768
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
768 points (100.0% liked)
17660 readers
23 users here now
News and Discussions about Reddit
Welcome to !reddit. This is a community for all news and discussions about Reddit.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules
Rule 1- No brigading.
**You may not encourage brigading any communities or subreddits in any way. **
YSKs are about self-improvement on how to do things.
Rule 2- No illegal or NSFW or gore content.
**No illegal or NSFW or gore content. **
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-Reddit posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
:::spoiler Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I visit it for a couple of subs that are not active on here. For the most part it feels the same. I never really cared for the karma system, gold, etc. So switching to Lemmy for me was more about just trying to find a place not being bombarded by ads, bots, and corporate policies.
I think reddit will survive the Exodus of users simply because Twitter is so badly managed that reddit may actually supplant it for a while. However, the drive to monetize all aspects of our lives is actually getting some push back from users so Lemmy may continue to grow in the next few years.
The biggest issues facing Lemmy isn't content though. It's ease of adoption.
God yes the ads, I just hate how every corner of our existence is being filled with ads. And if it's not an official ad or "sponsored post" it's someone trying to sell stickers on their Etsy or a t shirt bot spamming all and every subreddit. I just really hope those sort of things don't invade here.
If you have been using an adblocker for years and turn it off for a moment, you really see how fucking bad it has become. It's almost like a dystopian movie.
But if you use an adbwockew then I can’t suwvive…
👉👈 Pwewse disable youw adbwockew…
-Adblock off-
DOWNLOAD FREE RAM! RAID SHADOW LEGENDS GET IT TODAY!
SUBSCRIBE TO PREMIUM! CHECK OUT THIS MERCH!
GET YOUR DICK GROWTH PILLS! HE GETS US!
CARS MOTHERFUCKER! DONATE TO POLITICAL PARTY!
VIRUS! VIRUS! VIRUS! VIRUS! VIRUS!
-Adblock on-
👉👈 Pwease…
I use DNS black holes, adblockers, and I host all of my own media content. I rarely, if ever, see ads.
I will just stop viewing content if I have to go back to watching ads, it's that simple. I can't do it.
I can't even watch TV with my parents on the Tivo anymore. Even fast forwarding through the ads is tedious and makes me angry.
Same. I consider anything I pay for adblock services an investment in my health.
An advertisment filled dystopian movie? That's the exact opposite of my new movie, "Barbie", only in theaters July 21st.
What, no product placement, even? But how will I know what kind of flavored seltzer will make me pretty if I don’t see what Barbie drinks?!
It's going to be Barbie-que sauce flavored.
Yeah this is what has amazed me since joining Lemmy is the non existence of ADS. It feels weird that I'm not seeing constant ads disguised as posts here.
I have been bouncing between here and the Reddit official app and holy hell the Reddit app is so shockingly bad with ads that I can only manage a few mins on it.
But is ease of adoption a problem, though?
Lemmy as it is now is great. Sure it could have more users, but I wouldn't want the "average user" here because then it will be Reddit BS all over again.
Yeah as bad as it may sound, I kind of like that it's not as easy to get into as reddit's official app or tiktok or whatever. A barrier to entry can help quality. It doesn't stop all the toxic assholes but it helps slow down the onslaught of braindead echo chambers and circlejerks that reddit has turned.
Yes, it's a huge problem. New users are confused when they first get introduced. Ive been here for weeks and I still don't understand everything. The explanations and infographics that have been made are a mess. It's why there's a certain kind of user that makes up the bulk of the site right now.
Doesn't help that the first attempts to explain it were basically denial that there was a problem and insulting people for not understanding.
As a non-tech-savvy person, the confusion is real, lol. I am okay with just not really knowing what’s going on, and with asking questions or RTFM when I can find it, but that still puts me in the category of “comfortable in a highly technical environment.” People who are genuinely uncomfortable with technology and tech people are going to get a lot of culture shock.
To be fair, I think it goes both ways. People who answer a question from the point of view of a software developer will, quite reasonably, feel hurt if they’re told their answer isn’t helpful. I think it might be good to have a dedicated “landing pad” community for helping new people get oriented, rather than leaving them to ask the nearest person, who might or might not be the best person to ask.
But why is it a huge problem in the context of adoption?
I'm not saying I want or support that. I actually found it very easy to adopt. I am saying it is a hurdle in regards to adoption in regards to platform growth which is often discussed when comparing it to other social platforms.