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Some of the people in that reddit thread are unreasonably angry that some people moved to Lemmy.
I'll never understand loving a company so much that anyone who doesn't like it is automatically deemed a bad person. Why is a stranger's choice of social media so personal to some of these people? Why are they so livid?
I'm not even going to quote the specific comments I'm referring to just in case I get banned. One of them was comparing the entire lemmyverse to the subreddits that were banned over explicitly only having content about hating strangers for existing.
I'm happy I left if that what I'm "missing out" on.
I find it weird that they're not more mad that reddit got ruined by a fuckhead CEO and horrible management.
They are in denial, it was an amazing place and still is in some ways. I went from loving it to realizing it was basically a walmart that helped drown out the mainstreet web. Small forums and irc chats may be too much to moderate now that so much of humanity is online, and it is truly suprising people are willing to mod sites for free that prioritize monetization over community and sustainability. Sure mods power tripped 20 years ago, but in many ways it was easier to find an alternative run by sme's or fans of whatever that just did it for community. So much so they donated their time and money.. but now,, Why spend money when you can create a sub / community. But then you are stuck with that platform as it evolves. It took me a while but i finally accept defederation is as critical as the knowlege base that we all helped create.
The really confusing part to me, is that, though I haven't personally read the comments, I don't doubt your experience... But the post is in /r/redditalternatives.... Which should be filled with members who are actively encouraging and discussing openly alternatives to Reddit.... Right?
It confuses me why there seem to be so many Reddit die-hards in a subreddit about finding other sites that bear some similarity to Reddit...
Then again, straight Christians who are anti-LGBTQ+ show up to gay pride regularly too... Which is equally confusing to me. I get it, you don't like it. That's fine. Just go home Sarah, nobody wants you here when you're just going to complain the whole time. (I know there's more depth to this example than I've touched on, it's not the point of the example, so I'll just stop there)
It's reddit though. How can we know how many of those people are real?
Even before the Reddit app debacle, reddit made very questionable decisions and if you went to look at that discussion at a later date, the answers that were artificially boosted to the top (this depended on how you went to look at the site, it seemed a lot less in old reddit) seemed as fake as a fake Amazon review, as if reddit was astroturfing their own website.
The change that broke reddit for me was this: https://old.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blocking_updates/?limit=500 I have no way of looking at the thread without using old.reddit, so I don't know if it still looks as astroturfed as it did back then.
Reedits motto was "fake it till you make it" and we know that disinformation campaigns are also rife on the platform so there is every reason to believe a single entity is behind these accounts, whether it be Reddit itself or a third party.
That said, there is kinda a sunk cost fallacy thing too in the sense that people have decided Reddit is "their platform" of choice and people will defend it like a diehard sports fan does for right or wrong. Just like in politics which is just as weird too.
Reddit's bigger communities are a kind of double-speak: r/funny is anything but, for instance.
I don't think it's rooted in love for reddit, I think they hate lemmy because it isn't what they wanted - while ignoring the fact that they have the opportunity to help make it into what they want.
I guess it's not loyalty to Reddit and Spez, but rather to a place they deem their home.
For some of them, it may seem we caused stir in the community out of nowhere, a stir that ended up with a lot of damage to Reddit.
While they may misunderstand the root cause of why we're here, we need to understand this concept in order to communicate importance of this platform. Some people deleted their 10+ year accounts on Reddit. Some use Reddit in parallel with Lemmy. Some stick to Reddit and don't plan to go anywhere, and are forced to witness their house crumble.