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A lot of us are only here because we wanted to join a consumer action against Reddit. The first few months I was on Lemmy every post was about how Reddit users were fleeing in droves and we were going to show those big bad corporate clowns over at Reddit not to mess with us and Reddit would collapse within weeks.
Welp. Reddit is doing just fine, so yeah, color me cynical as well. I like it better here though.
Reddit is a wasteland where every informative post is now marked as DELETED by those of us who torched our donated content as we left. It's full of garbage posts now, and mods who don't care.
Do they still manage to attract ad revenue, sure, so does X after Musk turned it into a fascist turd bath. Is it as valuable as it used to be? Not by a longshot.
Oh, yes, I 100% agree with this. I'm shocked and horrified every time I get curious enough to poke my head back in there and see how it's going. Yeah, I only meant they are doing fine in terms of weathering the boycott efforts financially. The Reddit I knew and loved is long gone.
I agree and I thought more people would be frustrated enough to leave Reddit. But there are enough of us here now that there is an alternative to Reddit that is viable. Hopefully that becomes common knowledge and they realize leaving Reddit doesn’t mean not having a community, so they feel encouraged to switch.
I second this. From experience, I noticed more hyper local subs on Reddit are very active, but the more larger general subs seem to endlessly repost old content or share exaggerated titles/content. I do wish there were more of a local presence on Lemmy, not everyone wants to go to Reddit or Facebook Groups for that.
Lemmy does need to grow past everyone browsing on “all” (which I do) and then getting outraged for no reason that there’s a woman-only sub. Yes, we need specialist communities that aren’t for everyone too.
For what its worth, I am not browsing "all". I have two communities in bookmarks and I come and check what was posted in those.
I was pretty late to come to Lemmy though...
What are the two communities?
I only ask out of general interest as its such a specific number, if you're not comfortable sharing, don't feel obliged.
This one and /c/pixeldungeon
I have been playing that game for sooo long.
In fact, its author ditching Reddit for Lemmy is the main reason I am here.
Yeah I wish only for a few things that need a bigger base, sub for my city on Reddit was so helpful, and I miss Normal Nudes and Naked Progress, the NSFW stuff on Lemmy is more onlyfans girls & AI stuff, Reddit had such a massive reach they had everything, more people means more niche stuff.
Overall though? So much nicer here. And I am not sure you can have both, it's probably nicer because it's smaller.
Reddit had no monetary cost.
It's much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.
Reddit is just... there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Since you don't have to commit to the decision there's far less resistance to backsliding.
*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that's not what I'm talking about.
A big plus is that I can actually interact with people here in a usually lighthearted manner. You can still find that on Reddit, but it is extremely hard to do now unless you have some extremely niche interests.