How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

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?

  • Garrathian@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    511·
    1 year ago

    I have to be honest, the fact we have an active alternative(s) to reddit at last makes this a complete success for me. I’ve lowkey despised reddit for years. Particularly from 2016 on when bots kind of overran the website and the front page was just filled with toxic garbage that never really went away to this day. I actually did use the revanced patch to make my RIF app working again (though I can’t get my ad-less premium back unfortunately), but I’ve been on here far more than there. I think im just having more fun on Lemmy than I have been on reddit in years. The only reasons I hop back are for sports team specific communities (and really the game threads because I like interacting with other people watching when im watching alone). On the instance i’m on there are generated game threads but it hasn’t got the users to make them particularly active as of yet. If that ever happens i’ll happily cut off reddit for good

    • c0c0c0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      If the only people who leave Reddit are the ones who understand what a federated FOSS link aggregator is, I think I’d be cool with that. Lemmy’s share of the 3% who have moved on is already pretty impressive, at least in terms of where it was a couple months ago. And the quality of the discourse has been significantly better.

      I dunno if Reddit won, but I certainly did.

    • kras@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’m really liking the lack of bots as well. Im hoping the sports stuff takes off here but I guess that just takes time. I’ll check out that instance though. When football and hockey start up again I’d love to have gameday threads back

        • headie_sage@fanaticus.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          We’re out here! I’m an admin at fanaticus.social. We’re a sports-only instance. We’re the instance /u/Garrathian was talking about.

          If you miss your sports and want to discuss them, come on over and check us out. We have all the major sports and their teams’ communities set up and have ported the game bot (for baseball right now) over. We’re planning on having the game bots ported over before the start of the other major sports’ seasons.

        • c0c0c0@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          So, I’m new here, but I’m still struggling to see the advantage of smaller and more focused instances. I mean, Lemmy.World was pretty sluggish in the first days of the Great Migration, but it got better fairly quickly.

          I can imagine smaller instances can do a better job of screening new sign-ups, and they tend to be a little faster than (some) larger instances. Is that it? I’ve also noticed that they tend to have more lag on content updates on the communities I am most interested in, and the front page seems a bit more static.

          I created an account on a smaller instance when perfomance here on .world were at its worst, but now I find myself using this account more and more. Maybe more instances is good for Lemmy, but I’m not yet sure if ti’s good for me.

          • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            It’s federated, so yeah - you can interact with the fediverse from any federated node

            The node you call home matters though. You’ll run into your local users more, you’ll come across certain communities more.

            The experience is very different. Use multiple accounts, but find a home

          • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            My home instance, Lemmy.sdf.org, is full of geeky/retro communities that tickle my fancy. I like setting my view to “local” to see what pops up locally, even in communities I’m not a member of.

            I’m also a member of feddit.uk, which focuses on UK stuff. That’s handy for folks in the UK because it’s easier to find locally-relevant stuff.

          • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I would imagine that instances would really compete on channels/communities/magazines and the mods/admins running those. At a certain point, then, the instances would also tend to have some kind of home field advantage on new users who sign up specifically for that instance’s sports communities. Users from other instances can still interact with the most popular communities, but that’s what I imagine when people talk about instances that focus on a particular niche.

    • Rocinante@lemmy.oneEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Check out realgm forums for sports. Was hard cutting off sports community on reddit, but realgm is active and been around for years.