A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest

  • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The people who see the protest as a failure were many of the users who used the official app, default settings, and seldom if ever contributed to the site. They were never going to leave anyway.

    Look how many people came here, and there is a noticeable decrease in the number of bots and trolls. I see this as a huge win for us users.

    Edit: Just realized this is ambiguous. There’s noticeably fewer bots and trolls here on Lemmy than there were on reddit.

    • Thul@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Not only are there fewer trolls here but there are but more well thought out replies and less attention seeking in general. The entirety of Reddit is going to turn into r/teenagers

  • grte@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Powerless to change Reddit. You can always do what I did and use lemmy instead.

    • Dee@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      This is the way.

      It’s been so much nicer tbh, at least on Beehaw. I don’t have any reason to go back with Lemmy and RSS feeds

      • Chickerino@vlemmy.net
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        1 year ago

        i find that the lack of community videos really holds me back from using lemmy as a primary website, but i do understand that video hosting is expensive, just kinda sucks

        • Dee@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          I’m not big on video content so that doesn’t bother me at all, but I could see how that might hold some people back if they prefer that. Funnily enough, I often won’t click a link if I see it goes to a video instead of an article.

          That being said PeerTube is in the works, still a ways to go but it’s comin’

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    1 year ago

    It feels like realizing that WhatsApp is a terrible Meta privacy nightmare, but you can’t wake up because you can’t convince your whole family to use Signal.

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      I’ve tried, but Signal is just too cumbersome to use. I sorely miss a web client and my family members sorely miss an Android tablet client. This makes it hard to recommend.