I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

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    1 year ago

    Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.

    Reddit is different… I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.

    So I’m not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don’t give me something to read over breakfast…

    I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I’m trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.

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      We might have to accept we’re on the “losing” side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We’ll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly reddit lost too. The quality drop in content and comments is noticeable and unlikely to get better. Meanwhile lemmy/kbin/fediverse in general seems to be thriving with hope and energy.

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      I made the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when, and like you didn’t see a lot of the toxicity of Reddit likely by having a honed list of subreddits. 99% of my time was spent lurking tho over the last years - so now I’m going to take more initiative and engage more with the platform

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      Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I’ve been using Apple News as my “read over breakfast” app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.

  • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
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    Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there’s plenty to choose from!

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      I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.

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        Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

        Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

        Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.

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    It’s strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn’t noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.

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    I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump’s account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.

    It’s a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.

    I still have my Reddit account, but it’s becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it’s to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it’s the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don’t unless I have to.

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    Same; I’ve been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can’t take it anymore. It’s all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can’t shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn’t quite do it just yet.

    The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.

    BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.

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    WHATS UP FUCKERRR

    I’ve been free of Twitter, Facebook, insta, etc for years now and I promise it’s a lot more liberating.

    Mood has been substantially better, sometimes you get dragged into arguments on here/Reddit too but it’s pretty unlikely to get riled up by the type of trolls you see around here given their immaturity

  • ThinlySlicedGlizzy@lemmy.world
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    I think this is going to be a trend. Centralized social media just isn’t financially viable and it’s worse for the users in so many ways. We already have alternatives for youtube, reddit, and twitter popping up. I think youtube might be the hardest to replace though because so many people view youtube as a job rather than a place to share content just for the sake of it. Hopefully with all this we can return to the good old days of the internet where a few corporations didn’t control the majority of traffic.

    • MouldyPriestASSHOLE@lemmy.world
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      The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of historical content that’ll never make it to an alternative site. I don’t think it can ever be replaced unfortunately.

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    Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞

    Can’t even watch porn on there anymore. LOL

    I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.

    Talk about a damn boner killer.

    Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.

  • Morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de
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    Welcome to the Fediverse 🌞 I switched to Mastodon after Musk announced to buy the Twitter. It is already over a year ago 🤔

    I am new to Lemmy myself, but it looks good

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    There’s no reason for a community driven site like Reddit to do things that hurt the community. It’s like they are trying to kill themselves the same way Musk is trying to kill Twitter.

    It’s better to get away from those properties now before something worse happens.

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    I deactivated my 15 year old Twitter account this weekend.

    Then I deleted all my Reddit posts.

    Then I created a new email account and I’m migrating off of Google.

    I guess I should go check out Nebula or something next, and try out PeerTube.

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    I removed my Twitter account around the time Elon took over. I knew it was gonna be bad when he took over. Reddit, I closed my account on the 1st. I hated the official app and saw it was going to die as well.

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    I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.

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    The only thing I still need reddit for is the sports communities. I hope some start getting bigger over here.