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After all the BS from /u/spez?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't have any hope for reddit, but unfortunately, it is stil a very good source of information. Plus some previously established communities cannot be easily replaced, so reddit still has a use for me.

I hope that with time, my old communities will find their way here. Until then, sometimes I need to use reddit to talk to some people and access information.

And this is what makes the whole situation so shitty. All of the popular social media sites suck, but it's not easy to replace them with something new when the majority of the content and community stays there.

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

Kind of the way (at least for me), I still have a FB account since there are still old friends or relatives that would be impossible to reach otherwise. So it just sits there, on life-support, unless I need it.

Twitter has been slowly turning that way, and now Reddit will work the same for me, but it'll take a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I had hope until the infamous AMA posted by spez, and him doubling down on accusing people of blackmail. I've purged my account history immediately after that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm of the opinion that Reddit will become incrementally worse going forward, most users are not bothered right now because the whole API fiasco affects mods and not them, but as usual they miss the forest for the tree. The site will go for the users and creators next, but it won't be like this, it'll be one tiny annoying feature at a time to avoid mass abandonment. I'm already looking for alternatives, such as this one, in preparation, but most will put up with anything just to keep consuming the same old content.

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

I don't even think it needs to go for users and creators next; making moderation harder will have plenty of impact on its own. Many people seem to think mods randomly remove crap in some weird power trip. The reality is most are busy removing spam, abuse, shitposts, and the 5th submission of the same news link that's still on the front page. Once unpaid mods start leaving they'll have to implement automods that'll just suck as they always do. The quality of every sub is going to go to hell pretty quickly.

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

There are more potentially interesting websites than I have time to spend. I'm taking the same attitude to Reddit that I take for StackOverflow and Wikipedia. I'll read their content, especially if it comes up in search, but I'm not wading through the cesspool to try and contribute anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I have no hope, but there are a few subs that I still love and it's sad that he is destroying that so he can make reddit like every other soul-sucking social network. reddit is unfortunately the only place I can go to discuss random things I love like the EPL, or WNBA, or the japanese show Gaki No Tsukai as no one around me in real live is into them. Hopefully some of that can transfer to lemmy or other places...but who knows...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hahaha people are stupid bro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They are just following the reactionary social media norms these days. The lack of proper passing of information and just humoured by the subreddit protests such as in r/pics. Some people are not actually on Reddit for information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

People like being comfortable, new places can be uncomfortable.

It's this simple. So just let them have their porn-filled garbage can of a place.

Reddit is now in the ilk of MySpace and facebook.. Corpo-wasteland devoid of anything but ad revenue and cheers from shareholders.

They can keep it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Because Reddit has been our online home for years. It's where our communities are, where are online friends are, it's become home. People have spent thousands of hours building communities there, as a labor of love.

Unfortunately I agree with you- the home is on fucking fire and unless a monsoon spontaneously erupts we should get the hell out before it burns to the ground.

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

It's been my community since like 2007. It's hard to move on from all of those conversations and inside jokes because suddenly the landlord says he gets to be a part of our conversations because he owns the property despite never participating in anything besides maybe suggesting a few holiday events that the community had to make happen and execute on their own. It has nothing to do with the site. It has to do with what we created there, a lot like the street corner that used to be a thing. It's been made clear we're no longer welcome there and we'll find a new corner to hang out on. And as soon as it's user friendly enough the masses will follow. That's a mixed blessing because the same tired replies and memes will follow but the content will be there.

I'm a little drunk right now so I'm being overly sentimental, but the point remains. We miss the experiences we had, and fuck that greedy, spineless motherfucker for making us go elsewhere. But we'll do it and laugh about it the same way we used to about Digg. "Fuck Kevin Rose" was a thing the same way "Fuck u/spez" is.

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

Because Reddit is familiar and people like to stick with what they're used to and comfortable with.

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

I get the reddit c suite just wants to go public and finally get their payout, which is understandable but if they're out then we're out too. There's better platforms now anyway that need a reason to be used and developed. They could have so easily handled this differently by just making the reddit app experience better than any third party apps today. But here we are and honestly I wouldn't bet my retirement that teenagers will still be posting to reddit in 40 years.

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

I'm guessing, at least partially, sunk cost fallacy.

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

And not knowing about alternative places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Eh, I know about the alternatives and they're all clunky messes that will probably never have anywhere near the same userbase as reddit. Even if they do, they won't function the same way.

I don't mind Lemmy, and if Reddit continues to shit the bed I'll probably switch over fully, but I would much much prefer that Spez backtrack on all the recent garbage and just have stuff go back to business as usual.

I like having all my content aggregated to one space. A big selling point of lemmy and other federated systems is that they're "more free", but until a month ago everything was fine. I don't need or want to shake the foundations of how people consume media, I just need one guy to stop being a dickhead for 30 seconds.

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

I've being feeling that lately reddit had become full of repost bots and fake ads. Was there just because there was nowhere else to go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I feel a similar way. The quality just kept going down and down to the point where I couldn't tell what was real or not. Most just weren't worth reading either way. Lemmy seems the same way now too. People are focusing on making "content" instead of trying to make higher quality posts.

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

I get a "sunk-cost fallacy" feel from it. Like Bill Hicks' bit went- This HAS to be real. Look at my furrows of worry- look at all this Karma. This has to be real!"

.. it's just a ride.

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

Because there is not yet a full alternative to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don’t underestimate how much resistance to change stops people from looking beyond the status quo. Moving away from Reddit is a clear example. I suspect a lot of lurkers from Reddit are actually from the category of Late Majority or Laggards

https://www.betterup.com/blog/resistance-to-change

https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-resistance-to-change-1918240

https://ondigitalmarketing.com/learn/odm/foundations/5-customer-segments-technology-adoption/

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

I also still have hope for Twitter (less tho). Both concepts are good, they're just run by fucking idiots making them unusable.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Look at the twitter. Whatever they can do people stay there. Maybe the hardcore users or geeks will leave, but the crowd will stay.

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

The silver lining is that hopefully we can get a few people off Reddit and onto here and eventually grow these spaces. I do miss the thousands of upvotes and comments though, but that'll come in time

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

Because no matter how bad it gets, like all successful social platforms, it will stay successful. People will continue to use it no matter how much they complain or criticize it. I regularly complain about Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc. But I still use all of them. It doesn't matter how unsatisfied people are with how things are being handled, if most people still see a reason to use it, they will until it's gone.

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