Now that the two day shutting down of many thousands of subreddits is over, what is happening now? How many are remaining closed? Are others just going back to normal? What is the prospects of any significant change happening now?

I’ve set my pihole to reject reddit.com and I’m committed to using Lemmy, but I do miss the old Reddit.

  • zero_iq
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    The more time I spend on lemmy, the less I’m missing reddit.

    Lemmy feels fresher, more positive, and faster. It’s a bit rough around the edges, but things will only improve, and there seems to be a large number of people willing to get involved and help out.

    Even if the current blackout amounted to nothing, at least Lemmy has had a boost in users and engagement. Lemmy and the fediverse will learn lessons, improve, and fix bugs, and will be here for the next time reddit fucks up, and gain even more users.

    I think I’ll be staying regardless, reddit has been pissing me off for the last couple of years. It was mainly the lack of a viable alternative that kept me there.

    Sp*z has fucked up badly this time. And he will continue to fuck up.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      Exactly, the reddit addiction is hard to break but lemmy slides right into that craving nicely.

      And this is just the beginning.

    • MentalEdge
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      It’s insane how bogged down the new UI had become. I had to switch back to old reddit just because the new UI would bring my gaming desktop to its knees after just a few minutes of scrolling.

  • @Katt
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    You may not like my answer but here goes: Time will tell.

    Those who have jumped ship indefinitely will build a community here in the Fediverse. Those who miss Reddit too much will return there and use the official app.

    By staying you are building something new. It may not be Reddit, and it may never be Reddit. But there are still millions of users who are here to stay and will become a community.

    I hope it will not become a “they” vs “us” thing. Both platforms can exist peacefully, the same way Facebook and Twitter coexist.

    Perhaps a difference in content style or format will appear in time, which will make people choose one platform over the other. But that’s not bad. Competition is healthy.

    I’m staying, and I’m curious to see where Lemmy is going. All I can do is contribute to making it a place I want to hang out in.

    • Aviandelight
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      141 year ago

      Regardless of who stays and who goes back I fully expect we will see sharing of content with reddit here just like we saw content from Twitter and TikTok over there. I’m not worried in the slightest about “missing” something.

    • @lynny
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      101 year ago

      Hate to be that person, but the lemmyverse has about 160k people as of this morning. If you include Mastodon it’s millions, but they aren’t likely to interact as much with lemmy users.

      • @CaptManiacOP
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        31 year ago

        Seriously? Where do you get this number? I believe the lemmy.world admin said they had 100k users yesterday.

        • @lynny
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          61 year ago

          If they said that then it changes things. I’m going off this tracker

          https://the-federation.info/platform/73

          It could just be lagging behind whatever lemmy.world mentioned, things are moving so fast that a few hours can make a world of difference.

          You’re giving me some more hope.

          • @CaptManiacOP
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            61 year ago

            I’m sure I have misremembered. No one’s near the 100k number.

            I think it’s interesting that despite lemmy.world having less users than lemmy.ml it has way more active users. Something to do with improved stability?

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              I saw the 100k number yesterday too being attributed to an instance but I think that was counting all users across all Lemmy instances not just lemmy.ml or .world.

      • @Ectra
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        11 year ago

        I’m still very new to this. What makes Mastodon different from Lemmy instances?

        • @lynny
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          31 year ago

          I don’t know the technical details, but Mastodon’s software is designed to be Twitter-like, while Lemmy is reddit-like.

          My understanding is that Mastodon happens to support posting to lemmy, but not the other way around. The server software is different as far as I’m aware.

  • @CoffeeTails
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    331 year ago

    I’ve read this on reddit. I think they, reddit leaders, keep digging that hole deeper and deeper.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      I do not regret deleting my accounts. I’ll miss some communities for a while, but I’m sure Lemmy will grow and fill that void.

      • @CoffeeTails
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        41 year ago

        I’m leaning towards deleting my account too. We’ll see.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Moderation’s gonna be really interesting. I wonder how many “join Lemmy” gifs someone could post there

    • @fubo
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      61 year ago

      It looks like this was one moderator deciding to join the blackout when the other mods did not agree.

  • @aloeha
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    321 year ago

    The protests need to keep going. Apparently spez thinks everyone is gonna come back today.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      RIF was reddit to me so as it goes, i go. This app I’m using, Jerboa for lemmy, is pretty good

      • MentalEdge
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        And it will only get better, let’s hope. I’m hoping at least one of the third party reddit app devs jumps onto making a lemmy apps, or contribute to Jerboa repo.

        For now I still have lot of peeves with Jerboa, but it’s very new, turns out. There was Lemur before, but its been abandoned.

      • VitaMan
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        41 year ago

        I like the layout of Jerboa, but there doesn’t seem to be much new content, hopefully that changes soon.

        • @Xaphanos
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          21 year ago

          Jerboa does not get everything right yet. Use the regular web interface on a PC to see the difference.

          Give Jerboa time to evolve. The early versions of RIF were rough around the edges, too.

  • @[email protected]
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    Read an interesting idea today. Let subs become unmoderated free for all so chaos would reign. Not gonna lie, I’d like to see what it would become hahaha.

    • jorge
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      71 year ago

      AnarchyChess considered very seriously doing exactly that

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        They did do it but then something something admins stepped in something something mod was forced to do some things (can’t remember the details).

      • @JesusTheCarpenter
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        31 year ago

        AnarchyChess is true to its name. It’s all about anarchy and chess.

  • @boo
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    171 year ago

    You can use https://reddark.untone.uk/ to check which subs are still private. This morning it has been showing live notifications as many go public again. There are still some subs that are set to private or restricted.

    • fraser
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      51 year ago

      Good to see my two home subs of r/Fantasy and r/SquaredCircle still private.

  • @Asifall
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    81 year ago

    I mean I’m trying to stop using Reddit in general because it pisses me off, but IMO the individual users protesting is unlikely to change anything. The real test will be how many mods stay and continue to work well once the change goes into effect.

    • Billiam
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      101 year ago

      I think the real litmus will be on July 1, when all the 3pa shut down for good. That’s when it’ll be apparent who is willing to put up with Reddit, and who won’t.

      Also fuck the greedy little pigboy, spez.

    • @[email protected]
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      Be the change you want to see in the world. You can’t tell others what to do but if you feel like protesting is the right thing to do then do it. It might not achieve anything significant but atleast you’re putting your money where your mouth is and that puts you above everyone else who just whines but don’t actually do anything about it.

  • @KermitLeFrog
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    51 year ago

    I’m still using Boost until that app dies at least. It seems as though some of the protesting subs are coming back, some are doubling down. Every non-participating sub seems to be doing fine, although the upvote and comment numbers do seem lower than usual. The result is still kinda up in the air it seems.

  • f1g4
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    11 year ago

    Nothing really. Reddit will go on as usual with a bit less users and more ad revenue.

    • @CaptManiacOP
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      11 year ago

      Wow, how did you find a three week old post? :)