• Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I don’t miss the dipshits, pun spammers, and smug power mods of reddit at all. I do miss their niche subs and smarter users. Like it or not, they do have some brainy folks peppered among the shit posters.

    We have some good folks here, too. Just need more of them.

    It’s a shame reddit has been dialing up the shit faucet slowly enough that most of their users don’t notice how awful it is now. They’ve grown accustomed to the poor quality of the content and weaponized greed of the owners.

    • Fake4000@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      In all honesty, when I joined Reddit right after digg went to shit. It was amazing. Reddit was great, 3rd party apps were welcome, their interface was straightforward, and they had none of those NFT gold shit.

      It just went downhill.

      • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
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        8 months ago

        At that point, they were also open source which was super cool. I always wanted that profile badge you got for submitting a merged PR.

        Reddit really went downhill fast after ~2015. I think Lemmy will get there eventually. I remember reddit being a lot smaller back then as well. It took a while to get to the point where niche communities could thrive and I do believe we’ll see that happen here as well (even if it takes a decade or so)

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Shit move from Reddit. Glad I jumped ship to lemmy.

    Honestly, lemmy has less users compared to Reddit, yet you still get more engagement.

  • red_pigeon@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I stopped using reddit after they dropped the bomb on the devs and I’m not a fan of the company.

    I understand the hatred towards them, but this is definitely expected from a company like reddit, and any other social media for that matter. As users we must be aware that we don’t own the content in their platform.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the same story comes from Instagram tomorrow, though I suppose there will be a bigger outcry then.

    • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.devEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Honestly over the last year since the great migration, the discussions on lemmy have really grown and matured to the point where i don’t really see the value of reddit anymore

      • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        8 months ago

        For me there’s still value in the niche communities like r/rimworld and the like, but for everything else I’m firmly on Lemmy now

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        And ya know what? Frankly, if AI is going to harvest all this shit, I’d rather fuckers like spez couldn’t get rich off it in the process. Granted I’m not happy the tech bros running these AI companies are getting rich with these fucking things, but I can at least take solace that, for Lemmy at least, there isn’t some asshole middle man making bank off the work and words of users they never paid a dime to.

        Genuinely, why does Sepz and Reddit deserve to make money off anything we posted? Why does any social media site? They make the site, pay for the servers, maintain the apps, sure, and they can get compensation for that, I don’t see a problem there. But why does any social media company deserve to get rich when the only thing that makes their platform valuable is the people that post to it? Reddit didn’t even have paid mods, the community did all the work on the content of that site, why in the fuck do we tolerate these assholes making profit off it like this?