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Bizarre that people are on Reddit complaining about reddit still
I don't think enough folks even know what Lemmy is.
I have a product I'm trying to build and will be launching shortly to allow folks easy access to their own lemmy servers and I plan on running some ad campaigns.
The problem is people are selling Lemmy the wrong way, lol. The average user doesn't give a fuck about decentralization or federation. If you want to convince people that Lemmy is a good Reddit alternative, you have to show them the content/discussions and the UI/UX.
UI/UX is getting better, but still far away. The mobile apps are okay. Content is still behind, mostly because most lemmings aren't helping their communities in generating content and engagement. The moderators can only do so much in curating. You got to help them out by posting content as well or at least commenting on the threads. Don't just lurk.
Yeah you're right. I'll think about that.
There might be some solutions for this.
If they still don't know what lemmy is, they aren't the type of educated we need to be pushing towards lemmy.
This has been my thought.. I'm sure there is still an extremely large number of productive, healthy users left on reddit. However, I think the proportion of the userbase sways very heavily towards trolls, bots, and toxic users at this point.
I feel okay with shutting the hatch to a flooding chamber at the cost of a few, to save the many others on the ship..
Most of the healthy users have left reddit. Now just let reddit consume itself and fulfill its new destiny to become a bot-filled, anti-intellectual, hate-filled, giant corporate circle-jerk.
There's a group of us working on a join-lemmy banner, it's a struggle tho since it's such a small group.
Our Matrix chat is here for any who want to join in on the effort: https://matrix.to/#/!hiNoQZCxnHSsATzzmo:data.haus?via=data.haus&via=matrix.org
This is an awesome idea! I need to test my matrix setup anyways maybe I'll set up my server then join
Who asked?
I also think this whole place thing being back up is a test from Reddit how engaging the community is in their “Quarterly Reports!”. Many people and old time users left Reddit stating that losing the active or dedicated users will be enough for them to go down and Reddit needs data to support the opposite. In Reddit’s eye if “F u/spez” generates clicks and ad revenues, why not letting it loose!
Louis Rosmann put it nice on his series of videos about the topic. And unfortunately Reddit will still have that portion of users that are so invested in it, that will play along with whatever Reddit cooks for them.
For me, the simple fact that Reddit thinks they “own” the data that millions of people have put the time into making, was an enough reason to stop participating in anything there. Including upvoting and downvoting.
Half the problem is, that's where people are.
The network effect exists because adoption is a feature you can't design.
EDIT: I attached this to the wrong comment
if you don't want the drama, you can always block the reddit communities from your account, be a pioneer for the new culture of Lemmy, ping me if you found something cool. we are constantly getting new people who aren't over our "shared Ex" yet. be patient with them.
Sounded more like they were talking about the users that are still on Reddit, not the ones that came here but talk about Reddit.
I posted to the wrong comment, didnt I?
Worth noting, this was posted to a technology community, not a reddit community, so you can't escape it entirely.
[email protected] is a place for news and drama, it can be blacklisted too, i would love to see the community renamed to reflect that