I’ve been on reddit for a long, long time and i’ve seen all the changes that have happened in the past decade. I spent a lot of time on Reddit, and have seen the slow infestation of bots, karma whores, and guerilla marketing disguised as posts.
I’m genuinely excited for the fediverse - it seems like an actual improvement over reddit, and not just a clone. There’s a learning curve, but there was one when joining reddit too.
I participated in the migration to Voat, and saw how/why it failed. I’m more optimistic about the fediverse for various reasons, and I’m dedicating my time to helping this thrive.
I was a lurker on Voat, but I’m trying to be active here. I don’t like modding, but I’ve even created my own community here, which is saying a lot given how lazy I am. Hope to interact with y’all more!
And if you’re still reading this, i hope you don’t mind a shoutout to my new community, maliciouscompliance - recreated this as it was one of my favorite places to lurk on reddit!
My only concern is that I’m wondering about the viability of federated websites once the user-base of a single instance gets large enough. At that point won’t it just be the same problem where there is a massive server usage and therefore needs community support?
Yes, and I agree with Lucas here that we need to not flock to the big servers. I am on one where I greatly trust the admin to run a good instance.
I feel like that could lead to issues as well. The best way for the fediverse to work is users spread out across many small/medium instances.
Are you referring to moderation and stuff like that?
I was on Reddit 14 years and 8 months, saw the Digg migration and saw how the influx of people made the site better in so many ways. Hopefully this community will grow and we can make this place be even better by learning from the mistakes Reddit made.
Welcome and glad to have you here. Here’s to all of us making Lemmy a great place to socialize online 🥂!
I have been a redditor since the great digg migration. I am enjoying the fediverse experience so far. It makes me realize how much reddit had slowly changed into a place i did not like as much.
What ruined it for me was hidden viral marketing and low-effort karmar whores. I think it was HailCorporate which highlighted just how many posts were straight up viral marketing attempts, and how many of these were posted from accounts with a strange comment history. I couldn’t unsee it after that.
As for karma whores… it’s funny to see a pun chain, but not when that’s the top comment for 99% of all popular posts.
What happened to hailcorporate anyway ? I remember a few years back it was cited or showed up on my feed regularly, but you made me realize it stopped at some point.
It seemed like there was a backlash against it. At some point you would get downvoted for citing hailcorporate in comments. If I were more conspiratorial-minded, I would think that Reddit started throwing in downvotes at any comments mentioning hailcorporate, because it would hurt Reddit’s image and advertiser-friendliness. But I’ve noticed that, across social media, some folks seem to get really upset when you point out that a post is fake/marketing/staged. So maybe that’s just online culture now…
Edit: there were legitimate issues with people citing hailcorporate on posts that they just didn’t like. But that seemed relatively minor to me.
Certainly feels like there’s some ‘ignorance is bliss’ to it. Folks don’t want to hear something is an ad because it takes away the illusion that their feed is in their control. And they don’t want to feel gullible.
Any examples?
well… go to /r/HailCorporate and sort by all-time top scores.
Here’s a specific example, although you may not be able to see the actual post until/if the sub is back up https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/6cq3xe/i_told_popular_shaving_company_i_was_canceling/
I can’t stomach too much corporate content, so that’s why I asked if you had only one good example of it ^^
I think it’s equally good to reddit, and with a better community spirit. :) No bots or angry people yet…
if lemmy grows, the trolls and bots will come… but that’s a problem for the future!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE NO ANGRY PEOPLE YOU FUCKWIT!
(I’m just joking. Are we doing /s here?)
I’m surprised by how quickly it’s become active. Most discussions are still about Reddit or Lemmy, but even that feels like it’s changing.
It’s insane how many people are filling in; I’ve been on the fediverse for about a year or so (under a different name), so it’s pretty cool to see it getting popular with people
Hear hear buddy! That’s all we want, a get together and lurk on.
<3
welcome! i deleted my 10 yr reddit account a couple days ago and havent gone back. im mostly a lurker. im getting my fill with lemmy, tildes, & kbin right now. one thing i miss is the tv episode discussions i always read on any show i watched
11 years with Reddit in September here.
As some other people have mentioned, I have missed that rawness of old internet forums, and I feel like this brings it back in some way. Which I love, as Reddit was becoming too corporate, which has obviously been their downfall.
I feel as I can be more active on here, though I became more and more active on Reddit as time went on, but didn’t really enjoy it.
I joined in 2007 originally, but now I’m excited to be here instead. Reddit has been making increasingly shitty decisions and ignoring the community that made reddit. I’d been looking to jump ship for a while and the fediverse seems to be a good answer to the problem of shady corporations.
Next month, I would have been on Reddit for 12 years. I’m with you here man, hope to see your community thrive smoothly
This feels super exciting like when I was alternating between digg and reddit before digg started dying in 2010.
yeah, and i haven’t even felt the need to check reddit for a day now!
I agree, this place is a breath of fresh air compared to the toxic cesspool named Reddit. Also thanks for giving me another new community to subscribe to!
Towards the end browsing Reddit just made me angry instead of providing entertainment. Like you mention, what really got under my skin were all the ads disguised as genuine posts, and then all the bots asking for a place to purchase the item advertised.
Do you remember a time where news would break on Reddit and the it would be two or three hours later you would see cable news stations pick it up? It hasn’t happened on Reddit for a very long time. Happened to me yesterday here on Lemmy for the first time. That was a nice feeling. It reminded me of how good reddit once was and how bad it is today. But more importantly, it showed me that Lemmy isn’t just a reddit replacement, it’s looks like it’s the future of the internet.
Anyways, I guess I don’t really have a point, just needed an excuse to shit on reddit again. Fuck reddit.
I know exactly what you mean with that feeling of being ahead of “the story” or whatever breaking news was coming out. Made me feel a sense of satisfaction that I was actually being well informed instead of just being fed a story.
I was a lurker on Reddit because the community was so toxic. On Lemmy, everyone is nice. It is nice to see such good place on the internet today
