Reddit is a Dying Mall

To be fair Lemmy feels like a brand new mall of stores with empty shelves.

This is two months old and a report about the exodus that's already happened.

Reddit didn't die, it probably won't anytime soon.

It's really unattractive to be so obsessed with your ex months after getting into a new relationship with Lemmy. Can we move on please?

I started a new job a few months ago and was on my first business trip with four colleagues recently. To make conversation I asked if anyone used Reddit.

• Two dudes had heard of it but never used it.

• One dude said he uses it infrequently because it’s turned to shit.

• One dude said fuck Reddit and it’s API bullshit.

• I said fuck Reddit and it’s API bullshit.

Thats my anecdote. 100% of the people in that car didn’t use Reddit or now hated it. Probably 3 months ago that same car ride would have had three people loving Reddit and advocating it to the other two.

The article is 2 months old..

Why post an article from two months ago about a thing we've all accepted? I started reading and wondered what new drama occurred on that dying platform. Then it mentioned APIs and I checked the date. June. We're almost in September. Eternal September.

At least the mall of Reddit is open 24/7.

That new mom and pop down the road seems to close at random times during the day. 😉

Lemmy, can we do better? I came here to hang out with a scrappy new community of people excited about cool shit. Instead it's a bunch of people bitching about Reddit and X. C'mon let's make this place fun and exciting.

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Small communities that are interoperable” is basically what Reddit is now.

Which is EXACTLY why federation fits the reddit style of forum like a glove, and why ultimately Lemmy is the path forward.

I've come up with the following rules for my own relationship with Reddit.

1. I will avoid posting on Reddit.
2. If I do post on Reddit, I must make a similar post on another forum, maybe Lemmy, maybe somewhere else.

Number 2 is important because it helps other small communities grow.

It's not a problem if a lot of people post on one forum, but it is a problem if a lot of people post only on one forum. I wont allow myself to post only on Reddit.

That said, I haven't posted on Reddit since June.

This post is a total shitshow. I get the sentiment, and to some amount agree. But who the fuck wrote this drivel? its the worst shit I've read in seconds on the internet, and that usually takes hours.

Self Aggrandizing Self Posters.. GFY

These posts are exhaustingly far from the reality of the situation. Please don’t make the fediverse kick the puppy that is your optimistic opinion, OP.

Edit: OP downvoted everyone who disagreed with him.

This shit is from June lol

I think inevitably Reddit's utter collapse will be power mods causing intense drama as well the mods who are actually capable of curating content properly having left. I was surprised no hate subs spawned from the migration away from reddit, but I realized something. The people who would likely moderate hate subs now moderate the mainstream subs. Shit is going to hit the fan.

I left reddit after they killed boost. best decision I've ever made.

But really, where else can you go to read a bunch of eight year old tweets?

decentralized social media is the future.

I'm glad after all these years that my local mall is still the face of dead malls everywhere.

It was better in this video essay

I don't think so. The migration to Lemmy was minuscule. It's still huge, like very huge, but now that I use Lemmy more than Reddit, differences are obvious. Reddit is so massive that it has become a wrestling arena, Lemmy on the other side, is a more quiet place where civilized dialogue is above anything else. It's a matter of tastes, but I feel better here.

We need an article summary bot up in here man. I got walled off after a few paragraphs and it wanted my email to store in their database😅

No, it isn’t.

If Reddit is a mall for ideas, then Lemmy is more like an economy for ideas. Or many malls that are linked by an instant, intergalactic transport system. You know, I'd probably go back to malls if they had that.

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I know it's bad when the front page is majority popular posts from the last 10 years and nothing new

@JustinHanagan@kbin.social i think you might have the meaning of "Luddite" backwards https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

Another article that's overly sympathetic to the mods. Reddit has been bad for years, not now just suddenly with the API changes when the bulk of you finally realized. The mods were horrible and HUGE part of the problem, to the point I think the mods (and other users) being so upset is hilarious. The API changes were a bad move, but they were just the latest in a years long string of nothing BUT bad moves. You guys are way late to the party and congratulating yourselves for being so punctual. Now the standard moving on from your ex joke and my comment is finished.