• sibachian@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    the people still on reddit after the 30th when the third party apps close down, i personally believe can stay there indefinitely. these people, and i, do not exist on the same wavelength.

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      1 year ago

      Only reason I’m still checking reddit is because RIF is still working. After that, I’ll see how much I miss it.

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        1 year ago

        Yup, following up on some good comments and discussions I had, watching people migrate and just moving away from reddit completely over the next week.

        People are still replying to me, and good posts are still going up. But in 6 days I will no longer be able to access it so here I am.

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          For me it is a different approach. I will continue to use old Reddit and RedReader (it got granted exemption, it is nearly identical to RIF, and I love using it) and keep extracting as much leftover value as possible. Some communities are just not going to migrate, like r/thinkpad or r/headphones. Also, the all time top posts on some subreddits have enough value from a decade plus of posting.

          However, I will be using it far, far less because most communities’ moderators have decided to let the subreddits rot with a lack of moderation, and then to simply quit their thankless, payless job if Reddit boots them out, or if they do not want to be associated with the wastelands. I think this should have been the modus operandi of the protest right from the start, and taken to infinite time until Reddit admins kowtowed.

          Most communities’ culture is formulated and fully understood only by a very few people in the world, even fewer of which can become moderators, even fewer of which can lead. Replacing them is going to be impossible. Every sizeable subreddit has years of culture and nuance behind it, not replaceable by any amount of money, unless existing ones were given bottom 6 figures yearly.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve been slowly trying to transition to Lemmy with this in mind. After June 30th, RIF won’t be working and I don’t plan on installing the official app so I’m trying to get adjusted to Lemmy before then.

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      1 year ago

      I definitely agree. The vast majority of people still left on Reddit are those who are corporate bootlickers and those who do not care and just want to doom scroll.

      Neither type adds anything to an online community

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        1 year ago

        I don’t agree that the vast majority of the people left there are bootlickers.

        Most of the people left there seem to be uninterested in technology from the arts and crafts related subs and that’s what’s really missing in Lemmy/kbin.

        There is no /c/woodwoking, /c/printmaking or /c/embroidery and the people that usually visit these don’t really care about the underlying tech. Most of the time they just want to share their crafts with their community and things to just work.

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          1 year ago

          I’m almost certain I’ve seen a woodworking community when browsing all.

          I also don’t think it’s necessarily a question of subject matter so much as that Lemmy’s user base is simply not large enough yet to sustain active niche communities, and it’s an open question if we can get to that point without degrading the quality of the less focused ones, like /c/crafting or /c/diy.

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            Will a critical mass be reached where we can create our own communities? At least at beehaw that seems to be handled top down, we had a poll asking what we’d want - does it work that way everywhere? I’d like a local area community, but as you say, who’d participate? I might be it.

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      1 year ago

      Some of them will just be using reddit on a computer, not a mobile device. To someone who has never used a third-party app, they might not seem very important.

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        1 year ago

        Even on mobile I always just used the desktop version of (old) Reddit. I just love seeing the fediverse prosper.