• @db2
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      1497 months ago

      I won’t. They’d have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.

        • @jeffwOP
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          1257 months ago

          Nicer in many ways but also less active. I find myself posting a shit ton more just to make the activity I want to see. I made probably less than 50 posts on Reddit in my 11ish years before I left. Now I make that many every 48 hours

          • @dugmeup
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            767 months ago

            We appreciate your contributions :)

            • @jeffwOP
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              317 months ago

              ❤️

          • @[email protected]
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            Same.

            I’m not a huge fan of lemmy, but I do like it better than what Reddit has become. If I had to pick today’s lemmy or Reddit from 5-ish years ago, I’d go with Reddit every time. But that’s not the options in front of me, so I stick with lemmy.

            I also post a lot, probably too much, because I want to see more content, especially higher effort content. I posted pretty rarely on Reddit, so this is certainly more exhausting to use. However, there’s enough people to make it worthwhile, so I’m still giving it the old college try.

            • @[email protected]
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              177 months ago

              Yea, I just wish more niche communities would come to Lemmy, but most of the interesting ones are actively not tech savvy en mass, and so are lucky to figure out reddit I guess. Or Discord maybe, which sucks as a reddit replacement.

              • @[email protected]
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                Yeah, Discord is the worst for something where history is useful. It’s pretty decent for chat though, but that’s about it. But even then, I’d rather use Matrix.

            • @Jordan117
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              87 months ago

              Lemmy might be less active but doesn’t make you feel like every contribution is rewarding someone who actively insulted and disrespected you and ruined something you used to enjoy. Big plus.

          • cobysev
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            277 months ago

            I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s less active. I browse Lemmy’s version of r/All and I have more than enough content to keep me entertained for hours. Plus, when I find a popular thread, I can actually contribute to it and my comments aren’t buried under 10K other comments within a few hours. I feel like I can actually communicate with the community here, instead of shouting into the void like on Reddit.

            • [email protected]
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              107 months ago

              Yup. On reddit, if you stumbled on a 13 hours old thread, commenting was just sending a bottle in the void.

              • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]
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                67 months ago

                I think I had someone ask why I was necroing something because I had responded to something that had been posted earlier that or the night before. Maybe it was older than 24 hours, but regardless it was a weird experience.

          • @[email protected]
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            77 months ago

            Yeah, but I know your username. Because you’re the person posting all that stuff I read. So, thanks ;)

            • @jeffwOP
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              87 months ago

              I’m famous!

          • @ripcord
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            27 months ago

            Thank you for being you :)

        • @[email protected]
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          77 months ago

          Agreed, Lemmy feels like “the old net” in the most refreshing way possible. I haven’t touched Reddit in over half a year and I feel better off for it. Feels like I can actually be myself here instead of trying to walk on eggshells to be part of the hivemind.

          • @spookex
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            Opposite for me, this place is way more left-leaning and if I comment like I used to on Reddit, the comments easily end up in the negatives

            • @[email protected]
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              77 months ago

              Join a Lemmy instance without downvotes. You can’t be hurt by downvotes if you never see them!

              • @Cryophilia
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                But you can get banned and removed a lot

          • crossmr
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            The best part is the mods who don’t remove posts where people celebrate someone being killed, or suggest someone be killed because they disagree with them. The unfiltered bigotry is really the second best part of the fediverse /s

        • MxM111
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          Just imagine if all Reddit moves here if it dies.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        I don’t really care how much Steve gets out of it, I just want a not-terrible platform. So I’m cool with a golden parachute if that’s what it takes to get rid of him and get someone better for the platform.

        That’s not happening though, so I’ll just avoid the platform.

      • MxM111
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        I don’t mind him having golden parachute- it is heavier and most likely won’t open.

    • @[email protected]
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      407 months ago

      And they also have to let people use a VPN. And make UI load faster, it’s way too bloated.

    • @Wooki
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      247 months ago

      So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.

      • @barsquid
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        67 months ago

        The AI companies will do that shit on Lemmy also. At least there isn’t a far-right Nazi getting money on our user generated content tho, unlike reddit.

        • @Wooki
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          37 months ago

          The profiteering and shitting on the community is what got me to remove my content and account. As an owner of the platform, they cant have it both ways.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        The fediverse is an excellent place to find training data for AIs. I would just set up a bot that follows a bunch of people and let them send their data to me, then I don’t even need to bother with scraping.

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          The fediverse arguably has more bots, just not trying to hide the fact

      • @[email protected]
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        They’re going to do that regardless, they’ll just scrape instead of using the API.

        I want an open API so I can use third party apps. I’m totally fine with them requiring an API token or something with a sensible rate limit to limit abuse by parties like openai (they’ll have to go through a sales contract).

    • Possibly linux
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      177 months ago

      Not even the API. Just a usable page that doesn’t feel so broken and bloated.

        • @spookex
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          107 months ago

          Nope, that is still there, RES still works as well

          • @[email protected]
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            87 months ago

            Ok at least something. Not going back, but that was always the last potential nail in the coffin.

        • Possibly linux
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          27 months ago

          Sort of, you no longer can sign in or create an account without using the new site

          • @zecg
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            27 months ago

            That ship has sailed, I thoroughly nuked an account that almost could have drunk in the us and I’d be fucked if I make another after the assholes restored my comments as by [deleted] or some shit and now they’re training fucking electronic snoids to parrot my wisdom and humor to obsolete me. It’s the principle I object to, I piss in this pot here knowing full well there’s runoff across the fediverse and I’d never be able to sponge back all the piss, but those assholes lie and steal.

    • @barsquid
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      127 months ago

      I’m done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.