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[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wonderful news. It was honestly time for us to start moving away from Reddit anyway. This just gives us an excuse.

[–] Kmcb182@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed, the increased ads, detriment to user experience and general toxicity was becoming unbearable. I am very thankful to have found a new home.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] _finger_@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] netburnr@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Clinodactyl@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

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"

[–] Jumuta@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, great motivator for moving to Lemmy.

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[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] IDew@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Clbull@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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***"

[–] IDew@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I've not been in a situation this bad before but sometimes I do find it funny to get a random DM without any context say "You're a cunt". I would just rofl and go on with life😂 Like what does one achieve woth saying something that doesn't even land in my brain lmao

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[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

I don't use Mastodon/Twitter so I had no idea. That's definitely reassuring. Thanks!

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[–] mrmanager 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But are we profitable?

No. But we are great.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hopefully this marks the end of overinflated valuations for companies that own websites with a lot of users.

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[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Thanks spez!

-- The Mlem Team

[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Uh... that is starting to look exponential...

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Quick, we need to get the /r/wallstreetbets folks in here to tell us how not to read it!

[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did anyone create the !wallstreetbets community here yet?

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Looks like somebody has, but no posts for 2 years lol

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a picture of one instance's user count that was mostly a flat line until recently, now it looks like a right angle 😂. Can't remember if it was Beehaw or a different one though

[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 10 points 1 year ago

Probably beehaw or lemmy.world, although a lot of instances are getting new users.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it'll probably plateau; saw similar during Twitter/Mastodon migration waves

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[–] other_world@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

I was part of the Digg exodus. I'm now a r/efugee but glad to be here. I like how decentralized everything is.

[–] derived_allegory@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

I have been wanting to switch to Lemmy for a long time, it is my last non-FOSS social media. But I never imagined it will be popular because reddit is thriving, and I cannot see reason for people to leave.

So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you spez form the bottom of my heart. And I hope you keep down the path you are on and turn reddit into a Twitter dumpster fire.

FOR THE FEDIVERSE!

[–] CynAq@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NewBrainWhoThis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if you move to another server, do you loos all your subscriptions, messages, stats or can you migrate your Profile?

[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Afaik you can't migrate yet. It has been raised, though, but idk more than that. I support migration, tbh.

[–] NewBrainWhoThis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the clarification. Hope the devs will implement this feature.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I vote we all adopt "Don't be a Spez" as phrase of saying "Don't fuck a good thing up for your own greed" to somebody.

But yeah, thanks Spez! I had wanted to leave Reddit for a while now as spam started overflowing subs, and spam bot accounts just kept going with reddit doing nothing to stop them. I still stayed out of laziness, I suppose, but this last drop made the bucket overflow. Thanks Spez!

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[–] derek@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I like GitHub stats for jerboa and lemmy-ui.

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[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

june 30 is going to be the big tsunami that overwhelms us all

[–] altf3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Well that took all of 5 minutes to figure out how this federated stuff works. Thanks spez, cya later reddit.

[–] hellothisisdog@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago

long live lemmy 💙

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How did you get these numbers? Especially the server count one.

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[–] drahknalb@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

goooooooood 😈

[–] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Just wait until Monday / Tuesday. Lemmy is about to get hugged to death.

[–] Patman21@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking forward to the next iteration of Reddit. This reminds me of when I first joined during the Digg exodus

[–] Link@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What caused the Digg exodus?

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Fuck that guy! Corpos suck

[–] Lucy@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

See? Spez isn't all bad. His charisma-less incompetence is good for something!

[–] thepiguy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. The number of servers... cool.

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[–] Cal@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Oh wow. This looks eerily similar to the Digg exodus. Oh the memories.

[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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