I’m starting to get tired of people talking about Reddit on Lemmy. I personally don’t care about Reddit anymore and am not interested in Reddit news.
I already blocked c/reddit that helped. Is there anything else I can do? Is there a way to hide posts that contain a keyword?
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You see the irony here, right?
Is there anything else I can do?
You can always block it…
…with
your
eyes. :^)
I actually prefer Reddit tbh
I don’t really have a preference between either of them. Reddit is only better because that is where most people are.
Reddit definitely has better features. It’s not even a competition. The reason we’re here is because of the Reddit administration and because of future potential. Eg, the apps are so new right now that Reddit’s official app is better. But in a couple of months, that won’t be the case anymore.
I do too, but this thread is about ways to filter or block content so I’m not really sure what that has to do with it?
I’d love a way to filter by keyword, which the Reddit Enhancement Suite and some of the 3rd party apps allowed. Maybe the upcoming Sync for Lemmy will port over its filters by domain, user, subreddit, flair, and keyword.
As for Reddit posts invading Lemmy, it seems like most of them are contained to c/reddit and c/RedditMigration, so blocking those two should fix most of OP’s issue and that’s easy enough to do without any extra tools.
Most of it is contained to specific forums, there’s just more than one across a few instances, RedditMigration on Kbin is another.
The more time I spend here the more I’m realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.
It’ll all die down anyway, to a degree there’s just a lot of people here who just arrived from reddit. I’d avoid blocking the word itself as the wave will pass plus it’s being used as a comparison in meta threads about features and UI and you might find you want to see those conversations.
I’m realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.
100%
While I do consider it important to not isolate one’s self too much, we also don’t need to subject ourselves to everything, especially when it’s having a noticeable negative effect.
Engage content that you enjoy and ride this out.
Right now lemmy’s growth is driven by people pre-emptively leaving reddit even though their choses mobile apps still function. We’ll probably see another influx come July.
But for now all we as a seed community can do is engage the other topics we enjoy and build communities that have substance.
Eventually people will join to engage those topics instead of grip reddits demise.
Very good response. To see less complaining about Reddit, make more posts about other things. Lemmy will be what we make it. I have spent two weeks posting into the void with the community I started and I’m finally starting to see engagement. These things take time.
I think this is what a lot of people are missing here. Lot of people asking for specific content, but very few are willing to make it.
Like I used to do some amateur in-depth looks at my college basketball team, but stopped due to just general life stuff and that is would get drowned out by memes about bar graphs. Now, though, there is an audience hungry for it, and it may be something I get back into a little bit.
One of the first things I noticed about the app Connect for Lemmy is that it has a word blacklist. I haven’t tried it, but I see it there is settings
Hopefully RES type option comes out for lemmy and kbin.
I mean you could just block the two Reddit or three communities …
The problem is when 50+ communities all start talking about something pointless Trump or Elon said. I want to be able to hide/block posts by keyword, not community.
It was the same for me on Mastodon, I started regularly using it just as it all kicked off re Twitter. I got really tired of the term ‘bird site’.
After a couple of weeks that all died down. As others have said, ride it out, it won’t take long for people to stop posting about Reddit.
I’m already starting to see mentions of Reddit die down here as posts shift to trying to build this thing up with more content instead of just talking about how bad things are over there.
I mean scrolling though all and hot I’ve only seen two posts on reddit, this one and one from the reddit Lemmy, just scroll past them.
The only people I see talking about reddit are people like you complaining about unseen people complaining about reddit.
If you stop, it will stop.
Just chill for a bit.
I don’t mind the Reddit posts until 7/1. On that day, if the apps go offline, Reddit will have won for all intents and purposes and it’ll be time for Kbin and Lemmy to just be themselves and stop talking about Reddit.
Except we’ll likely get another wave of users coming over, all wanting to rant.
Is third party apps dying really going to move them over here if they haven’t already?
What do you think? Will the average person proactively seek options to their habits, once they know they might have to change them? Or will they continue with their existing habits to the last second, and only then seek options?
I think some people who haven’t left yet do want to leave, but some are ready for the fediverse and others aren’t due to it not being at a stage that feels polished and straightforward to use. For those I think squabbles is an alternative since while it’s destined for the same fate that has met past social media companies at least it’s an effort to move from the current established corporate juggernaut of community based social media.
So I think more options need to be given aside from just fediverse until that is so easy anyone can use it without thought. Otherwise they’ll have to go back to reddit if they can’t get used to it. Which is the sense I got from people who have been using squabbles and started using it over reddit.
What I meant is, most people haven’t even really looked into using something other than reddit, because they still can.
Hence, there will be another wave, when they cannot.
My belief is that people who continue to use reddit normally don’t really care strongly enough to leave. They are only upset about the third party apps, but not enough to quit reddit. They don’t care about wanting a decentralized internet and having a platform for the people by the people. Even the use of the official app isn’t even concerns of the permissions that could extract lot of additional data to build a more accurate profile of users to resell to marketers. I believe for them the outrage will pass. In the end they want to keep using reddit and aren’t looking to leave. It’s just noise in the outrage, but not an actual willingness to follow through.
So you’re saying, of ALL the people who will move only when pushed my the third party apps ceasing their function, NONE will end up here?
There will be NO wave. At all?
yes in your mind. block them out in your mind
How do you feel about Digg?
The same way I feel about MySpace
You wish you’d never have switched from Friendster?
no, but filtering per keyword would be a nice feature
I’d really love to filter “the” - just for fun
It’ll slow down within a month or two. We’re still kind of right in the middle of all of it right now.
I experienced something really similar when swapping from Twitter to Mastodon; we were all talking about Twitter a lot because a lot of users just came from there.
After a while people stopped meta posting and it went back to normal, and we have little spikes in posts about Twitter when ever musk does something stupid but that’s fine.
Just give it some time. We can swap from one link aggregator to another and instantly act like the other side isn’t on fire
The Connect for Lemmy app on Android has a filter-out posts by keyword feature
