And nothing of value was lost.
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Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.
~~Also I know you’re a former redditor because you’re parroting the same tired-ass old line that is top comment on every thread about something bad happening to someone or some thing they don’t like. Get some new material.~~
EDIT: Speaking of getting new material, I should try not to be as snarky. Get the alien out of your head, my man. We don't need to do that to entertain ourselves anymore. I apologize to @[email protected], and I take that shit back. I hope you got a laugh out of it as intended, even though there was no real way to tell it was supposed to be a bit cheeky.
It did still frustrate me to see all that knowledge just hand-waved like what happened was no big deal. I guess "couldn't have happened to a nicer boardroom" or something would have clicked better lol but I'd imagine we're probably on the same page about it at the end of the day.
Anyway, let's all be cool, Lemmy fucking rocks, we're nice here, save the sarcasm for mocking actual malice instead of eating each other. I'll try to be better.
The reason everyone is so mad is because reddit has been so valuable and useful this past 15 years and they are ruining it.
Exactly, we all helped build reddit for what it is today. They repeatedly showed its users and moderators that all they care about is filling their pockets. The API death is just a symptom, but the disease will spread.
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And it was so valuable and useful because we, the former redditors, made it that way. They're ruining the hard (and free) work people did over those 15 years to make it useful. The good thing is it's been shown to be entirely replaceable, and made better by taking control out of corporate hands.
The special (and valuable) thing about Reddit was its passionate users. Take that away and what's left?
Why are so many people openly hostile towards redditors? Are you trying to get us to leave?
What you're failing to realize is that Lemmy needs new users in order to grow. You may not like the bitching, but it keeps conversations going which drives more engagement to the site.
Stop trying to push people away from the platform. People need an alternative to reddit. They've been a monopoly since 2010; it's time for that to change. Won't happen if redditors don't want to come here because they feel unwanted.
So please, try to chill the fuck out. And leave us be.
agreed, redditors are welcomed in the fediverse!
They got here from Reddit 5 minutes earlier, so that makes them OG lemmings and gives them the right to shit on the latecomers, don't you know? 😉
You are welcome. It's just some users that didn't get their hug from mom today.
Uhm, dude has his account for two months, so I think it's save to assume he also is a Reddit refuge. Oh, you know what, it actually says so in his profile.
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I think both things can be true -- we have a superior replacement, so Reddit is now of considerable lower value, but also Reddit was super important to me and I'm still deeply invested in it's "demise".
I certainly think that reports of Reddit's death are greatly exaggerated and also would like to see less Reddit-related content, but I think there's space for people who were avid Redditors to have become true believers in the fediverse.
Also, I'm open to people who disagree with my assessment that Lemmy is superior -- if things like number of MAUs or site stability are the most important thing to you, then you'll definitely disagree and that's fine! I more meant that people can change and evolve over time and that doesn't make them hypocrites.
I wonder how searchable Lemmy will be compared to Reddit. Even during/after the blackout, I still get the best results on Google by adding site:reddit.com to most of my searches. When there's a way to do that for Lemmy (even via a dedicated fediverse indexing site), and it has even a decent fraction of the utility that searching Reddit via Google has, I'll be real happy.
You're on a post discussing the potential funneling of Reddit users to Lemmy.world, yet criticize someone for potentially being a Reddit user?
This is the first impression you're setting for them; you're not protecting Lemmy nor are you representing it.
Chill dude, let it organically change if you're tired of Reddit, a lot of people are too.
It’s best to assume everyone here was a redditor, I included.
I think "myself" is the word you're looking for.
Don’t kid yourself. Reddit was valuable to pretty much all of you or else you wouldn’t continuously shitpost about it.
It doesn't really work that way. Lots of people visited subreddits like cringetopia, whatcouldgowrong, confidentlyincorrect, etc. Basically a compulsion to kill time by gawking at dumb people doing dumb stuff. That doesn't mean those subreddits or that use of time had actual value, even to that specific person though.
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As much as I'd love to ditch Reddit completely, I just had to use information from a few Reddit posts to fix an issue on my home server. I hate to say it, but Reddit is extremely valuable.
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You do know which community you're posting in right?
Yes it was valuable. Before July. Now it has lost its value.
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Shit. Where are people going to tell Spez to fuck himself now?
Here
I don't know, I've still been seeing that a lot on Lemmy, too.
What’s Reddit?
Remember Digg? It's basically like that.
Reddit did the Digg. It's already buried into oblivion.
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whats a "spez"?
The Sunday Newspaper Insert of the Internet.
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I joined lemmy when they killed Apollo. Should have done it so much sooner, this is way better!
Before Reddit killed Apollo, Lemmy was really lacking in daily content. Now we've reached a point where I can open the app multiple times a day and see new content.
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It was the same for me. I think joined the same day. To be honest, I haven't looked back at reddit. I enjoy the communities here, and some devs to great work on apps like memmy and mlem. Both feature a lot of Apollo App.
I quit the moment Baconreader could no longer fetch API and deleted my 10 yr account. Lemmy is amazing, especially in its potential down the road in my view.
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Not sure if this is actually realtime, but this site has charts: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Why is lemmy.world listed as USA when neither the founding admin nor the server are located there?
I think they put it behind Cloud Flare after some DDOS attempts. It could be that.
I don't see my instance on there.
Those are some big boy numbers. 2 mil posts and almost 1/4mil active users. Getting there!
138k active users to 554k total users is about 25%, which I would imagine is significantly higher than most social media.
Is someone marked an active user if they ever voted or posted a comment/post, or do they drop off if they haven’t done so in 14 days?
The active user count is bullshit in my opinion. We know most users are just reading and not posting or commenting. Those users are invisible in these stats.
An active user should be anyone who logged into Lemmy in the last 30 days.
This also means that small instances with a low amount of "active" users could have a lot of users actually using it in silence.
Maybe a good middle ground would be an user that upvotes. That would include all the lurkers, that contribute by upvoting/downvoting.
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Kbin had way less users but same activity.... Doing my part!
I just went to Reddit.com. It looks like it's up but all of the posts on the main page are from 9 hrs ago or older (I didn’t scroll very far to see if there were newer ones).
I went to the search and looked up Redditalternatives. I got two error messages - "We had a server error..." and "Request failed." But the sub appeared behind the error pop ups. I see sub posts from 2 and 4 hrs ago.
Does this mean that Reddit is down? I don't want to engage too much with the site to find out.
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