4mo ago

Post on /r/Technology complaining about the latest Reddit announcement (warning users who upvote banned content). Comment mentioning Lemmy has 272 upvotes.

old.reddit.com

Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

27 comments

Lemmy is nonsensical fediverse bullshit.
Lemmy will never take off due to their idiotic federalism approach.
See those muppets looking for the next Digg / Reddit 10 years from now, after their alternative "with no federated bullshit" gets enshittified the exact same way as Reddit did. 🍿
- It’s crazy how lazy people are.
  “FeDErAtIOn iS CoFUsInG”
  Welp, enjoy continuing to be at the mercy of the whims of the board of directors. God forbid you have to learn something new
  
  Its like dude. Just make an account on a big server and pretend federation doesn't exist. You'll barely notice the difference. It's not as if you have to understand federation to use Lemmy.
- anyone who doesn't understand lemmy after using reddit must be a real pea brain
  
  Not necessarily a pea brain, but certainly clueless on why Reddit, Digg, Slashdot etc. went downhill.
  
  I think it's just that reddit looks like everything else now (Pinterest/Instagram/ect) with their UI so the general public expects certain elements to do certain things. They don't remember the old interface nor the free-wheeling link madness reddit had in the beginning.
  Reddit only became popular relatively recently.
  
  Bet they are the ones who browse the internet without an ad blocker.
- Translation: my views are abhorrent and I fear no one will view them
I think instead of telling people what Lemmy is in words, maybe just give them a link and let them decide.
Who cares what "instance" they land on or the "correct" way of doing activityhub. Let them go down the rabbit hole if they want to. Just give them an in.
For the longest time, reddit got popular despite its UI (that I grew to love as old.reddit). Let them explore a bit and point them over to a front page. Just my 2 cents.
- agreed
The comment mentioning lemmy only has 268 votes. The one it's responding to has over 1000.
- Indeed, fixed!
  
  It so nice to be able to edit titles.
  Imagine being on a platform that doesn't allow you to do that ;)
Welp, time to dust off the old reddit account. There's people showing interest, asking genuine questions, and many opportunities to practice that rusted thing called kindness while answering them.
- dust off the old reddit account
  If they're good for anything, they're good for this, right?
  
  Until they ban me, at least. I'm quite fine with that, though.

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