Reddits an echo chamber for the worst ppl 9f the left. Disagree and you get a ban. We need more online places where there is no banning and people can just disagree and learn that they are not the only type of person.
It’s not about political views but more about certain outrage culture that maybe is less noticeable than twitter but is more annoying.
Redditors are just kinda special and happily ride any moral high horses and such with zero room in the brain for hey maybe I am wrong. Whole Reddit is confidently wrong usually with this annoying absolutism that leaves no room for anything else.
I cannot describe in words how much contempt I feel for users of AITA or the like. Just imagine posting your family shit online for some strangers to have fun with it. I hope the servers burn and erase all these archives of cringe
I’m gonna let you know right know, Lemmy isn’t the place for alt-right nutters who had disgusting enough views to get banned from Reddit of all places (a pretty conservative community in general) for being too right-wing. Lemmy is literally a gradient of full-on communists to centrists that at least agree we should have basic social welfare. Even the prominent conservatives here aren’t openly vehemently anti-lgbt and anti-social welfare like American conservatives usually are.
Lemmy isn’t exactly politically extremist, but even the relatively right-wing-friendly Lemmy instances (like world) look communist compared to Reddit
I think we should stop with copium every time some change happens on Reddit.
It’s not going anywhere and it’s still the front page of the Internet. A few thousand folks migrating to Lemmy doesn’t mean Reddit is gonna die tomorrow.
And the CEO knows that perfectly well. Spez can juice this place more and more, and people, for the most part, will eat that and stay after a tiny show of discontent.
You know what? That might be for the better. While it sucks to have less content here, we at Lemmy also have a healthier demographic, and that’s something we should praise and look after.
If anything, at our best we should not spend our energy shitting on Reddit, but rather direct it to care for Lemmy. Start your cozy or important community and share it! Make new interesting posts, preferably not about Reddit or American politics - plenty of that in here. Leave useful and/or supportive comments. We can for once build our beautiful garden, not a place of powerless hate and spite.
It’s not “copium”, reddit is genuinely heavily populated by bots, advertisers, and sponsored content. There aren’t nearly as many actual people using it as before. I’m not saying they all came here, but reddit is definitely not “the front page of the internet” anymore, and hasn’t been since long before the api exodus occurred.
Nobody talks about reddit in daily conversation like insta, tiktok, youtube, or even facebook. The majority of people on the internet do not know it exists. It’s a weird, niche website desperately failing to claw it’s way to the mainstream, when the whole charm of it was that it wasn’t mainstream social media.
However, I agree that I’d like to stop hearing about it here.
Nobody talks about reddit in daily conversation like insta, tiktok, youtube, or even facebook. The majority of people on the internet do not know it exists.
The movie “Good on paper” had a joke about Reddit, but the joke basically implied that Reddit is full of sexist incels… so I get the feeling that most people have heard of Reddit but that Reddit is not viewed very favorably by the average person.
While it sucks to have less content here, we at Lemmy also have a healthier demographic, and that’s something we should praise and look after.
yes, say it louder for the people in the back!!
quality > quantity, and my interactions on the fediverse, compared to reddit, are so much more fruitful 😁
They get much more kind and productive - that’s for certain!
People are more willing to engage in a positive way and not algorithmically trained to hate.
People are more willing to engage in a positive way and not algorithmically trained to hate.
This times 100x. It is almost as if Reddit, Youtube and Facebook are all possessed by Cyber-Succubuses that intentionally suck the life out of you just to drive up their ad revenue.
Lemmy also have a healthier demographic
Maybe overall, but have you seen worldnews folk?
What’s really baffling to me is that a bunch of nerds with too much free time on their hands basically stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.
Yet Reddit spends millions on development every year, for no discernable improvement whatsoever, while still turning no profit.
Where is all that money going? Seriously, Reddit is a very simple site. There’s nothing that hard about it. The amount of data is tiny, since the content is external, none of the resources are that time critical, a lot of content can be cached.
What are the devs doing all day?
stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.
what/who are you referring to? the reddit ceo or reddit users?
The confusion for me was that when I stomp something out, it dies. That’s not the intended verb here, but context clues alone do not a language make.
The ideas leading to Lemmy go back at least a decade, that I can remember. There are many little things that people figured out when developing distributed federated social media networks of this type. It’s a success story of collaboration over a long time with a shared goal of making Reddit and Twitter easy to replace with a superior product.
I’m surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they have and I just haven’t noticed.
I’m not really interested in a Twitter alternative as I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.
If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.
Capitalism is like Dog-strangling vine or swallowroot