Thing that was the most upsetting was the absolute refusal to accept any bit of responsibility or admit what they were doing. I think we can all appreciate the cost of running a huge service like Reddit, but in no way does that require them to do what they did.
If anything, I am shocked they didn't attempt to do something like require users who use third party apps to be paying for Reddit Premium or whatever it's called. AFAIK there are no ads displayed if you're a subscriber? So there wouldn't have been a big difference in revenue there.
Honestly I hope it remains small enough to not attract influencers and low grade content, but also large enough to become a significant source of useful searchable info. It’s a pipe dream but hey
Holy crap, yeah. The amount of repost bots I've been seeing lately has been insane. Also noticed a massive increase in porn bots in the comments, almost all exactly the same kind of thing
Reddit and Lemmy are topic-oriented systems: most users find things to read by looking for topics they're interested in. Despite the name "communities", these are basically topic categories.
Facebook and Twitter are people-oriented systems: most users find things to read by telling the site who their friends are (or which celebrities they want to get parasocial with), and looking at things from their friends or recommended based on friend connections.
On a site with topic-oriented standards, it's often kinda creepy to follow people from one topic to another.
On a site with people-oriented standards, it's often kinda rude to show up in distant friends-of-friends-of-friends' mentions to tell them your enthusiastically held opinions on the topic they happen to be discussing.
Jumping ship is the easy part. Now we have to keep this up. Let's make sure this isn't just something that'll disappear in a month or two. Make Fediverse more active than before permanently.
I'm more of a lurker myself but that was due to Redditor's attitude towards me aha. I would say my opinion and I would get downvoted to oblivion as well as a bunch of mean replies. And DMs I have never checked lmao.
Over here though, it looks a fucklot more friendly and that makes me want to engage more!
It's certainly more about discussion here. I've made mistakes already and no one has criticized me (yet). Just someone responding about why my opinion/statement was wrong in their opinion.
If I did that on reddit I'd probably never check my inbox again lmao. Not saying all reddit subs are like that, but a lot are.
I have a friend who privated her Twitter account a few years back. She made the mistake of replying to a tweet to state that non-white people can be racist too, and ended up getting doxxed and harassed.
Also, I remember the time when I kept getting DMs on my Reddit account stating things like "just reminding you that you're a c***"
Well, when the Twitter exodus happened, I too feared that the (4-5x!) increase in traffic would quickly come down. It's been several months and Mastodon is still just as strong!
This is my first time stepping into the fediverse, actually. Time will tell, I am cautiously optimistic. May try Matrix at some point too, don’t know quite yet.
I nuked my twelve year old account yesterday and I'm literally not even sad. That joke of an AMA sealed the deal for me.
The best part for me personally is, I got an excuse to finally migrate to fediverse. I'm joining a discussion on lemmy from kbin while following stuff from mastodon and beehaw.
It's nerdy and fun. Also, interestingly, feels more reliable. You don't like the people running one service, did the owner turn out to be an utter sociopath? Go, make an account on somewhere better suited to your style and keep engaging with the same communities, maybe at the cost of a different UI experience. It's much preferable to losing an entire platform to the whims of a few at the top.
There was a picture of one instance's user count that was mostly a flat line until recently, now it looks like a right angle 😂. Can't remember if it was Beehaw or a different one though
I have been wanting to switch to Lemmy for a long time, it is my last non-FOSS social media. But I never imagined Lemmy will be popular because reddit is thriving, and I cannot see reason for people to leave.
So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you spez form the bottom of my heart. And I hope you keep down the path you are on and turn reddit into a Twitter dumpster fire.
I vote we all adopt "Don't be a Spez" as phrase of saying "Don't fuck a good thing up for your own greed" to somebody.
But yeah, thanks Spez! I had wanted to leave Reddit for a while now as spam started overflowing subs, and spam bot accounts just kept going with reddit doing nothing to stop them. I still stayed out of laziness, I suppose, but this last drop made the bucket overflow. Thanks Spez!
Currently using Jeroba. Nicer experience overall than using lemmy in a mobile web browser, but still a bit rough around the edges, and I hope they fix the leggy scrolling.
I heard through the grapevine [and have no idea how valid it is] that he used to be a moderator on r/jailbait. I don't know how true that is, but if it is I think he looks the part lol
7 year 10 month long on Reddit and only ever used Apollo and previously Alien Blue until Spez decided to kill the joy out of both. Never posted much on reddit either. Happy to be here with everyone and contribute to Lemmy!
Awesome, thanks! It is great to see the strady increase in users and servers. I am hoping that as all the content creators choose a place to put their stuff, and the winning communities start to become established, that Activity Pub becomes the way.
Then our favourite reddit apps migrate to the Lemmy API :D