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Hi, I think I’m doing this right. Just joined Lemmy lol because of this. Can people see my comment?

Ok tidy up this place. We have visitors coming soon.

You’re gonna pay the mods then, right?

Right?

Do it, please, the subreddits need to migrate here

I just left, deleted my account of 15ish years tonight, no regrets. Happy to be here.

More ads? There's already a bunch of them mixed with posts and comments. What more, force people to watch an ad before loading pages?

I'm not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn't figure it out or that it isn't good enough...

I think as the enshittification marches on they'll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.

Looks like I dropped Reddit at just the right time.

Just came to lemmy again after learning this shit!! mass exodus coming soon

i hope there is a mass migration here

Another day of thanking my past self for leaving

That's why I left. I regret nothing.

Digg: "join us reddit..."

I haven't had an account since the Apollo purge but fuck Spez.

Can't wait to see the mental gymnastics subreddit moderators will perform to defend this!

watch them lock old reddit behind a paywall just because it's the best part about reddit

fuck /u/spez

Is there anywhere I can find a complete scrape of Reddit threads and comments from before the 3rd party app apocalypse? There was a lot of useful info shared on there, but I don't want anything to do with what that site has become. I'm happy just to CTRL+F a big dataset. It'll probably still work better than either Reddit or Google does nowadays. Without media I imagine I could fit it somewhere.

Also, Spez is a greedy little pig boy.

What's Reddit? A clone of Lemmy?

So, what's the stage after "enshitification"? "Enspezed?"

Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.

"Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?"

The answer was basically "rose colored glasses."

I joined **Reddit **after the 'deaths' of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. Now it's bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.

Delete.

I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don't see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.

Delete.

I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.

Delete.

So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The 'social' in 'social' media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.

After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.

That's why I'm here. Just made an account. Sick of everything being a goddamn subscription.

As much as we'd like to joke about the sudden influx of new Lemmy users that will result from this lets all be real, it will be a few new users. Most Reddit users will accept whatever is thrown at them from that company while crying about it on Reddit. I don't know what the phenomena is but it seems that most people would rather stay on the bad platform than try something new and slightly different. I'm cool with that, I like niche platforms.

Reddit has gotten so bad that it’s funny. I love reading about whatever awkward, bumbling cash grab they’re trying next.

What’s a good word for constant, ongoing enshittification? Diarrheafication?

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