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[–] smokinjoe 144 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Sure would be nice to foster new niche communities on Lemmy instead of talking about our obnoxious ex-platform

[–] Remontoire 97 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I'm just enjoying the war.

[–] smokinjoe 14 points 1 year ago

lol I respect the honesty

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think we are just still in the early stages of a breakup lol

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Have you watched the developer console while the 'new site' loads? It's already fat!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

And not just a regular amicable breakup but one where you left after finding out the other person was actually a cold-hearted narcissist who only pretended to care about you and now they’re lying to everyone about how you were the horrible one. So it’s understandable to feel some schadenfreude for awhile.

[–] pixel_witch 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eventually I will get to there but I see it as part of the grieving process for my lost communities for now

[–] AgentGoldfish 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My NFL team last year gave up its franchise quarterback, and the subreddit basically only talked about the former QB for the entire preseason, and then still talked about it for half the season. Then it died down. And before the protest, he wasn't really talked about all that much.

Reddit is still fresh in people's minds. It will go away. In the early days of reddit a LOT of people talked about digg, but within a few months it just wasn't mentioned much anymore.

A lot of people here spent years on our ex-platform. It's going to take some time to get that out of our system. In the meantime, enjoy the shadenfreude!

[–] Cinner 20 points 1 year ago

Yup. As someone that has been on Reddit since like 2007, when it was purely a tech news site and I don't even think had comments yet, I don't really understand these "just stop talking about it" posts. No. This guy took something that held immense value for a large percentage of our lives, and turned it into something near-worthless (at least a shell of it's former glory) over a few years time. I think we should talk about it until it's dead. I want to hear about it's death knell.

[–] smokinjoe 6 points 1 year ago

Fair points, and outstanding analogy

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly this stuff is pretty important for morale and organization among users. Particularly because reddit is censoring conversation on their site. I don't think it's useful to complain about it at this point.

[–] smokinjoe 7 points 1 year ago

I didn't even think of that.

Makes sense, it definitely helps provide a sense of solidarity amongst us users

[–] KooMSlayer69 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, shitting on reddit for its stupid mistakes is fun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's a pasttime as old as Reddit

[–] smokinjoe 6 points 1 year ago

I can't deny that. At least now, instead of doing it on reddit we can do it on a different platform

[–] ulu_mulu 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not both?

I'm doing my part in being involved in lemmy to the point I don't miss reddit anymore, tho I'm having fun in seeing how people get so creative in fighting that overblown pig, it's highly entertaining :D

[–] smokinjoe 10 points 1 year ago

Lmao, I can't deny it is really entertaining seeing how creative people get with picking apart that dumbass ceo

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The new niche community is shitting on reddit

[–] smokinjoe 11 points 1 year ago

At least we aren't on reddit complaining about reddit. That always seemed silly.

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

Feels like subredditdrama except now it's just reddit

[–] Pavidus 19 points 1 year ago

I see both happening here. And neither happens over night. Furthermore, both are okay.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

it used to be the same on Mastodon back in November during the great migration. everyone was talking about Twitter and Elon. just give it some time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Apparently it was like this when the Digg migration happened - give it a few weeks and it'll die down as people get it out of their system

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Or both. Both is good.

I’ve personally started two magazines on kbin.social for communities I walked away from.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean, that's happening too, but this is kind of front of everyone's mind right now.

Submit a couple of interesting links a day somewhere! I joined Reddit when it was just one page of stuff mostly of interest to Reddit staffers and Spez was submitting a non-trivial chunk of links himself. Was much, much smaller than the Fediverse is now. People just keep showing up as time goes on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that's the whole secret - just keep active to keep the groups and threads interesting

[–] smokinjoe 5 points 1 year ago

I'm definitely giving it a shot at being more of a content contributor. It's given me a newfound respect for heavy contributors on subs that I've loved so much

For example, I've been doing my best to create a new simpsons shitpost once a day/every two days since I've moved over and it's been a lot of fun

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

We're all still processing this; also, the panicked reaction to the initial exodus was the funnest part about Twitter dying and I suspect the same will be true with reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I’m starting to see cat pictures, I think we’re finally getting there.

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

I mean, it's not even a week in yet.

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

It will pass, but in the mean time this and other ex-Reddit content will get the word out…

A lot of casual users may not get what’s going on and see the point of all the protests.