After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
  • ZeroDrek@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So is everyone actually staying here? I hope so. I am. I don’t really miss Reddit at all and I’m incredibly impressed how fast the community here is growing. I hope we can keep it going and let Reddit burn to the ground.

    • macniel@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I will stay hear. And not just because I burnt my account. I nearly found all communities I were active in. I try to be way more active and post more stuff than I used to because these new Comms really need all the love and content each and everyone of us can hring to them.

      This is how Lemmy and co can survive and thrive not by waiting for content to arrive.

    • DesGrieux@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I miss it. There’s just not enough people here. Refreshing doesn’t bring hardly anything new, none of my favorite communities exist, and where they do they’re so small that nothing gets posted for an entire day.

      I mean, I know these things take time but I’m pessimistic.

      • hydra@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I think it was about time we slowed down the Internet, corporation backed megasites are becoming unsustainable after the end of ZIRP and venture capital drying up. Also it’s so full of bots and mindless people right now it isn’t funny.``

      • zipsglacier@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I miss reddit too, but I’m realizing that I miss what I thought it was, and not what it is becoming. It’s useful to remember that for mastodon it took years, and many separate waves of migration, for it to have its current use base. So, when people say it will take time, and it will be hard, this is what they’re talking about.

        • Goldenderp@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I do too, tbh i miss the less techy people. People that aren’t particular comfortable with new fangled technojiggeties just figured out reddit, they’ll take a long time and a lot of client improvement to come here…