A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
Powerless to change Reddit. You can always do what I did and use lemmy instead.
This is the way.
It’s been so much nicer tbh, at least on Beehaw. I don’t have any reason to go back with Lemmy and RSS feeds
Same!
Yes! I’m also powerless to change every other social media platform out there. I’m glad to be here
Path of least resistance is usually best in these cases, and frankly, it’s nicer here. I have been waiting for Lemmy to pick up after trying other fediverse applications and there is no way I am going back for any application. Now we just need YT to implode.
Walking away and not looking back is actually very powerful.
Yep, vote with your feet is all that we’ve got, and shouldn’t be underestimated.
Yup, I am happier on the fediverse now.
This has the energy of walking away from explosions in slow motion.
Leaving Reddit is the only protest that works. The site looks basically the same as it did before that 2 day black out.
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Powerless to change Reddit, yes, but not powerless to find a new community!
To everyone hanging in the fediverse, I just want to say, I am proud of all of you!
NGL I’ve found the communities on here to be much more genuine. It feels like things are less manipulated, like there are less bots and less advertising companies trying to do guerrilla marketing.
Might just be that these communities are small enough that such things are not worth the time of those who would do such things.
At this point I think I’ll always just migrate to smaller communities as time goes on.
I think so long that the community is on an invite-basis community, it raise the cost of botting the website much higher than other platforms so it can de-incentivize them from gaming the platform.
Just don’t use it lol
I don’t know, my brother has been a Redditor for as long as I was (15 years) and he became angry and hostile when I told him about Lemmy. We’re both in our 50s.
He’s been using the official Reddit app for years and claims it “works perfectly for him”. He seems utterly blind to Reddit’s enshittificaton. He’s always been kind of an asshole- he behaved the same when I quit Facebook, though he eventually did the same- and he also fears new tech (he didn’t have a smartphone until 2020). I wonder if people like him- of which I’m sure there are plenty- will ever wake up.
Sounds like Morpheus was right about not freeing minds once they reach a certain age.
He’s two years older than I am, and I’m here on Lemmy with a deleted 15 year old Reddit account. He’s always been like this, age has nothing to do with it.
I actually think being older in general makes you more willing to move around on the internet, I’ve seen so many changes and joined and left so many things as they rose and fell that it’s just a fact of life that some things on the internet are very cyclical, I’m actually astonished that reddit got as far as it did while remaining relatively user friendly.
Absolutely, I already was over “sticking to a platform no matter what” when LIveJournal was bought by Russians in 2007. At one time LJ was practically my life, but I took a “scorched earth policy” with my blog there just as I did with all my Reddit content.
We’ll see how it plays out. I have a feeling reddit may currently be putting in artificial upvotes and comments to save things. They’ve done it when reddit got their start, and as someone who works in tech, I know nothing’s stopping them to create a fake 10 year old account with thousands of karma and fake old replies to do some social engineering to make it appear that nothing has changed. This might work out especially for your brother who is afraid of change, or it might not.
I know nothing’s stopping them to create a fake 10 year old account with thousands of karma and fake old replies to do some social engineering to make it appear that nothing has changed
No need to create them, they’ve got lots of old ‘deleted’ accounts they can resurrect for this purpose.
I used Shreddit to delete all my posts at Reddit, cancelled my premium sub there, and deleted my account. I was there for over 8 years - paying the entire time, as I believed in trying to support the space.
Walking away did not make me feel “powerless” but rather glad to take my time, support, and interests somewhere else that is (hopefully…) healthier. I know of at least 15 people who have done the same, so if you multiply my story by many others I am pretty sure that such walkouts will be felt eventually - especially from those of us who were paying monthly.
When I left, I landed on Kbin first, something I now am kind of not too sure I will continue for reasons I won’t get into…
but thankfully, I discovered Beehaw here is just more my speed, which makes me happy 🐝☺️
Sorry for the question, maybe it’s not appropriate so don’t answer if you don’t want to but, what was the problem with Kbin? I saw many people telling it’s really good so I would like to hear about the opposite.
Hi. No worries, it’s nice to be asked. 🙂
I mean, I have only been singed up there a week so I am not an expert on what is happening; I don’t have anything against Kbin per say? but I just get this sense that maybe the real goal of the space is a little too much leaning towards a recreation of Reddit practices and features. I also noticed some threads encouraging people to move on to other instances already, which seemed sort of odd to me since again, they are just getting going.
Meanwhile here, things feel more relaxed. I really appreciate the transparency with the vision for Beehaw, and feel that it is well reflected in practice by the mods/admins posts and their interactions, not just posted on the sidebar. The posts from community members also seem way more friendly and positive, so it just seems a much better fit for my comfort zone.
Agreed on all points, but re: Lemmy.world, not Kbin.
I just installed the Liftoff app which defaults to showing Lemmy.world and posts there are just like /r/popular from the last few years, with lots of shitposting, low effort comments, and mean-spirited memes. That side of Reddit is why I was only subbed to niche communities.
Here feels like Reddit circa 2010, where people use upvotes to highlight thoughtful/insightful content.
It was particularly jarring on Lemmy.world seeing thoughtful posts supporting a different view being downvoted.
Anyway, fully agreed. Beehaw is my Reddit replacement. I just need to start posting more links again, which I mostly stopped doing on Reddit like a decade ago.
I get it. Many thanks for sharing your opinion :D
It feels like realizing that WhatsApp is a terrible Meta privacy nightmare, but you can’t wake up because you can’t convince your whole family to use Signal.
Many people advise to just quit it anyways and if your family actually cares about you, they’ll switch. Works as a great relatives filter too.
I’ve tried, but Signal is just too cumbersome to use. I sorely miss a web client and my family members sorely miss an Android tablet client. This makes it hard to recommend.
Did anyone else actually watch the video? It’s inaccurate in places and is biased towards Reddit (e.g. claims that Apollo had no backend costs). Also, it misspelled the CEO’s name as “Steve Hoffman.”
Overall, this is the first post I’ve seen that makes me wish Beehaw had a downvote button.
Telling people they need to quit Reddit is not realistic. People are more likely to respond if we give them easy and realistic advice.
The most realistic course for most people is to join a few alternative communities that match your values. Join a Lemmy instance, join a Mastodon instance, etc.
- Sign up for a new community; a Lemmy instance for example.
- Take a few minutes to sign into the new community on all your device, you want it to be as easy as possible to start using the new community.
- Prefer to use the new community whenever possible. When you’re bored and going through the usual websites (you know what they are), visit the new community first, move Reddit to the bottom of the list. Avoid using Reddit, but don’t stress too much if you end up there occasionally, just give preference to everything else.
This advice is not too intimidating, anyone can act on it, and even if only a few people act on it, it’s still effective for those few people. This plan has everything it needs to be effective and spread.
You’re right that telling people to quit Reddit could come off as hostile.
Beehaw seems to be easy on sign up from my experience, so it’s here when July 1st rolls around when Reddit terminates API for third party apps. I think significant amount of users of Reddit use the app regularly, so they might leave Reddit once the app no longer works and I imagine that some of them would be unaware of the ‘old’ reddit UI so they would likely get a really negative impression of the current ‘new’ Reddit Ui that they would likely be deterred from using Reddit going forward.
+1 on your advice!
Right, I am powerless to stop Reddit. I’m not so powerless that I won’t say bye to Reddit. Now I’m here and I’m liking it more.
powerless? Reddit has like 0% of my daily Mindshare and I have here now which doesn’t really feel meaningfully different in any negative way, only positive ones! I like to think I had the power to change my life for the better in this aspect, and I did
Reddit is a lot of peoples only form of community, especially if it’s obscure interests. Without it your more or less trapped in your local area.
Powerless how? I left lol. I am not generating content for that website anymore which means I have taken something away from them.
/me waves from powerlessness.
