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Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by arp242 »

LordShredda wrote: post #160
goplayoutside wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the modest technical hurdles are a feature, not a bug. From the (currently) top comment in the lemmy post you linked[1], which relates a story about alt.sysadmin.recovery in the 70's/80's: >Which brings me back to my point. A few hoops to jump through and a few initial challenges to adoption can go a long way as a filter for who can show up and interact. Of course we would want Lemmy to be welcoming to anyone w…

No one likes secret internet clubs, they're lame and end up as a circlejerk or a hugbox, much like early IRC servers and discord servers now. Opinion: lobste.rs sucks because you need to be one of the chosen people to post there, and you're only chosen if you think like someone already in there. The posts there are very high quality, but it might as well be a hivemind's blog. Why would I read someone else's comments…

I think "circlejerks" and "hiveminds" are okay. Would you expect a church to defend their views against atheists every Sunday? Or vice versa? Like-minded people like to hang out and talk about like-minded stuff. That's fine.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by Nowado »

Eji1700 wrote: post #25
RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #5

This has been fun to watch. Reddits been working to deteriorate its quality for a long time. The major disappointment is that they aren't a publicly traded company so there is no way to make money on their downfall.

I mean, everyone had similar views about twitter and it's still kicking around just fine.

Let bluesky open. Digg was doing fine until it was gone within a week.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by zilti »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #199
rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

you hit the nail on the spot. I tried to register, I didn't get how it works and I consider myself somewhat tech savvy. Closed and never opened again. Twitter is so much easier to use and it is all in one place instead of trying to find servers(?) on mastodon.

So clicking a registration button and filling out username and password is too challenging for you? How on earth did you manage to set up an email account, lot alone register on here?

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by noarchy »

weaksauce wrote: post #123
2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reddit redesign is still a marvel of technology, in a negative way. I can not comprehend how it is even possible to make a piece of software, be it online or offline, that mainly just has to display text (and the occasional video, thumbnail or image), so incredibly slow and bug ridden. It's truly baffling. The editor for comments is buggy, regularly posts comments twice, can't handle copy/paste properly, "there w…

i'm baffled too. it's so slow and unusable in almost every way. old reddit is so much snapier and usable. It feels like reddit devs are "innovating" to justify their salaries imo.

I doubt it's the devs. It was likely a change of product manager (or something similar) and the desire to impose their vision on things.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by teraflop »

Sunspark wrote: post #185
2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reddit redesign is still a marvel of technology, in a negative way. I can not comprehend how it is even possible to make a piece of software, be it online or offline, that mainly just has to display text (and the occasional video, thumbnail or image), so incredibly slow and bug ridden. It's truly baffling. The editor for comments is buggy, regularly posts comments twice, can't handle copy/paste properly, "there w…

My favourite bug there (unless it's actually a feature?) when people post links reddit will intentionally break urls by actually inserting "/" in the link url especially if the urls have "_" to separate words in it. so this_is_an_example becomes this/_is/_an/_example. When you use their "app" it works, but if you use a browser it breaks.

As far as I know, that's because way back when they introduced "new Reddit" (the redesigned web UI) they made the bizarre decision to use a slightly different and incompatible Markdown parser. So ever since then, posts and comments have looked different depending on which version of the site you view them on.

The URL escaping syntax is one difference, but another one is that the two renderers support different syntax for monospaced code blocks. As you can probably imagine, that wreaks havoc on the formatting of posts in programming subreddits.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by SSLy »

bobsmooth wrote: post #98
SmashPingu wrote: post #87

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Everything about this seems incredibly suspect. Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative (there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that). This just seems to be a shill capitalizing on the news, plain and simple.

>Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative They absolutely do. Try linking to rdrama.net, you'll get shadowbanned.

> Try linking to rdrama.net, you'll get shadowbanned.

On whole plebbit or just some subs?

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by rjh29 »

DANmode wrote: post #97
rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

> We just want reddit without the bullshit. Rhetorically: What are you willing to do for it? How are you willing to change? The way reddit was offered in its early days was a bait and switch. It wasn't real .

I'm willing to donate to a site that offers the best parts of reddit with a fast, clean and usable interface. That might be lobste.rs in a few years.

Reddit was good for like 6-7 years (I was a member back when there was only one 'subreddit'). Turning point was the redesign into a web 3.0 mess that broke stuff like 'find in page' or the back button. Then the gradual monetization, app prompts and SEO that made the side less and less usable. I don't know if it was profitable, but there are definitely alternate paths they could have taken rather than completely gutting and selling out the site for maximum engagement and user figures.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by SSLy »

teraflop wrote: post #235
Sunspark wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite bug there (unless it's actually a feature?) when people post links reddit will intentionally break urls by actually inserting "/" in the link url especially if the urls have "_" to separate words in it. so this_is_an_example becomes this/_is/_an/_example. When you use their "app" it works, but if you use a browser it breaks.

As far as I know, that's because way back when they introduced "new Reddit" (the redesigned web UI) they made the bizarre decision to use a slightly different and incompatible Markdown parser. So ever since then, posts and comments have looked different depending on which version of the site you view them on. The URL escaping syntax is one difference, but another one is that the two renderers support different syntax…

At least you can tell the users who are using new.reddit or the official app, and bully them for lack of elementary taste.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Post by uncletammy »

rjh29 wrote: post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

> Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server.

I want this. I want this because it's a sustainable way to have Reddit without the ads. The bad UX is an acceptable tradeoff for a platform that doesn't go to shit.

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