Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it. Otherwise all this placewill be is a temporary hold over until we all just fall back on what we know cause we keep hammering in the name into our brain over and over again. I think the same sort of thing happened with the original “black out” of Twitter but we all came back to it because we kept thinking of Twitter in regards to whatever new site we tried. If you want Lemmy to succeed, let Lemmy be Lemmy
Ok. Downvoted for talking about reddit.
Oh dang, you said reddit too
Aw shit! Time to downvote myself. And you!
Its the price we must pay
I agree… is there a way to hide all of the communities that have been/are being created by that lemmy bot I see lately? I mean maybe the author thinks it’s helpful to mirror subs with all of their posts from ‘over there’, but I fear it also lets us be lazy and expect content to come from outside. People need to actively engage and create here, not just lurk and visit read-only copies.
Edit: it’s all the auto-copied subs and posts from the lemmit.online instance – I am not advocating for de-federating it, just hoping there would be a way to auto-hide any *.(instance) rather than needing to manually do it one at a time.
Edit 2: I’m a dork. I found how to just list new postings from my Subscriptions.
If you block the user, you shouldn’t see their reposts.
I feel like you don’t remember Digg v4. It was very much a topic on Reddit at the time.
Can’t say that I do. What happened to Digg that made people switch?
They updated their interface to V4, which crippled most of, if not all, the functionality the site was used to.
This was also not a surprise to the users (but might have been to the Digg admin team), as the community was very vocal about why they didn’t like the new changes and even made suggestions on how they could be fixed/enhanced.
Digg went through with the V4 changes anyway, which led to a large majority of Digg users officially coming over to Reddit (I was one of them).
What you see at Digg now is a shell of what it used to be. When a majority of content creators/submitters switched to Reddit, it remained a popular topic for weeks, since that was relevant to the latest influx of users.
It was a very similar series of events. Company went back on its mission and values, focusing on making money at expense of its core user experience.
Lemmy feels very much like reddit right after digg v4 and I mean that in a good way.
Give it a week, we just passed July 1. I joined during the Reddit blackout and it took a few days for new and interesting content to cycle through.
Be the change you wish to see in the world!
The two most common posts right now are complaints about reddit, and complaints about complaining about reddit. Be the change you want to see…
I think it does also depend on what you’re subscribed to or which instance if you’re viewing local.
Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it.
I wouldn’t be too concerned about the references to Reddit. It’s precisely that upset toward what we’re seeing happen to Reddit that is driving even greater usage of Lemmy. The same thing happened with Digg, which contrary to some of our collective memory did not take place all at once. Many moved over to Reddit in 2007 following the HD DVD encryption code scandal, with many still using Digg to some degree. Sentiment toward Digg continued to decline and Reddit traffic continued to climb until the final mass wave in 2010 with the arrival of Digg v4 that shifted emphasis away from user generated content toward heavier curation - this sealed Digg’s fate with folks deciding to switch for good.
I think it’s a good thing that Lemmy users continue to view themselves as displaced Redditors. You don’t want that energy to fizzle out. It’s what’s driving people to volunteer more of their time and effort into community building.
I think you nailed it. The more we can harness the “fuck Reddit” energy, the better we can focus on creating what we wish we had there, here. Don’t forget the parts of Reddit you despised. That’s what we will avoid here. Let’s make this a place we all love!
Exactly … I think people are just impatient … there is a change happening, to what degree of a change it will be only time will tell.
Reddit is collapsing in bits and pieces … it’s going to take time to see it go down the tubes.
Also, most people don’t want to change, no matter what the circumstances are, they like familiarity and things to stay constant because it is comforting … so they keep drifting back to Reddit hoping against hope that things will just keep going the way they always did. Eventually, the site will go stale due to all the infighting, protesting and regurgitation of the same old threads that people keep repeating.
Once people get tired of it all and realize that the old Reddit they once enjoyed no longer exists … then they will drift into new alternatives like Lemmy, Kbin or Mastodon or whatever else and settle there.
Give it time guys … nothing is going to change overnight. Personally, I’m staying here on Lemmy and Kbin and enjoying the hell out of it. I feels like 2010 all over again and it’s great!
I can confirm we are seeing very similar levels of engagement on !android@lemdro.id as on /r/android despite significantly smaller subscriber numbers.
Lemmy really does scratch the itch for me. It’s refreshing, even if mod tools aren’t there yet.
Oh the ironing!
Tbh, it’s a bit emotional for everyone I’m sure.
But I’m really excited for Lemmy. It feels like the good ol’ days and I’m here for it.
“we all came back to it”
No we didn’t. Maybe you did?
Whats happening on reddit is a big news story, it’s getting coverage on all the major socials and is pretty high up on a lot of news outlets. it’s getting a little more attention here but that’s because it obviously has a lot of refugees. I don’t think it’s a huge problem. Maybe if it persists with this level for another month.
I got here after they announced the API changes. Took about a week for the reddit posts to slow down at all but they’re back in full force now that the changes have been implemented.
It’s just people discussing something that’s relevant to them. It’ll go away eventually.
Fuck your dick you shitty pissbanana. Let people talk about things that are going on and let the conversations develop naturally. If you really want to control what people can and can’t talk about go back to Reddit and start your own sub where you can aggressively moderate until you’re happy with your finely cultivated echo chamber.
LOL who forgot to put real cheese curds in your poutine??
Being super into cheese dynamics is a very french trait. You should also vandalize a Holocaust memorial and light a police officer on fire to complete the look.
Nevermind you guys, this site will be fine
based and pissbanana-pilled
man there is no need to be so insulting, maybe a snarky quip woulda been fine, but this is so far past the line, its not cool at all to be that rude to a guy posing a question, participating
Participating being a key word here. I’ve been trying to get conversations going on other things going and so I do know what this guy means - I also know it probably will just take a matter of time for things to settle down.
But that’s the insulting kind of talk I haven’t seen on here much, compared to Reddit
I think i was slightly shocked. Apparently I left one comment that said wholeheartedly agree, and another that criticized the tone so lol.
It’s like Mastodon. Early on so much of the conversation was about Twitter but that died down and mastodon is now it’s own self-sustaining community.
In a few weeks people will stop talking about the Snoo-site.
To me i feel it is rough and needs a lemmy is fun app im here cause rif told me to come and so far love it but miss my widget
I’m gonna talk about Reddit even harder.
I’m gonna talk about Reddit even harderer
