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[–] fernfrost 363 points 1 year ago (10 children)

To be fair Lemmy feels like a brand new mall of stores with empty shelves.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of empty stores, and then the big anchor stores are full of depressing doomer news articles

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Don't look in the changing rooms, they are all full of furries

[–] SpaceNoodle 33 points 1 year ago

Well now I want to look

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[–] ArchmageAzor 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's always sad when you go to a community for something you like, something that's widely popular, and see the newest post is 2 days old.

[–] T156 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Especially when you're the only one posting. At some point, it feels a little like you're spamming the sub, even if you are the only one keeping it active.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit is gentrification as a website

Lemmy is restoration

[–] bulwark 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, I just wish there was more content on some of the smaller niche communities but I guess that it takes time for it to grow and that doesn't happen overnight.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It relies on people like you to spark discussion and content. Ask questions and interact with your favourite topics! Crosspost and shamelessly plug your favourite community (Shoutout to [email protected])

So get out there and make Lemmy the lively place you want it to be.

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[–] c0mbatbag3l 242 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is two months old and a report about the exodus that's already happened.

Reddit didn't die, it probably won't anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Facebook never "died", but no one goes there anymore either. Reddit will be the same.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

What is Facebook these days? My grandma spends all day on it, she hardly speaks...just swiping...when I sneak a peek, it's just chain-mail-like bullshit one after the other with a few disguised ads for things she can't afford in between...ugh :vomit:

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol, exactly. that is literally reddit for me now as well

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[–] c0mbatbag3l 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I remember describing to my mom what Facebook was becoming back in like 2013/14 and she goes "Huh, sounds like what happened with email."

The service went from useful communication to social media style chain forwarding nonsense pretty quickly, and they went the same way with FB.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And still email is not dead yet! I hope it's starting to become clear to people that protocols last much longer than platforms, even if platforms look like they can test new things faster.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Malls are still around in some places too, but nothing in there is worth going to. Maybe Mall of America if you want to chance getting stabbed or shot, other than that they're either glorified office space or entirely abandoned. But, like reddit, they're still technically there.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Exactly. From the article:

As far as Reddit’s fate is concerned I predict that what will happen to it is the same thing that is happening to Twitter and has already happened to Facebook and frankly, actual shopping malls. The business side of things will churn along divorced from the content which will become ever more generic and culturally irrelevant. The users who stay on Reddit will be of the unadventurous variety, not inclined to make waves or analyze their habits.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Who knows. Could be the new Facebook. Feel like that shit fell off pretty fast. Went from everyone on the planet using it to only your weird uncle pretty quickly.

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[–] solstice 140 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really unattractive to be so obsessed with your ex months after getting into a new relationship with Lemmy. Can we move on please?

[–] GustavoM 21 points 1 year ago

I was about to make a joke related to ex's... then I saw your post. Thank you for saving me a couple braincells from frying themselves out.

[–] Art3sian 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I started a new job a few months ago and was on my first business trip with four colleagues recently. To make conversation I asked if anyone used Reddit.

• Two dudes had heard of it but never used it.

• One dude said he uses it infrequently because it’s turned to shit.

• One dude said fuck Reddit and it’s API bullshit.

• I said fuck Reddit and it’s API bullshit.

Thats my anecdote. 100% of the people in that car didn’t use Reddit or now hated it. Probably 3 months ago that same car ride would have had three people loving Reddit and advocating it to the other two.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Despite your experience it's alive and well. If reddit is a dying mall what is Lemmy? To scale it's like an unmaintained Porta potty.

I hate reddit, but let's not be ridiculous. It's more than fine. Google has really gone to shit. When people search for things they put in site=reddit as a more reliable way to find real information.

[–] Lev_Astov 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Malls didn't die overnight, you know. It's a downward spiral that takes many years when it starts.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article is 2 months old..

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like most posts on the Lemmy front page!

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

Why post an article from two months ago about a thing we've all accepted? I started reading and wondered what new drama occurred on that dying platform. Then it mentioned APIs and I checked the date. June. We're almost in September. Eternal September.

[–] RoyalEngineering 57 points 1 year ago (14 children)

At least the mall of Reddit is open 24/7.

That new mom and pop down the road seems to close at random times during the day. 😉

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s like Walmart. Open 24/7 but full of shit garbage and shit people.

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[–] uis 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use less overpopulated server

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Small communities that are interoperable” is basically what Reddit is now.

Which is EXACTLY why federation fits the reddit style of forum like a glove, and why ultimately Lemmy is the path forward.

[–] bluekieran 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm also on Mastodon, and saw posts saying "you can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon!" - and sure enough you can, but by god you shouldn't unless you want your feed to be full of comments without context.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lemmy, can we do better? I came here to hang out with a scrappy new community of people excited about cool shit. Instead it's a bunch of people bitching about Reddit and X. C'mon let's make this place fun and exciting.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Sir, this is a technology sub/comm. It must be filled with articles about social media businesses at all times, or the ancient ones will get hungry.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've come up with the following rules for my own relationship with Reddit.

  1. I will avoid posting on Reddit.
  2. If I do post on Reddit, I must make a similar post on another forum, maybe Lemmy, maybe somewhere else.

Number 2 is important because it helps other small communities grow.

It's not a problem if a lot of people post on one forum, but it is a problem if a lot of people post only on one forum. I wont allow myself to post only on Reddit.

That said, I haven't posted on Reddit since June.

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[–] BrownianMotion 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This post is a total shitshow. I get the sentiment, and to some amount agree. But who the fuck wrote this drivel? its the worst shit I've read in seconds on the internet, and that usually takes hours.

Self Aggrandizing Self Posters.. GFY

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

These posts are exhaustingly far from the reality of the situation. Please don’t make the fediverse kick the puppy that is your optimistic opinion, OP.

Edit: OP downvoted everyone who disagreed with him.

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[–] DankMemeMachine 31 points 1 year ago

This shit is from June lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think inevitably Reddit's utter collapse will be power mods causing intense drama as well the mods who are actually capable of curating content properly having left. I was surprised no hate subs spawned from the migration away from reddit, but I realized something. The people who would likely moderate hate subs now moderate the mainstream subs. Shit is going to hit the fan.

[–] NounsAndWords 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think the next time the owners do something stupid there will be a similar exodus, and there will already be larger alternative communities available than there were last time and more people will leave and stay left. I think it could also happen the same way more than twice.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I left reddit after they killed boost. best decision I've ever made.

[–] sycamore 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But really, where else can you go to read a bunch of eight year old tweets?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I'm glad after all these years that my local mall is still the face of dead malls everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

decentralized social media is the future.

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