I’m tired about reading about reddit here.

We left. Let’s move on.

  • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
    27819·
    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
      845·
      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
        52·
        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
        10·
        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/[email protected] 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
          4·
          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
            3·
            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.

      • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m with you, honestly how do you think that content got to reddit in the first place? Sure there’s some original content there but 99% of the site is just reposts people got from other sites - and porn. Bring some porn back with you if you have space

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
      425·
      1 year ago

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

        • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.world
          51·
          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

        • the_inebriati@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Opening up a new subreddit in the past few years had like a 50% chance of having 4 out of the top 10 posts people obnoxiously whining about X: “Please can we stop posting about X”,“Will the mods please start removing X posts?”, “If something doesn’t change soon, I’m going to start a new subreddit and the first rule will be ‘No X’”.

          Meanwhile there are zero posts about X in sight.

      • venusenvy47@lemmy.world
        6·
        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.

        • samus12345@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          I hear you don’t like bitching about bitching about Reddit

          So here’s some bitching about bitching about bitching about Reddit

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
      1·
      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 =)

    • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Making a post that blows up like this one was a thing on reedit. You got a score and that encouraged gaming/trolling. It’ll take a bit to realize that karma isn’t a thing.

      • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I tried to give OP the benefit of the doubt by providing practical ways he could make a positive impact if he was being genuine, but I think I was being naïve. He’d been on lemmy for the best part of a week before he posted this. No way in hell he hadn’t come across the many posts complaining about the same thing. Plus his reply to me was very Reddit-like. Passive aggressive at best, antagonistic at worst. I’d become used to people being a little nicer and more genuine in the few weeks I’ve been here!

        There something I don’t really understand about karma vs plain upvotes on lemmy. I know you needed a certain amount of karma to post in some subs, but it was never very much from what I recall. After you’d reached 2k at most, it didn’t have any value beyond social validation. Karma farmers didn’t do it for any real benefit, it just made them feel good. Won’t lemmy upvotes just be the same? You still get an upvote tally on your profile, you still get the dopamine boost from a thousand of people agreeing with you. Why do we assume (and hope) that karma/point farming won’t continue on this platform?

        • atempuser23@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          The Karma was your reddit score a way to rank your seniority and value. It made it a bit easier to see where someone stood in a specific community.A post from a throwaway account was more suspect than one with lots of karma.

          Point farming will be a thing, people crave attention and you can get that validation . Without that overall score I think it will be less pronounced on lemmy. I have been shocked with the reasonableness of posters here on lemmy.

          • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I just went to check what my karma was. On my first main account I had 30k karma after 10 years. The account I was using when I left was 8 years old and only had 3k karma. I definitely didn’t have any seniority or value! 😂

    • varzaman@lemm.ee
      12·
      1 year ago

      You trying to guilt people into generating content? Lol.

      This isn’t a job. This is for leisure. No one should force it.

    • JonsJava@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
      25·
      1 year ago

      I joined 4 days ago. I have contributed to HFY mostly, until this.

      I haven’t done much, because I wanted to get a feel for the community.

      Is it ok that I contribute now?

      • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        No need to get arsey, I wasn’t being rude to you. I simply pointed out, politely, that we can each make lemmy better by posting content we find interesting. Posting to complain about people posting to complain about Reddit, not only doesn’t help matters, it actively makes it worse. And clearly I’m not alone in this sentiment. I look forward to seeing your contributions now you have a feel for the place and have got your little rant off your chest 💚

  • acunasdaddy@lemmy.world
    1529·
    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
      242·
      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.

    • 15liam20@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      You’re right, anyone trying to get to first base with the Fediverse needs to have a serious word with themselves.

    • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      You’re right in that the analogy is way off. Here’s the only way it would make it right, is if your new date also wanted to vent about your ex. That’s probably not the case. But being a Reddit refugee is something in common for many people on Lemmy (especially right now) and so it makes perfect sense for people to talk about it.

      Also, I don’t give much thought to the posts I scroll past…

  • druphis@lemmy.zip
    1212·
    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.

  • pleasemakesense@lemmy.world
    91·
    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

    • dodgypast@vlemmy.net
      441·
      1 year ago

      I do feel for those who were enjoying a peaceful place until us rabble turned up needing to go through the stages of grief.

      I’m very grateful for it existing.

      • o_oli@lemmy.world
        231·
        1 year ago

        I mean kinda but realistically thats probably like 2% of people here and even most of those will be previous redditors.

        You can’t make a reddit clone and then moan that reddit users move over here thats my take on it at least lol.

  • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 year ago

    Bad analogy, it would be like meeting up with all your ex-girlfriend’s other former partners and all bitching about that shared ex because you have that thing in common.

  • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    742·
    1 year ago

    The fediverse has gradually shifted from being 75% posts complaining about reddit and 25% other to being 25% posts complaining about reddit, 25% posts complaining about how people come here to complain about reddit, and 50% other. We be makin progress!

  • DemigoD@lemmy.world
    753·
    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

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    68·
    1 year ago

    Instead of reddit, why not talk about something more positive on your date, like how many tickets you are going to buy for my new movie, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st?

      • Rhin0@lemmy.world
        24·
        1 year ago

        I agree to an extend. I could spend hours doom scrolling reddit but it was actually surprisingly easy to replace rif with wefwef.

  • Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world
    501·
    1 year ago

    Except the person you are on the date with also broke up with Reddit, and that is why you are on a date in the first place.