• w00tabaga@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    My time on Reddit died simultaneously with Apollo. I’m doing what I can by not giving that place anymore traffic from me.

    Found out about Lemmy yesterday. While it’s not there with niche interests at this point, it definitely cures the itch.

    You want to stick it to the man? Quit going there altogether people!

  • Bongles@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I actually haven’t. I went there for a bit to see if boost was getting a lemmy app (it is).

    • NotSpez@lemm.eeOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      I will. But I do want to say that it’s my personal opinion, that yes, we definitely should grow as a community with more reddit refugees, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing to grow relatively slowly. On the technological side, we need the infrastructure growth to match the user base growth. Maybe even more importantly, I think most of us will agree we want to take the good of reddit with us, but definitely not the toxicity. Copy pasting the whole user base to the fediverse could lead to also copy pasting the culture that exists over there now. The thing I most enjoy on Lemmy is definitely the general vibe over the content for now, and that is pretty special on the Internet.

      • Smk@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Also, we don’t necessarily need a big userbase. Just a good active one. More is not necessarily better in my opinion.

        Smaller is also much more manageable.

  • luckyboy@lemmynsfw.com
    1·
    1 year ago

    haven’t been back (and wont) but it really seems people here on lemmy tend to exaggerate the situation

  • Uplink@programming.dev
    0·
    1 year ago

    I only joined Lemmy yesterday and I plan on using both for now but this site and app are already a so much better experience without ads and everything loads lightning fast. And then I open reddit and I have to look at the spinning circle everytime I click on something. For some reason, it’s even worse on desktop. That shit feels so unresponsive.

      • Uplink@programming.dev
        1·
        1 year ago

        The difference is that this is an open source community driven effort. Reddit is a for profit business. On that basis, I give Lemmy a lot more leeway when it comes to bugs. Reddit just turned into a slog over the last few years BECAUSE they try to monetize it to death.

  • MrNesser@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    I go on for the worldnews & the uk subs they don’t seem to be impacted too much but I’ve not seen the need since the uptick in traffic on lemmy

    • NotSpez@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      To be honest, when I was back there yesterday I missed Lemmy. I either had forgotten about the amount of toxicity that is over there, or it has gotten worse because of all of the issues.

    • NotSpez@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah so there is still a lot of activity. However, >2000 subs are still dark, 18 others have gone full john oliver and many more are less moderated than before. BotDefense are leaving. So it’s definitely not that nothing out of the ordinary is going on, although I think that is exactly experience that reddit as a company tries to give you when you visit the site.

      Eitherway, I am a lemming now and very happy to be here and not there.

    • SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      yeah, it’s some pretty serious copium to think reddit was massively affected by the protests. Sadly, they were not

      but all I can do is leave and enjoy lemmy so fuck em

      • onichama@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        Several subs that I frequented are gone. The biggest pain to me is probably caused by the loss of Transcribers for Reddit. The group behind it basically disbanded at the end of june.

    • NotSpez@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think it really depends on what subs you are subscribed to, some people are almost noticing nothing at all. Other places are a real dumpster fire. Just went back yesterday to see if my GDPR request had gone through already