cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1190537
How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?
Of course they’re gonna claim they won. Most people don’t realise the sheer amount of bot generated content on there anyway, which has only increased.
It’s going to dramatically increase. BotDefence, a popular moderator tool, is shutting down
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Thank you! All the effort people are making to make Lemmy like Reddit. With the bots reposting content here to “seed communities.” FFS, why did these people leave, then!? Same with, “but I want to see all the content on Threads!” Then join Threads. Lemmy is Lemmy. Please let it stay that way. People lose sight of the main point of the protest: the community of users. Those folks moved here and elsewhere. It’s those people, not bots or astroturfing communities, who are going to make Lemmy/Squabbles/Spyke/etc. great places.
Oh wait wut they have NFTs?
They’ve been selling NFT avatars and avatar parts for a bit now. They’re not like, $1800 single unit ape pics, but they are a limited run set of digital items purchased for real money. They actually gave most people one for free like 2 years ago or something.
Well gee whiz, I have this little doggy avatar picture thing that I got… somehow? I assume that’s what you mean. I had no idea those were NFTs or that they were actually selling them. I just thought it was some stupid achievement I accidentally got.
As long as we can keep up the content here, this has replaced Reddit for me.
The Connect for Reddit app is much more enjoyable to use than the official Reddit app. Heck, I even like it better than I did Sync for Reddit.
This place is feeling a lot like the Reddit from 2008. Just get some rage comics back and this place will be 🔥🔥🔥.
Lemmy takes a bit more curation to start finding communities and has some rough spots, but I’m super excited for this.
I’m all in for rage comics revival 💯
I personally think Jerboa is a the smoothest experience so far. But I’m planning to jump to Sync when it becomes available.
I’ve settled on Jerboa for now. The only thing i can’t find is a way to share a link to a community.
I saw that article and i thought, “Reddit won? I lost? That’s funny, because i kinda feel like I’m winning.”
Nah, lemmy is still definitely the losing option. A fraction of the content for now and you can’t post videos yet, hope that changes.
Whats wrong with posting a link to a video? Video hosting is expensive and YouTube is already a great option.
Plus, reddit is pretty shit at hosting videos.
I’d just much rather it play in app, hoping Boost is able to play links natively without having to open them.
It’s all about ease of use, I don’t want to click on a bunch of links, it’s easier to scroll, watch, scroll. Also, I haven’t even seen links to videos, video posts are wayyyyyy down.
It’s all a matter of opinion but personally I don’t like watching videos and don’t care if I can post them. If that’s what you’re looking for in a platform this might not be the best one for you.
You don’t need to watch them, but the possibility to post is still better for the community. The porn side of Lemmy will be a shadow of it’s former Reddit self without videos/ability to play redgifs videos in app. Then you have the dog videos, and then the TikTok videos which you might not like but it’s undeniable they draw a crowd.
Thing is, with videos, which I’m assuming will come eventually, it will be the best one for me. Most social media feeds are awful, looking at you Instagram, TikTok and Reddit default app. Far too much soggested content.
Gaslight me daddy!
Saw Lemmy, never looking back. I hated the mobile web interface anyway.
Elmo’s twitter has taugh spez that you just take the hit and push through. Reddit has now alienated its powerusers, lost some historical content, and most of all decreased its potential for quality content. I believe that spez will even accept a decrease in MAUs. Any positive change now will have to come from other stakeholders.
I was one of the top 1% karma earners on Reddit last year (just saying as a measure of activity). I left it at the blackout and I’m not going back.
Same.
I wonder how much this propaganda article cost the jailbait lover u/spez?
