Post criticizing Reddit's new upvote policy hits 600 upvotes on r/RedditAlternatives. Feel free to chime in with your comparative experience of Lemmy.

I really hope digg turns out to be shit.

I’m reasonably certain they’re missing some internal revenue targets because advertisers are expressing concern on where their ads are showing up.

Reddit thinks they need to censor the “front page”; as this is where the vast majority of users are. If you saw the their commentary around their earnings, they said they were struggling to convert unsubscribed users to subscribed users, meaning most of their monthly active users aren’t curating their feeds.

So as a result they’re policing people’s ability to get “inappropriate things” (see: wrongthink) to the front page.

Unfortunately what this is likely to mean is that users who have commitment to Reddit leave, while low-commitment users stay.

Given that the majority of comment is low-effort memes anyway, I’d say Reddit don’t mind if the “smarter” users leave.

As one of the reddit comments put it, its not that they are just banning upvotes, they are leaving the posts to ban trap anyone who dares go against, so lick my taint Spez. I mean hi lemmy community!

Reddit can eat shit and die for all I care. After they killed 3rd party apps they signed their slow decline, I wish it was faster tbh.

I see more mentions of Digg than Lemmy in that thread. Many Redditors still don't know about Lemmy.