Sure would be nice to foster new niche communities on Lemmy instead of talking about our obnoxious ex-platform
I think we are just still in the early stages of a breakup lol
And not just a regular amicable breakup but one where you left after finding out the other person was actually a cold-hearted narcissist who only pretended to care about you and now they’re lying to everyone about how you were the horrible one. So it’s understandable to feel some schadenfreude for awhile.
Reddit ia gonna get fat soon
It will pass, but in the mean time this and other ex-Reddit content will get the word out…
A lot of casual users may not get what’s going on and see the point of all the protests.
My NFL team last year gave up its franchise quarterback, and the subreddit basically only talked about the former QB for the entire preseason, and then still talked about it for half the season. Then it died down. And before the protest, he wasn’t really talked about all that much.
Reddit is still fresh in people’s minds. It will go away. In the early days of reddit a LOT of people talked about digg, but within a few months it just wasn’t mentioned much anymore.
A lot of people here spent years on our ex-platform. It’s going to take some time to get that out of our system. In the meantime, enjoy the shadenfreude!
Yup. As someone that has been on Reddit since like 2007, when it was purely a tech news site and I don’t even think had comments yet, I don’t really understand these “just stop talking about it” posts. No. This guy took something that held immense value for a large percentage of our lives, and turned it into something near-worthless (at least a shell of it’s former glory) over a few years time. I think we should talk about it until it’s dead. I want to hear about it’s death knell.
Fair points, and outstanding analogy
Why not both?
I’m doing my part in being involved in lemmy to the point I don’t miss reddit anymore, tho I’m having fun in seeing how people get so creative in fighting that overblown pig, it’s highly entertaining :D
I mean, that’s happening too, but this is kind of front of everyone’s mind right now.
Submit a couple of interesting links a day somewhere! I joined Reddit when it was just one page of stuff mostly of interest to Reddit staffers and Spez was submitting a non-trivial chunk of links himself. Was much, much smaller than the Fediverse is now. People just keep showing up as time goes on.
I’m starting to see cat pictures, I think we’re finally getting there.
Apparently it was like this when the Digg migration happened - give it a few weeks and it’ll die down as people get it out of their system
We’re all still processing this; also, the panicked reaction to the initial exodus was the funnest part about Twitter dying and I suspect the same will be true with reddit.
Can I just say that I’m really happy that so many yt alternatives by people who aren’t morons are starting to appear? At some point, all I saw from friends and reddit was all bitchute and voat and they tried to stick this alt-right tinge to the fediverse, but alternatives to big corporate are starting to become more normal again.
“Don’t do that” - Zooms in to make sure everybody can see exactly what they aren’t supposed to do.
the only winning factor is if he comes out on top with a lot of money and unless reddit completely dies, he will. hell even if it completely dies he may still after inevitably selling the name/site/assets.
This is good information
It really isn’t. Twitter is still up despite musk and Reddit is still strong.despite this…you miss the aim. If the aim is egalitarian then yeah…but no the aim is to make personal money and power (in musk case it is political.platform like being a modern newspaper baron…the next Rupert Murdoch, spaz for the sweet sweet IPO for yacht.
It’s exhausting seeing all these cringy “we’re going to win with shitposts” things when all we really need is for people to post actual content.
Minor correction, Google and Meta stock is on it’s way back up, guess it pays for a company to actually be profitable
… Not for me though, I only know this because my puts tanked to zero
