Nice thing, someone mentioned Lemmy there: https://old.reddit.com/r/popculture/comments/1j5jngg/rpopculture_is_closed/mgi48zn/
Wow. I remember when the Digg migration to reddit finally reached critical mass. Feels like this might be it for reddit now. Ha ha. Edit: r/Fednews should probably move over here for safety too.
Isn’t Reddit banning big mentions of Lemmy though?
Apparently not fast enough, because the mention of Lemmy in the comments of the aforementioned Reddit post are what led me to join here today.
Ha. Same. Weathers nice here, think I might stay.
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Welcome to the good old Reddit, aka new Reddit!
I posted a bunch of comments on that post earlier today! As far as I know they’re still up too
One guy was even trying to argue that it’s too difficult to make an account here.
Their bloodline is weak, and will not survive the winter.
Welcome to lemmy, have fun!
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They don’t. Some subreddits ban it, not Reddit itself.
From what I’ve seen it’s mostly mods of specific subreddits removing comments that promote Lemmy. A few instances do get caught in the site-wide spam filter though.
Yeah feels more like sub mods afraid of losing power over actual Admin interference.
Yeah, but obviously they are also pretty dumb (they didn’t even consider what would happen if people edited comments after people upvoted then). So, not too hard to get around that.
Yeah, it’s remarkable how “dumb” and crude Reddit automoderation, recommendations, everything seem given how much money they make and use.
Say what you will about Facebook, but their tech stack is so real it’s dystopian.
Yeah, that’s because they only ever invested in what they wanted, not what served their users. Which always baffles me, when your only product is your users and their generated content, you would think the best business would be to give them what they wanted! Guess that is why I never bothered with an MBA.
No, if the end goal is quick money the strategy is perfect.
- Amass users in niche interests, don’t mess things up.
- Slowly “mainstream” content, switch focus to engagement and mass appeal.
- Now you have a huge user base. Time to squeeze them.
- Suck up to regulators and investors to keep the ball rolling.
- Squeeze, squeeze, keep squeezing as users slip through your fingers and the line goes up.
- And just before everything explodes, sell Reddit to Big Tech, who absorb it like The Thing. They both win. Alternatively, sell to public markets and leave them holding the bag of shit, and walk away with cash.
The best part? Short term investors love this shit. They thrive on volatility. A sustainable business? That’s boring and less profitable.
The site is turning to shit? Mods angry? Who cares. That’s the problem for whoever is holding the bag next.
There’s a mention about a digg reboot at the bottom of the post
Digg is relaunching with one of the original reddit co-founders
Unfortunately people will see that first over the comments mentioning lemmy.
We should welcome ethical competition
Well, at least all of us that came from Digg shouldn’t be fooled by that…Maybe the first posters at the new digg can also give a shout out to Lemmy.
Pffft I love that even Digg is preparing to make a come back
You know you fucked up when Digg is preying on your weakness
I’m not real thrilled that O’Hanian is one of the new owners, makes it feel creepy and unsafe.
They refuse to shutter porn subs that facilitate the sale of known CSAM but you cannot say Luigi?
They aren’t afraid of kids. Unfortunately, they also don’t care to protect them.
Edit: they also aren’t afraid of us, obviously. but, we know who they are afraid of now.
Man I’ve been away from reddit for a while I guess. This is the first time Ive heard that. Horrifying, but seems about right
It’s very niche and obscure sub. It’s only because of a weird post that I figured it out.
I would love for there to be a decent pop culture community on Lemmy to break me out of non-stop doomscrolling. Maybe this will be the kick in the pants to make it happen.
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i get a sneaky feeling not that many folks here care about Ariana and Spongebob to the extent we might
Be the change you want to see on Lemmy
Fuckin Spongebob. She’s going to cheat on him, too, and hopefully he realizes he fumbled a beautiful doctor who, for some unknown reason, actually loved him.
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Not that Spongebob rather the guy who portrays him on Broadway who looks like Ariana’s brother. Eeew
It’s the niche communities and the participation within that op speaks to. Ariana and SpongeBob might as well be picket fences or Mia Farrow as far as how relevant they are. Compare that to a whole community about a programming language or board game.
Don’t worry guys, you can incite violence here to the hearts content!
Americans glorify violence every year on the Fourth of July
Give it 48 hours before all mods are purged and the sub is no longer “closed”
probably give it to the 92 mods that own 500 subs , to help them gatekeep the content.
banned for upvoting an article from the guardian about the dorito despot
I’m not sure why people still use that website. “Move fast and break things” works out occasionally, but this feels like every decision Reddit has made in the last 10 years. There were some good early choices mixed in with the bad, and denying those would be silly.
Whenever we think someone is making that many mistakes over that many years, we have to eventually accept the fact that it was likely deliberate all along. The point has likely been to push away free thinkers and smart people this whole time. We aren’t the part of the bell curve they are concerned with, as we are not as easily controllable (ie. influenced)
I’d hesitate to call lemmy users free thinkers or smart. I’m bog standard, at best, and others here are usually about par with me. No, it’s been pretty apparent that they enact change because of pressure from above and outside, leading to constant issues. The company’s leadership is simply incapable of creating anything better.
They chase money, respect, and trends, in that order, but rarely successfully and even more rarely proactively. They’re a poorly coordinated, reflexive, and myopic behemoth, and have been for a long while. The company’s just too unwieldy for them. But, the intentionality of their mistakes is irrelevant.
TLDR; The only thing of import is the frequency of their mistakes and my lack of tolerance for them.
You were smart enough to get on a device and post to Lemmy. That puts you on the right side of the intelligence bell curve my friend. Yeah, it’s not important why reddit sucks, just that more people are now realizing it and coming to places like this.
Lemmy is not an indicator of intelligence, nor would I use it as a benchmark.
But it’s a good start to better options.
I’m mostly joking. But, it is a higher barrier than signing up for reddit for most people lol
