71 points

Reddit probably hasn’t even noticed the drop in traffic. Lemmy is a very niche site that is a peanut compared to Reddit unfortunately. I don’t see it becoming mainstream any time soon because it’s too complicated to understand for the average Joe.

This isn’t a bad thing though

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45 points

I consider myself to just be an average Joe and I don’t think Lemmy is too difficult to figure out. Moreso just a getting used to. I think the majority of people are just too lazy to put in the effort to get used to a new system, even if it is better in some areas than the previous system.

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31 points

If you are already on this site, have an account and are actively participating you are way beyond the average Joe. The average Joe will only find out about lemmy a year from now 😂

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10 points

Isn’t that ideal though? Surely the “above average joe’s” would help, and contribute to shape the place into what it can be to reach it’s full potential? It’ll give the server hosters more time to fix everything up. Certainly a lot of the people already here are going to be a lot calmer in response to bugs and glitches. Whereas if everyone joined straight away, it’ll just be like a massive urinal with huge amounts of stress on the servers.

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3 points

Exactly lol

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26 points

Last report I saw had traffic numbers to their ad space still down about 20%. That’s definitely an amount they notice, though I’m sure they hope and believe it’ll go back up.

I definitely do not think they are calling any of us back per se, but on he other hand the way spez talks is definitely like someone who is in denial about being dumped.

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25 points

The only thing I find difficult with Lemmy is the political part of it such as who defederated who and so on, the technical part of it is relatively easy.

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7 points

True, but reddit has automod bots that will ban people if they participated in [bad sub] even if they never posted there, so there is an analogous defederation on reddit

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2 points

As a new user is there somewhere I can understand more about this defederation stuff? I’m just picking it up as I go and trying to piece it together

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9 points

I guess just follow the meta posts of the big communities.

From what I understood:

  • Nearly all the big instances defederated exploding-heads, which is one of those “we do not restrict your speech” instances (which we know is just a dogwhistle for nazis are welcomed here)
  • Beehaw defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because they didn’t want the flood of July 1st users to go shitpost in their subs until better moderation tools are available.

That’s all for now I guess.

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Reddit isn’t going to die, but as they shed their core user base the platform will have less and less to contribute until the only users left are extremely boring profitable drones. Just like Facebook is today. I don’t want those users, reddit does. Win-win

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15 points

The average joe probably didn’t even use a third party client for Reddit and absolutely is not affected by the API changes. They’re going to browse reddit as if nothing happened.

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2 points

Is that a huge issue, though? I always had a feeling that the 3rd party users might be more civil.

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@BackStabbath yes & no. Reddit had quite a few highly technical spaces.
We instituted an org wide blacklist of Reddit the other day, so no more redditing over here.
Now to find the fediverse equivalents to sysadmin net admin etc…

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6 points

yeah i just hope it doesn’t become abandoned like all the other reddit alternatives that came before

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5 points

It really isn’t complicated though. If someone can understand email, they can understand Lemmy

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3 points

Sorry for an unrelated question, but I have a doubt about instances. If I have this username and email for lemmy.world, can I use the same username and email for another instance? When I tried creating an account with these credentials on kbin.social, it didn’t work and said those values were taken.

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5 points

You don’t need to create another account, just search/click on the communities you’re interested in from your own instance and subscribe to them.

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3 points

Yes, you can use the same credentials on any other Lemmy instance. I’ve done this with 4 instances so far. There may be a chance your username is taken, but if you create accounts on the larger instances you should be good since the smaller user bases of the smaller instances probably won’t mean that you’ll be targeted.

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44 points

Is reddit really calling us back?

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60 points

True. I just got a call from the CEO of reddit a few minutes ago begging me to come back.

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17 points

You too ?

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11 points

He promised me a publuc apology if I return. But idk, kinda sounded like a threat to me.

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22 points

Nahhh it’s gotta be for the meme hasn’t it

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10 points

Or promising to change

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1 point

Yea but he called me from Nigeria for some reason. And that I had to wire him money to get old.redddit back

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It’s only gonna get worse lol; they’re removing old.reddit next, going after nsfw and increasing ads.

The ux is already better here within the last few weeks with clients like Memmy and Connect; Boost and Sync are gonna be awesome when they’re out in a few weeks

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15 points

I would only come back if Apollo did :’(

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15 points

wefwef and Memmy almost feel like Apollo already; it’s crazy how fast they’re being developed.

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2 points

definitely, I’m on Memmy and I’m really liking it. still, reddit’s community is bigger so if Apollo came back I would use it to browse subs I haven’t found here yet

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2 points

Been using both lately to see which I like more. And the progress from just a few weeks ago to now has been incredible

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2 points

Same, thats a big part of why I left so naturally it would be a big part of coming back

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7 points

Can we stop it with the low tier memes

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Welcome to 196. You must be new around here, low tier memes is all we’ve got. Enjoy your stay. :)

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3 points

I think it adds to the nostalgic old internet feel that this site already has. I like it.

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196 is better than popular character pointing to sign memes. And the whole act of making a meme to post here defeats the spontaneousity the rule calls for imo

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Joke’s on you, I’ve never made a meme specifically to post here. I just post my most recent one when I visit, as per the rule. It just so happens I make a buttload of trash-tier memes.

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