I think (hope) this might be Reddit’s death. Reddit as we knew it 10-15 years ago is already gone. It’ll keep going with bots talking to bots and idiots, but if you can’t even upvote what you want without getting a ban, who’s going to stick around?
At this point they are mainstream and are probably gaining a crazy amount of new people who don’t know any better. They’ll stick around to talk to the bots and generate some ad revenue just like facebook lol.
If you came to reddit from digg, you’ll have seen how they’ve been turning up the algorithm interference over the years. It used to just be upvotes, raw popularity. It’s a bad faith actor at this stage. Some frogs will jump out of the water while it boils, many won’t notice and will get algo brainwashed.
I don’t think it will be. I’m involved in an active subreddit community that is resistent to moving. The people in it skew older, and while progressive, are kind of short on patience for any added stress or friction.
I think if there was a BlueSky-esque version of Lemmy that had a super simple signup - but was also federated - it would get people on board faster.
Then they could get comfortable with it and later move to a different instance if they want. (I started on Lemmy.world and ended up with infosec.pub being my main because world was censoring swear words and I fucking love swearwords)
And frankly, some of the reddit posts in the subreddit I’m thinking of would benefit from being ported over and searchable in their entirety with comments because they have resources and information that is quite evergreen.
I’m trying to talk them into coming over and building community here as well. So I’m not fully out of reddit yet either.
I think if there was a BlueSky-esque version of Lemmy that had a super simple signup - but was also federated - it would get people on board faster.
Isn’t that just linking a specific instance? You can link them directly to the community or the signup page, it’s just as simple as Bluesky at that point, don’t even tell them that other instances exist, don’t even say the name “Lemmy”
It will be interesting to see how long this run lasts and how far it takes us.
I think (hope) this might be Reddit’s death. Reddit as we knew it 10-15 years ago is already gone. It’ll keep going with bots talking to bots and idiots, but if you can’t even upvote what you want without getting a ban, who’s going to stick around?
At this point they are mainstream and are probably gaining a crazy amount of new people who don’t know any better. They’ll stick around to talk to the bots and generate some ad revenue just like facebook lol.
If you came to reddit from digg, you’ll have seen how they’ve been turning up the algorithm interference over the years. It used to just be upvotes, raw popularity. It’s a bad faith actor at this stage. Some frogs will jump out of the water while it boils, many won’t notice and will get algo brainwashed.
I don’t think it will be. I’m involved in an active subreddit community that is resistent to moving. The people in it skew older, and while progressive, are kind of short on patience for any added stress or friction.
I think if there was a BlueSky-esque version of Lemmy that had a super simple signup - but was also federated - it would get people on board faster.
Then they could get comfortable with it and later move to a different instance if they want. (I started on Lemmy.world and ended up with infosec.pub being my main because world was censoring swear words and I fucking love swearwords)
And frankly, some of the reddit posts in the subreddit I’m thinking of would benefit from being ported over and searchable in their entirety with comments because they have resources and information that is quite evergreen.
I’m trying to talk them into coming over and building community here as well. So I’m not fully out of reddit yet either.
Isn’t that just linking a specific instance? You can link them directly to the community or the signup page, it’s just as simple as Bluesky at that point, don’t even tell them that other instances exist, don’t even say the name “Lemmy”
What would be confusing with something like