I don’t know if this is the right community, but I suppose it’s close enough.

You can’t even make posts like this on Reddit anymore, Reddit has become such a hog on the internet traffic it’s ridiculous. It wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit didn’t take such precious internet space.

They censor people, regular people who aren’t even doing anything too controversial. Reddit’s automated filters constantly remove people’s posts, only conformist content is allowed there, and so nothing of value remains. Just generic conformist post after another generic conformist post.

Why is this platform still popular is honestly just beyond me at this point. No really, can someone please, please explain to me why do people keep using this broken website anymore?

That'sWhyI'mHere.ObiWan

I'd say the network effect is a big part. A lot of the established communities are there, so people stay there.

I do my best to stay off there, though. One thing that helped me drastically cut down on Reddit interactions is donating an Euro to PieFed for every comment I make on Reddit. (besides, either it works, or I help keep the fediverse running and improving. It's a win-win :P)

That’s a genius idea, I love it

When my 50 year old sister started telling me how to use Reddit, i knew Reddit wasn't for me anymore

Most people aren't very savvy with going outside normal areas, so they follow where others are. Unfortunately even after a few years Lemmy and the rest are still very niche and not mainstream at all. When Reddit first became ridiculous and the first people started looking for alternatives, Lemmy was just one of a number of potentials and ended up the bigger draw, maybe because it was the only one that could handle the sudden traffic. But this was a small part of the Reddit user base, the ones who knew enough to look around and find other places. Trying to spread the word to others on Reddit became a battle, otherwise I think we'd be a lot larger by now.

So why do people deal with how Reddit is now? I ask that a lot about other platforms, even hear it from family griping about how terrible places like Facebook or Instagram are, and yet they stay. People don't like change from familiar, even when it's difficult. And when they don't know of other places or how to transition, they'll hunker down even more and deal with it.

I also made c/takeyourtimeback and kept track of it there (forgot to post about it last month tho)
https://piefed.social/c/takeyourtimeback/p/2077191/piefed-donation-pledge

Well if you're serious about this than this definitely isn't the right community.

Reddit has better shitposts than this!

You are speaking to the band right now. I only check reddit for the latest news.

There’s !reddit@lemmy.world where you can also post this.

It doesn't take precious internet space, internet space is practically limitless (by the time ipv6 addresses run out we'll be well on our way with ipv7 or 8). It just takes as much space in your mind as you're willing to give it. Instead of highlighting something that's negative to you redirect that energy into building lemmy into something more positive

There will come a reckoning for the Internet. Corporate social media will eventually crumble. Nothing lasts forever and these corporations are overextending themselves.

It does ,however, use real electricity and hardware. Which could be used for something else.

They don't know better.

This is the age of convenience.

Also, stop using X. Like why do so many foreign companies even still bother? Drives me nuts.

Anyone using old.reddit.com could easily jump to old.lemmy.(.. whatever.. I'm on .zip) and not miss a beat.

I sure didn't.

Network effect. You want to reach people, then you go where people are. It's self perpetuating.

If we run out of IPv6 addresses, there is either something wrong with how we are using it or our current understanding of the universe. There's 2^128^ IPv6 addresses and about 2^33^ people on Earth.

I miss early 2000s internet before SM and corporations took over. Where each fandom had their own websites/forums.

niche stuff dont exist on lemmy, plus every time a minor disagreement between an instances, people just scatter so theres no growing a community.

thats ones eaiser to not use, i never had an account

i visit the niches occasionally. look at the news, but never participate, no one should.

Wrong community for this post tbh. Stop posting #general in #memes

No it's right. Read the sidebar. Shitposts are not just memes

I really wish it will turn out this way, but I fear it won't.

People are really slow and it has to be convenient. They still use Facebook and reddit. Or worse, WhatsApp is absolutely dominant in some countries.

The SEO of lemmy needs to improve for more people to move off of reddit. That also means more bot traffic here, though.

Ok but the most effective way to cure ourselves from reddit is to get so permabanned that every whisper of our likeness gets rejected from participating over there.

Honestly atp the censorship isn't even the worst of it. Go to Lemmy.ml, say anything bad against China and see how it goes. Many Lemmy communities are no better.

No the worst of reddit is the fact that it's a data-mining operation at this point, with age checks and a complete Mishandling of your user data (everything is indexed and easy to search even if you set your profile to private...)

Even better: don't go to any ML instance and enjoy increased happiness and mental wellbeing.

Facebook didn't exist 25 years ago. All it takes is a couple years of bad decisions by management, a shift in market conditions for them to fall apart.

I'm really trying not to go back there but Lemmy is doing its best to alienate me.

The link must be broken, I can’t open it

This is it. This is why.

Amen to that.

I haven’t found it (if it exists) is there a way to block all posts and comments from Lemmy.ml users? I may start my own instance to do so

I ran a couple back in the day. They were a pain in the ass to maintain. Can’t imagine the AI bots trying to exploit it these days

Where's the StandupComedy community on Lemmy, with a comparable amount of quality material?

Outside of that, I use Reddit to doomscroll through random junk and have drunken arguments. I don't see why it's unfit for that. Though it's gradually turning into Facebook with all the sob stories and the endless videos of dogs being reunited with their owners.

gasp A user has-- has disagreed with me?? They must be banned IMMEDIATELY

I know and agree! But that's the frustrating part. If it's useful someone will always pick it up. In capitalism there's this self sustaining loop of abuse.

I'm still blocking tankies and incels one by one.

This isn't a shitpost what's this doing here

Where shitpost?

I got banned from Reddit for some stupid nonsense. I posted a "political post (which honestly talking about my own healthcare insurance should not be considered a political post) and got banned from the Gen x sub. I did not realize that I was logged in with a different login and I made a comment not even thinking about it on the Gen x sub and basically got all of my accounts banned permanently. They call it an IP band. Fuck them. And now since they make you log in to read anything super fuck them. I hate that you can't block Reddit from your Google results anymore.

Funny enough when Twitter came out I thought it was the stupidest damn platform. Only 180 characters to say what you want to say I just thought it was so completely stupid. And then when the Nazi bought it I was so glad I never signed up for it.

The majority of people don't have any problem with anything you are mentioning. People still use Facebook and Twitter for fuck's sake...

You would have thought when the Nazi bought it, everybody would have stopped using it

Yep that's exactly what happened to me. I'm still really fucking bitter about it. I didn't even do anything bad. Just absent-mindedly posting from different accounts to a sub I had been banned from. Didn't even think about it honestly and boom Perma band

It's still popular because people are addicted to it. I only escaped because I replaced reddit with Lemmy. If you want people to leave, tell them about Lemmy.

Love this idea

Me too. I've seen many people with the same story. They set AI to do it and AI is bad at it.