• Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    this may be the one, mastodon is mature and lemmy 1.0 is almost out… but I fear we may need lemmy 1.1 for it to actually be a good experience, since 1.0 is such a big breaking change.

    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Good to know!

      Personally, for the most part I left Reddit even before the Lemmy exodus. But this was the final straw. Since then, full time Lemmy.

  • cardboardboxfort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    109·
    4 days ago

    Reddit is 80%+ bots so I don’t expect those accounts to shift platforms. But I do imagine some former reddit users will trickle over as it continues to alienate its fanbase with stupid choices like getting rid of old reddit.

    • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      3 days ago

      Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.

      Reddit’s product is the ability to sell people the perception of a natural conversation between two ordinary people on the internet, where the conversation is shaped by corporations and state agents.

      Actual ordinary people get in the way of that. Reddit does not want users.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        15·
        3 days ago

        Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.

        Tbf the 90-9-1 rule applies everywhere on social media, ostensibly including here though many claim to have merely lurked there yet actually talk here. But we may still have a 51-48-1 distribution here?

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          I definitely feel more motivated to participate here, because of the emphasis on human to human interactions

      • violetmirage26@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Can attest to that. I tried starting a new reddit account with an anonymous email just to talk to people. Apparently reddit assumed I was a bot and shadow banned me within a week. Never had that with any other emails.

        • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Actually all new accounts are shadowbanned by default automatically if they start commenting too much right away. 3 months old gives you full privileges.

  • ∃∀λ@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Only if the affected users know about the existence of lemmy, and many of them likely do not. If you happen to still be using reddit, you should use it to shill lemmy, hopefully in a diversity of subreddits so that lemmy doesn’t become any more of an echo chamber than it already is.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Problem here is it relies on people using redit after having found lemmy. I know some people do, but I can only imagine it’s a one-way valve for most.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        i only remember lemmy was a thing, when the API disaster happened after i got banned, people were really freaking out how to get back in reddit.

        • lemmygarden@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          The Reddit is Fun app told me to migrate to Lemmy because it was being shut down. I never heard of Reddit alternatives before that.

    • TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I’m doing my part, and if you still use reddit make sure to use an ad blocker and a VPN at least to make it harder to get any revenue from you.

    • Sahwa@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      reddit is killing anonymous access to old.reddit. users from certain countries were asked to verify their identity.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      61·
      4 days ago

      They’re doing the double whammy. Mandatory sign-in (even on old.reddit) and any account they can’t estimate as belonging to an adult through their use of invasive spy metrics and AI will be forced to do age verification.

    • Pamasich@kbin.earth
      8·
      3 days ago

      I mean, they’re required by the law in certain countries. With their size, there’s no way around that.

      • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        Spez allowed a subreddit for child pedofiles to defend their actions and advocate for no age limits for statutory rape or porn. It didnt get removed until the fat people hate banning created outrage. Pretty sure the laws about not fucking children didnt dictate how he ran his platform and theyve been around a tad bit longer than age verification laws. Just sayin, dont confuse investor appeasement with choosing to follow the law. Plus i wouldnt put it past them if i found out they lobbied to have these laws past so they font have to track every click and person underneath their front end. This just made it their front door.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        which is pushed by the same companies that wanted it in the first place, Meta is one of the oens behind the push for age verification

        • crispbacon99@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Yes, it’s no coincidence these laws started popping up globally since the trump administration entered office

      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Im going to lift my shaft and take a front shot photo of my nutsack to send to Spez Reddit before i give in to age verification

  • Stolas@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    It’ll be both good and bad if it happens.

    While it’ll be great for the threadiverse to have more growth it will inevitably put us in the crosshairs of bot farms and AI data farmers.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      I plan on going to smaller fediverse graphs if it ever gets too mainstream around here.

      The moment I see a fuckin brand I am out. Joining whatever network has a zero tolerance policy for that corporate fuckery.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      In the future, platforms like lemmy will probably have to find privacy-respecting ways of verifying that someone is a human. There are ways to prove someone is an actual human without relying on digital technologies at all. If you’re trying to prove humanity and not using human solutions, you’re going to fail.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    they already aggressively starting to force a login popup, and also trying to redirect old reddit to new reddit. there ultimate goal is to make people use the APP.

    • MountainVeil@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Anyone else remember when forums were just for having fun, not making the owners money or collecting data? Can’t believe it used to be that way.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Yes, and

      their ultimate goal is to make people use the APP monetise every single interaction

    • Gjond@lemmus.orgEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Also, recently they require you to login to access old reddit where previously you could browse without logging in. They do not require a valid email address (yet) to create an account, so while not a total crap show, it is rapidly approaching.
      This change is what led me to do a search for alternatives to reddit in which Lemmy here was suggested.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        other browser forks seem unaffected, while another will force the login each time.(with the old reddit redirect), and a extension that makes old reddit usable on mobile.

      • mursejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yeah the forced log in is super annoying. I’ll browse the homepage and immediately get a pop up asking me to download the app and make an account.

        Super annoying since that site has more of the answers to most questions typed into Google.

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    i’ve started recommending feddit.org (my lemmy instance) to people that i know irl, but the difficulty is the content: too much politics (especially trump and others), and not enough shitpost.

    • einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      i try that too but its so hard to get people who are used to endless doom scrolling on reddit to accept the fact that u can scroll lemmy for 20min 2x per day and then u done (thats a good thing tho). Its even worse for the insta brained ones…

          • canthangmightstain@lemmy.todayEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Infinite scroll + influencer slop + real world news = crabs in a bucket.

            They can’t stand to not be able to see each other’s favorite reels and react back. If it weren’t so rotted and full of spyware it would be a laudable way to stay in connected. I consider it the empty calories of friendship.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      feddit.org

      Be mindful that that is a Germany-based right-wingoid cesspit that supports and excuses the Israel genocide of Palestinians, all under the guise that “legally they can’t ever be as evil as us, the Nazis”.

        • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          The fediverse itself. It made quite the rounds on the grapevine for a few months. During their moment of simping for Israel in the Palestine conflict, Germany passed a law regarding “Nazi Exceptionalism” too, that basically punishes people for suggesting anyone could even try to be as evil as Nazis were, and was largely part of the rationale.

      • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        yeah thank you for informing me about the details of the instance that i’ve been using for checks note 4 years and am very well familiar with

        also the feddit.org controversy about israel was mostly overblown. idk, probably 1 mod’s personal views got exaggerated as “the whole platform thinks like this”

  • aSaabD00d@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Feels like I’ve been here forever but however old my lemmy account is is how long I’ve been off reddit.