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See, if reddit had just let the upvote/downvote system work as intended, instead of banning people for no reason at all in a lot of cases, this entire problem likely would have been avoided. And no matter what the bans should have never been permanent! We dont put people in prison FOREVER, social media accounts should also be treated with some decency.
Permabans with no way to appeal are ridiculous.
And then to add that if you create a new account to get around a subreddit ban then that makes you eligible for a sitewide ban is even more ridiculous.
I got permabanned from r/pics a while back because under a generic Facebook photo of an interracial couple at their wedding somebody asked why it was posted there and I responded “Reddit loves interracial couples”. That was it. The irony is that my marriage is interracial.
A lot of this is because the prevalent attitude has been ‘it’s the internet, it doesn’t matter’, and that allowed people to do things that we, as a society, decided long ago that people weren’t supposed to do.
Small suggestion - Is it possible for you to pin this comment to the top of the comment feed? I missed the comment when I first looked to be honest
Not possible in Lemmy…
Ah fair. I’m sure it will come in time.
My only real concern is iOS app support but it’s still early days.
I can’t say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won’t return to Reddit.
Same here. It’s already gotten sucky, and it’s only going to get worse.
If you want to know the future of Reddit, look at Facebook.
Same here. Reddit is going downhill real fast.
Reddit has been going downhill for a decade. The problem was that there were no viable alternatives. Now that /u/Spez has pushed the issue, he forced enough people into Lemmy that it is suddenly a viable alternative. I call that a win!
What wil you do? Where will you go to browse?
Do you guys not have phones?
Yes. For the time being. Would love to see larger migration from reddit.
I’m quite large, and I’m here
This is the way
Same
Yes, but
The site needs a ton of UX polishing to keep “lazy users” hooked (something I think it’s critical if you want to harvest as much users as possible from this fire). I feel like software developers tend to be more conscientious internet citizens that fight for their rights and seek independence, so I’m hoping that gives an influx of fixes/bug reports on lemmy’s github repo leading to stability, but maybe we also need to find ways to collaborate with front-end/brand design people (?)
No, unless at some point, most content is no longer about Reddit and Lemmy! Trying to give it a good chance for now.
I think it’s looking very promising. I’ll agree with others here that if the users come on, some of the bugs get worked out, and an Apollo like app gets created Id be happy to call this home.
I’ve been a serious Reddit user since the digg incident so it really is like the end of an era.
Also “a serious Reddit user since the digg incident” and won’t be going back. There are some communities I’ll miss, but I look forward to rebuilding them here.
Spez really really fucked up on this one. A few tweaks and mobile app with the same no-bullshit styles like narwhal, apollo, and RIF on android and this place wins every time
Same on all points, I was over there for 15 years because it wasn’t like that - that’s why we all left digg and also why we’re here. It got sucky
Agreed, and I hope so. But this “migration” from Reddit already happened before. Remember Voat? Very promising, but failed unfortunately. I hope Lemmy instances could support the massive incoming of Reddit users.
Faar less Nazis so far on lemmy, which was the main issue with Voat
The problem with that migration was its anti-censorship nature, which naturally led to bigots flooding voat. Here, it’s a sitewide protest against changes that hurt most power-users of the website, which means alternatives won’t just become political echo-chambers.
I want to. But in all honesty, it depends on how much of the communities I’m used to migrate here as well. Right now my typical reddit content is mostly missing here. It has potential, but like any other social media site, it depends on the community and the content. I’m hopeful though, I think reddit is in its final days either way.
It is like early Reddit. It is up to us to blaze the trails for those who come after.
I’ll stay and hope it becomes my go-to Deddit replacement. I like the lack of karma, and the posts and comments seem of a higher quality.
Probably, if lemmy become searchable in generic search engine. The one thing that made reddit great is searching a keyword + reddit, and most likely you’ll find others who haved reviewed, discussed, fix, experience, what i’m searching before. So far can’t do it with lemmy.
I feel like I’ll only use reddit if I have specific questions for my more technical hobbies(ham radio, astrophotography, lockpicking, etc) I’ll ask over in the larger community subreddit there. Otherwise, for my daily browsing and time killing, I’m here.
the issue with that seems to be all of the separate instances not being indexed and backlinked enough on google. so eventually you’ll have to tell google <question> + lemmy + domain, and that’s not even taking into account lemmy instances that aren’t even called lemmy.
Worth noting this will naturally evolve as the userbase increases. Google will index wherever the most content is to be found. If that’s here, then more resources will go into crawling over here.
I think so. It was hard to leave reddit at first, I didn’t realize how hooked into that ecosystem I was. Now that there are more people interacting with Lemmy and more communities popping up, I think I’ll continue to stick around. Lemmy does seem to be turning the corner from reddit bashing into its own environment, which is refreshing.
Lemmy seems promising, its rough around the edges and needs work, but so was Digg when I first joined and the same with Reddit. It seems like the Lemmy developers and the iOS developers (I’m sure the same with Android, but I only have iOS devices) are working hard on both bug fixes and quality of life updates, which is encouraging.
Slick interface. Text-heavy. OG Redditors.
I’ll stay for sure if it picks up.
I feel so let down by Reddit. I had two accounts with a combined Karma of 800k. I only posted original content. I posted thousands of comments. Reddit was an ingrained part of my daily life for years.
Then both accounts were permanently suspended immediately after I called out a bot phishing scam. Two appeals rejected. I was gutted. Still am.
Reddit is hedging everything on AI / LLM populating the entire site. Who needs human content creators anymore?
So, yeah. If Lemmy grows, I’ll be arguing, trolling, and jesting here for many years to come.
yup. but wee need more feature like real polls.
Just tried it for a few hours. Seems good, similar to reddit. But yeah, the fediverse part is confusing.
Some issues I have so far are, (1) when searching for communities, it seems that they are fragmented throughout the fediverse, whereas in reddit they are in one place. which makes it kinda odd and well (2) it’s kinda small-knit. which I guess is good but feels odd coming from a large site to a small one.
Still, I’m gonna give it a try. to me its something new but similar :)
Time will tell, I like it atm.
Been looking for a viable alternative to reddit for a long time!
When people look up things on google, they specifically look for a solution posted on reddit, I know I do. Lemmy needs to be used as a way for people to solve problems, before it can take over what reddit is used for now. I’m staying on Lemmy because I like the idea of a functioning reddit alternative.
For me, Reddit is now only a place to look up solutions, and not a group of communities to participate in.
The kind of solutions I would formerly post on Reddit, I will post on Lemmy instead. And I will participate in Lemmy communities as they pop up.
With time, as niche communities set up shop elsewhere, I expect I will have to search Reddit less and less.
I don’t know if I want this to become reddit 2.0. Maybe there’s another way. I’ll hang around and see what happens.
I used to be the same but I’m going to be pretty devoted to looking for alternative sources of information. They’re definitely out there, just not as reliable/easy to find 👀
