- Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
- Support the hosts with our own funds.
- Moderate our own communities.
The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. It’s kind of like what happened with Linux 15-20 years ago. Lots of tech people were enthusiastic about it and thought that it would overthrow Microsoft. That didn’t happen. I am a professional in the humanities but I am a bit tech-enthusiastic, so I actually use Linux. For me, switching to Lemmy is easy. As a matter of fact, I just discovered a feature I did not know existed right now when replying to you. I can select “show context” to remember what I originally wrote and what I replied to. It’s smarter and cooler. But this is not for the Reddit masses and from my subjective observations, it looks like a lot of people have continued as usual on Reddit. Even a sub devoted to my favorite video game has way more activity than the corresponding community for it on here. Lemmy looks a lot like Linux 20 years ago to me. The tech people and programmers are making wild predictions. People still use Windows pretty hard and it looks to me like people still use Reddit pretty hard. I won’t be using Reddit. I would love to see it die. But I don’t think it’s going to die tomorrow because everyone fled from it in favor of Lemmy.
Well said. I see no reason to completely abandon reddit until it stops serving its purpose to me. I just think it’s a bit silly how early people are saying Lemmy is taking over and Reddit is dead. If people are more realistic right now then they won’t be disappointed later on. I’ll be around for both websites and I hope to see Lemmy grow into something special.
I won’t be using both because I don’t feel comfortable with that plan for myself, but I totally understand your reasoning. My life choices followed a different path when it comes to social media. I just like this environment so much because there are really cool people to interact with. Even if I get in an argument with somebody, it’s good for me because we’re having a reasonable argument. On Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, social media et al you can’t do that. I feel more me on here.
Glad you feel that way. Hope to see you around.
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Absolutely. I’m not trying to shit on Lemmy or anything. It’s a cool idea.
I’m still on reddit, but it seems like the only place I’m going now is /r/SBCgaming, as it’s one of my interests that hasn’t seen much traction here. I made a post suggesting people move to lemmy.world, but it was near unanimously panned, people weren’t interested.
If and when I have anything interesting to post I’ll do it here on lemmy and link it probably to the subreddit. The main thing I notice though is I spend much less time on reddit now. Since there’s no reason to stay outside of a niche interest subreddit, I’m not browsing around different subreddits or hitting up the front page anymore. Which in hindsight is actually kind of nice, it no longer feels like an endless distraction.