I don’t see Old Reddit lasting long. They’ve cut beloved features before, and they’re still calling New Reddit a “beta feature”. After they’ve pumped enough resources into developing it, I’m sure they’ll move past the “test” phase and just cut Old Reddit out entirely. That’s probably going to be Lemmy’s next big user surge.
Does Reddit suppress mentioning Lemmy? I remember for a while this past June 2023 there were a lot of auto-deletions for mentioning or linking to Lemmy. I was never clear on who was deleting things and where. I guess linking to the r/Lemmy subreddit (or a fediverse sub) could work as long as the subreddit doesn’t get banned.
I honestly can’t see how anyone can stand the not-old reddit.
I don’t really mind the “takes the whole screen width” - once you get wider than about 800 to 1000px it actually gets much harder to read a very long line of text than a smaller compact paragraph. Functional whitespace is a thing, although I do agree that they pushed it a bit too much. The padding and whitespace aren’t the biggest problem, IMHO but how it’s just very noticeably slower and clunkier to use.
I prefer the full posts over the preview post.
Better to scroll during lunch break.
Same. I want to see the full post/picture so I can decide that I’m even interested in the comments. I actually like infinite scrolling.
My Lemmy app (Sync) is also configured for full height and width cards.
The people that use old.reddit are a very small minority, and many are likely already here.
I use Connect for Lemmy on my phone I switched from RIF.
I still use old.reddit on my PC though. If old.reddit shuts down I guess I will switch to Lemmy on PC.
That small minority being a surprisingly large chunk of their volunteer moderators, which is why old reddit isn’t goin anywhere.
Would not be surprised if they are being dishonest about how many users are on old. I recall over a year or two ago reading a highly upvoted comment about it being less than 5% of all users, it might of been an Admin I don’t remember. New users I’ve shown old.reddit to are always so delighted. I’m sure it’s almost all OGs still on old though.
I modded some subreddits and before they fucked up traffic stats to not differentiate I can tell you that old (and new) was not putting up anywhere near the numbers of mobile. New had a lead over old but not a huge one.
EDIT: From a few years back - https://imgur.com/SJYWbQ5. I’m outing myself if someone does a bit of legwork, but IDGAF because I’m permabanned from reddit anyhow lol. Also, here’s one from 9 months ago, though I don’t remember the subreddit - https://imgur.com/FD0005K, and another from a year ago - https://imgur.com/9SBtazx
Does Reddit suppress mentioning Lemmy
It does. Try commenting with https://phtn.app/ link in the comment, it will get removed instantly.
I nuked my reddit account with PDS and a lot of my edited comments were deleted because it mentioned Lemmy.
We should try alternative spellings till we get a variant that goes through. like leetspeak or somethinf
Is it “too late” to still do this somehow? Is there a good tutorial? Would love to get things cleaned up Re:that
No idea, you’ll just have to give Power Delete Suite a try.
Alternative frontend for Lemmy.
Your instance has it at https://p.lemmy.world/
Honestly, I don’t think users would migrate from Reddit to lemmy if they shut down old.reddit.
At this point, and after all that happened, users would switch to the new Reddit and continue using it.
Reddit has a massive amount of users and content there is generated at a huge amount. A lot of users would continue using Reddit even if they aren’t happy with the interface, just for the content really.
This can probably be modeled off the Digg to Reddit transition. Digg made a couple bad decisions in a row and Reddit exploded. Reddit is making a couple potentially bad decisions in a row, so give it a year or two and the fediverse will come around.
Yeah except Digg was a significant competitor to Reddit.
Lemmy is good but not great. Having a crap ton of instances doesn’t matter when people only use the top two, and then both go offline due to lack of redundancy.
If there was some good webclient that fetched from multiple instances and automatically handled a downed instance, it would probably give lemmy much more traction.
Just having multiple instance logins can be such a turnoff for people.
Still I hope it does grow.
