Fuck Reddit. Scumbags.
RIP Aaron.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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RIP Aaron indeed. May his fighting spirit be the anchor point for any community that's succeeding Reddit.
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Amen.
When can we start shorting the stock? /s
If you really want to sabotage, just upload lots of videos to subreddits that you can't advertise on.
so use Reddit for exclusively porn? way ahead of you
Im betting porn only has a year or 2 left on reddit. They already been slowly purging for years. Got to keep the advertisers happy.
There was some other social media site that banned porn a few years ago, I think it was Tumblr? I wonder how that worked out for them.
Let me check my Tumblr, oh wait. I don't have one.
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Well we have 6 weeks to prepare for the next mass exodus lads and lassies
i.e. Have a backup account on a small instance ready for when the big ones get ddos'd
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Why should the IPO change anything at this point? It's not like it'll have any immediate effects on the website.
It's not the IPO that will cause the exodus. Its the first actions that Reddit takes to appease shareholders that will cause people to leave
The Lemmy Piracy communities are about to receive the last of the dedicated reddit holdouts.
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Oh good, some breathing room to finish Voyager's new onboarding flow
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Founded in 2005 by web developer Steve Huffman and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, Reddit became best known for its niche discussion groups and its users voting "up" or "down" on the content posted by other members.
Disgraceful, disgusting, lying scum. Say his name: Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz actually didn’t found Reddit. He built a similar company that wasn’t gaining traction, and as both of them were under y-comb and Reddit secretly seeded fake accounts, Swartz and y-comb decided to merge into Reddit. Swartz was sort of their first and hardworking employee instead of a co-founder.
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Goodness I hope the gamestop nerds find a way to absolutely destroy this. If there is any chance of a scheme working, I will invest.
Time to buy shorts. Or puts. Or kangaroos. Whatever.
I don't know a fucking thing about stonks.
Perfect, you'll fit right in
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Cool. That'll be a fun trainwreck to watch.
Ooh, I can finally short!
Contrary to many in here, I don't think this will cause another exodus from reddit. those who might be concerned by this have already left or reduced their time on the platform
If Facebook hasn't had a mas exodus, neither will Reddit.
Facebooks death is slow and ongoing, and I'm pretty sure Reddit's will be too.
I don't know where you are getting your numbers. maybe it's your selection bias, but facebook's userbase keeps groing, and even if its getting less teenager engagement, those teenagers are flocking to Meta's other platform Instagram.
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I’d expect another big exodus around then.
Yes. Best thing we can do is be ready (from a tech perspective) and welcoming (from a human perspective). They'll come or they won't.
Compared to summer, Lemmy now has thousands more users, hundreds of active communities (no where near Reddit yet on niche subjects), actual made-on-lemmy content in a bunch of places, and a bunch of apps that mostly have the bugs worked out. It's probably fair more appealing now to join than it was in summer.
We still have roadblocks: general confusion about federation (the email analogy seems to be working best), difficulty properly explaining how to sign up, a harder time finding communities, and it's impossible to migrate between instances without starting fresh.
no where near Reddit yet on niche subjects
I'm always saddened by how not-active some of those subjects are. For example: Even many large games struggle to have dedicated, active communities on Lemmy (assuming I'm not terrible at finding them, which is sadly also possible). Even some of the largest games have only completely dead communities here. A huge draw of Reddit for me was to be able to talk about the games I play with other people who do too. And mostly, the games I'd love to talk about aren't in the top 10 most played games list.
Now I could try to (re)vitalize those communities I would love to see around, and I have done so shortly after the exodus (on my previous account that died with the instance it was on). However, there's only so much talking into the void I can do until it gets boring.
I also feel like that might be a big issue for people coming over. After I manage to explain to my friends how federation works, they ask me to help them find the [topic of their interest] community, and all I can show them is a community with 10 threads, all over 3 months old and with 0 comments. Sadly it shouldn't surprise anyone they're not sticking around after that.
I think part of the problem is that we migrants decided that each reddit community also needed a corresponding lemmy community right out of the gate. For example, on reddit, there is r/hockey, then there's a sub for each individual team. However on lemmy, the team subs are dead due to insufficient traffic, and stay dead due to the exact chicken-and-egg problem you describe. The solution is to congregate in a larger community instead, where traffic is higher, even if you're posting about your relatively popular game. So as a Winnipeg Jets fan, I should post in the lemmy hockey community and not the Jets community. Likewise, if you want more chatter about Cyberpunk2077, post in the general gaming community. It works reasonably well for now, and if the signal to noise ratio ever gets bad in the larger community, then you can split off into specialty topics.
Ironically, reddit also went through this exact process 10-12 years ago. r/science became too noisy, so people ended up in r/physics and r/chemistry, and r/askscience and such. We need to start with communities with larger scope until they're active enough to split.
At this very moment I'm looking for a discussion on sci fi oriented table top rpgs. On reddit, there is dedicated discussion forums for a few of them. Here, I'll post to [email protected] because there's more people there. Off I go!
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I'm curious how they will tank their worth by then, as is tradition.
I've never bought options before, but I'm in for 10grand and shorting the shit out of this.
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Easiest short of my life.
Wouldn't be surprised to see lemmy activity spike in March. Probably not as big as during the API debacle, but still.
Is it even worth anything to investors anymore at this point? Huffman kind of destroyed any faith anyone had in Reddit, seems like it's just going to slowly turn into an ad distribution service to scam people who don't know any better lol
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