• Midili@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A specific chunk of people would for sure move over to Lemmy, and there would be a lot of angry uses, but just because people get angry doesn’t mean they’ll move over. They’ll whine about it but in the end they’ll stay on Reddit.

    Personal experience, I tried to move over to Lemmy but when I’m searching for something specific I’ll still look at reddit a lot of the time, just because of the sheer mass of material there is. But I refuse to post on reddit anymore since I don’t want to contribute to it. I’m trying to post more on Lemmy now though, because “be the change you want to see” etc etc.

    I know I’m still giving reddit views, which ultimately adds to their revenue through ads. I’m not happy about that. But if I’m having a computer problem, or want to find out why my peace lily plant is dying, I can pretty much always find the answer on reddit. Lemmy isn’t there yet. (Not even close tbh.)

    But for the things that are on Lemmy, the quality of discussion is much higher. 99% of reddit comments on the bigger subs are jokes. Funny ones maybe, but not provocative or though-inducing.

    tl;dr a lot of people would talk about migrating but it’d blow over and only a minority would follow through.

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    It’s already run by a far right billionaire, there was an exodus, but a lot of people stayed and backed out on the protests, just caving in instead.

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    When the API changes came in on Reddit it appeared to cause quite a few people to shift to Lemmy, but not that many. I’ve said this before in other posts but the onboarding experience for Lemmy is awful for your average joe. From what I’ve read it was the same situation for Mastodon and that is why Bluesky took off instead.

    There needs to be a clear concise point of entry for new users to the Fediverse that empowers users to quickly customise what they want to see. Most people don’t care about how the Fediverse works and its benefits, they just want to consume content.

    If I were technically capable and had the drive to do so I’d create a single onboarding site that would ask the user a few preference defining questions, chuck them on an instance that is relevant and apply some filters so they don’t get spammed with anime posts if that isn’t their thing. Oh and maybe show a couple of mobile apps.

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      Yea I tried to create an account on another instance when I started, and never heard back. Then I went to Lemm.ee and it was quick and easy.

      That said I kinda like how each one is run a bit different. It’s nice to not have a top down structure but more of a terrorist cells situation.

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      Reddit is a website. Twitter is a website. Bluesky is a wrbsite.

      Lemmy and Mastodon are not websites. They are webserver platforms. They’re like WordPress or Joomla. Imagine trying to treat “WordPress” like a singular place on the Internet.

      People keep trying to sell technology to people who are looking for a location, and it’s fucking imfuriating.

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        Yeah but Lemmy instances are interconnected to a certain degree. Wordpress instances are not. Key difference…

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    I cut the umbilicus after getting banned on fake pretexts from rightwing mods. Fuck 'em. And fuck Spez.

    I was a highly involved redditor, but now I realize I was being suckered into engagement by ragebait. Now I use Lemmy a bit, and have reclaimed my leisure time to walk, cycle, go to the pub, play music and hang out with family and friends.

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    No. Most of Reddit’s population has proven they don’t care about changes that much more directly affect their user experience. I can’t see a significant portion of them caring about who owns the platform if they don’t care about that.

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    It depends on what changes they made. Reddit is fairly left-leaning so if they start seeing more right-wing content or racist crap being allowed on the site, it might happen.

    People quit X because it allowed notorious racists and neo-Nazis back on the site, and also did dumb stuff like not allowing people to unfollow Elon Musk (it will automatically re-follow him after some time). It also prioritised and propagated right-wing content which, shockingly, left-wing users didn’t like.

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      What Musk did is roughly the Reddit-equivalent of reinstating t_d and auto-subscribing everybody.

      If that happened, yeah, folks would leave in rather large numbers.

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      Reddit is fairly left-leaning

      Anything left of Biden/Harris is met with a torrent of abuse. If anything, Reddit is split between centrists and fascists. And some of the mods will ban anyone who’s active and doesn’t agree with their politics.

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        Au contraire, mon amis.

        From an American perspective, Reddit is split between liberals and progressives with a minority of socialists and conservatives.

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    Reddit is a Nazi site. Musk being worshipped religiously was a whole thing on there. They’d be happy, and I’d hope so–anything to keep conservatism off of Lemmy, and the rest of the fediverse.

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      Outside Musk subs like /r/elonmusk, /r/Tesla and /r/spacex, Elon is widely mocked across reddit.

      Reddit is a shithole but let’s be real here.

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    Reddit will be a Frankenstein like Facebook and will refuse to die. They will find a way to monetize it while also forcing right wing engagement. Right wingers will be thrilled for some time thinking they are now the “cool reddit people”(lol) while never realizing everyone stopped caring.

    Individual subs will still be as active as they always were. Mod support will wane. At the end of maybe year 5 you’ll look at the site and it will be unrecognizable. Just another captured audience too entrenched to ever leave the platform.

    None of this should worry you. Reddit isn’t popular because a left wing person owns it. It’s political lean is entirely from its users. Changing who owns the space doesn’t erase left leaning people. They just go somewhere else. After having used lemmy for some time, I’m fairly confident it will be here. Even if not, wherever it is will be new and cool and away from right wing shit bags. It’s almost exciting to think about having a new space to explore.

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      Reddit isn’t popular because a left wing person owns it.

      Extra true because Spez would absolutely slob Elon’s knob given the opportunity.