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Lemmy enjoys growth as developers pivot from Reddit amid API charging controversy (alternativeto.net)

submitted 1 year ago by snoopa@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really, I already knew reddit was shit before I left. I just didn't know of any alternative. I'm also not suggesting that our success is reliant on reddit's failure.

I'm in full agreement with him, reddit hasn't changed much at all, but Lemmy has reminded us that there could be something much better again.

I don't think he was debunking the idea that reddit might eventually fall, but rather that they would fall overnight, as some people here like to imply. Also worth mentioning that Microsoft and Apple are generational tech companies while reddit is a social media platform that's much more susceptible to rapid decline.

[–] cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really, I already knew reddit was shit before I left. I just didn’t know of any alternative. I’m also not suggesting that our success is reliant on reddit’s failure.

But it was not for me. It was amazing. I was not in any default subs or major subreddits (well, ELI5 is major, but I treated that as read-only), but my experience with Reddit was the best of anything since I first went online in the 90s. Lemmy is the first thing that comes close, but Reddit was nowhere near shit. The only reason I’m here, instead of there, is because Spez is some dumb fuck.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I get that. For me personally, reddit seemed to get worse starting over 7 years ago, so by now I felt the experience was significantly worse than previous eras of reddit, even in smaller subs.

But as much as I loved some BBS forums, I'd have to say Reddit was definitely better than them, so yea early 2010s reddit was probably the most fun I've had. Until now.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

My experience too. So often reddit would just attract a toxic or at least unattractive culture that would kill conversation and make threads unreadable. It seemed to get worse over time, though I didn't get serious about measuring that. Doesn't of course mean that there wasn't plenty of good stuff there or still isn't, but it, in recent times, felt diluted.