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See, if reddit had just let the upvote/downvote system work as intended, instead of banning people for no reason at all in a lot of cases, this entire problem likely would have been avoided. And no matter what the bans should have never been permanent! We dont put people in prison FOREVER, social media accounts should also be treated with some decency.
Permabans with no way to appeal are ridiculous.
And then to add that if you create a new account to get around a subreddit ban then that makes you eligible for a sitewide ban is even more ridiculous.
A lot of this is because the prevalent attitude has been ‘it’s the internet, it doesn’t matter’, and that allowed people to do things that we, as a society, decided long ago that people weren’t supposed to do.
Small suggestion - Is it possible for you to pin this comment to the top of the comment feed? I missed the comment when I first looked to be honest
I can’t say I will stay on Lemmy. But I won’t return to Reddit.
Same here. It’s already gotten sucky, and it’s only going to get worse.
If you want to know the future of Reddit, look at Facebook.
What wil you do? Where will you go to browse?
Do you guys not have phones?
Same here. Reddit is going downhill real fast.
Reddit has been going downhill for a decade. The problem was that there were no viable alternatives. Now that /u/Spez has pushed the issue, he forced enough people into Lemmy that it is suddenly a viable alternative. I call that a win!
Yes. For the time being. Would love to see larger migration from reddit.
I’m quite large, and I’m here
This is the way
Yeah!
I realized how much of a marketing cesspool Reddit has become once I left it. That along with the whole doom scrolling has been toxic to my mental health. So I am much better off without it.
That said, the fediverse seems to be a little too small especially for niche topics. Plus the this world still needs some tool/interface to unify it and make it easier to use. I still go back reddit once in a while for those niche communities but I have logged out for the first time in a decade+ from reddit.
I have started focusing on my hobbies more, the whole reddit fiasco has been a reminder that it is not just FB that is bad, it is everything including Reddit and in time possibly places like this if it grows.
I remember joining reddit a few years back, and it was on the cusp of when it became a cesspool. I wouldn’t post often (Maybe twice a month), but every time the engagement became less and less useful. Kind like how stack overflow users can never actually give you a helpful answer, they only link to other vaguely related ones, Reddit became “Oh, it’s because x and y” to “Oh god you’re so fucking stupid it’s obviously Z”.
And I just kinda dipped out to lurking on twitter, and then twitter became so god awful that I can’t even open the app without feeling like humanity lost its way.
Anyways other than that Kbin has been doing me justice. I’ve never been more active on any other platform.
Yeah! Fills my reddit void
Yes. I’ve been been on lemmy.world and kbin.social for the past week and the growth and content maturation is good enough for me now, and improving fast.
I deleted my Reddit account and all my post history yesterday.
Definitely! Immediately before switching to Lemmy I found myself scrolling looking for something interesting, meanwhile everything on Lemmy is fresh and exciting. Loving it so far!
I want to. But in all honesty, it depends on how much of the communities I’m used to migrate here as well. Right now my typical reddit content is mostly missing here. It has potential, but like any other social media site, it depends on the community and the content. I’m hopeful though, I think reddit is in its final days either way.
It is like early Reddit. It is up to us to blaze the trails for those who come after.
I’m liking it, especially with this WefWef web app thing for iOS. Staying because I’m not going back to Reddit
Yesss
Yes I’d be an idiot to go back to a closed system under corporate control. Its not the first time this has happened and it won’t be the last. We are seeing the web closing up now and if we don’t vote with our choices and content we will only be left with corporate walled silos with paid subscriptions to read, ads to watch, tracking on everything… Skip and few steps and we and up with black mirror.
The narrative needs to be democratic. Same thing with privacy , if youbcant have a private conversation you can’t bring about change. I hope you’ll all stay too
Yes
I will stay if you all stay. The site we want is the one with the people. I got sick of talking to bots and seeing ads disguised as social commentary. I would love to have a place to learn and socialize without constantly being bought and sold.
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