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[–] [email protected] 726 points 1 year ago (18 children)

The way I see it, all of us who migrated here won. Enshitification is eventually going to kill reddit, the only question is when. I’ll grab some popcorn when it happens, but for now won’t worry about it and just enjoy my time here on Lemmy.

[–] Lemmylefty 233 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I agree with this suspiciously named man. Whether it happens sooner or later, Reddit’s death is on the horizon, as it will keep making the wrong choices and so steadily lose those communities and content that built it in the first place.

[–] Decoy321 192 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit won't actually die, it'll just be a hollow shell of what it once was.

To illustrate my point, Digg still exists.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Have you been to digg recently? It's a buzzfeed clone. Just because the brand is still around doesn't mean it's the same product at all

It's like if I bought Nike and then killed off all their product lines and only sold high viscosity lithium grease. Yeah Nike would be around, but it would be meaningless beyond that

[–] aircooledJenkins 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what Decoy said.

Reddit won't die, but it will not be what it was.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There’s a big difference between “die” like Facebook where less people are joining and using it, but it still functions as a “keep in touch with your family” site, and “die” like Digg whose community doesn’t exist at all, almost as if it got bought out by another company for the brand name only.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell me more about this high viscosity lithium grease

[–] foofiepie 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] focusedkiwibear 1 points 1 year ago

i too would like to hear more about this grease. please continue

[–] bigshot937 10 points 1 year ago

I think that's his point.

[–] Nommer 3 points 1 year ago

I think the point flew over your head.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Gordon Gecko checking in

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I agree. I don’t think we’re there yet, but next time the they give people another reason to leave the Lemmy/kbin ecosystem will be even more appealing. Simply the app and dev community here is really exploding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"I like the way 'namffuH' thinks!"

[–] Ilovemyirishtemper 104 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I agree with you. Actually, Lemmy woke me up to how much reddit had already been enshitified. I didn't realize that I had stopped commenting altogether because the subs were so big that either no one saw your stuff, or there was always some one pissed off who felt the need to respond. Lemmy reminds me of reddit the way it was when I joined 12 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And forget about trying to post articles on any subreddit. Always buried with 0 votes, because some bot network is trying to promote the latest Barbie movie or whatever.

[–] Speculater 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or subs like gaming having posts with 4 comments and 7,000 up votes "I was recently diagnosed with stage 7 cancer and my dog died, but I created this game as my final contribution to humanity, here's a trailer."

2D Hollow Knight rip off video

Comments: "Wow amazing graphics!" "Is it on steam?!" "Looks amazing!" "I neeeeeed this!!"

Any attempt to call the ad out is -200

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Or the powermod that hates you for unknown reason and will ban you forever. And the shadow bans. I don’t regret that place.

[–] XanXic 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure if you only posted on the mainsubs or what but Reddit really did hit that "hyper specific topic conversation" for me. Like up to the protests I could make a meme about a topic or reply to a post and have good discussions. When I deleted all my posts I deleted some of the top of all time posts off some subs lol.

Lemmy still hasnt hit that for me, I'm another in a swarm of people saying Lemmy doesn't fulfill my topic based sub needs. Like I'm currently obsessed with Marvel Snap and loved the subreddit. The lemmy version is dead af. And I try to converse and interact but none of the lemmy filters for posts seem to show the posts reliably to me and I have to remember to go check it. The Spider-Man PS4 sub was another favorite of mine to interact with and I ended up having to make it for Lemmy and it's got like 80 subscribers and I make a point to comment on every post but it's still not getting much conversation going 😞

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same problem, I put some community in my favorites so I remember to check them out but we need more people here (but not too much people!)

[–] focusedkiwibear 0 points 1 year ago

do you really need a forum to talk about marvel snap? lol. just saying that card game is pretty fun but easy. what is there to talk about? (tongue in cheek)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How dare you? I feel the need to respond. \s

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It won't die. It will just hollow out. Same as Digg. Same as Facebook, Twitter, and every other shitty part of the internet. The power users are what make the internet the magical place it is. Without those people, the sites will still work... but they won't be as great as they were before their respective turning points. It's a cycle it seems.

[–] justlookingfordragon 14 points 1 year ago

It won’t die. It will just hollow out.

The result is still basically the same IMHO. It's like saying "it won't die, it will just turn into a zombie" ... sure it'll still move, but it's dead inside and rotting on the outside either way, devoid of the life and soul it once had.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It might not even kill it. Facebook is still kicking, after all, for all its enshittification. It's just... idk, some of us were freed to move on to a more satisfying experience. That's all. Life continues here, life continues there

[–] dual_sport_dork 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly if all the buttmunches stay there and all the cool people come here, I think that's the ideal scenario.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

facebook's on the decline, meta's betting on instagram since that's what the kids use. facebook is for boomers to looking at family vacation photos and nazi radicalising and is a legacy service at this point.

[–] focusedkiwibear 0 points 1 year ago

do you know what a 'boomer' is? it's slang for 'baby boomer' and it's a specific age range of people born at specific times. plenty of people younger than that are on FB every day. just saying, if you didn't know what 'boomer' was, it doesn't just mean 'old person'.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I feel like I hit the jackpot by finding out about the fediverse/non-corporate social media.

[–] expatriado 11 points 1 year ago

I’ll grab some popcorn when it happens

There won't be a day when reddit goes away, it will be a gradual decline, digg still exist.

[–] 4am 3 points 1 year ago

Right? The protest was just the lighter. Now we watch as the fuse burns. Fuck off Gizmodo, Reddit didn’t win shit yet

[–] Ktheone 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly I'm happy with a slow death than a big freaking one. A humongous explosion is not always a good thing lol.

[–] DrQuint 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enshittification will one day kill Lemmy. Somehow.

And we'll be elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is open-source software. If the project root starts doing something stupid or gets abandoned, it can just be forked by someone else and it will live on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't tell if it's just cognitive bias on my part but I feel like the content and discussion has gotten even worse on Reddit since the protests.

[–] Speculater 3 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile here, I find most engagements thoughtful and written because people want to engage. Sure, a few assholes post stupid shit or try to be mean, but most are just trying to participate in good faith.

[–] PrinzMegahertz 2 points 1 year ago

That‘s right. Without the protests, i probably would nit have been aware of the fediverse existence

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I doubt it. Only few people left and they'll just get a bunch of new people in to replace the lost ones. It's just a little dent in their statistics.

[–] Delusional 1 points 1 year ago

Idk if it will ever go away. Digg is still around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shit birds Ran.

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