I think it’s inevitable to not talk about the elephant in the room. A lot of the new Fediverse users have migrated from Reddit so a lot of the discourse over the next few days might center around whatever is happening around that place. On the other hand, I do hope that other people take the time to explore and break out of their lurking behavior from Reddit.
Quick tip for those who don’t want to see any reddit discussions, just mute the word Reddit. I might do that in a bit lol
How would one mute the word Reddit? I took a look at the options in settings but didn’t find anything that appeared relevant to me. What did I miss?
As of now, I think the only way I could do it is through the iOS app Mlem. I’m not too tech savvy and heavily rely on my husband for help regarding these matters. Sorry about that ;;
It’s unavoidable right now. Reddit shooting itself in the foot is currently a hot topic. When the dust settles all the Reddit talk will eventually die down.
This is part of why Voat (pre fatpeoplehate ban turning it into a right wing shit hole) was a ghosttown. The majority of the active communities there were just complaining about different aspects of reddit instead of trying to share and discuss content.
That’s what I mean. There are !reddit@lemmy.ml and !whyileftreddit@lemmy.ml communities and a megathread on Beehaw, which should be way enough to talk about reddit, in my opinion. We should instead focus on creating content which isn’t reddit. I know it’s hard to part, and people are new, that’s why I created this thread to create awareness.
RIP voat
For anyone about to comment here, I just want to direct you to the megathread which @Gaywallet@beehaw.org has set up here in !tech for any Reddit-related discourse.
yes, please; obviously we don’t want to go too far in stiffling discussion since this is a Big Deal, but please remember we’re not trying to be Reddit (and especially not a Reddit meta hub) and that we have lots of other stuff you can talk about and contribute to on here!
Right? I came here to find new communities and regrow my online presence, not to stare back and laugh at the burning pile of rubble we left behind. (Although I suppose I should stop scrolling through “All”, it’s not like I ever did that on Reddit)
Given some time and it’ll start to clear out. It’s still very new
Like others are saying it’s a big deal for a lot of past and current members so I understand why it’s getting so much traction, but yeah it does seem like the biggest threads are reddit. That said you can sort by hot or new and there is plenty of content that didnt come to reddit.
For example !startrek@startrek.website is run by the old /r/startrek team and other subreddits like daystrominstitute jumped on as well.
I have been on reddit long enough to remember the migration from Digg to Reddit. Same thing, lots of “Hi from Digg posts” I see a lot of similarities to that migration.
Wait, we’re we not suppose to make leaving reddit our whole personality?
Give it a week or two, things will calm down like they always do
With respect, why do you think?
probably people open three threads about the same thing because they don’t know how to use the search function. That must be it. I will write a manual for this. /s
I don’t think it’s really that surprising given how a lot of us got here. Depending on what other bullshit comes up, I bet the reddit talk will die off in a week or so.
