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      Time for a new influx. Everyone still on reddit needs to advertise lemmy.

      And not join-lemmy.org, that's confusing. Just pick one of the larger servers like lemm.ee or fedia.io and tell people to browse it and click "Sign Up" if they like it.

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        I'd recommend a smaller community to help spread the load. I originally signed up on .world but they were having some growing pains (And a disgruntled idiot ddosing them) so I moved to .ca which helped tremendously.

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          I really disagree. For learning lemmy for average people, big instance is best.

          There is a point where people who stick around are likely to make a new "real" account on a different smaller server, after they know what they want to browse.

          Basically big instances should be like training wheels.

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            Yeah tbh this is how I did it and I consider myself tEcH sAvVy - still started with .world because I didn't know where else to go.

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      Oh, okay. I had no idea. I was like "How far do I have to scroll to find out what reddit did this time?"

      Wouldn't affect me anyway, because I use an ad blocker.

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      Yup ads and posts on reddit are becoming even more indistinguishable, the "organic community" is just a selling point for marketing because you can embed yourself in it, basically just exploiting their users. The metrics to gauge ad performance is based on things that make the site shitty as well. Reddit, at least the big subs, haven't been organic in this way for a long time, it's basically a simulation of an organic online community at this point.

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        I think the average person is not willing to take 5 minutes to figure out how Kbin or Lemmy works.

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            Before I left Reddit, I searched for alternatives and saw that people recommended Lemmy or Kbin. But I didn't know what those things were. I assumed they were just Reddit clones hosted by someone else. I didn't know that I could create an account on Kbin and interact with other posts in the Fediverse. I didn't even know what the Fediverse was. So I was stuck with this decision of "do I try Lemmy or Kbin first?"

            When I decided to try Lemmy, the first thing you need to do is sign up on an instance. People recommended beehaw.org, but that required filling out an application to join. That seems weird, since I never had to apply to read Reddit. I decided to try another instance (sh.itjust.works) but was worried that I was missing out on what people had recommended about other instances. Maybe I chose the wrong one? Maybe I should make an account on Lemmy.world instead?

            It took me a little while to grasp the concept of federation and realize that it made no difference as an end user which instance I chose. I stuck with it, as did everyone reading this, but I think it's fair to say that the average person has similar barriers to entry. We've overcome them, but many, many people will not.

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              The app situation is getting much much better. The website UI is inferior to old reddit or the apps. I know some servers support the old reddit UI but it's not discoverable. Stuff like expanding images needs to be easier to do instead of clicking a semi-hidden 10px square each picture.

              Sync and Boost are great, though I'm still not happy with the iOS apps (I like Avalon and Mlem, but I don't live either of them, whereas the Android apps feel fantastic).

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                Boost is lovely and polished and you can see that tons of work has gone into it.

                Tell you what though: while I was waiting for Boost, damned if the Voyager (fka wefwef) PWA came out of nowhere with (I think) some of the nicest UX of any of the contenders, plus an insane release schedule because they can just push changes whenever. Voyager is honestly what has kept me here. (…he says, posting from Boost)

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              you joined early on, you had to work at understanding the fediverse. now there are plenty of places that explain everything.

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              True, the concept of the fediverse is probably what confuses people, it's never explained clearly. I hope it's growth helps spread information about it, how it works and why you want it.

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    I think fediverse people are wildly overestimating how much 99% of Reddit users care about this. The mod team on r/futurology (I'm one of them) set up a fediverse site just over a month ago (here you go - https://futurology.today/ ) It's been modestly successful so far, but the vast majority of subscribers seem to be coming from elsewhere in the fediverse, not migrants from Reddit.

    This is despite the fact we've permanently stickied a post to the top of the sub. r/futurology has over 19 million subscribers, and yet the fediverse is only attracting a tiny trickle of them. I doubt most people on Reddit even know what the word fediverse means.

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      For what it's worth, I was on Reddit for over a decade and I think I clicked on a stickied thread from any subreddit maybe twice in that whole time. I think a lot of people's eyes just automatically skip over them. Plus, stickied threads disappear under some sorting options. Posting the occasional meme about it might be more effective.

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      IIRC stickies are also excluded from feed once they get this attribute.

      But yeah, we don't even understand what a barrier switching to fediverse sites is for regular joes, jemmas and jermas. Like, for many people the internet is suggested apps' feed and, rarely, their browser's default start page. They don't choose anything, and why would they? And here we are, challenging them to do something on intent while they are pretty happy with what they have now.

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        and why would they? … they are pretty happy with what they have now.

        Exactly. Only a very small number of people are motivated as the pioneers who've setup the fediverse now are. Again looking at this through the lens of r/futurology & our fediverse site. Why would a user also want to go to a second version of the exact same thing, but way, way smaller.

        My hunch is that long-term the fediverse will prosper. Reddit still isn't too bad even with these changes, at least not compared to what an absolute shithole Twitter has become.

        But people who care about making it bigger, should be asking themselves hard questions - this meme comes across as very complacent & out of touch, if many people really believe the sentiments it's expressing.

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        I literally only switched because of Boost. Also, since Boost for Reddit still works for me, I continue to use that as well

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      People who would leave a site like Reddit because of a principled stance often mistakenly believe that the rest of society cares as deeply as they. Spoiler: society mostly doesn't care; at least, not enough to go out of their way to change anything.

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        There are a lot of people that are actually too dumb to change platforms and assume apps like Reddit are the actual internet.

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          My father had a doctorate of engineering. He was a brilliant man. When I saw him search for Google and then follow the search link to google.com, to then search on their home page, I started to tell him he should search from the address / search field in his browser. He was instantly becoming confused and so I said, "nevermind," because his way got him satisfactory results so why bother. Some people aren't dumb at all. They just don't care about the same things you or I mighty enough to learn them (beyond basics).

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      I'm technically from elsewhere in the fediverse, but I'm also a Reddit migrant (back in June). Thank you for setting the community up, I've missed it from Reddit days

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      Even the head mod of piracy subreddit was ousted from the subreddit for attempting to migrate the sub to a lemmy instance, and the redditors that remain there actually cheered! It's wild, you would expect pirates, who always at risk of having their subreddit shut down, would understand the need to migrate.

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      It's also likely that most visitors don't go to the sub directly so the stickied post is easily missed

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        https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/

        It's hard to know exactly how many people see them from the stats Reddit gives Mods. Reddit gives a figure within the post for views, which stands at about 160,000 for the post I mentioned. That includes the times people have been served the title in their feed & and the times people clicked on it (sadly Reddit doesn't differentiate further).

        The fediverse site has been going for 6 weeks and has about 620 subscribers. My guestimate from looking at addresses in comments is that maybe 100-150 are reddit migrants. So roughly speaking 1 in 1000 r/futurology people who saw something about our fediverse site were motivated to join.

        A sobering thought for people who think the fediverse is about to crush reddit.

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          !newcommunities@lemmy.world and some others are also a good places to promote your communities.

          Those sub numbers don't include federated subscribers, from what I've read. And a lot of people seem to just browse All all the time and block communities they don't want to see. Still doesn't match any numbers in the millions, but things might be a bit more impactful than you think.

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            Yes, its hard to understand. On the other hand our results on cloudflare look way too good to be true. They say the fediverse site had 180K unique visitors in its first month and almost 3 million of what it calls "total requests".

            It's hard to figure out what this means in terms of how many people on the fediverse are seeing the content, both from our site, and where its coming up in federated instances.

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          This is still the early adoption phase. You can't expect all of the general populace to swap over. But it has been strong enough to start building the fedoverse into a real alternative. The "replacement" of reddit at large is far in the future.

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      Literally swap the word Fediverse in that pinned post for Lemmy and you'll get more engagement with it. Because you're right, even if the current reddit user has heard of lemmy and mastodon, they still most likely don't know what the fediverse is, don't understand the site linked to is a lemmy instance / reddit alternative. Subbed to !futurology@futurology.today btw, if the current activity there can be sustained I think it'll shape up to be a nice community

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    Just want to say that every time Reddit does something shitty like this, Lemmy will get a boost. And with Lemmy constantly getting better (both community and platform), I’m willing to bet these boosts come with smaller user drop offs every time.

    Which is to say, keep up the good work Reddit!

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      At this point (and with Sync, as I used for reddit), Lemmy is indistinguishable from my reddit browsing experience. Except on Lemmy I don't encounter constant hostility.

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        I don't encounter constant hostility.

        That sounds like something one of you people would say. 🖕/s

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        There are still few very niche/local communities here that I have seen, at least active ones. But that's only because of the much smaller user base

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        i experience some hostility on lemmy, but i haven't noticed any bots here cruising for karma.

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          I've been lucky so far, but ever since leaving reddit I've been in an infinitely better mood. Sometimes reddit would bring out the worst in me as well, and I'd be short with people or needlessly confrontational. You could tell when I was in a shitty place mentally because my post history would shift from light-hearted and sentimental to easily annoyed with frequent cursing. Reddit's algorithm really fine-tuned its way under my skin, and I found myself increasingly angry as the years went on. US political issues really got me going. I was never more irritable and mad at the world than I was over the past few years on reddit. Now all of that is just gone, and my Lemmy usage is about 20 minutes per day. I'm in a much better place.

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          I have gotten way more bans on lemmy so far, just for calling out tankies. Or simply enumerating the UN definition of genocide.

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            Lol lemmy has a Tankie problem but they're being drowned out. They get mad because they can't just own the libs I guess!

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        I think the hostility is about the same tbh, only different is this place uses the term Tankies a lot more.

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          That and the impact. The amount of communism or total and complete anti capitalism without nuance or depth, right or wrong. Reddit was very left, but not like here!

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            Tankies aren't communists anyway. They're Russian trolls, CCP shills. Those are fascist dystopias. Just mention Ukraine being invaded and they go ballistic.

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        The quality of posts and comments overall isn’t where Reddit was. That comes with volume, though.

        Also, I haven’t found a single niche community that does what Reddit did. For instance, if I’m into a specific show, Reddit was my go to place for discussions about a new episode. Lemmy does not have that for any show I watch.

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          Niche comes with volume too. And really, niche is what's important, not the broad strokes (I'd argue the boons of Lemmy are broad strokes at least). Reddit is worse for a lot of reasons, but man oh man, how can you convince someone to come over when the value is in the volume? I'm still primarily on Reddit, actively contributing to the problem.

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          Startrek.website is alive and well

          But I do see your point, from my local subreddit effectively nobody moved over, even my favorite mod who got backstabbed during the blackout stayed.

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      The common reddit apps coming to lemmy also helps. People used to Boost, Sync, Infinity and others can finally browse lemmy on a known interface

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        You can no longer op-out for targeted advertising based on use habits (like if you visited canned sardines you could get ads about sardines on the canned sardines subreddit but not on cheatatmathhomework, now you could get ads about canned sardines in the math subreddit and about brilliant on the sardines one)

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      but also, with every influx it waters down the spirit of lemmy a tiny bit in exchange for more activity / content / perspectives. which generally is worth it so far, but even still i can already see some discussions on here getting worse, with shittier viewpoints i wish were quarantined in facebook

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      No it it also has the effect tof the people who dropped off probably won't come back. Yah I tired it and it sucked. Lemmy blew it's big chance. Yes it has grown but could have been bigger.

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        I don't think it works that way. A free service like Lemmy can be tried multiple times. People aren't just going to ignore something forever cause they tried it once and it sucked. People understand that software evolves over time.

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    All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving

    I saw one that said they would stay until Reddit charges a fee to use the site…like why are they staying??? JUST FUCKING LEAVE

    One even said “there are no viable alternatives” when talking about Reddit, like excuse me what the fuck?

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      I'll probably get hate, but the content just isn't there. I tried using Lemmy as my main, but most of the communities I'd follow on Reddit just weren't on here, and if they were, they would have a couple hundred of subscribers at most, and there would be 7 different versions of the same community on different instances with no way to measure quality at first glance. Lemmy thrives for geeky hobbies that surround the FOSS space that gave birth to it, so communities like Linux or Unixporn have a strong enough presence, but for pretty much anything else it's just not there yet. Is this a negative feedback loop? Yes, but there isn't much to be done about it until shit REALLY hits the fan

      PD: As an added, Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times, even more so than Reddit already is. Like seriously at times 90% of the content on my feed is just shitting on Reddit plebs

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        yeah that's honestly what I found as well. once I discovered you can patch RIF to use your own personal api token, I've been continuing to use reddit. it's such a subpar experience compared to what it used to be tho

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            It's usable for bots and such, I've seen reports of some users getting banned for using it in patched clients when detected

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        Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times

        I always assumed that since both upvote and downvote counters are visible, it won't be the case. But boy I was wrong. The political/news posts are always a constant shitshow reminiscent of T_D.

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        People forget how bad reddit was when we all moved from digg.com. It was bad. It would crash every other day.

        Lemmy is far more mature than reddit was during the digg exodus.

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          I wasn't an early adopter of Reddit, or Lemmy, but this sort of has the same issues of momentum as web browsers do. It doesn't matter how they started. Where they are now is the standard, and that's what you have to build to in order to be a viable replacement. With browsers it's the capability to serve pretty much any page with all the bells and whistles, with Reddit/Lemmy it's all the posts, comments, and user base. I think it can happen, but it won't be easy or fast. I'm not worried, though. I think we can rely on spez to send more users this way until a suitable number of users have joined.

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        I'm a trans woman here, and to be honest change of any kind is so scary that it is unbelievable. Like when I finally got approved for hormone, the prescription stayed at the pharmacy for like 2 or 3 weeks before eventually I decided to call a friend…

        I knew that if I went myself I would probably just chicken out or maybe I'd pick them up and just put them aside somewhere, simply because I knew that there would be no going back. I didn't even want to go back, but the fact that I couldn't was still scary.

        But my friend made me take them right then and there, as anybody would, as he always had a good ability to talk me out of my inhibitions.

        It's been about a decade since then and lemme tell you, life is better on two legs than three.

        Hell I had been wanting a Reddit alternative for the longest time because the place was a shit hole from the beginning, but traditional online forums are dead.

        It took a Perma ban from the whole site for me to make the switch, it's going to come sooner or later, it's a ban happy website it wasn't even the first time.

        Even then I felt like a criminal on the run.

        PS: a bunch of right wing trolls have reported my account for threats of violence, simply because I said something about Star Wars that they didn't like.

        I got a permaban, and had to write an appeal letter to get them to look at what I actually posted to realize that there was not even the slightest hint of a threat there.

        Ironically the second time was for abusing the report button, something that's not even listed in their terms of service, because that was easier than actually looking at all of the bigoted things that I reported. I try appealing that too, but never got a response

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      All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving

      I think because they are uninformed. They are looking for alternatives, and don't know about Lemmy, or don't understand Lemmy, etc.

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        It’s exactly this, I only found lemmy through a sticky comment inside a post 2 days ago, and I’ve been wanting to get off Reddit for months

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        Unfortunately, to understand lemmy is to be on lemmy. You have to be here and experience it.

        They have to make that leap of faith. There's nothing to lose anyway, there's no requirement to delete reddit to become a lemmy user. So what's holding them back. Mauve they believe the anti lemmy post on reddit or maybe they just say they want to leave reddit but has no real desire to follow through.

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          But… what about my 83k karma and 13 year badge!

          Gamification is a powerful addictive force.

          When Reddit locked down their API and Boost stopped working, I forced myself to do casual browsing on chrome on my phone. It was clunky enough that I didn't bother replying to comments, and navigation is a bit of a pain on mobile, and that was enough to ruin the game.

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      these people are the same group of people that won't leave twitter. some people just live to be miserable and complain about things one hundred percent in their control.

      it's insane and i can't wrap my brain around it.

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        It seems to be human nature that people are resistant to change, and it appears that are kombat instincts from when we were monkeys that can only be satiated these days by arguing on the internet and complaining.

        You're simply have to find a way to take the soul out of the human and put into something better. unfortunately I don't know that Souls exist

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      All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering… Leaving

      Reminds me of people who keep voting for politicians they supposedly can't stand.

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      There are no viable Alternatives because they won't come here, to the viable alternative. Seriously I would love to be able to go on special interest boards again but unfortunately the crowd is still on Lemmy.

      Who's prostate do I have to massage with a rubber glove in order to get a simple conversation about Dragon Quest going on around here?

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      There aren't viable alternatives. We don't have the active niche (and not so niche) communities reddit does. And even if there was somehow a meaningful mass exodus, these little instances would break like wet toilet paper trying to hold a bowling ball.

      I don't say this to be critical of lemmy. I'm happy here. Just being realistic.

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        Yeah we don't need to be like reddit. I'm happy if rss usage becomes stronger . So those niche communities can stay wherever they can thrive but still be reachable through rss.

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          Which drives me nuts! The month doesn't change for 4 whole weeks! Why is it first? I want the info that contains the most variation displayed first so my eyes don't have to glaze past useless info every time.

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            Year/month/day is superior when reading full dates, because it's the least ambiguous. If I only need day and month, I'd rather use month's full or shortened name (like 27 Sep). Ambiguity is the real enemy here, not any particular order

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              Year-Month-Day is also my go-to for naming files (at least in systems that don’t have file versioning) because it allows Name sort to list things chronologically. Just have every version of the same file have the same name, then append Year-Month-Day to the end.

              I work with a lot of bespoke systems that use proprietary files, so file versioning with something like Google Drive or OneDrive goes right out the window. But Year-Month-Day makes it easy to maintain some semblance of organization.

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              True, thats how my laptop displays the date. It never even mentions the month because I see that enough on other sources. I guess I just hate how month first is the default where I live more than anything. It perfectly sums up the subpar optimacy of the USA. Shit could be better, but its just not.

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                ¿And don't you hate how US punctuation is at the end? ¿If you read an entire sentence, but you don't even know it is a question until you're at the end, then how do you know which intonation to use? ¡English is subpar and something should be done about that!

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        I just realized that September 7,Oktober 8, November 9 and December 10 is a thing. I feel a bit dumb now. Then I got mad cus it's screwed up. Was it some Romans squeezing in extra months or something?

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      This is a reddit or even Twitter level shit comment. Please take your ignorant self back to either of those platforms. The dumb American trope is overused, largely inaccurate, and tired. Steal some new material from someone more witty and try again.

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    Oh wow. I booted up Boost this morning as usual, scrolled for 10-15 minutes, and didn't realize I was on Lemmy instead of Reddit until this post.

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      Trying to sub to something from other instance is still pain in the ass tho. Especially when you're from a small instance so everything is somewhere else.

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        Agreed. I really hope (and honestly think) that third party tools (and Boost particularly) will improve discoverability as the ecosystem grows. Being able to see other servers' communities and Local feed will be a big step toward getting across the usability hurdle and getting more people here.

        "Multireddits" (for lack of a better word), too. Maybe call them "community bundles." I'm subscribed to like five different (functionally identical) Star Trek communities, for instance; being able to group them all together and suppress/merge crossposts would be fantastic.

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          To discover more communities I've been using to browse using Everything feed on Sync then subscribing or blocking based on the communities that get shown on my feed.

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    I assure you that the average userbase doesn't care about such things. (Lmao - Privacy? I got nothing to hide -type of people) As long as functionality doesn't break massively there won't be an exodus.

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      funnily enough whenever I point out that Privacy ≠ Secrecy in conversations like this I always get the surprised pikachu face and they (indirectly) immediately admit defeat

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    Apparently American Reddit has been plastered with ads from a billion-dollar Evangelical Christian campaign for months and Jewish, LGBT amd atheist users have been especially targeted

    Religion and Politics were categories you could not opt out of

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        I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the new atheist problem that Reddit has. It became such a bubble, that I thought that the entire world abandoned any pretense of anything mystical or Supernatural

        The idea of them possibly being real has kept a bullet out of my head. I just wish we had proof

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      I was eventually banned because I kept reporting people for bigotry, and they just didn't want to do their job. So they banned the complainer instead of actually addressing the problem.

      Also for some reason I kept getting directed to atheism and skepticism related subreddits, in addition to Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris, and I wasn't sure why.

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    I find it fascinating that their own app can be so horrible when there are so many amazing alternatives that exist(ed)

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    As I removed everything from all my Reddit accounts and deleted them, except my porn account for some nieche fetishes, I don’t care. Let it die and save the porn.

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    Unfortunately, reddit has been too long and entrenched in society to "remove" it from our browsers. It is very different from Twitter or another social network. Lemmy is a great project. I hope it works and establishes itself as a real alternative, but it still has a long way to go. Unfortunately, the Reddit/Lemmy format is resource intensive, and that's the problem with a service like this.

    It's my simple opinion. I support any fediverso project, but reddit, today I think it is irreplaceable.

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      That's very true!

      Thanks to the whole blackout thing and the many amazing apps that came to Lemmy (like Sync that I'm using rn and loving), Lemmy is now good enough to replace Reddit for the new content (at least in my opinion)

      But Reddit is not (or at least not only) an "what's happening now" social network like Twitter and there is a huge amount of old content on it that can still really useful. So I guess that, in the best scenario, we'll have Reddit and Lemmy cohexist and complement each other :)