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First active day on the fediverse after 11 years on Reddit, and liking it here! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been on reddit for a long, long time and i've seen all the changes that have happened in the past decade. I spent a lot of time on Reddit, and have seen the slow infestation of bots, karma whores, and guerilla marketing disguised as posts.

I'm genuinely excited for the fediverse - it seems like an actual improvement over reddit, and not just a clone. There's a learning curve, but there was one when joining reddit too.

I participated in the migration to Voat, and saw how/why it failed. I'm more optimistic about the fediverse for various reasons, and I'm dedicating my time to helping this thrive.

I was a lurker on Voat, but I'm trying to be active here. I don't like modding, but I've even created my own community here, which is saying a lot given how lazy I am. Hope to interact with y'all more!

And if you're still reading this, i hope you don't mind a shoutout to my new community, maliciouscompliance - recreated this as it was one of my favorite places to lurk on reddit!

/c/[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance

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EDIT: since a few people asked - I posted in this comment below why I think lemmy has a much better chance than voat did

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What ruined it for me was hidden viral marketing and low-effort karmar whores. I think it was HailCorporate which highlighted just how many posts were straight up viral marketing attempts, and how many of these were posted from accounts with a strange comment history. I couldn't unsee it after that.

As for karma whores.... it's funny to see a pun chain, but not when that's the top comment for 99% of all popular posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any examples?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

well... go to /r/HailCorporate and sort by all-time top scores.

Here's a specific example https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/6cq3xe/i_told_popular_shaving_company_i_was_canceling/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I can't stomach too much corporate content, so that's why I asked if you had only one good example of it ^^

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