I don’t know if this is the right community, but I suppose it’s close enough.
You can’t even make posts like this on Reddit anymore, Reddit has become such a hog on the internet traffic it’s ridiculous. It wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit didn’t take such precious internet space.
They censor people, regular people who aren’t even doing anything too controversial. Reddit’s automated filters constantly remove people’s posts, only conformist content is allowed there, and so nothing of value remains. Just generic conformist post after another generic conformist post.
Why is this platform still popular is honestly just beyond me at this point. No really, can someone please, please explain to me why do people keep using this broken website anymore?
Where’s the StandupComedy community on Lemmy, with a comparable amount of quality material?
Outside of that, I use Reddit to doomscroll through random junk and have drunken arguments. I don’t see why it’s unfit for that. Though it’s gradually turning into Facebook with all the sob stories and the endless videos of dogs being reunited with their owners.
I’ll be honest with you. I prefer everything about Lenny’s technology and ownership/maintenance structure. However the only topic I know I can get consistent substantial input on here is communist revolution.
For literally everything else, Reddit has captured people who know things. They are enshittifying it to be sure but until I can post a picture of a coffee table on Lemmy and have someone tell me if it’s finished with lacquer or shellac, this will be the answer.
We don’t have to like it, and we should hope to change it. But please don’t pretend you can’t understand it. Critical mass of community investment builds up in one place, in Reddit’s case over decades, and it doesn’t quickly migrate away, even under some enshittification pressure. Perhaps in time.
What can you do, other than complain? You can start a community on some topic of substance here and build it up. Moderate. Post. Recruit key individuals away from Resditnwirh private messages. Wait.
Oh, does that sound like actual work? That’s because it is. Did you want to change things? Or just complain?
I have already built my own community. But no one shows up. nightash.net if you’re curious.
It’s hard to get an online community going. I’ve worked with many of them through my job and you’d be amazed how many of them got their start when “another similar forum went offline for several days and everyone migrated here.”
Certainly it’s not a case of “build it and people will magically show up.”
It starts with a communist revolution
Lenny
That’s the shortest sprog poem I’ve ever seen.
Len
I got banned from Reddit for some stupid nonsense. I posted a "political post (which honestly talking about my own healthcare insurance should not be considered a political post) and got banned from the Gen x sub. I did not realize that I was logged in with a different login and I made a comment not even thinking about it on the Gen x sub and basically got all of my accounts banned permanently. They call it an IP band. Fuck them. And now since they make you log in to read anything super fuck them. I hate that you can’t block Reddit from your Google results anymore.
When my 50 year old sister started telling me how to use Reddit, i knew Reddit wasn’t for me anymore
That’sWhyI’mHere.ObiWan
I’d say the network effect is a big part. A lot of the established communities are there, so people stay there.
I do my best to stay off there, though. One thing that helped me drastically cut down on Reddit interactions is donating an Euro to PieFed for every comment I make on Reddit. (besides, either it works, or I help keep the fediverse running and improving. It’s a win-win :P)
Love this idea
That’s a genius idea, I love it
I also made c/takeyourtimeback and kept track of it there (forgot to post about it last month tho) https://piefed.social/c/takeyourtimeback/p/2077191/piefed-donation-pledge
Ok but the most effective way to cure ourselves from reddit is to get so permabanned that every whisper of our likeness gets rejected from participating over there.
Yep that’s exactly what happened to me. I’m still really fucking bitter about it. I didn’t even do anything bad. Just absent-mindedly posting from different accounts to a sub I had been banned from. Didn’t even think about it honestly and boom Perma band
Me too. I’ve seen many people with the same story. They set AI to do it and AI is bad at it.
Well if you’re serious about this than this definitely isn’t the right community.
Reddit has better shitposts than this!
Most people aren’t very savvy with going outside normal areas, so they follow where others are. Unfortunately even after a few years Lemmy and the rest are still very niche and not mainstream at all. When Reddit first became ridiculous and the first people started looking for alternatives, Lemmy was just one of a number of potentials and ended up the bigger draw, maybe because it was the only one that could handle the sudden traffic. But this was a small part of the Reddit user base, the ones who knew enough to look around and find other places. Trying to spread the word to others on Reddit became a battle, otherwise I think we’d be a lot larger by now.
So why do people deal with how Reddit is now? I ask that a lot about other platforms, even hear it from family griping about how terrible places like Facebook or Instagram are, and yet they stay. People don’t like change from familiar, even when it’s difficult. And when they don’t know of other places or how to transition, they’ll hunker down even more and deal with it.
You are speaking to the band right now. I only check reddit for the latest news.
i visit the niches occasionally. look at the news, but never participate, no one should.
It doesn’t take precious internet space, internet space is practically limitless (by the time ipv6 addresses run out we’ll be well on our way with ipv7 or 8). It just takes as much space in your mind as you’re willing to give it. Instead of highlighting something that’s negative to you redirect that energy into building lemmy into something more positive
If we run out of IPv6 addresses, there is either something wrong with how we are using it or our current understanding of the universe. There’s 2128 IPv6 addresses and about 233 people on Earth.
It does ,however, use real electricity and hardware. Which could be used for something else.
There will come a reckoning for the Internet. Corporate social media will eventually crumble. Nothing lasts forever and these corporations are overextending themselves.
I really wish it will turn out this way, but I fear it won’t.
People are really slow and it has to be convenient. They still use Facebook and reddit. Or worse, WhatsApp is absolutely dominant in some countries.
Facebook didn’t exist 25 years ago. All it takes is a couple years of bad decisions by management, a shift in market conditions for them to fall apart.
I just caught a seven day ban on a post that was a shitpost about how theres lots of guys named Dan Sullivan in Alaska. I caught a ban for making a joke about Dan Sullivans being an invasive species with no natural predators in Alaska and they missed their chance to cull the Dan Sullivan population and now they’re, as the phrase goes, “Breeding like Dan Sullivans.”
So fucking stupid.
Also, stop using X. Like why do so many foreign companies even still bother? Drives me nuts.
Network effect. You want to reach people, then you go where people are. It’s self perpetuating.
You would have thought when the Nazi bought it, everybody would have stopped using it
Everyone still wears Adidas
I’m out of the loop, what did Adidas do? I’ve never bought them before but it’d be good to know why to boycott them if I see a friend about to buy some.
Started by Nazis.
"Adidas was founded by Adolf “Adi” Dassler in 1949 in Herzogenaurach, Germany. "
Edit: a long time ago. I’m not sure what the statute of limitations is
thats ones eaiser to not use, i never had an account
Funny enough when Twitter came out I thought it was the stupidest damn platform. Only 180 characters to say what you want to say I just thought it was so completely stupid. And then when the Nazi bought it I was so glad I never signed up for it.
The majority of people don’t have any problem with anything you are mentioning. People still use Facebook and Twitter for fuck’s sake…
Twitter is just the status bar of facebook, not even a unique thing in it’s own capacity. Thankfully free of facebook since 2015 and never used twitter.
Where shitpost?
I miss r/nursing. I’m lucky if I get 1-2 commenters on memes that used to get 100+ upvotes and 20+ other nurses commiserating with me about some common work frustration. Tbh a big part of the problem is that a lot of nurses aren’t crazy tech literate so the barrier to entry for fedi in general is higher plus when they get her they have to content with the “I Use Arch” types.
