Seems like a good portion of the activity in the communities is reddit oriented. If the goal is leaving/hurting reddit, it seems we should be continuing on like it doesn’t exist, instead of continuing to drive interest to the site. Thoughts?
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Yes
This will happen naturally once the dust from the protest and dead 3rd party apps settles. Just give it time.
Yup when I migrated from Digg to reddit in the big exodus 12 years back there was a lot of chatter surrounding the whole thing… lasted a month or two as I recall… then we “refugees” settled into an integration of communities…
I expect similar to occur here.
Honestly, I really like the idea of when somebody googles reddit, and they start seeing all of the lemmy posts popping up instead.
I mean, sure, I’d rather not hear that much about it, but people are grieving. I’m sure it’ll die down and people need room to work through their feelings.
Some complaining is natural.
However, one problem I have with Mastodon is people talk way too much about Twitter on it. IMO they should just let Mastodon be Mastodon. But, on Mastodon it’s been months, with Reddit it’s been like a day haha. Let people vent a little bit. But I think you’re on the right track.
Just think of it as an opportunity to watch something burn in the rearview mirror.
It’s still fresh, is this thing. Mastodon was like that for a while; there was a lot of talk of twitter and angry posts and Elon Musk. People were still hurt and angry. It takes a while to work through that, so there’s likely going to be a lot of talk about it for a while. But it’ll stop on its own as people start moving on.
At least Reddit didn’t ban mentioning the words kbin, Lemmy, Squabbles etc. Twitter banned the word Mastodon.
One reason I came to kbin was when reddit blocked the kbinmigration sub - hello Streisand effect. In the end that turned out to be an anti spam glitch, but it shows the danger in trying to ban something.
reddit was like this when digg died. it won’t make the front page in a few weeks but it’ll come up randomly in the comments for decades after
Talking about Reddit is like thinking about your ex right after the break up. It sucks and oddly satisfying at the same time, and it will pass 😅
Honestly, I can’t relate and don’t understand what is ofdly satisfying about that.
A domineering ex who kept moving the goalposts while gaslighting you.
But the sex was usually fantastic, and it kept you hooked.Similarly, I almost liken it to getting out of an abusive relationship. Not exactly of course because it’s just a website, but similar.
I joined Reddit in the middle of an abusive relationship. I don’t even need “almost” as a qualifier.
“Look at all these nice things I’ll give you for the low, low price of making you feel like you can’t function without me through a series of increasingly hostile and degrading actions while making you believe that this is the best you’ll ever find.”
I’m just here for the general “news”, I can’t get on my reddit feed anymore, tech news included. To that end, I’m for it being talked about as long as spez is still stirring the pot. I think it’ll die down over time as others say as well
Half of the content I see on here is about reddit, and they’re also some of the most active posts. I feel like anyone looking for an alternative to reddit might take one look around and conclude we don’t have much to offer besides bashing reddit.
There had been a daily reddit megathread showing up on my front page, and I thought that was a good middle ground.
I don’t think we need to consider optics like that. If all we talk about is what we want to, the people who want to talk about that will stick around, and the people who don’t won’t. I doubt it’ll stick around for too long though.
The same was the problem with mastodon when we got a lot of users when failon musk bought it, people will get rid of it in a while and we’ll get to discuss interesting stuff.
Also, the communities that would be providing the interesting stuff in the first place are still in the process of getting settled in.
I feel like I’m just about done since Reddit is pretty much irredeemable to me at this point. However, I think we’ve got at least another month of it to go before everybody’s done.
It’s been said before, but talking through it is a coping mechanism. Like it or not, a lot of people are/were heavily invested in that site, and talking through it is a way to help clear the air and start to move forward.
It’s drama is dominating social media right now, so it’s hard to NOT see it and hear about it, but we all need to let each other move on in the way that’s best for each of us.
Yeah, I definitely feel like I can’t shut up about it/stop engaging with it because that’s how I’m processing my decision to move away from it. (And because, like @Breafulus_Emphotoga points out, Reddit is/was really addictive, so I’m struggling to go cold turkey and need a support group lol.)
I think about it this way: this protest/blackout was the most interesting thing I’ve gotten from Reddit in quite a while–so it only makes sense that I want to go somewhere else and talk about it, right? XD
This is very true, I’ve noticed I’ve had more free time and others have as well since the start of the end for reddit, reddit was extremely addictive and now people either have to find an alternative, which isn’t easy if you use reddit for most of your information or entertainment, or stay on the platform where worse mods are replacing the subs’ old mods and most the site is dead.
I say give it a few or 2 and it should die down a lot more as people become more comfortable with the alternatives they chose.
Up vote because I like the term “a few or two”
I didn’t even realize I did that, but I’m keeping it because I like it too
As a transplant, my view is that the most productive discussion around reddit is how to replace the spaces people lose when they stop using it. I enjoy beehaw way more than reddit overall, but a lot of my favorite communities don’t have equivalents on Lemmy. I didn’t use it as a content aggregator, I used it as a community space, and that’s much harder to replace.
This place kinda seems like that sloshed guy at the bar who unprompted keeps talking about how over his ex he is.
Some of us are going through an actual grieving process over losing reddit. That place was my online home for like 15 years. It’s the kind of thing that definitely deserves drunk-bar-ranting.
That’s it! I’m getting shit-faced!
I’ll drink to that!
Order me a beer. I’m almost there
Yeah, this seems mean. The place turned into a shithole, but I loved that shithole for a long time.
Yeah I think people are underestimating how much time was invested. Imagine if Gmail just up and vanished and you had to use something else after being so invested, ofcourse people are going to be talking about it for ages until the annoyance passes
