I just joined Lemmy today after uninstalling Reddit Is Fun. It was absolutely surreal just how much habit was in pulling out my phone and pressing the space where RIF used to be. Decided I’m kind of mostly done with Reddit other than quick information look ups on the website.
So here I am! First post! The only constant in life is change. Hello everyone, I hope we all get along! :)
Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.
Hello Memmy 🫡
You may have already seen this, but there is a web app for Lemmy that looks and functions very similar to Apollo:
I’ve been trying it today, and it’s pretty good.
Even as somebody who has never used, and will likely never need Apollo, I am really grateful for what he did. However unintentionally, I think he ripped the mask off how rotten the management structure was. It’s one thing to sell ads and collect hidden metadata. Pretty much all the apps do it. But the whole way Reddit treated him was beyond despicable.
Those API changes will be the death of Reddit. When I glanced at RIF today in my app list and remembered it was offline, that brought me here finally. I held out hope that Spez wouldn’t stand his ground but he did and now here we are. And this is my first post here, first of many. I hope this place thrives.
I think a lot of moderators are just going to back down and return to business-as-usual from tomorrow. Reddit will suffer as a business but this isn’t going to downright kill the site. Unlike say… Tumblr or OnlyFans, Reddit has a far more diverse clientele and many of them couldn’t give a shit about third-party apps.
These half-arsed protests staged after the 14th June have told me that most of Reddit’s mods are fucking cowards who are more afraid of losing their status as internet janitors than all the third-party apps.
Reddit’s moderators could have easily brought the site to its knees if they just collectively stopped enforcing rules (including site-wide ones), removed Automoderator, unbanned everybody, then told the community to just go nuts.
The mods of /r/interestingasfuck had the right idea by encouraging users to post NSFW content, since this would have chased away advertisers in droves.
I mean the whole “sexy pics of John Oliver” protest that /r/pics had isn’t going to chase away advertisers and was something that Spez could easily ignore, but having your content displayed alongside a flood of explicit pornographic images definitely will.
I’d argue it will become like Facebook, with the younger and more intelligent crowd leaving the site.
Excuse me! I’m older and more intelligent, thank you very much.
I’d argue that you’re right, and that it has already happened. If the bootlicking crowd on Reddit is actually organic users hearing a call to action to start commenting after months and years of inactivity, that is. Reddit is known to operate large networks of sock puppet accounts for fake engagement and narrative control (per Venture Beat’s reporting, which quotes an admission from Huffman).
Plausible. With only a fraction of Reddit’s supposed size, Lenny+kbin are already nearing parity in quality of discourse.
Sure hope things take off here. Fuck reddit.
I realized that at work today, I didn’t even check reddit at all beyond my initial opening of it. Checked Lemmy the rest of the day.
That and did actual work because everything was fucked at work but that’s beside the point.
I love how my subscribed are all in one list now, as opposed to have to select each one…other than that however, I honestly wouldn’t want to change much else. Somehow it makes it easier to explore. Reddit made it too easy to set in ritual…or it seems I’m hitting more topics here anyway
I hope Reddit fully dies off- that site is a cesspool and deserves to meet a fate similar to tumblr & myspace.
I hope Lemmy will be successful, and maintain healthy communities.
Hey all. RiF brought me here. Leaving behind a 12 year Reddit account.
Hello there, fellow refugees!
We here
I am doing my part!
Hello Lemmy.world
👋❤️
I’ll add the obligatory farewell to RIF - “the app I was happy to pay for”. This seems like an interesting alternative - I hope the back end is up for it! I won’t be going back to Reddit on principle.
just got a 429 message from RiF. there it goes
was on til the last moments, RIP RiF, my most used app by far…
Is this the most upvotes a Lemmy post has received??
on world at least the top is 2.7k
We’ve been deceived for years with post upvotes artificially inflated and then we get surprised at the end of the dopamine crash with posts in a more normal range
I remember that day on reddit when the top posts were like 3000 upvotes and then all of a sudden the next one was like 100,000 . They said they ‘fixed’ the algorithm.
I know right wtf was that lol
I think it also fucked over all the top posts because they couldnt compete with the new algorithm?
I didn’t think infinity would be finite but tomorrow we’ll reach the end of Infinity for sure
One of the best apps for sure! If you want to keep using Infinity, you can build the app with your private API-key following this guide. Also there’s a fork of Infinity which supposedly makes it compatible with Lemmy, but I haven’t tried that one yet.
