So, I see r/NZ is back. That’s it? What an anemic protest. I guess I’m honestly surprised more people don’t care. I expected the protest to go on longer, but I guess I overestimated how much the average user cared about this.
Unfortunately, I think it probably means we won’t see a lot of growth in Lemmy now. Shame.
This isn’t the end of reddit’s enshittification process. They’re just getting started.
I’m enjoying the “everyday” content here on lemmy.nz so far - it’s taken a bit to get a feel for, but for the main reason I hung out a /r/nz (breaking news, current events) it seems to hit the spot. Cheers all for that!
What I’m really missing on Lemmy in general however is that niche content - hobbys I’m interested in, bands I listen to etc. The Reddit communities for them were generally strong and active, but so far missing from Lemmy. Hopefully that changes with time, as I have no desire to go back to Reddit.
Check out the community search at https://browse.feddit.de, or the one at https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Unfortunately there is currently no way for an account on one Lemmy instance to create a community on another instance, but if it already exists, go post some content!
Most of the more “general” instances allow users to create their own communities, so there are lots of mostly empty ones floating around waiting for users. You’re a user!
Does one have to sign up on all those forums individually or is there a single sign on arrangement?
Lemmy is federated. Check out the video in the pinned FAQ post for a bit of an overview.
But the long story short is that you access those communities through lemmy.nz, and people on those communities can access our communities through their own site.
Unfortunately it can be a bit convoluted at the moment. Lemmy is young and not well polished. Probably the easiest way is to click the link to go to a community (which will be a link to their website), then copy the URL into the search on lemmy.nz
If you’re having trouble, you won’t be alone, but you can ask on !support@lemmy.nz for help. Or just reply to me, I’m happy to help, but might take a little longer to respond.
I think you will see more growth once the third party apps are shut down. After that spike you’ll probably see a steady rise as people get banned or harassed or whatever.
I haven’t really disconnected from r/nz yet and I guess I’m hanging out at both, just looking out for what interests me. What would shift me this way more permanently is if more content and engagement pops up here to keep me more occupied, and/or if the moderation of r/nz drops to levels so bad (as has been threatened by the mods) that I can’t bear it any longer.
I mean, I know that Lemmy is here now whereas I didn’t before, so I’ll probably keep coming back even if I drift away at times. I also like the more independent and federated model that avoids one single commercial entity being in control. It’s much more like how the internet used to work in the olden days, before a small number of mega-corps sought to pull everyone into their very restrictive dumbed down siloed universes for the purpose of selling users as a product.
Not really bothered what happens over there now. I’m no longer invested in their community. Yeah I’ll be poking my head back in over there occasionally I think, but lemmy is scratching my itch for scrolling and doing it in a way that seems less harmful to my spare time and mental health.
My reddit protest consisted of:
- deleting all 10+ years of content and comments I’ve contributed over there
- making an account here and supporting an alternative service
I’ve already opened a google link to something on reddit only to find it was deleted by the user. So I think the withdrawal of content is going to have a lasting impact.
If you used Power Delete Suite, please double check your comments/posts are really gone. There have been multiple reports that Reddit brings back deleted posts/comments.
It’s important to overwrite them, otherwise they are just flagged as deleted but easy for admins to undelete.
Yeah you’re right. Power Delete Suite can do that, but I don’t think it does it by default. But I think I’ve seen reports that even when editing, posts are brought back to live.
Most likely it’s just an issue with the software or API. Perhaps it hits a rate limit and ignores some requests.
I doubt admins are restoring individual posts that they like. It doesn’t seem to make sense.
I’m not too sure. They are forcing subreddits to re-open, and in the past they have edited comments in favor of reddit.
Reddit content is very valuable, when I Google for opinions, I always add “reddit” to the query.
Many people who reported the issue say that their profiles initially showed up as empty, but were restored a couple of hours later.
The mods will come up with all kinds of excuses, but with every instance I’ve seen of mods backing down, it’s been the same thing: They miss the power.
That’s so weird because as a mod it’s mostly just unpaid boring work, with the occasional dozen-pages-of-penises thrown in. I’m really enjoying the break tbh.
