It begins…
Found out via this post
Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.
I’m already less and less on reddit except for a few nieche subs. The day old.reddit is gone will be the last time I visit that site.
Mark my words. This is just testing the waters
They aren’t testing anything. They are just enacting a stealth twilight of old Reddit like they’ve been planning ever since they thought up the new UI.
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Fuck spez.
Seems like millions of redditors say just that through the many slaps in the face to users, then hang around anyway. :S
I love the two comments calling out that this thread was posted to the help subreddit rather than any of the other more appropriate subs for changelogs.
Like come on, you know that wasn’t an accident.
Another day, another disappointment from Reddit. I deleted my account the day you made your instance and thankfully things over here picked up pretty fast. I haven’t felt a need to go back.
Removed by mod
Remember when Reddit said they wouldn’t touch old.reddit?
People understand they can just leave that site, right?
I wish more people would leave and bring their niches over here. There’s still so many things missing on Lemmy.
I feel you. Really miss 40klore and an endless stream of bunny pictures. The only two things I miss on Lemmy. Everything else I care about arrived or is arriving.
Shout out to !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org and their bunnies
Have you tried posting about lore on !warhammer40k@lemmy.world ? It’s mostly minifig pictures, but they would probably welcome lore post as well
Subscribed to both of them. Also to the Grimdank offshoot we have. Very much enjoy all of them.
Didn’t try posting lore or excerpts tho. Might try it when I come across something cool!
I think the frustrating part is that if those people just moved over to Lemmy, nothing would change about the communities. Lemmy today is robust enough to handle these communities. It’s just a matter of getting a community to switch servers.
I have so many posts to share, questions to ask, and things to do…but Lemmy is not as robust with users. And I refuse to participate on reddit. I need an /c/ xbox360hacks.
I got answers and engagement from communities that seemed dead on Lemmy due to lack of users. You should just try to ask your questions… One answer that truly helps is already enough usually, you don’t actually need 100 users upvoting the same answer or 12 different answers where only 1 is good. For many things, low engagement is already sufficient.
You can try on !xbox@lemmy.world or !retrogaming@lemmy.world
Every tv show I watch I have to go to Reddit to view the conversation. And bite my tongue cause I refuse to log in and give content.
Same with watching the political debates. That was my preferred method of conversation.
Which shows are you in? We had some episodes discussion on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee, but they never really took off. If you are interested in a show, you can maybe try posting there and see if other people want to discuss it with you?
It is near impossible to start a new community. The Lemmy code primarily favors existing large communities, and it needs to change to heavily promote new communities over existing.
Look what @fossilesque@mander.xyz or @PugJesus@lemmy.world are doing. Starting a community is definitely doable, if you keep at it.
A little bit everyday. :) It was the same on Reddit until enshittification started, probably around the time porn disappeared from the front page. Lemmy is actually way easier to start communities on than Reddit is now.
Ps nobody wants to be the first to post.
Giving your own posts an upvote when you’re at 0 subscribers works wonders. I remember posting in the original version of RoughRomanMemes for literal months without significant interaction until I did that. Something about the ‘active’ feed I guess.
Once the community is grown you don’t need to do that anymore.
I regularly start communities
- come to !fedigrow@lemm.ee and ask if people want to help you grow it
- advertise it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- post regularly to it
What do you mean “favors”? Like the algorithm pushes them to the top when viewing “all”?
I don’t think this is that big of a deal. The niche communities rarely reach the front page anyway. But people know to check them cause they care about the topic.
Maybe google SEO is a factor too. When I am lttp for a game or a show, google almost always has a link to the reddit sub on the first page.
Anyone paying attention knew it was just a matter of time. I used to think my last day on the site would be when they got rid of old. Turns out it was before even that.
People should talk about Lemmy more. Irl, on other social media, in game chats, etc.
Just sharing a personal experience here: I reached out to my country subreddit mods yesterday to ask if I could create a post about Lemmy in the context of the latest Reddit decisions preventing strikes.
They told me they would not allow it as it was self promotion, and that I should stop mentioning Lemmy in comments where people complain about Reddit.
Very frustrating when you see how active communities like !ich_iel@feddit.org is, as the subreddit mods promoted Lemmy during the 2023 strike
It just means the existing mods are more interested in holding on to power than for the wellbeing of their community, even if that means they’re unpaid disrespected jannies for spez.
The mods that stayed want to keep their power, they’re not going to allow links to communities they’re not moderating.
Fuck them. They’re literally part of the problem, and you listen to them?
I don’t listen to them, they are the ones who remove mentions to Lemmy on their sub. They already banned me in the the past for that, so this time I checked before hand
Mentioning Lemmy will get you censored on reddit.
Not in my experience. Just do it and don’t worry about it.
Why do all the videos on redlib say <MEDIA>@https://redlib.nohost.network? Is there a setting I need to change?
Do you happen to use NoScript? Because I remember seeing similar things when using that.
Yes I do. That could be it, thanks!
No idea. I can see videos without any issues. Maybe try a different host.
You can also just use LibRedirect
The live version of that link only has 50 comments wtf
The leftover redditors are thoroughly domesticated by now. They just passively take what spez gives them and like it.
Good, this will push more people to alternatives
More, yes, but still almost nobody…
Lemmy has a high enough user base to be entertaining and somewhat useful.
The amount of people in the world is a pretty insane number, which makes “almost nobody” 8800 users visiting per day just on lemmy.world, and it’s still growing pretty fast.
I’m fine with reddit doing their shit for the masses, and the ones with a bit more critical sense coming here.45k monthly active users is already something
It’s not nothing but reddit claims about 270 million weekly active users. So it’s ultimately a difference of about 270 million (especially given that some active users here likely still use reddit and aren’t strictly a loss for them)
It’s a good thing though. The fediverse needs to grow a bit to feel less like a ghost town on less popular communities but when you grow too much you become a shitty community filled with bad decisions and poorly thought out compromises
Are the bots subtracted from that number?
You mean from the 45k? Hahaha… Ha… :(
My guess, break existing old links on other sites so that they can show a graph with a drop in usage of less-ad-riddled way to access the website and drive more to the ad enabled views.
They already do that. www.reddit.com goes to the new ad-ridden useless interface.
Yes but on other sites where people have historically posted the shortened direct sub urls that used to go to old.reddit will now forward to new reddit or be broken according to the comments of the OP post. That’s the key difference here. Posts people made many years ago will now go to new reddit, which is why I suspect specifically attempting to manipulate user / site stats because even if their api prevents search engines from using it properly, there’s a wealth of already indexed links out there.
being able to sort saved posts into categories was my favourite Reddit Gold feature.
