joining the fediverse to bitch about reddit is the same as going on a date, and spending the whole night talking about your ex
I'm tired about reading about reddit here.
We left. Let's move on.
I don’t mean to be rude OP, but your entire contribution to lemmy has been 5 comments and this single post about Reddit. In order to gain traction as a viable alternative to Reddit we need OC and active participation in the comment section. Be the change you want to see and lead by example - start posting interesting non-Reddit related stuff yourself. The more people that do, the better lemmy will be.
Man used it for one week, bitched about what ppl used it for and left
I think we need to start poaching video content from reddit and posting it here. Stuff like HoldMyBeer, StartledCats, etc. There's so much content for the taking, I don't think we should get stuck on OC. In this stage we just need content. I'm seriously considering starting a cat sub or holdmybeer sub, and stealing all the content from reddit until people starting posting their own contributions.
I agree. I should have said “make new posts” rather than OC. When I first joined I used my last days of Apollo access to copy over a few of my favourite BORU posts as the community was otherwise empty. I also started c/dontyouknowwhoiam@lemmy.word and reposted some of the old classics to get the community started. I don’t think lemmy should just be Reddit on another site, but it’s a good place to start while we build the site up.
Strongly agree.
I'm with you, honestly how do you think that content got to reddit in the first place? Sure there's some original content there but 99% of the site is just reposts people got from other sites - and porn. Bring some porn back with you if you have space
Let me know when you do so I can subscribe to your stream of silliness and entertainment :)
Yeah, the bitching about people bitching about Reddit is far more annoying than just the bitching about Reddit.
It reminds me of the occasional times where a corporate email would be sent out improperly to "all" in our company. A few people would reply all: "take me off this list". Then someone would reply all to those guys: "don't reply all". Then other people would reply all:"you are spamming the whole company!", etc.
It would take an hour or so to die off, but It was kind of amusing to see people react to the chaos. I assume the bitching about Reddit will die off naturally.
Likewise- this is literally another reddit post....
The OP is complaining about all the Reddit bitching on his front page. There is some control over the looks of one's front page in profile settings. If set to "All", then yeah there's going to be a lot of stuff outside of interest on the front page. My front page is set to "Subscribed" so I have to intentionally look for that stuff if I want to see it.
The way to use Lemmy is to subscribe to communities with content of interest and use the the subscribed view. Maybe this is more a case of someone new to Lemmy not understanding the best way to use Lemmy.
Can I see most posts being from the communities I have subscribed at while still introducing stuff from communities I haven't signed up for?
Seeing new stuff usually is good in life =)
You trying to guilt people into generating content? Lol.
This isn’t a job. This is for leisure. No one should force it.
I joined 4 days ago. I have contributed to HFY mostly, until this.
I haven't done much, because I wanted to get a feel for the community.
Is it ok that I contribute now?
No need to get arsey, I wasn’t being rude to you. I simply pointed out, politely, that we can each make lemmy better by posting content we find interesting. Posting to complain about people posting to complain about Reddit, not only doesn’t help matters, it actively makes it worse. And clearly I’m not alone in this sentiment. I look forward to seeing your contributions now you have a feel for the place and have got your little rant off your chest 💚
Hard disagree. The Reddit situation is a huge news story even for people who aren’t on Reddit.
Also you wouldn’t bring up an ex on a first date because you’re trying to impress the new person. However you would definitely talk about her to friends and family if it was an upsetting situation for you. Reddit was a big part of my life and it fucking sucks what happened To it
I think there is a thin line there, which has been crossed.
Talking about Reddit drama is fine. But when 90% of the posts here are all about Reddit (or Meta/Twitter vs Mastodon) it seems to me that people are just salty.
I came here because I gave up on Reddit, and I am looking for a reddit substitute. What I wish is to find here the content I would normally find there, so that I am not forced to move back to that wonderful website, sadly managed by shitlords (as the other 100% of profit driven websites. A lesson hard learned).
But if my feed is spammed by 90% stuff about Reddit and nothing else, that is not the way to growth or make people stick around.
Totally. But the reddit discussions will naturally die down and/or be contained in the "reddit sucks" specific subreddits (I think they are called "Communities" on most instances? Sorry - still learning). But either way it's a hot topic right now and, as you said, people are angry, hurt, and want a place to vent. I like that we have that space and can discuss together.
The Connect app allows you to hide posts based on keywords. Maybe add "reddit" to that?
A way to filter posts with the word "Reddit" would be great.
You're right in that the analogy is way off. Here's the only way it would make it right, is if your new date also wanted to vent about your ex. That's probably not the case. But being a Reddit refugee is something in common for many people on Lemmy (especially right now) and so it makes perfect sense for people to talk about it.
Also, I don't give much thought to the posts I scroll past...
Yeah, it's so far from bringing up an ex on a new date. I assume most people here are 'an ex' of reddit. It's more like a group of friends in a new bar talking shit about a bar they used to go to. Which is completely unproblematic and natural. The new bar doesn't give a shit, and the friend group gets to vent.
Here is a hot take: think of it like leaving a house you have been renting for 10 years. Our relationship wasn't with the landlord as much as it was the neighbors and community.
Now, our landlord turned to a money-grubbing asshat spaz spez. You better believe we are telling everyone in our community, old and new, not to rent from him. Additionally, we are going to be venting the hurt of being evicted. We have all been forced to find a new neighborhood and learn everything new that comes with it. Our habits have been reset and it sucks.
Now this is the perfect analogy!
It's less obsessing over that site, but more:
I wanna see that bitch burn.
Agreed, it's more like joining a club and finding that it's full of your ex's other exes than going on a date
Yeah, plus this club is ever growing with ex-redditors. It'll be topical news for a while yet.
Same
Were you a mod by any chance?
Nope. Ain’t gonna deal with that shit.
It's been like a week since the most recent migration happened, we can't just expect this to blow over immediately when like 90% here came from reddit just 7 days ago
I do feel for those who were enjoying a peaceful place until us rabble turned up needing to go through the stages of grief.
I'm very grateful for it existing.
I mean kinda but realistically thats probably like 2% of people here and even most of those will be previous redditors.
You can't make a reddit clone and then moan that reddit users move over here thats my take on it at least lol.
I am also interested in hearing about the fallout from the exodus.
If you aren't interested, you can block the thread.
Hopefully it's an ongoing process and a bunch of people have only been here for one day
Bad analogy, it would be like meeting up with all your ex-girlfriend's other former partners and all bitching about that shared ex because you have that thing in common.
Now that you mention it, I really wonder what would happen if all my exes got together to talk shit about me. What would that groupthink decide about me? Oh god nevermind, banish the thought..
I apologize and I wouldn't want that either lol. That thought is scary and that meeting would end up with them talking about how to hide my body.
Gotta be honest, I am kind of curious to try this.
I've done this in a group chat, though the lady who started the chat was waaay more invested in ex bashing than the other two
The fediverse has gradually shifted from being 75% posts complaining about reddit and 25% other to being 25% posts complaining about reddit, 25% posts complaining about how people come here to complain about reddit, and 50% other. We be makin progress!
Kinda the natural order of things, Reddit had a lot shitting on Digg in the beginning too. Just takes time
50% other
You mean “beans”
Beans
Except the 50% other is now 49% complaining about Meta
Instead of reddit, why not talk about something more positive on your date, like how many tickets you are going to buy for my new movie, "Barbie", only in theaters July 21st?
July 21st
sorry babe, Pikmin 4 comes out that day. I'm busy 😎
You should buy tickets for your 4 Pikmins too!
Hello Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie (sometimes I get mistaken for you). Is it true you were cast in Barbie because you have plastic feet?
I'm really curious what happens with this account once the movie has had its run.
Me too.
None. Not going to watch it because it shows a map with China's nine dash line. China has been harassing our fishermen and coast guards here in the Philippines, in our own waters. The government is also planning to ban the movie.
CHIN-AH
I heard about this, but I really can’t find anything resembling that on the disputed frame. Like, it has to be there because a government probably checked it better than me, but where exactly?
But what if that crazy bitch stabbed you and it makes a pretty good story
Lets not pretend we werent completely hooked either
I agree to an extend. I could spend hours doom scrolling reddit but it was actually surprisingly easy to replace rif with wefwef.
It would be more like you both dated the same asshole and are bonding over your mutual hatred.
just let people vent, itll stop eventually once everything settled for good
Yeah. All the Reddit news is new news. So of course it's going to be trending - it's happening right now and people are talking about it.
Not really. The reddit drama is a major disturbance in the internet. It's a huge topic and thus naturally generates lots of discussion. Of course everyone's talking about it.
Especially people directly affected by it!
And note that when Twitter had it's major fuckup recently, conversation on Lemmy moved over to Twitter for a while. Then it was Threads and their privacy nightmare and wanting to federate. Now Reddit is back to fucking up, so we're talking about them again. It's not our fault that these giant social media companies keep very publicly fucking up.
exactly! it happened this week, it's ok to talk about it
Says the person talking about…Reddit.
Yeah, I see so many of these post now. It's like going on a date and and spending the whole night talking about dates that only talk about their ex
Personally I enjoy hearing about the reddit drama. I don't spend nearly as much time there as I did before they broke my beloved sync so I enjoy getting to read about the ongoing shenanigans over there.
I would say it's more like when a bunch of friends collectively break up with toxic partners and have a big meeting to talk about it. It'll die down after a while. People on Reddit don't really talk about Digg anymore.
More like a bunch of strangers who were all dating the same toxic person gathering to talk shit about them.
It's a healing process.
Well they used to not talk about digg, but
talking about digg, so hot right now
They don't talk about Digg no mo', no mo'
They don't talk about Digg, no
BUT!
No. Joining Lemmy and bitching about Reddit is more like you and one or two other roommates moving out of a large, historically awesome collective steadily being ruined by an increasingly dictatorial house-owner (who used to live there too) and bitching about it in your brand new but decidedly smaller one, hopefully looking towards the future between tirades and building to regain some of that lost awesomeness
Disagree. We're enjoying watching our collective ex trainwreck. The chatter will die down soon, let us laugh a little and we'll move on :)
Agreed, and not only that but holy fuck we just broke up a week ago. I was in a relationship with that bitch for 12 years, I don't need my homies over here telling me it's time to forget about it lol
If you ask about her, don't be surprised when I tell you about the dumpster fire that belongs on Maury Povich.
We talk about what's important to us in the moment... It's part of how we mourn the loss we've just experienced.
I didn't join the Fediverse to bitch about Reddit, but I'm sure enjoying it.
I love reading about reddit AND twitter on the Fediverse.
It's better than reality TV could ever hope to be.
Entitled assholes who run the place, decide to start their platforms on fire and then try and blame the users.
Really?
And then they get all temper tantrum on the users and punish people like the tyrants they are.
Failing, worse than anyone ever in the history of business, (yes, YOU elon), is just a joy to behold.
Who is an amazing business man? Not you spez, elon, trump.
Ego will be your ultimate death.
Welcome to social media gentlemen, thank you for lighting yourselves on fire. Please clean up when you are done.
It's barely been a week! Let me grieve!
Reddit was full of Digg comments for a while.
Imgur was full of Reddit comments for a while (when Imgur decided to become their own social platform).
Lemmy is going to be full of Reddit comments for a while.
Digg was full of usenet. Remember? NNTP?
Sure, yeah, but you have to talk about your ex for a while to process and get over them.
Yeah, it's healthy!
🏅
You first
No, that's a bad analogy. A closer one with your context is having a bad breakup and then getting into another relationship and moving in with the person, where your share stuff about your prior life along with other stuff.
But a better analogy is people living in an apartment building who get together for social events in the common area for years until the management starts doing shitty stuff, increasing rent, etc. A hunk of people decide they aren't taking it anymore, so they all move into the newly built apartment down the road that doesn't have many people in it yet. The new place also has community events, and now it's mostly people from the old place that are talking about what happened in the old place.
Bad breakup, eviction, or whatever, you can't expect a group of people who had a bad experience together to just stop talking about it in a few weeks. The vast majority of Lemmy users came from Reddit. It will die down when people really have gotten over it.
I would liken it more to starting at a new job in the same industry. You have lots to praise, critique and compare about your new job to your old job, and the only people who can appreciate what you have to say are your new peers.
It's just the nature of the situation. This will likely be a trend for a while.
But it’s also topical news. There are interesting hints happening, newsworthy things. And the news is relevant to the wider world, not just one of us
Wouldn't that mean making threads about people complaining about Reddit comparable to spending the whole night complaining about how your last date only complained about their ex? Not really a great look either, lol.
...fuck, what does that make me, now?
Wait a minute!!! Reddit was fucking you lot too?!!!!
Omg I'm so sorry we thought you knew
I mean, didn't they fuck everyone?
Says the person posting about reddit.
It's more like it was 90% of the people here's ex that they just broke up with.
It's almost like people talk about recent events. Who would have thought?!?!
People need to vent
Sort of... But just like my ex, everyone has dated her and we all have something in common to bitch about.
Well, not quite - because we all have the same ex, so we can commiserate with each other and laugh at the fact that they just walked into a tree.
But yes - I was subscribed to Redditmigration when I first arrived, but unsubbed after about a week, it did indeed get old. Still - I'm not going to try and proscribe what people want to talk about. There will be people who are still genuinely mourning the loss of a communities they loved.
If you're joining the Fediverse to take Reddit down and migrate people over... then it makes sense to talk about it. Have to strategize to identify your enemy's weaknesses it order to take 'em down. And while you're doing it, negative things about Reddit will come out. Even if it does end up being complaining, it's part of the process and it'll make people feel better while also doubling as important brainstorming.
Reddit used to always go on about how I stacked the dishwasher. Then there were the API changes. I'm like, why do you need to control everything, reddit? Just chill the fuck out.
it helps create content for lemmy at least
This, unironically
Whining about the whining. Reddit has arrived.
Tell em, Steve Dave!
Digg --> Reddit --> Lemmy.
Been bitching on the net for a very long time.
Most people, in one way or another, process by talking. It's fine. Besides, there's the train wreck aspect of it. Bad taste as it may be, but you can't stop watching and pointing out more horrible details to the people around you.
no it isn't. My interest in Lemmy is not romantic and if you do agree with this, get out and engage people in person more often.
"We had everything. RiF, Apollo... so many others. She threw them away like trash. She even suddenly decided to hate on blind people. Who the fuck does that? I mean, really? Who does that?"
"I should have seen the signs it was time to move on when let all those Nazis move in years ago."
In a Community called showerthoughts definitely not ripped from Reddit. Lol
Posting here is a bit like having sex with your new partner while Margot Robbie shouts at you, but you're still thinking about your ex and loads of people are watching and up and down voting you and also you have concerns about how your new partner handles GDPR compliance
Nuh uh, I don't shout at anybody, I'm just here to promote "Barbie".
Margot Robbie! Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie! (Sometimes I get mistaken for you.) Is it true you once told Ryan Gosling that Ferrero Rocher were so light that they would actually hover over a bath plug hole, so he put one over the plug on his bath but then it fell in and jammed the plumbing for three weeks?