Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
Lemmy needs to drastically improve the UX before it’ll become big
I’ve found a good 3rd party web app, Alexandrite.app although that’s just another hurdle to entry like picking an instance. The official web UI should be much better.
If someone like Musk were to take control of Reddit, be prepared. Let’s be real, Spez is not even in the same league as Musk in terms of being unpalatable to Redditors so claiming something like “already has been” is … a choice. But for sure, if someone far worse takes over, there will be an exodus. And frankly, the Fediverse is fully unprepared to handle that, so that’ll be fun.
Which is why Musk will keep spez to take the blame, just tweaking the site slightly to not allow it to ban links to X anymore.
When Musk took over Twitter I deleted all my Tweets and never even visited the site again, blocked on parental filters and through NextDNS.
I had been there since 2006.
I would definitely do the dame for Reddit if Musk took over, and I have been there since like 2010 and have some million total karma across several accounts (mostly on one).
I actually did quit for about a year when they killed 3rd party apps.
That will be when old.reddit is culled. They have been preparing to quell future dissidents for a year now and this decision would be the only one that I can think of which would bring that much outrage
Just a heads up it’s old.reddit.com. Oh and “quell” - sorry.
Shit
Unpopular opinion: they like it there, and aren’t going to switch no matter what happens. We’ll see.
They’re far too addicted to the algorithmic brain rot to switch of their free will.
Tbf there is FAR more content there, and also somehow less authoritarianism and echo chamber effect than here - like we have the modlog but they have modmail and the ability for people to continue their already started conversations on posts after removal from the sub, while here (without even a notification sent to the user) we simply have a message like “Rule 1” (which says nothing at all about why a message might have been removed…?).
If we want to attract more users, then like Bluesky, we need to do better at meeting the desires that users actually have, rather than like Mastodon simply complain why nobody wants to come here. PieFed, Mbin, and Sublinks are attempting to do that, so there’s hope, but we are still a long ways away yet.
Sublinks
I would just refrain from mentioning Sublinks until there is at least a working instance with a minimal product
There will, some day, be a mass exodus away from reddit. But it’s not gonna be to lemmy.
Do you think it will be to Bluesky?
One day it could be to PieFed, or Sublinks, but everyone banned for Rule 1 from ML knows that it won’t be to “Lemmy”.
I don’t know what the next thing after Reddit would be, but if anything fediverse wants to be that thing it needs to be prepared in advance of the next exodus.
That means developers need to work on smoother onboarding, from account creation to in-app guidance to help users find what they’re interested with as little effort as possible. On the backend, we need the ability to handle a huge influx of users. I don’t know shit about either of these things, but it’s what tech startups ALWAYS focus on to build their user base, to my knowledge.
PieFed is working on that, e.g. the Categories of Communities and Topics onboarding someone by a wizard asking what their interests are and then subscribing them to those communities, and also hashtag support helping to discover new content across Topic areas. It’s pretty neat!:-) 😎
Bluesky has a lot of momentum and no one cares about mastodon. So I do think bluesky will likely remain a fixture. But I don’t think it’s the thing that replaces reddit. It’s the thing that replaces twitter.
That indeed makes sense. So where then will all those people go?
There will, some day, be a mass exodus away from reddit. But it’s not gonna be to lemmy.
Well I’m here to stay because fuck reddit
Yeah, ever since Apollo died, I can’t go back.
Having Voyager on Android has been a real life saver.
Same for me, but for Sync. I liked it here immediately but when the dev put out Sync for Lemmy like a month later I was so happy.
The online version of Stockholm syndrome?
That, and if you need actual information from Reddit rather than just want to find a place to hang out and chat. The people who need certain content must go to wherever that is.
Even though I haven’t “used” reddit in well over a year, I still put Reddit at the end of some of my searches. It even comes up as a recommendation on Google.
Yeah, despite quitting reddit completely, I often find myself putting site:reddit.com at the start of my searches, especially if it’s something niche and opinionated.
I left after they closed off the API and shut down third party apps. I could never go back, whilst Lemmy hasn’t always offered the same amount of content, its always still offered good content, plus I know I’m guilt free of supporting Reddit and what a shit show they’ve become 🙂
I got used to Lemmy eventually and like it. I spend less time scrolling which is good. Now just to ditch Instagram…
Same but with piefed. It’s the same communities. Love the extended capabilities on both platforms. And fedi integration makes it so anyone can use anything.
My friends aren’t on piefed
Be the change.
I know the struggle though I can’t get anyone on Signal beyond my wife and one friend.
Already am. Nobody follows me.
I was in meme withdraw for a bit adjusting to the slower content. I even touched grass that one time.
I intentionally sabotaged my account to get banned so that I couldn’t go back. Lol
The thing is that the more people use Lemmy the more content there will be
And there has been. I also joined Lemmy after the API shutdown and even then there were hardly any new posts, and barely any discussion on them. Now it seems that I have a brand new front page at least once a day and there’s plenty of discussion on the posts.
Same, but then I immediately returned to reddit. Today I suddenly realized I wanted to leave reddit, so here I am again. Any good tips for Android apps?
interstellar for mbin
Summit is pretty good, and the dev is very responsive in !summit@lemmy.world
Voyager is my go-to.
I see sync recommended too, but I would recommend against that one. I had to buy it for reddit twice because the dev invalidated the license and took away premium features on an upgrade. So I’m not using their shit ever again.
The 2 specific communities I want to read without a mirroring one in the fediverse I still read through RSS.
Yead is better than using web or their app. And still get my fix.
I use Boost for Lemmy (paid for, so no ads etc.). It’s what I used for Reddit, so the transition was super easy, but there’s lots of FOSS Lemmy clients on F-Droid that are good too.
I also use Boost as I was using that back on Reddit. Voyager is also an excellent Lemmy app too.
Any good tips for Android apps?
Sync, I used it for reddit before they fucked the API. And now I use it for Lemmy. It’s one of the smoothest apps I’ve ever used.
I really loved sync for reddit, but development on the app is pretty inconsistent and there’s currently some major bugs/unsupported features. For example I can’t currently view comments on posts from SJW.
Hmm I don’t have any issues like that, moved over on the initial sync for Reddit closing
Apparently it’s an issue with newer versions of the Lemmy software. I can see posts from SJW and the number of comments, but if I click through on them I can’t see any of the comments. It’s been reported on the discord but no updates. There’s also other stuff like the fact that sync can’t deal with showing separate upvotes and downvotes, so you have to just show score. Lots of little random glitches from differences between reddit and Lemmy.
The author of sync basically goes completely off the grid for long periods of time (presumably due to irl priorities) and doesn’t work on sync during these periods. It’s always been a thing with sync. But Lemmy changes more frequently than reddit so the bugs can be more frustrating. I’m considering changing apps, honestly, because not being able to see comments on my home instance is driving me crazy. But I do really like sync’s interface.
Yeah the consistent interface has been easy to keep using. I tried a couple others but nothing really felt right. Probably going to be worth checking out new options at some point, just haven’t had enough issues with sync to really try
What is SJW? I love Sync for Lemmy.
sh.itjust.works
Yeah that’s when I left, well before when they started talking about it.
It’s not the same which is great
What happened this time?
I’m curious, too. I suppose I’m out of the loop!
I came here a week ago from Reddit! There are dozens of us!
Welcome! I hope you stay.
I left during the whole API thing awhile back. I really like it here. With less people it feels more like a community. People are generally more respectful and when they’re not they get very lonely very fast.
Welcome !
What was your reason?
I can’t innocently talk about Nintendo and Luigi without Reddit mods going nuclear.
This is where they want you. Head down to the dock and he’ll show you to the Census Office.
And don’t steal any expensive platters!
What’d I miss?
Nothing yet but to speculate Steve Huffman’s rolemodel Elon Musk has been whinging about subreddits banning links to Twitter. They might replace some moderators again and covertly reverse the community ban.
Yeah, it kind of feels like we may only be a few days away from Rexxit 2.0 depending on spez’s next move. Musk’s comments have been short on this but given the fact spez is already a fanboy and, as Vice Dictator, Musk’s merest utterances get taken very seriously in certain quarters, I could see the Xitter ban being overturned.
This struck made my Spidey-Senses tingle when I read it the other day:
Reddit drives significant traffic to X, particularly for discussions related to trending topics on the platform, so a ban on X links on Reddit could significantly impact Musk’s company.
Now Musk has favoured ideology over profit but if he can get a bootlicker to improve his bottom line with minimal effort on his part, then he might get spez to harm his own site for Xitter’s gain.
It may not happen, but as a Lemmy Instance Admin, it’s something I’m keeping a weather eye on and making a few plans.
I’m amazed there were still moderators left that were willing to do protest actions after last time.
As we’ve seen from the Trump admins, there’s never a shortage of bootlickers who would polish that boot for the smallest amount of power.
Obligatory: fuck u/spez.
That’d be a crazy move. He must know there is an entire wave of new social media emerging thats just poised to punish such a stupid move.
As if Reddit cares about long term stability at all? The line must go up at all costs.
Oh, and fuck Spez.
I’m only recently arrived here but already the tech stack seems significantly more stable
Than Reddit? Yeah.
I still visit some niche subs with old.reddit.com, but I don’t see how users even stand the new site.
That is exactly what I expect to happen as well
How much are the Reddit owners banning any mention of Lemmy, though?
A lot! They’re clamping down hard on any posts that mention the platform even the moderators sadly.
I kind of always knew believing reddit was some kind of pure platform basically required being a stereotypical Californian but its declined so heavily in the last 10 years.
Its the number of clearly stupid replies you get now that really irritates me, from people who’ve very clearly not read or understood what you’ve said. It used to be a place where the average user seemed to be a PHD looking for cat pictures
I wrote that and now I’m imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.
^This… and my ax (am I doing it “right”?) It’s human nature and we’ll do it again here unless we remain vigilant against the trend.
Maybe we need a euphemism… like… uhh… “the shadow platform” or something? No wait… “the 'emmy”? “the lemony place”?
Hmm, “the lemony place” is close, but I’d really prefer “the lemony party”.
Or maybe just “lemon party” to simplify it a bit more.
I’ll go google that just to make sure it’s not taken by something else.
It’s been 2 hours. He ded.
He dared to google The Lemon Party and he paid the price. One must never mention oh wait someone’s at my doorlkwjgf
The enemy of my enemy is on Lemmy
We need to be sure they know its a party going on, so it be:
LemOnParty
The Lenemys! You’re a genius, IninewCrow!
Lemon-stealing whores.
Whenever I see this referenced it makes me think of an old man I worked for named Olan. Olan was an asshole. He was a jerk. He was just a miserable old man with no redeeming qualities.
We did odd jobs for him because he was in a wheelchair and couldn’t do them anymore. One time my brother was cleaning out a disgusting, moldy, vile stench filled chest freezer for him while he screeched at my brother for gagging, and chucking random shit at him for being “a whiny little faggot”
But the thing that makes me remember him when I hear “lemon stealing whore” is this day a friend visited him while we were there, and the friend asked about some guy who used to work for him
Friend: whatever happened to Bill?
Olan: fired him. He stole my battery terminal cleaners*
Friend: he did?
Olan: yeah. Died, too. Stung by some bees.
Friend: that’s a shame
Olan: he’s cleaning in batteries in hell now
*Terminal cleaners, if you don’t know, are at most a 10 dollar item
ppl can just say the non lemmy instances, im making a private one called hardlywork.ing, just reccomend any url that isnt lemmy, I think theres moistcatsweat, any like that. They’ll figure out its lemmy once they’re on it
That’s a great idea. That way they also don’t have to go through the whole problem of “how do I pick the right instance”?
PieFed.social, although not quite ready for the masses, and Discuss.Online especially for traffic from the USA.
Also lemmy isnt lemmy, its technically just one way into the threadiverse with more coming, piefed and kbin may be fine to mention
shadow town sounds nice to me :)
Really? Where? Like, can you give a specific example?
I fucking love this meme lolol
Meanwhile let’s hype up Mbin & PieFed as well They deserve some love too (oh & XMPP as well)
As a side-note, we still need to rename Communities to SubLemmy or SubFeddit & make it “l/COMMUNITY-NAME”
Lol no we don’t, Lemmy shouldn’t be just a Reddit clone
