I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

  • mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works
    86·
    2 years ago

    I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.

    Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.

    • Herb@beehaw.org
      41·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy in it’s current state feels very similar to reddit did ~14 years ago.

      I am just smitten. I’ll never go back.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
      36·
      2 years ago

      This describes me perfectly. Most of the alternatives I saw previously just ended up being coopted by the alt-right crowd who got chased off of Reddit. Lemmy (so far) represents what I want from an online community.

      • Arystique@beehaw.orgOP
        15·
        2 years ago

        Its so weird that the alt right hasn’t tried to seize Lemmy yet from my experience it was always the immediate fate of Reddit alts in curious if the alt right is too busy over at truth social (or rumble) oh could we please get a youtube alt next that would be so great

        • preston@possumpat.io
          22·
          2 years ago

          The structure of the fediverse (lemmy/kbin/mastodon etc) makes it really difficult for alt-right and troll instances to find a meaningful presence.

          Truth Social for example is just a mastodon instance, but everyone immediately defederated (blocked) them, so they have no reach. Hateful ideologies want a large audience on which to inflict their bullshit, and the federated model makes it really easy to cut them off.

          • Arystique@beehaw.orgOP
            10·
            2 years ago

            The alt-right is so strange it used to be that they wanted to be popular so they would invade subreddits and start cultivating hate until either they took over the subreddits or got expelled (almost like how a virus spreads actually)

            But now its like they decided to pretend to be popular and are kinda imploding a bit

        • stoicandanxious@beehaw.org
          14·
          2 years ago

          They are out there… I was doing some exploring of instances the other day. If you look at what instances are blocking it’s pretty easy to see what is out in the fediverse.

        • LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          2 years ago

          You want to know why the alt right haven’t seized this place and won’t? It’s in the name. The fediverse. We’re all a bunch of feds!

        • JohnDumpling@beehaw.org
          6·
          2 years ago

          Peertube is a good federated alternative to Youtube, it also connects to the Fediverse and there is a central search engine called Sepia Search, which makes it easier to find content on the different instances.

          • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.ml
            2·
            2 years ago

            Was looking at Peertube earlier, but it seems much harder to pick an instance than it was with Lemmy or Mastodon for me.

    • Arystique@beehaw.orgOP
      15·
      2 years ago

      I have to agree with you on that I saw a comment earlier about the people who left Reddit being a loud minority but something feels off about that

      Lemmy’s community feels so familiar I sadly just can’t find the right words to describe it though

      • mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        2 years ago

        It feels oddly nostalgic. I think it reminds me of the fun I used to have when I first joined reddit.

        Rather than just mindlessly scrolling with a couple “hehs” or a blowing air out my nose slightly faster than normal.

    • laxe
      2·
      2 years ago

      Spot on. Lemmy is how the Internet was supposed to be.