Reddit has long ago passed the tipping point between content and commercial interest. They’re only interested in being profitable, safe, and inoffensive for marketing partners. The life has gone out of it, it’s just a product now.
What pisses me off is that there is no ready made platform ready to take the user exodus. Digg died basically in 6 months because reddit was ready and super duper easy to sign up.
Lemmy simply isn’t easy to sign up for and understand for better or worse
I know, but the average person can’t comprehend this. Reddit was literarily instant sign-up they didn’t even require an email. It was peak simple sign-up.
There is a community here (won’t say the name to avoid brigading) where people moved from Reddit after their sub got banned.
The topic? Discussing about an influencer’s lifestyle.
Not really the most tech-aware crowd, still they were able to get through this. It’s been almost a year now I think, and they are still using their community on Lemmy. Just to show that the entry barrier is not that high.
they didn’t even require an email
That’s a good point, curious how they handled the bots and fake accounts over time. Maybe we could have email requirement removed once we have enough tools to detect those.
It might help your frustration levels to know that sign up time isn’t an issue. It’s just an excuse. I’ve had to on several occasions forcibly manipulate individuals with fomo just to get them to install an app on their phone. The total process from opening the app store to being part of the group was like 2 minutes long, they just didn’t want to. You cant reason with these people, you can only make your option more fun.
That’s the problem with federated platforms is that sign up is often confusing.
However you can go to a large instance like lemmy.world. sign up is literally just as easy as creating an account on any other site. At which point you don’t need to sign up for other instances unless you really want to or if they are defederated, as long as the instance you created the account on is federated with the instance you want to interact with you can comment there with your account from the other instance.
I was there from day zero… to give some context I mailed spez his own source code when his server was misconfigured for VERBOSE error reporting. This was when he was trying to program a user registration system.
The very first conversations had on Reddit, and I’m including myself in this, were all squabbling about useless horseshit.
Reddit has always been a shitshow. Bacon, narwhals, and so forth to convince people that there’s some kind of community there, when there is not and never has been.
Reddit has long ago passed the tipping point between content and commercial interest. They’re only interested in being profitable, safe, and inoffensive for marketing partners. The life has gone out of it, it’s just a product now.
What pisses me off is that there is no ready made platform ready to take the user exodus. Digg died basically in 6 months because reddit was ready and super duper easy to sign up.
Lemmy simply isn’t easy to sign up for and understand for better or worse
Why?
Just use something easy like
I know, but the average person can’t comprehend this. Reddit was literarily instant sign-up they didn’t even require an email. It was peak simple sign-up.
You can still sign up for reddit without a email, but they hide the option to do so.
There is a community here (won’t say the name to avoid brigading) where people moved from Reddit after their sub got banned.
The topic? Discussing about an influencer’s lifestyle.
Not really the most tech-aware crowd, still they were able to get through this. It’s been almost a year now I think, and they are still using their community on Lemmy. Just to show that the entry barrier is not that high.
That’s a good point, curious how they handled the bots and fake accounts over time. Maybe we could have email requirement removed once we have enough tools to detect those.
It might help your frustration levels to know that sign up time isn’t an issue. It’s just an excuse. I’ve had to on several occasions forcibly manipulate individuals with fomo just to get them to install an app on their phone. The total process from opening the app store to being part of the group was like 2 minutes long, they just didn’t want to. You cant reason with these people, you can only make your option more fun.
That’s the problem with federated platforms is that sign up is often confusing.
However you can go to a large instance like lemmy.world. sign up is literally just as easy as creating an account on any other site. At which point you don’t need to sign up for other instances unless you really want to or if they are defederated, as long as the instance you created the account on is federated with the instance you want to interact with you can comment there with your account from the other instance.
The boost Mobile app works pretty good too
Sounds good in theory im sure, but as someone who is on day two of lemmy, (lemmee… lemme?..idk.) half of what you said is gibberish to me. lol.
Hope this clears some stuff up.
While it needs to improve… The entire point of federation is that there are multiple entry points.
Freedom aknt free
Edit: Sorry, didn’t notice you were actually on your second day here. The other comment should clarify things for you.
That’s why you don’t mention the gibberishJust go withIt has NEVER been a real place.
I was there from day zero… to give some context I mailed spez his own source code when his server was misconfigured for VERBOSE error reporting. This was when he was trying to program a user registration system.
The very first conversations had on Reddit, and I’m including myself in this, were all squabbling about useless horseshit.
Reddit has always been a shitshow. Bacon, narwhals, and so forth to convince people that there’s some kind of community there, when there is not and never has been.
So no different then fake news except user base generates content for free lol
This how regime whoring works in practice…
At least they shot themselves with the API changes, because before that a lot more people had trouble seeing what they had become.