I feel like lemmy is actually really amazing and has a lot of smart discussion happening instead of the constant circlejerking that happens on Reddit. I also feel the community here is a lot more hopeful/helpful! That’s all, thanks for reading 😄
eh, there’s always some vocal minority when major change occurs. ignore them.
I’ve noticed a lot of the same circlejerks in political channels. I don’t dislike Lemmy. If Reddit caved and RiF came back tomorrow, I’d probably still switch back. But the longer I’m away from Reddit, the less likely I am to return.
I’m done for good. The core underlying issue that got me here is that Reddit has demonstrated that there is no ethical standard worth sticking to for them if it means slightly more money. Community building is about care and curation. Reddit doesn’t want to foster community building and their entire draw is community hosting. Why would I stick around?
You can actually use rif still, as well as a few other reddit apps that officially closed shop, but it’s not gonna last forever.
Personally, I’m sticking around (via rif), partly to keep up with a few communities I care about, and partly to watch reddit burn as they keep fueling the fire.
Weirdly, I increasingly feel like I won’t even miss reddit all that much. More precisely, I already missed what reddit once was.
I’ve been using reddit for over 12 years. That site is a steaming pile of shit compared to what it once was. I’m done.
I’ve been on there about 14. It’s gradually gotten worse and worse in terms of culture and content, but what really shows their doom is how awful the ‘new reddit’ interface is. It has now been years and they haven’t fixed it, show no signs of plans to rethink it, or any understanding of how bad it is. I’ve entirely removed reddit from my life and had zero problems doing it. Now when I go read comments on there, it’s clear how wretched it is… so many people are so nasty to each other in city subs, for instance.
On reddit I didn’t comment much at all, because it mostly felt like posting things into the void.
Here there are mostly not so many comments that a single one gets lost and I’ve already had a few plesant discussions!
Same :) i enjoy the cozier feeling that many of the threads have. And the local threads of people on my instance really give a feeling of community since i belong to a smaller one.
Does it get any more cozy than
HogsmeadeLemmy?
I’m having the same experience on Lemmy that I had on reddit 13 years ago. It’s fucking awesome
I actually said the same a few days ago. Lemmy now is how reddit was back in the beginning.
The question that remains to be answered is, are the normies that moved to Reddit responsible for what it became? Or was it a product of the corporate profit driven manipulation of the platform? Time will tell…
Edit: It’s worth noting, I don’t mean to say ‘normies’ a a pejorative term, just the most casual way to differentiate the more tech-savvy, active early adopters that I find many people currently using the platform are, versus those who are simply doom scrolling content on social media.
It’s most likely a combination of both. I’m not a huge fan of the divisive “normies” vs “whatever the hell we are” stance, but Reddit became what it is because it was poorly designed from the beginning to handle how rapidly it needed to scale. It was never envisioned when the project started as an internet killing behemoth, but ultimately that’s what it became. Without in-built tools to manage that growth, Reddit succeeded because the community willed it to be and in spite of its own codebase.
What’s happened to it now is likely correlated to a number of factors:
- Significant user growth as the popularity of the site among habitual internet users grew over time
- Positioning within popular culture - namely the practice of appending Google search queries with ‘reddit’ to improve results, which is common among people who otherwise don’t browse the site at all
- Unchecked bot traffic with limited mechanisms to control or curtail the propagation of duplicative, low effort / value, incorrect, harmful, or misleading information on a massive scale
- A philosophical pivot from being a community driven by community to a company driven by a desire for profits
- Algorithmic manipulation of how content is displayed to maximize advertiser return at the expense of organic community dynamic shifts a combination of 1- a rapidly grown userbase, 2- positioning within popular culture (vis a vis, appending Google search queries with reddit to improve the results is common even among people who otherwise don’t use Reddit)
- The hurt feelings of a CEO with an easily bruised ego
Don’t forget a complete failure to ever monetize the site correctly. They’ve never made a profit lol.
I think it’s probably both.
I think the biggest decline was just before the 2016 US election.
That seemed to be the point at which the site hit “mainstream” and with that came a huge influx of new users, and with the influx of new users came the increase of corporate interest to advertise to the new massive audience.
r/all switched to be almost nothing but arguing US politics.
Removed by mod
Definitely, astroturfing/Cambridge analytica/Russian bot farms coming up on the 2016 US election were the major causes of a shift in the paradigm. The actual results of the election and Brexit then influenced a strong divisive change in society globally. The pandemic brought even more people online who were dropped right into this chaotic chapter in Internet/cultural history.
Gonna be some really interesting studies in the future looking at how all of this played out.
depending on how you see it, that’s nice and cool or dark
I’m upvoting your post because the headline/title gave me an aneurysm. I’ve read it twice now and still don’t understand it. 😀
“I still see a lot of angry posts about Reddit because people were essentially forced out. However…”
Yeh that’s what they were trying to say, their punctuation was atrocious though.
Yeah, it’s fun watching this community grow. I’m not looking back
The people using Kbin/Lemmy are the exact same as redditors, we all came from the same place stop pretending you’re so much fucking better.
Also complaining about circlejerking while circlejerking this community?
