After all the BS from /u/spez?

  • sleepyducky@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Don’t underestimate how much resistance to change stops people from looking beyond the status quo. Moving away from Reddit is a clear example. I suspect a lot of lurkers from Reddit are actually from the category of Late Majority or Laggards

    https://www.betterup.com/blog/resistance-to-change

    https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-resistance-to-change-1918240

    https://ondigitalmarketing.com/learn/odm/foundations/5-customer-segments-technology-adoption/

  • Salvo@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    They don’t see their niche interest groups migrating to a different platform.

    Smaller subs may have had just enough critical mass when accessing the entire reddit user graf, but new platforms are not there yet. It is much easier to gain traction in a unified user base than in a federation of disparate user bases.

  • Wiring8084@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    Honestly, it’s a information goldmine. You’ll get answers to most obscure questions and in detail. All others sources on the internet are either fluff or endorsements. It it also inconvenient to have to visit two websites that does same thing. So people don’t want to abandon what they are habituated to.

  • Semmelstulle@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I can only repeat what I just commented somewhere else:

    I built Swift apps and Mastodon or Discord are NOT a proper format to get help, Discord being crappy for archiving, too.

    I have a hard time getting help by people that really know this stuff because Swift is made by Apple, and the Apple bubble tends to stick to Twitter and the likes. If enough migrate, I can finally say frick off, Reddit

  • DaGuys470@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    There are about 5 years of my life on there, for some users 15+. Now, if you dropped your laptop with 15 years worth of memories on it, you damn sure would have hope you could still save the data, even if it’s obviously done for.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Reddit is unsalvageable and had been for a long time, but again, you are not going to be able to take the redditor out of people even if they move somewhere else for a long time.

    None of us should be trying to build a better reddit here, we should be aiming to build something new, knowing what works and what doesn’t from our time as redditors.

    Something more sincere, I guess.

  • Potatomache@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I think “hope” is a tricky word for it. A lot of people don’t really care about the issues and a lot of people who use it sparingly for a quick “haha” won’t really be affected (at least not yet). So those people may not really hope for more.

    I still use reddit for my niche gaming communities and while the possibility of making federated alternatives for those communities exists, it’s far simpler to stay.

    • lunarshot@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      yikes, he’s one of the least professional CEO’s. It’s embarrassing to see how he speaks about his decision making.

  • palarith@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I’ve being feeling that lately reddit had become full of repost bots and fake ads. Was there just because there was nowhere else to go

      • Sarsaparilla@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        You both make such great points here. I’ve definitely had those times I felt like a post that’s upvoted to the front page is really an advertisement. And within thread comments it has become almost impossible to know who is genuine, a troll, or a literal bot - along with being pretty toxic for a long time.

        At the same time, there are some extraordinary communities and knowledge repositories that might be difficult to replicate in the fediverse. For example, I can’t yet envisage how a highly factual community like Ask Science, or such, might work. But I love the retro feeling I’m getting here - of discovering a new, blossoming internet community - and the fact that there are seemingly real people behind the posts. lol.

  • frantisek@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Look at the twitter. Whatever they can do people stay there. Maybe the hardcore users or geeks will leave, but the crowd will stay.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Nah Twitter is a shell of its former self. Try searching up a niche subject and 99% of the tweets are ads.

      • Anomander@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, the entire niche industry community I was on twitter for absolutely ate it during the early days of Elon and the majority have moved on - mainly to social media spaces like Insta or TikTok.

        We got some of them on Reddit, even - though that sure was a brief and shallow victory, all told.

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I’m software educator in a few small niches. I used to just go and search the topic and make friends, help people out but now 99% of the posts are automated shilling for some business or some SEO spam.

          I still try to pop in but it seems like Twitter is a lost cause especially since they put search behind login now. Just like Reddit they have alienated content creators and it shows.