I know will not be seen by many, but if someone wonders why my profile is dead, they know why. Link sends to join-lemmy.org, if I get banned, oh well…
I still haven’t touched Reddit since Apollo shut down. Feels good to stand up for what you believe in
You guys are strange, who feels the need to write a going away letter on a reddit account? I doubt any of you had some sort of following on there. Redditors are a truly strange breed.
I’ll either delete my entire account or if possible replaceme all my posts (12 years worth) with “GOTO LEMMY!”
There’s no harm in leaving a forwarding address when you leave a place.
Additionally, it’s a common practice for some users of reddit and things like it to click over to the profile of someone who posted something you find interesting; why not check out what else they post or are into? Now whenever someone clicks OP’s profile the first thing they’ll see is this, and that’s potentially of value to someone over there who hasn’t yet checked things out over here. Old reddit posts and commments still get new engagement coming in all the time even years after the fact, so something like this can actually reach folks.
Exactly, OP showed his karma, even if he wasn’t popular his posts and comments were liked enough. People might visit and be swayed.
It’s all helping raise awareness, even if it’s just in small increments.
Yeah. Fuck that place. I left and never went back (intentionally). No ones gonna miss me. No one over there cares that I left. Fuck em.
I was on Reddit for 17 years. It was my home on the Internet. I used to go to Reddit meetup days and hang out with other Reddit nerds. It’s natural for people to have sentimental feelings about something that’s been such a big part of so many of our lives.
I haven’t been back since the Lemmy exodus, except by accident a few times. But I miss what it was.
I did the same–with links to Reddit alternatives–back in early July when it became clear Reddit admin was going full autocratic on the situation. I didn’t delete my content and I still don’t plan to, as the discussions (and especially the Q&A) on Reddit are a public good that is a net positive for the Internet, and even the ugly acts of site leadership don’t change that. I encourage anyone that still has a Reddit account to pin a similar message.
This post also reminded me that I’d recommended Squabbles when I first made the post, so I had to run over there and edit that out. Oof. 😬
I smell a ban there, spez will get very angy!! No lemmy allowed on reddit!!
Is that for real?
It’s way easier to get people to move by just showing screenshots or a link to a lemmy instance
Have you been on join-lemmy.org? No one is hearing about lemmy for the first time and deciding to join based off of it. The entire website is all tech speak, and literal lorem ipsum with zero screenshots that actually show off the platform, and zero screenshots of any of the apps (which is how a ton of people browse reddit)
90% of redditors who go there will be confused and never go back. It says “a link aggregator for the fediverse” in big which, 99% of people will just be confused because whats a link aggregator? And for most people, whats “the fediverse”? Join a server? Run a server? What?
Then it says “Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform” people know what some of those words are but definitely not in that order.
Then its screenshots of some code on github? Then its more code saying lemmy is open source?
Then it says “blazing fast” with a screemshot of lorem ispum
Then a bunch if paragraphs and then a small screenshot of more lorem ipsum with teeny tiny vote buttons and more tech words
I think they’re removing posts (and maybe banning users?) for posting Reddit alternatives lately
https://lemmyverse.net/ might be a better alternative for now, with the explanation that it all goes to the same conversation.
Yes, that’s not always 100% true, but new users can learn about the nuances of defederation and other blocking after they get their feet wet.
It seriously needs to be improved
Strong relationship status update vibes
OP is BASED as fuck, I went to go check out my Reddit account since I haven’t used it since lemy and Reddit just felt so clunky and bloated in comparison
You guys are way too attached to Reddit.
Bro they are fake points, you’ll survive
I think you missed the point.
Maybe the detachment the negative posters feel in this thread is part of Reddit being a toxic place. Just a theory.
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