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I'm really interested to see what happens at the end of this week. I have a group of friends that all hang out in discord and out of the group (about 12 of us) I'm the only one that's moved on from Reddit. Every time I see one of them post a Reddit link I want to say something but I just keep quiet and don't follow the links. I'm guessing this is just going to blow over for 90% of the people on Reddit and I'm fine with that but it is somewhat depressing to me folks aren't as bothered by what they are doing to third party apps.
Honest question, why keep quiet? I assume they are aware of the shit that went down in Reddit, if you provide Lemmy as an alternative some may actually try it and end up liking it more. The more people swap over the more it becomes an attractive alternative for others.
You don't have to be obnoxious about it, but just a suggestion could interest them.
So, say something. It can feel hard, but what's the worst that can happen?
Even just show a friend how one of their favorite communities has moved. Or just share a lemmy.world link instead of a reddit.com link to a similar post.
Getting folks to move off facebook messenger or something like that to Signal felt similar about 5-8 years ago. But... enough shitty news stories and worse-and-worse scandals, and just consistently mentioning it as an option works pretty well. These things snowball
I did bring it up when the protests started happening, I was met with some apathy and something like 'I'll just have to wait and see what the new big thing is, until then I'm going to keep using reddit'. This is all first world problem stuff anyway so whatever, thanks for taking the time to reply and for contributing to the community.
I used to feel the same but I keep reminding myself that I don't actually want all those mindless users to come here and complain or be toxic. So far, the communities are much nicer than reddit because early users wants to see a different social media experience here.
Maybe let the majority sit on ad infested reddit until they can't stand it anymore. :)
Very true. At first I wanted everyone to leave Reddit, now I just want the nicer part of Reddit to leave and come here. I'd rather see less content with more positive interaction than a lot of content with a toxic community.
Same. It's best that most of the people currently on Reddit stay there.
I'm still curious as to what is going to happen on the 1st and moving forward. I haven't seen much news about whether or not moderation focused apps/bots will still work despite Reddit's promises.
My bet is that effective moderation is going to drop significantly. Spam is going to increase to take advantage and trolls (whether to usual kind or as a form of protest) will run rampant. The user experience is going to suffer for the users that currently "don't care". And then Reddit will die.
I think tbh it will be more gradual than that. AI and shills and whatnot will run free and unfettered across the entire Reddit landscape, and people will move on when it hits their personal tipping point and some alternative becomes more useful.