It was cool the first time.

Now it just feels desperate

Maybe they should actually pay the mods. That's the only way they will be able to get them back on their side after the way they were treated

Honestly, as others have mentioned, I don't agree its bloated. If anything, its actually missing a few features (like the ability to bulk change many repos with the same issue tags). Also, I like some of the new updates that are being released.

It doesn't run slowly in ANY way.

Furthermore, Sourceforge used to be the monopoly, and honestly, that was FAR more bloated. Projects will be found on any site, if its interesting. I don't remember ever searching for projects explicitly using Github search (I only use Google). A good project will show up anywhere.

It could be like the old RPM vs DEB arguments. Technically, one could have argued at the time that RPM was explicitly singled out in the Linux Standard base.

However, these days, DEB certainly feels more common (although, from my understanding, Redhat/Slack is big in enterprise, so i'm not actually sure which is more common).

Yep.. recently.. I thought it's because I had sync turned on, but, not too sure.. Edge always started with the computer on reboot, and always it hijacked my Chrome sessions. Also, Chrome was definitely my default.

Microsoft had my business, all they had to do was keep edge in the background (I was paying for Xbox Ultimate, etc). But, they got greedy.

One thing that also put me off Linux as a choice as well, is that Apple have better integration of IOS Apps, and windows now has good integration of Android Apps. Even ChromeOS has support for Android Apps. But out of the box, distro's like ubuntu don't seem to yet

I don't have any accounts in reddit anymore. I only browse reddit maybe for 5 mins a day now. I could block reddit without barely noticing at this time

Honestly not sure why it matters, provided the store is full. Both are similar to end users

Windows, until a week ago. Now switched to Mac os (I despised apple for 20 years)

Microsoft hijacking my chrome tabs and opening them in edge on reboot was the last straw. Also, I bought an Xbox series x, and cloud play to my Xbox won't work on their own os. So selling my Xbox too and switched to ps5.

Used to use Linux, but I feel for the tasks I do, Mac os is more maintainable long term

Pretty much. And they spilled over into everywhere else too.. In Australia, absolutely nobody cares about guns. However, on Reddit, you'd think the opposite. It was fairly clear that the conference crowd were trolling the Australian subs excessively

wars have been won and lost over porn

Yeah.. I was a relay user (removed it yesterday finally).

But, what I mean is that these people who acted that way on those subs, basically got the OK from Reddit to act the same way on every other sub. Reddit never took the hard approach against them. They just pretended to.

I actually deleted my main account on Reddit a few months back because the toxicity in any comment I posted started to weigh me down (even in the r/Australia sub, it became clear that a lot of people there likely weren't Australian).

I've noticed things have degraded even more there in the past week, and in the Aussie subs, most of them have gone fully toxic.

Nope.. Spaz isn't going to get my money.

He blatantly treated us all like crap:

1. He acted like he was doing us all a favor, and acting like he was a charity. Reddit doesn't even need much bandwidth or resources as it's a text site essentially. They're still making a lot of profit.
2. He doesn't acknowledge that Reddit's value is in the community. Reddit themselves are their content. They basically just admin the servers and throw ads up. Spaz isn't exactly contributing thousands of articles, but lots of people are
3. They don't pay mods. But finally, when the mods get fed up with Reddit, he took credit for their hardwork by hijacking those communities when they objected
4. He went full Elon.. And...
5. He went full Trump when he accused the Apollo developer of blackmailing him. If he wasn't lying, he would have posted more of the conversation. The apollo developer should actually sue him for trying to damage his reputation
6. Finally, the beauty of the fediverse is that we can choose our community. Whereas, Reddit decides if they want to allow toxic communities and people. The toxicity from FatPeopleHate, TheDonald and femaleDatingStategy ended up spilling over into all of the other communities over time, as they allowed those communities to flourish (and eventually I believe into real life)

I actually deleted my main 7+ year old account (no idea exactly how old) a few months ago on Reddit, because it had grown too toxic there. Really happy with Beehaw, and really excited to see where Lemmy / KBin ends up in a few years time. Already donated to Beehaw

Well. No.

Whataboutism as an argument is about chasing the lowest possible ethical standard. You'll always find someone worse. That doesn't mean it's ok.

Even worse, they're always exaggerated comparisons, such as "zomg, hunter Biden was using drugs". Well, did you vote for hunter? And almost consistently, the sources being used aren't reliable sources. And once those claims are fully rebuked, they move on to the latest nonsense (there are a lot of scared whistleblowers out there who the allegedly mentally weak "sleepy Joe" Biden is apparently threatening lol).

And this seems to be mostly a Right wing attitude

The problem isn't just that community, it's the people who follow. They're not the kind of people we should try to attract here.

They're probably the same people who were active in fatpeoplehate and other malicious subs too, and it's better not to wait for that to happen. If it doesn't get handled now, their toxicity will likely spill over into other communities