I’m tired about reading about reddit here.

We left. Let’s move on.

  • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
    722·
    1 year ago

    I don’t mean to be rude OP, but your entire contribution to lemmy has been 5 comments and this single post about Reddit. In order to gain traction as a viable alternative to Reddit we need OC and active participation in the comment section. Be the change you want to see and lead by example - start posting interesting non-Reddit related stuff yourself. The more people that do, the better lemmy will be.

    • BraBraBra@lemmy.world
      194·
      1 year ago

      I think we need to start poaching video content from reddit and posting it here. Stuff like HoldMyBeer, StartledCats, etc. There’s so much content for the taking, I don’t think we should get stuck on OC. In this stage we just need content. I’m seriously considering starting a cat sub or holdmybeer sub, and stealing all the content from reddit until people starting posting their own contributions.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pub
        11·
        1 year ago

        One should stress that it should be good content though. One of our strengths at this time is the reduced number of bots and more active contributors.

        There is plenty of content out there however, and I started sharing some of my favorite links with the smaller communities. Doing my part.

      • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I agree. I should have said “make new posts” rather than OC. When I first joined I used my last days of Apollo access to copy over a few of my favourite BORU posts as the community was otherwise empty. I also started c/dontyouknowwhoiam@lemmy.word and reposted some of the old classics to get the community started. I don’t think lemmy should just be Reddit on another site, but it’s a good place to start while we build the site up.

        • BraBraBra@lemmy.world
          0·
          1 year ago

          It’s becoming clear to me that getting a picture or video community off the ground that is not just memes might be difficult, and will take a pretty large userbase to sustain. But I think with something like Stealth app, as long as it continues to allow downloading from reddit, it should be easy for moderators to source video content themselves for the time being.

          • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve got a collection of porn from there if anyone needs it

            Boost had a download function… before those bastards killed it I had a pretty decent catalog of titties.

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, the bitching about people bitching about Reddit is far more annoying than just the bitching about Reddit.

      • venusenvy47@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        It reminds me of the occasional times where a corporate email would be sent out improperly to “all” in our company. A few people would reply all: “take me off this list”. Then someone would reply all to those guys: “don’t reply all”. Then other people would reply all:“you are spamming the whole company!”, etc.

        It would take an hour or so to die off, but It was kind of amusing to see people react to the chaos. I assume the bitching about Reddit will die off naturally.

        • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, ironically this whole post reminds me of that place

          Maybe they’re a plant sent from redshit to lower participation by reducing our current favorite topic which is: fuck redshit

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
      0·
      1 year ago

      The OP is complaining about all the Reddit bitching on his front page. There is some control over the looks of one’s front page in profile settings. If set to “All”, then yeah there’s going to be a lot of stuff outside of interest on the front page. My front page is set to “Subscribed” so I have to intentionally look for that stuff if I want to see it.

      The way to use Lemmy is to subscribe to communities with content of interest and use the the subscribed view. Maybe this is more a case of someone new to Lemmy not understanding the best way to use Lemmy.

      • Damaskox@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Can I see most posts being from the communities I have subscribed at while still introducing stuff from communities I haven’t signed up for?

        Seeing new stuff usually is good in life =)

  • acunasdaddy@lemmy.world
    233·
    1 year ago

    Hard disagree. The Reddit situation is a huge news story even for people who aren’t on Reddit.

    Also you wouldn’t bring up an ex on a first date because you’re trying to impress the new person. However you would definitely talk about her to friends and family if it was an upsetting situation for you. Reddit was a big part of my life and it fucking sucks what happened To it

    • seejur@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think there is a thin line there, which has been crossed.

      Talking about Reddit drama is fine. But when 90% of the posts here are all about Reddit (or Meta/Twitter vs Mastodon) it seems to me that people are just salty.

      I came here because I gave up on Reddit, and I am looking for a reddit substitute. What I wish is to find here the content I would normally find there, so that I am not forced to move back to that wonderful website, sadly managed by shitlords (as the other 100% of profit driven websites. A lesson hard learned).

      But if my feed is spammed by 90% stuff about Reddit and nothing else, that is not the way to growth or make people stick around.

      • acunasdaddy@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        Totally. But the reddit discussions will naturally die down and/or be contained in the “reddit sucks” specific subreddits (I think they are called “Communities” on most instances? Sorry - still learning). But either way it’s a hot topic right now and, as you said, people are angry, hurt, and want a place to vent. I like that we have that space and can discuss together.

    • MySkinIsFallingOff@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, it’s so far from bringing up an ex on a new date. I assume most people here are ‘an ex’ of reddit. It’s more like a group of friends in a new bar talking shit about a bar they used to go to. Which is completely unproblematic and natural. The new bar doesn’t give a shit, and the friend group gets to vent.

  • druphis@lemmy.zip
    121·
    1 year ago

    Here is a hot take: think of it like leaving a house you have been renting for 10 years. Our relationship wasn’t with the landlord as much as it was the neighbors and community.

    Now, our landlord turned to a money-grubbing asshat spaz spez. You better believe we are telling everyone in our community, old and new, not to rent from him. Additionally, we are going to be venting the hurt of being evicted. We have all been forced to find a new neighborhood and learn everything new that comes with it. Our habits have been reset and it sucks.

  • MythicalDraught@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    No. Joining Lemmy and bitching about Reddit is more like you and one or two other roommates moving out of a large, historically awesome collective steadily being ruined by an increasingly dictatorial house-owner (who used to live there too) and bitching about it in your brand new but decidedly smaller one, hopefully looking towards the future between tirades and building to regain some of that lost awesomeness

    • SixTrickyBiscuits@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Plus, bitching about common experiences is awesome. I have two past co-workers that I stay in contact with and most of what we talk about is how much we hated the job.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    1 year ago

    If I go to Reddit in order to tell everyone how great Lemmy is, that’s like going back to my X and talking about how great my new SO is. Sounds like a pretty psycho move IMO when I think about it.

  • pleasemakesense@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s been like a week since the most recent migration happened, we can’t just expect this to blow over immediately when like 90% here came from reddit just 7 days ago

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s only been 8 days dude. Gotta give people time to grieve and accept it so they can move on.

    • Lightor@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      For real. It’s like getting a new job and say “wow I love how great this is, my old job sucked.” Then kinda laughing at how bad it was then and how good it is now.

      Asking people to immediately forget about a platform they (at least in my case) have spent over a decade on in a matter of days is naive. People are going to commiserate about it, we’re human.

  • DemigoD@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    ya ok but then again you did make this thread, currently #1 on my lemmy world feed, about bitching about reddit lol

  • Trapping5341@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Personally I enjoy hearing about the reddit drama. I don’t spend nearly as much time there as I did before they broke my beloved sync so I enjoy getting to read about the ongoing shenanigans over there.

    • AccountNo5@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I see so many of these post now. It’s like going on a date and and spending the whole night talking about dates that only talk about their ex