I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I’ve been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.
But now it’s not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that’s just another step for something that’s already so not worthwhile.
Welp…
I was on reddit every day for damn near 20 years, and if I’m being 100% honest, the fediverse is 10,000% better. The only problem is that not enough people interact. I’ve never seen a post with more than like 200 comments. It feels a bit empty here. But, on the other hand, 200 decent comments is better than 2000 shitty ones.
Once this place gets a few more users, it’s gonna be the GOAT.
Hey man, we’re glad to have you and I 100% agree.
We just need our version of U/shittymorph
Careful what you wish for, the larger the sample size the dumber it gets
Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn’t getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and…yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄
Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.
I loved forums. I have a group of friends I met on a forum and we rarely talk about that subject anymore but we’re still really close.
Yeah I did too, only one or two I keep in touch with now but yep, made real life friends on forums and it was great!
Maybe it will go back to this. I say that because there is a comeback of personal web pages from 00’s
That’s really cool - I recently went to check out one where I used to go but unfortunately the rest of the page is there but no forum anymore.
We’re already getting bots and trolls and the mods often do nothing about them.
This… People keep dreaming of reddit crashing and burning or going under but, realistically if that did happen a good portion of the existing userbase will filter into the fediverse somewhere, and thats a lot of inorganic growth. Currently there are a handful of popular topics, and some niche topics. Yes there are also reddit like mannerisms but, when people slowly filter in, the room can be read and the existing culture remains, when a mass intake happens (like what happend with the API debacle) the influx is faster than the adoption and the culture comes with it.
ikr soon as this place gets too big I’m taking off to something else.
I prefer the fewer comments here. Who want’s to read 1200+ comments, 50% of which are the same tired jokes?
When I started going through deleting my old comments that shreddit missed, I was surprised at how 90% of them never got any sort of response; I had never noticed before. Presumably I didn’t post them within the first hour or so of the post going up, so I was shouting into the ether and nobody ever saw them. The majority of my comments here get upvotes, downvotes, and/or replies - that alone makes it far superior.
Nice.
And my axe!
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Fedi being way slower than Reddit was a godsend to me. It helped me detox from the endless content on Reddit because I was going loopy.
After the 5th scroll past the same boring hornypost I’m like “ugh I guess I’ll put the phone down and go to sleep.”
While I agree, there are plenty of chill subreddits that are full of interaction and the counterparts here aren’t very active. I know that it’s up to us to start creating the posts but I’m more of a lurker and replier.
i usually visit identifying unknown plant (it was fun since i was able to see people post rare and unusual plants that are very rarely seen by normally)and animal subs, because politics post is designed to get people to be angry and comment.
I need to find a client that does paginating instead of infinite scroll. It’s like a fucking vortex, I can’t pull myself away from it…
reddit was better before 2016, before trump took the white house the first time, almost as soon as took the WH, russia realized that reddit was a good place to use bots/propaganda, then we see sudden increase in politicl aposts, and then ban of “Questionable” subs. orignially because of this you would make different account for different niches to avoid a ban affecting other accounts.
I’m new, came over a couple weeks ago. Others will come.
Welcome!
I agree with you. Coming up on at least my second year here and I do love it, but I miss some parts of having the bigger crowd.
Its better this way. Limited content. You have to out the phone down and do something else
I think it’s fine as is. The worst part of reddit was opening an interesting post and finding the comments full of jokes and badly remembered quotes.
Edit: That was probably due to the awards creating perverse incentives but still, the more comments there are the more striking a comment needs to be to be on top
It had a lot more with being first to comment than it did about the quality of your comment. After about 100 comments your chances of being near the top were pretty much gone.
I absolutely fell in love with reddit when I joined 19 years ago. Up until the Digg migration I loved it maybe even more than the BBS’ I was on in my youth. But it steadily went downhill from there, and I thank Jebus every day for the fediverse because it brings back that good old energy that I was missing. Reddit is so unpleasant compared to here.
Onze this place gets enough users, it’s gonna be exactly the same.