Is there a place to watch lemmy user numbers in real time? interested to see if there's a spike as users try out something else with their new free time.
Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.
Also I know you’re a former redditor because you’re parroting the same tired-ass old line that is top comment on every thread about something bad happening to someone or some thing they don’t like. Get some new material.
EDIT: Speaking of getting new material, I should try not to be as snarky. Get the alien out of your head, my man. We don't need to do that to entertain ourselves anymore. I apologize to @[email protected], and I take that shit back. I hope you got a laugh out of it as intended, even though there was no real way to tell it was supposed to be a bit cheeky.
It did still frustrate me to see all that knowledge just hand-waved like what happened was no big deal. I guess "couldn't have happened to a nicer boardroom" or something would have clicked better lol but I'd imagine we're probably on the same page about it at the end of the day.
Anyway, let's all be cool, Lemmy fucking rocks, we're nice here, save the sarcasm for mocking actual malice instead of eating each other. I'll try to be better.
Why are so many people openly hostile towards redditors? Are you trying to get us to leave?
What you're failing to realize is that Lemmy needs new users in order to grow. You may not like the bitching, but it keeps conversations going which drives more engagement to the site.
Stop trying to push people away from the platform. People need an alternative to reddit. They've been a monopoly since 2010; it's time for that to change. Won't happen if redditors don't want to come here because they feel unwanted.
So please, try to chill the fuck out. And leave us be.
I think both things can be true -- we have a superior replacement, so Reddit is now of considerable lower value, but also Reddit was super important to me and I'm still deeply invested in it's "demise".
I certainly think that reports of Reddit's death are greatly exaggerated and also would like to see less Reddit-related content, but I think there's space for people who were avid Redditors to have become true believers in the fediverse.
Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.
It doesn't really work that way. Lots of people visited subreddits like cringetopia, whatcouldgowrong, confidentlyincorrect, etc. Basically a compulsion to kill time by gawking at dumb people doing dumb stuff. That doesn't mean those subreddits or that use of time had actual value, even to that specific person though.
As much as I'd love to ditch Reddit completely, I just had to use information from a few Reddit posts to fix an issue on my home server. I hate to say it, but Reddit is extremely valuable.
Also, it was full of knowledge that has been deleted.
I'm starting my Linux journey and every error I get has at least one Reddit post about it. Most answers are deleted and I have to go on other sites.
I'd say we did lose a lot. It's akin to an autodafé.
I know you're a Redditor too lol you can tell just by how you wrote your comment. the snarky dissenting takedown, the fatigue over redditisms, the righteousness mixed with hypocrisy, etc
Really there's a lot of value lost because of all the knowledge and solutions that have been posted there. I use solutions to obscure problems and tutorials are posted there from five years ago. It's a shame that some of those will be lost along with a whole bunch of history
I just went to Reddit.com. It looks like it's up but all of the posts on the main page are from 9 hrs ago or older (I didn’t scroll very far to see if there were newer ones).
I went to the search and looked up Redditalternatives. I got two error messages - "We had a server error..." and "Request failed." But the sub appeared behind the error pop ups. I see sub posts from 2 and 4 hrs ago.
Does this mean that Reddit is down? I don't want to engage too much with the site to find out.
It was down when I posted that comment. I went to sleep with Reddit down and woke up with Reddit down. I read people here saying that it was down at different times in that period. I was a bit hopeful that this was the end of Reddit.
I'm so sorry for my mistake, I hope you guys can forgive me some day.