Wonderful news. It was honestly time for us to start moving away from Reddit anyway. This just gives us an excuse.
Agreed, the increased ads, detriment to user experience and general toxicity was becoming unbearable. I am very thankful to have found a new home.
Thing that was the most upsetting was the absolute refusal to accept any bit of responsibility or admit what they were doing. I think we can all appreciate the cost of running a huge service like Reddit, but in no way does that require them to do what they did.
If anything, I am shocked they didn’t attempt to do something like require users who use third party apps to be paying for Reddit Premium or whatever it’s called. AFAIK there are no ads displayed if you’re a subscriber? So there wouldn’t have been a big difference in revenue there.
Honestly I hope it remains small enough to not attract influencers and low grade content, but also large enough to become a significant source of useful searchable info. It’s a pipe dream but hey
One can hope.
Right now, I love the size and the community feel. It’s as if we are all trying to make this place our home, so we are all figuring it out together, posting often and engaging. I know it won’t last forever, but I’m enjoying it while it is lasting.
For me it was the obvious bots and repost karma farming. It was all starting to feel stale except for some of the more niche subreddits I was on.
Holy crap, yeah. The amount of repost bots I’ve been seeing lately has been insane. Also noticed a massive increase in porn bots in the comments, almost all exactly the same kind of thing
“Hey baby check me out https://linktr.ee/obviouspornscam”
It taught me one thing. Nobody uses the friends list or follow feature, aside from spammers.
Reddit and Lemmy are topic-oriented systems: most users find things to read by looking for topics they’re interested in. Despite the name “communities”, these are basically topic categories.
Facebook and Twitter are people-oriented systems: most users find things to read by telling the site who their friends are (or which celebrities they want to get parasocial with), and looking at things from their friends or recommended based on friend connections.
On a site with topic-oriented standards, it’s often kinda creepy to follow people from one topic to another.
On a site with people-oriented standards, it’s often kinda rude to show up in distant friends-of-friends-of-friends’ mentions to tell them your enthusiastically held opinions on the topic they happen to be discussing.
Jumping ship is the easy part. Now we have to keep this up. Let’s make sure this isn’t just something that’ll disappear in a month or two. Make Fediverse more active than before permanently.
I’m more of a lurker myself but that was due to Redditor’s attitude towards me aha. I would say my opinion and I would get downvoted to oblivion as well as a bunch of mean replies. And DMs I have never checked lmao. Over here though, it looks a fucklot more friendly and that makes me want to engage more!
It’s certainly more about discussion here. I’ve made mistakes already and no one has criticized me (yet). Just someone responding about why my opinion/statement was wrong in their opinion.
If I did that on reddit I’d probably never check my inbox again lmao. Not saying all reddit subs are like that, but a lot are.
I am biased (of course), but you are experiencing the best of the best - the core of what made reddit good. people who take that leap of faith and break free from the reddit shackles (like you) are just plain built different and I am glad you are here.
Reddit and Twitter are incredibly hostile places.
I have a friend who privated her Twitter account a few years back. She made the mistake of replying to a tweet to state that non-white people can be racist too, and ended up getting doxxed and harassed.
Also, I remember the time when I kept getting DMs on my Reddit account stating things like “just reminding you that you’re a c***”
Crazy, that should be an uncontroversial statement. It’s sad that people on the left have radicalized too and are sometimes going too far, giving the right a larger attack surface. Of course regular algorithm driven social media stimulate radicalization because rage drives up engagement.
Well, when the Twitter exodus happened, I too feared that the (4-5x!) increase in traffic would quickly come down. It’s been several months and Mastodon is still just as strong!
This is my first time stepping into the fediverse, actually. Time will tell, I am cautiously optimistic. May try Matrix at some point too, don’t know quite yet.
But are we profitable?
No. But we are great.
hopefully this marks the end of overinflated valuations for companies that own websites with a lot of users.
We have a couple more to go I guess. However any “disturbance” like that brings more people to the fediverse. And the stronger we get the better. The rest can stay on Twitter and Reddit. We need critical mass of good active users and we are set. I think Mastodon has done that. It feels like a nice large community. Lots of chatter and people are still steadily coming over. We don’t need to add more people to make it great. I think we have reached level of great that just attracts people now.
Haha, lol!
I nuked my twelve year old account yesterday and I’m literally not even sad. That joke of an AMA sealed the deal for me.
The best part for me personally is, I got an excuse to finally migrate to fediverse. I’m joining a discussion on lemmy from kbin while following stuff from mastodon and beehaw.
It’s nerdy and fun. Also, interestingly, feels more reliable. You don’t like the people running one service, did the owner turn out to be an utter sociopath? Go, make an account on somewhere better suited to your style and keep engaging with the same communities, maybe at the cost of a different UI experience. It’s much preferable to losing an entire platform to the whims of a few at the top.
But if you move to another server, do you loos all your subscriptions, messages, stats or can you migrate your Profile?
Afaik you can’t migrate yet. It has been raised, though, but idk more than that. I support migration, tbh.
Thanks spez!
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