First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
Hah! Are we so inured to the death march towards dystopia that it is surreal when something good happens? All of these large social media sites are privacy hating monopolies that actively disrespect their members and misuse their information.
They should die. Let them. We should celebrate!
I’m honestly excited about this reboot. I hope more people will realize that reddit admins and the platform Reddit Inc. is not the same site you signed up for back in 2008. It’s a corporate entity that must make profit—which means getting rid of unprofitable means of accessing content they want to gatekeep. No thanks.
As someone who has been on reddit for almost twelve years, this site is so much closer to how reddit used to be. It’s crazy how much garbage we’ve been putting up with for so long over there.
I’ve already mentioned a few times here how I have similar feeling. An added effect to that is actually leaving comments again.
At some point I stopped really engaging with reddit and became a passive lurker. I thought I simply grew out of it, but maybe it’s more about how the site stopped feeling like a community.
Or how it started feeling like everything on reddit eventually became a witch hunt of one flavor or another. The days of karmanaut or years later unidan may as well be forgotten history to modern redditors. If they’re brought up it’s for the drama or the cringe.
The feeling of actually enjoying them and how the community interacted with itself at that time has been lost.
I love that upvotes exist on Beehaw, but not downvotes. No more brigading. Now, if someone disagrees, they actually have to comment. Ideally, that leads to actual conversation instead of ME NO LIKE. ME CLICK DOWN ARROW.
The age of wholesome brigading is upon us. Thousands of friendly users descending comments, pivoting and posting comments of encouragement
About a decade ago it was pretty common for subreddits to “disable” downvotes. It was just a css hack so nothing but a cosmetic change, but I remember people saying similar things.
As I understand it, on lemmy it’s kind of the opposite. I’m not on beehaw so I can still see the downvote button, but it does nothing if I click it.
That’s good to know, I wasn’t sure how interacting with the downvote button would work cross-instance.
Remember Streetlamp LeMoose? There haven’t been any such memorable events on reddit in recent years. What about the ol’ switcheroo? You don’t see that anymore.
They are indeed as you said, forgotten history to modern redditors. Back in the day, it was a closer community, and these events were discussed for days and referenced for months if not years.
Like you said, reddit has been consistently losing it’s community aspect. I’m glad to have experienced it, but I think it’s time to move on.
The ol’ switcheroo on lemmy would be a great way to teach people how to do inter-instance links! I don’t think it’s possible right now to link specific threads or comments, but it would definitely be a fun way to show how federation works.
Damn, that’s a genius idea - I’ve seen people linking specific posts, at least, so I’m pretty sure it’s possible - let’s see if this works
The hard part is that while you can have relative links to communities (/c/[email protected]) it doesn’t work for individual posts, threads, or comments.
I assume it’s a difficult problem because those would have different ids in different instances?
Damn, Streetlamp LeMoose, thank you for that memory
Damn I miss the ol’ switcheroo
It is funny because I remember talking to someone way back who was complaining about all the changes Reddit was going through, and that the new CEO sucked and the censorship was destroying the quality of Reddit. I guess everyone knew it sucked back then, and it just continued to suck even more with each passing year.
Jesus, that sentence hits hard with truth :(
You how the saying goes: The apocalyse is already here, it is just not evenly distributed.
Agreed. I’ve gotten increasingly worried that the web has consolidated more and more. I’m actually very surprised to see some traction for new sites (especially the fediverse). I’m hoping more of the big internet companies trash their established positions and hopefully help inject some newer life into the internet
Oh, if only I could get past my cynicism that any large company will ever do anything decent and make something that benefits people without eventually fucking everything over.