Wonderful news. It was honestly time for us to start moving away from Reddit anyway. This just gives us an excuse.
Agreed, the increased ads, detriment to user experience and general toxicity was becoming unbearable. I am very thankful to have found a new home.
Thing that was the most upsetting was the absolute refusal to accept any bit of responsibility or admit what they were doing. I think we can all appreciate the cost of running a huge service like Reddit, but in no way does that require them to do what they did.
If anything, I am shocked they didn't attempt to do something like require users who use third party apps to be paying for Reddit Premium or whatever it's called. AFAIK there are no ads displayed if you're a subscriber? So there wouldn't have been a big difference in revenue there.
For me it was the obvious bots and repost karma farming. It was all starting to feel stale except for some of the more niche subreddits I was on.
Holy crap, yeah. The amount of repost bots I've been seeing lately has been insane. Also noticed a massive increase in porn bots in the comments, almost all exactly the same kind of thing
"Hey baby check me out https://linktr.ee/obviouspornscam"
Yep, great motivator for moving to Lemmy.
It taught me one thing. Nobody uses the friends list or follow feature, aside from spammers.
Reddit and Lemmy are topic-oriented systems: most users find things to read by looking for topics they're interested in. Despite the name "communities", these are basically topic categories.
Facebook and Twitter are people-oriented systems: most users find things to read by telling the site who their friends are (or which celebrities they want to get parasocial with), and looking at things from their friends or recommended based on friend connections.
On a site with topic-oriented standards, it's often kinda creepy to follow people from one topic to another.
On a site with people-oriented standards, it's often kinda rude to show up in distant friends-of-friends-of-friends' mentions to tell them your enthusiastically held opinions on the topic they happen to be discussing.
Jumping ship is the easy part. Now we have to keep this up. Let's make sure this isn't just something that'll disappear in a month or two. Make Fediverse more active than before permanently.
I'm more of a lurker myself but that was due to Redditor's attitude towards me aha. I would say my opinion and I would get downvoted to oblivion as well as a bunch of mean replies. And DMs I have never checked lmao. Over here though, it looks a fucklot more friendly and that makes me want to engage more!
It's certainly more about discussion here. I've made mistakes already and no one has criticized me (yet). Just someone responding about why my opinion/statement was wrong in their opinion.
If I did that on reddit I'd probably never check my inbox again lmao. Not saying all reddit subs are like that, but a lot are.
Reddit and Twitter are incredibly hostile places.
I have a friend who privated her Twitter account a few years back. She made the mistake of replying to a tweet to state that non-white people can be racist too, and ended up getting doxxed and harassed.
Also, I remember the time when I kept getting DMs on my Reddit account stating things like "just reminding you that you're a c***"
Well, when the Twitter exodus happened, I too feared that the (4-5x!) increase in traffic would quickly come down. It's been several months and Mastodon is still just as strong!
I don't use Mastodon/Twitter so I had no idea. That's definitely reassuring. Thanks!
This is my first time stepping into the fediverse, actually. Time will tell, I am cautiously optimistic. May try Matrix at some point too, don’t know quite yet.
Matrix, especially Element is really nice to use. I've now been a matrix user for 3 years but only joined lemmy today 😃
Haha, lol!
I nuked my twelve year old account yesterday and I'm literally not even sad. That joke of an AMA sealed the deal for me.
The best part for me personally is, I got an excuse to finally migrate to fediverse. I'm joining a discussion on lemmy from kbin while following stuff from mastodon and beehaw.It's nerdy and fun. Also, interestingly, feels more reliable. You don't like the people running one service, did the owner turn out to be an utter sociopath? Go, make an account on somewhere better suited to your style and keep engaging with the same communities, maybe at the cost of a different UI experience. It's much preferable to losing an entire platform to the whims of a few at the top.
Thanks spez!
-- The Mlem Team
Uh... that is starting to look exponential...
There was a picture of one instance's user count that was mostly a flat line until recently, now it looks like a right angle 😂. Can't remember if it was Beehaw or a different one though
Probably beehaw or lemmy.world, although a lot of instances are getting new users.
Well that took all of 5 minutes to figure out how this federated stuff works. Thanks spez, cya later reddit.
I have been wanting to switch to Lemmy for a long time, it is my last non-FOSS social media. But I never imagined Lemmy will be popular because reddit is thriving, and I cannot see reason for people to leave.
So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you spez form the bottom of my heart. And I hope you keep down the path you are on and turn reddit into a Twitter dumpster fire.
FOR THE FEDIVERSE!
I vote we all adopt "Don't be a Spez" as phrase of saying "Don't fuck a good thing up for your own greed" to somebody.
But yeah, thanks Spez! I had wanted to leave Reddit for a while now as spam started overflowing subs, and spam bot accounts just kept going with reddit doing nothing to stop them. I still stayed out of laziness, I suppose, but this last drop made the bucket overflow. Thanks Spez!
“Don’t be a Spez” I feel like Elon already owns that phrase.
I was part of the Digg exodus. I'm now a r/efugee but glad to be here. I like how decentralized everything is.
Looking forward to the next iteration of Reddit. This reminds me of when I first joined during the Digg exodus
What caused the Digg exodus?
Digg made changes to their site that pissed off a lot of users, so they went to Reddit. And then Reddit did the same, so now here we all are on Lemmy.
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-digg-rivalry-heats_n_699225
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100831122556/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digg_user_rebellion_reddit_on_front_page.php
- http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/30/digg-users-lash-out-at-new-format-join-forces-with-reddit/
See? Spez isn't all bad. His charisma-less incompetence is good for something!
I heard through the grapevine [and have no idea how valid it is] that he used to be a moderator on r/jailbait. I don't know how true that is, but if it is I think he looks the part lol
june 30 is going to be the big tsunami that overwhelms us all
Thanks spez for making lemmy more popular
Redfugee checking in. Thanks for the push spez!
How did you get these numbers? Especially the server count one.
Would like to know too...
Here you go
goooooooood 😈
Wow. The number of servers... cool.
It's great, but can always be better.
Fuck that guy! Corpos suck
long live lemmy 💙
Just wait until Monday / Tuesday. Lemmy is about to get hugged to death.
Oh wow. This looks eerily similar to the Digg exodus. Oh the memories.
Looking good, you love to see it!
It truly is amazing to see.
That's s pretty awesome graph. Almost want to bet on the zenith haha
Hopefully this will help the rest of the fediverse grow as well
7 year 10 month long on Reddit and only ever used Apollo and previously Alien Blue until Spez decided to kill the joy out of both. Never posted much on reddit either. Happy to be here with everyone and contribute to Lemmy!
Where are the stats from?
Awesome, thanks! It is great to see the strady increase in users and servers. I am hoping that as all the content creators choose a place to put their stuff, and the winning communities start to become established, that Activity Pub becomes the way.
Then our favourite reddit apps migrate to the Lemmy API :D
Time to blow that chart up.
People on Reddit say, "Fuck u/spez." The based and red-pilled class here at Lemmy say, "Thank you, sir Spez."
