A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
Powerless to change Reddit. You can always do what I did and use lemmy instead.
This is the way.
It’s been so much nicer tbh, at least on Beehaw. I don’t have any reason to go back with Lemmy and RSS feeds
i find that the lack of community videos really holds me back from using lemmy as a primary website, but i do understand that video hosting is expensive, just kinda sucks
I’m not big on video content so that doesn’t bother me at all, but I could see how that might hold some people back if they prefer that. Funnily enough, I often won’t click a link if I see it goes to a video instead of an article.
That being said PeerTube is in the works, still a ways to go but it’s comin’
If this reddit change did not occurred, I probably never had tried Lemmy (even if I’m in OSS world for 20+ years now). First thought is that I don’t think communities going black or mods leaving reddit will do anything to reddit, it’s so big and alternative are somehow a niche for geek that they will not loose most of their user base. For mods they’ll find out some way … On the other hand, I don’t care, I’m happy here on the fediverse, I participated more discussion here in 1 month than in years on reddit. I had bad experience on my first posts on reddit (probably not interesting enough for some and then downvoted a lot), and I think that I just always thought if my post will be appreciated or not and so and finally just didn’t post. I don’t have this feeling here.
I haven’t gone back since the blackout, I get my content here and some other bookmarks I’d forgotten about.
Turns out a whole bunch of us were sick of reddit anyway and were eagerly awaiting a new place to go. I’d have never heard of the Fediverse if reddit hadn’t been dicks about API pricing. I knew as soon as I came here and started exploring that this was the way to go; reddit is old news, it’s been around for 18 years, that’s forever in internet time. It’s time to move onto the next thing and the idea of hundreds (thousands!) of federated servers talking and sharing content across platforms is very exciting to me.
this is my experience as well
I’ve been unhappy with the quality at reddit for years but there was no reasonable alternative that I knew about
I had heard about Mastodon but never really researched the wider fediverse until recently
now I will pretty much never use any corporate owned website again and will exclusively use federated software
I also had a terrible first experience posting on Reddit, which turned me off from activity submitting any content and only commenting rarely. I mostly lurked and voted, which I still thought of as participating in the community. But in my short time here (Kbin for me), I see the entire userbase as activity welcoming and generally nicer! Just looking at the voting scores, it seems that downvots are hardly used at all! Maybe it’s a good thing we’re separating from the common audience that was quick to turn toxic and become combative for the fun of it.
