I discovered Lemmy last week. Lurked for a while, then finally created an account. The experience is much better than Reddit so I say good riddance.
Welcome!
Did the switch as well and feel the same. Welcome and Cheers!
Yay! Welcome! I'm pretty new too and I find the quality of conversation much higher over here.
Le narwhal eats bacon at midnight! An updoot for you, good sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar. That’s a heckin cute pupperino, too precious do not deserve!
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
To make you feel as if you never left
Gotta love how people continue to post this lol. Fuck spez.
Peg Spez
Yep loved old.reddit but nope, no more. Happy to be a Lemmyor now 😀 or whats the correct term? Lol. Cheers!
We’re lemmings. There’s a smooth way to say it.
Ha! Love it! Smooth indeed. Cheers!
PieFedoras.
we're the feds lol
Fuck reddit.
If you need the old info download the archive. 99% of anything newer than 3 years is going to be bot slop. There's zero reason to go to reddit intentionally.
Reddit archive? Whereabouts would I acquire that?
Steve is a jealous bitch and has made it harder to find archives of that content which he does not nor has ever owned. He's like Smaug but with brain damage and an incredibly tiny penis.
Here's one, you'll have to hunt to find the big ones at this point.
https://academictorrents.com/details/85a5bd50e4c365f8df70240ffd4ecc7dec59912b
Agree.
Most of it sure, but there are still some active subreddits with human involvement I wish would switch to Lemmy.
Welcome to Lemmy for the last reddit users, that used old.reddit, looks like we are complete now. The rest of reddit are noobs and bots.
I came here three years ago when they killed the API and Reddit is Fun on mobile. I refuse to use their mobile site but still used their desktop. If they kill old.reddit I guess I'm done then.
It’s why I moved onto Lemmy. I can’t stand new Reddit.
For me it was the API changes that was the final straw. 3 years ago.
I don't use Lemmy as much as I did Reddit. But I've also never missed Reddit.
God, was that really 3 years ago?
Reddit is unusable without old reddit. Reddit.com is a horrible user experience.
I knew it was over when the CEO payed himself 200 million the year before it went public (or whatever) he basically looted the fucking place cause he knew it'd be worthless soon after
This news finally convinced me to make a Lemmy account so I can participate a little more instead of lurk. That, and generally how awful Reddit has been becoming for like, several years at this point, since the IPO.
I've swapped out RedReader on my phone's home screen with Boost; though I think it'll take some time to break the Reddit addiction.
I am looking forward to seeing Lemmy's growth!
You're actually joining at a good time. When i created my account it was one post every few hours haha
Nice to see Reddit helping contribute to growth in the fediverse.
That's what brought me here. And so far I am loving it. Wish I had made the switch long ago.
Which is why I’m reading this here and not on Reddit
Interestingly enough, old.reddit users are in the single digit percentages:
Even if they weren't hostile towards old.reddit (the ads are far less invasive and effective), they could make a strong argument for not wanting to support a dwindling, tiny userbase.
I've moderated a subreddit for about 15 years now, it's built up to ~40K members and ~100K visitors per week, ~1M views per month, and over 95-99% of that traffic is mobile (varies by the day). New Reddit (desktop) runs 0.5-3%, and old.reddit doesn't even register in the bar graphs. Still, my shortcuts all go to old.reddit.com - and not just for moderation, but it's also how I browse reddit.com.
If they cut off my old.reddit.com interface, I'll likely abandon my moderator's post - no telling what happens to that community after that happens.
Fuck Spez -> Redlib allows you to view without logging in. Here's a list of other instances on github.
That content is effectively public property at this point, and we created it. We should have access to it.
While I’ve been on Lemmy for a while, I haven’t really seen any hobby - centric or geek centric areas.
I’ll miss the movie threads in particular, but there were a ton of active crafts, art & ttrpg threads to get inspiration from. Any suggestions?
I used python to write a program that bypasses the login prompt and displays the site in a wrapper that's identical to old reddit. It's honestly been kind of fun adding in features that were removed from the site years ago. Fuck spez and fuck all of his admins.
Reddit being absolutely horrendous is what moved me to this site. I wish there was more people and more prominent communities though.
Fuck ‘em. We’re here anyway
I'm sick of reddit. I've been banned three times for calling out Nazis. Nazis don't get banned though
Why aren't they just making the new version better, so that people are happy to use it?
They want the shareholders happy, not the people.
I'll just keep saying it...
Fuck spez, the greedy tiny penis-head that he is.
I swear he looks like one of the children of the corn
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