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- technology@lemmy.world
‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever
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I have been permanently banned from it hahaha
yea lemmy is good now thanks reddit
Company entirely reliant upon an army of hard working volunteers makes some noise about listening. Noise is just air vibrations.
I used to be a daily Reddit doomscroller, but now I just vibe on Lemmy. I only ever visit reddit now to experience my niches that don’t yet have a community here, and that’s just to watch, not contribute.
I look forward to the future, where communities aren’t corralled into one website, where different interests can be free of anything overarching.
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I somehow end up doom scrolling here on Lemmy. Seems all my feed is news and technology is doom and gloom. I wish there were more discussions and jokes in the comments like ask reddit had. I participate every once in a while but I miss lurking and reading this type of content on my phone.
Just block the news and politics communities. It’s good for your sanity.
Yeah I’ve started doing that, just too depressing otherwise.
Doomscrolling bad news is really bad for your health. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/what-is-doomscrolling-and-why-is-it-bad-for-us/143139/
Bad news is also literally addictive and it is important to break that habit https://www.fastcompany.com/90269566/how-to-stop-your-brains-addiction-to-bad-news
I’d suggest subscribing to some of the more positive news threads on Lemmy. I ended up blocking those ones that only seem to post negative stuff. The world is a bad enough place as it is without Lemmy ramming it down my throat to. I’d also suggest regularly visiting other positive news sites to remind yourself that there is good news happening, you just don’t hear about it from the normal places. Certainly helps put things into perspective. https://www.groovnow.com/blog/where-to-find-good-news-online
It’s important to try and stay happy, friend, now more than ever.
Doomscrolling being bad is literally implied in the name.
Thanks for reminding - that is a good point. Do you have any good mood communities here on Lemmy to recommend?
Sure! There’s goodnews@kbin.social, lemmybewholesome@lemmyworld, goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works and upliftingnews@lemmy.world. They’re all small communities, but they’re worth checking out. I’d recommend those news sites on that link I listed to. Definitely eye opening to see all the good stuff that is just ignored by the mainstream media. Stay positive out there, friend! 👍
Thank you so much! I sincerely appreciate your suggestions and have already subscribed to the communities. I actually have already noticed lemmybewholesome, but I havent known there were the other ones as well, so thank you a lot for the information :)
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When it comes out how many hundreds of millions spez made of the back of unpaid mods, they’ll rightfully ask themselves why they’re doing all that free work just to make spez rich.
Second American Revolution Now
it happens to every sacred tech company once it inevitably decides to become profitable
I’ve never returned.
Front page of the Ai bots.Not even feeling real some comments.
Yep; other then forgetting blind people exist, that was one of my main reasons for leaving. There were all these weird numbered accounts that were probably definitely just bots regurgitating someone else’s comment or post. I’m disappointed that wasn’t mentioned in the article.
im only on reddit for 1 single subreddit that is a very small community
Maybe Reddit didn’t die, but what was Lemmy before this? And what is it now?
what was Lemmy before this?
A microscopic collective few had ever heard of.
And what is it now?
That same thing, just slightly less microscopic.
Honestly while I’m obviously still here, anyone pretending this is any sort of apples-to-apples replacement of the overall Reddit community is only engaging in so much wishful thinking.
Not that it’s impossible for Lemmy to get there eventually, but it’s not even close to it, and honestly I really don’t see it happening.
Maybe if you’re only referring to the relative popularity of Lemmy compared to Reddit you’re right. That’s not what I was referring to.
Look at the quality of content showing up on Lemmy before compared to now and you will agree it is night and day different.
It’s still a far cry from what Reddit is, but it’s at least a functional service.
Look at the quality of content showing up on Lemmy before compared to now and you will agree it is night and day different.
I haven’t seen much of a content quality change at all since I’ve been here, so no, I wouldn’t agree.
Well, when I joined the content was shit, so I’m not sure what you were looking at.
Shit then, shit now.
Comments have gotten worse.
Bah humbug
Well…clearly the guardian does get paid under the rocks to STFU about Lemmy and Raddle.me and I never "donated to them because I don’t got much money but used to on common dreams(fuck them and Jake for not listening to obvious solutions and gripe with none of the answers I have and they don’t listen to) and when I get paid enough, prolly in February, I’ll be donating a little bit to Grist. Now, never will it be to theguardians.
Crickets on the fact that so many users of 10+ years left, deleting their content on the way out? Seems writer didn’t dig very deep. Not that Rodent would give them accurate numbers or anything.
ironically, reddit banned me, which stopped me from using it pretty much entirely, which coincided with the “happening” if anyone is curious it was “violence” even though specific targeted satirical threats seem to be perfectly acceptable, generic statements of violence are not things that reddit seems to put thought into. Anyway little fun fact though, they don’t delete your acc, and they dont stop you from using it, they just stop your posts/comments from showing up, to mine engagement i suppose.
for anybody looking for a bit of laugh, look at the ban appeal forum, i promise you there is a couple of days worth of amusement on it. (unless they changed it)
for me personally, the sheer unusability of reddit is why i dont use it. On desktop it leaks ram so bad it’s worse than a java MC server, on mobile it’s literally unusable, i just can’t use it, that’s how bad it is. It’s bad enough to the point im starting to think that reddit is a programming based money laundering front, with some of the functionality that exists in it. I’ve pasted text into reddit before only for it to completely disintegrate. It’s actually laughable how badly it’s put together.
Though i dont think i’ll miss reddit at all, these federated communities are much more my speed anyway.
I remember reddit was constantly advertised by their users as a more “elite” platform and everyone was moving to it at digg 2.0 times. What I seriously started getting curious about is: Did the collective IQ level drop on Reddit, way before the API golden shot? I sometimes share my opinion there and very interesting things happen. They clearly “don’t get it”. The scene of my native language (Turkish) went totally hopeless. Think like Storm Front for Turkish audience. It all happened in 3–4 years, they say, after Bitcoin madness.
I used to love Reddit, but I’ve totally abandoned it. It’s not one particular reason, but the broad effect is that I and many others no longer feel welcome.
We lost a lot of good users; people who contribute to topics, make good posts and comments. We also lost good moderators; people who cared about the content quality and vibe. The Reddit-appointed replacement mods by and large are not people who ran or SHOULD run communities.
Add in the fact that both subreddit mods and Reddit admins are going hog wild with the ban hammer on both subs and users, and it’s hardly a wonder that users aren’t having it. They’re trying to turn it into a gentrified Disneyland and that’s not what we want.
I’m hoping we can grow the Fediverse and prevent it from getting fucked by people with bad motives.
Anyways spez will go down as one of the innumerable examples of greedy hurensohns.
