lot of users. Will it be enough? Who knows. But Lemmy is probably a looooot further along than if they didn’t shoot themselves in the foot.
This place obviously needs to continue with good content and active communities, but at moment I don’t really have the urge to open Reddit they way things are.
Absolutely. I had never even heard of Lemmy or anything Fediverse prior to all the 3rd party API shutdown. Once Apollo died, I stopped using Reddit.
Same here. So far I’m rather enjoying Lemmy.
I had heard of it, but was like “that’s dumb, just use Reddit, there’s no reason not to”
They gave me and many others that reason to reconsider
Yup, I saw the paltry userbase and didn’t bother. Other alternatives like lobste.rs and Tildes were a bit too closed, so I just stuck with Reddit. When Reddit decided to be stupid, I tried out lemmy and haven’t looked back.
Yep. I also didn’t think this would work as well as it does. Remarkably good platform so far.
Thee developers really crunched over July. It went from a niche beta platform to fully featured third-party apps and a ton of platform optimizations in a month, which is really impressive.
I’d heard of the fediverse too, and I liked the idea of decentralised social media.
But it was way down on my list of “things I guess I should learn about but don’t have time for.”
Reddit blackout gave me both motive and opportunity to learn, and I’ve never looked back.
That’s exactly what happened to me too. It was in the background until something disrupted my status quo and then there was no looking back.
That, and Reddit was getting pretty fucking annoying. The little annoyances had really begun to pile up for me personally and I know I’m not alone.
When RiF died I deleted my accounts and found my way here. I still open a couple of niche subreddits from time to time just to check on updates but otherwise my time on Reddit is done. 2010-2023 (damn I hate to admit that).
The host of a tech podcast I listen to has had a Mastodon instance for years. I knew of the Fediverse because of that, but I always thought of it as decentralized Twitter and not necessarily a way to decentralize all types of social media platforms.
Lemmy is so much more fun than Reddit. It feels like the old school internet before corporations took over.
True.
Also, not only are people nicer on Lemmy, I find that I’m nicer on Lemmy.
I’m nicer and more importantly, it doesn’t make me rage on a regular basis like I used to.
I went to reddit every day for over a decade, and now, I don’t. Zero desire to and in fact desire not to, same as Tweeter.
Never would have heard of Kbin and now it’s all I use.
Me too. Can’t even remember who mentioned Kbin but it’s perfect for me.
I’m glad to have moved to lemmy. It feels raw and real, vs reddits polished curated feel. As if I’m actually reading posts by people. And I like that is doesn’t get me scrolling too much.
It feels raw and real, vs reddits polished curated feel. As if I’m actually reading posts by people.
Because on reddit we were reading posts by bots.
I lurked on reddit for years. I was lurking here for a couple weeks now but thought I should make an account to contribute. Reddit has gone down hill and I’ll never go back.
I’d say that’s good news, everyone!
Yeah, even when I’ve had the urge to check Reddit for something I’m trying to figure out, I will do everything I can to avoid it. And if I can’t, I try to determine how much I care about what I’m searching before I even give them a single click. It’s a small, insignificant protest, but it’s a forever protest, for me. I’m happy on lemmy, I don’t browse as much, I interqct with more of the community and want to help build it. On Reddit, I felt dirty because of everything they’ve been doing the last 5 or so years. Tencent, killing third party apps slowly and then in one fell swoop, etc. fuck ‘em
I’ve had to visit Reddit twice since the protests started, to get information from a specific user. Both times, I used Brave browser in Private mode. They didn’t get to count me as a login, they couldn’t serve me ads, and their trackers were blocked.
I don’t anticipate needing to go back to Reddit ever again, but for anyone who can’t avoid it, I recommend that method.
Lemmy, Kbin, Raddle, Tildes, etc. - there are definitely more alternatives that are becoming increasingly popular.
I ain’t going back to Reddit as I’ve found a nice place that keeps getting better and better on Lemmy.
The only thing I’m wondering is if you type a certain problem on Google/Bing/Ecosia, you can stumble upon something about it on Lemmy.
Personally, that’s what got me into Reddit as I was always stumbling on subreddits and I said « why not create an account »…
I agree it’s over, I moved here and don’t care about Reddit anymore. :)
As I understand it, reddit has shattered its trust with its userbase and has hemmoraged users because of it. I can hardly view that as a ‘win’ for them.
The remaining users have proven they’ll all willingly look at ads and suffer an inferior UX. It’s a win for reddit. There’s not much they can do to get rid of this core user group of… What, 90% of their users? That doesn’t care if they make things worse.
Those were not the people who engaged in discussions though. Most of them are the lurkers.
Still plenty of discussions happening. Does it matter that much of it is bots if people still read it and see the ads?
It matters to me, which is why I left. At the end of the day, I don’t care one bit if the social network I use is financially successful, only if it provides me a good experience.
Sure, I left for the same reason. But the CEO is still laughing his way to the bank while the communities are worse off. I’d say he won this one.
Depends on your definition of “won”. I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in this thread that the real winners who were able to migrate somewhere better, and that those platforms got enough of an influx to actually become worth visiting.
Imo, nobody won here and the reddit user lost everything. The Fediverse wasnt ready for the influx of users and lost its chance to “win” for a long time. The sites couldn’t support the load and there was a lack of polished mobile apps that felt familiar to people that wanted to browse and shit post.
Without content – without interaction, a platform whithers; and my experience, so far, has been comment oasises while scrolling through pages of desert.
It works fine for me. There was little to lose from Reddit at that point anyway because the quality had already gone through the floor. This was the catalyst to make people wake up and leave.
there was a lack of polished mobile apps that felt familiar to people that wanted to browse and shit post.
I’d argue that’s a good thing, I’d rather have posts that aren’t shit.
Unfortunately that is starting to seep back in here now.
I won’t really call that a win,
Reddit lost the trust of many users, a non insignificant part of contributors and moderators left, the enshittification of the platform is not going to stop but they lost a big part of what made Reddit great. They damaged their image and popularity.
It’s like saying Elon won by trashing Twitter. Sure he does what he wants with it but making your platform less desirable sure isn’t a win for the platform.
Ragebait garbage.
I’ve got a Libreddit docker instance running on my home server and together with the libredirect browser extension, if I click on a Reddit link through a search or news article with a link to Reddit, my browser automatically goes to my Libreddit instance with the content on full display.
Now, whilst on my Libreddit instance the other day after being redirected from a news article I took a peek at r/all and the whole feed was pure shit, nothing like I’d seen before on Reddit.
For some reason, it was full of doordash posts, rateme style posts taking advantage of thirsty usersand shitty TikTok reposts.
They may well have won, but at the moment there is a glut of absolute shit on the front page of the platform. I’d guess quality content has taken a hit.
What did Gizmodo think might happen instead? That everyone, including those that were never impacted by 3rd party app changes, would just abandon the site, leaving it without users? “Peak journalism”.
