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[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 706 points 2 months ago (12 children)

There's still one protest possible.

LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!

Same with twitter.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 249 points 2 months ago (10 children)
[–] puppy@lemmy.world 119 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Twitter and Reddit went so much to shit and lowered the bar so much that Meta actually became almost not bad in my eyes, almost.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

There's a guy in the world of pro wrestling named Jim Cornette that said a quote this reminds me of.

Cornette is known for holding grudges, and being hateful. He keeps a shitlist of people he hates.

Well in the 1980s he was working for a wrestling company, and hated one of his coworkers for a year. Then a new guy came in and was so much worse.

Then one day he says to the first guy "You know, you used to be at the top of my shit list, but with all these new fuckheads coming in, you managed to move down a few spots simply by not doing anything!"

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

They're doing a Bradbury, in a way, kind of like Tumblr and Steam. Everyone else is shooting themselves in the foot.

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 15 points 2 months ago

Meta is a little hard because they acquired a lot of existing social networks in their prime and have kept things subtle. Think about how long it took EA to finally strip Maxis of everything but The Sims. The only way you would know something is owned by Meta is from the splash screen.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that FB is the "core forum" for tons of niche hobbies. Irts the only reason I still have a account. They successfully killed off the old php forums.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you live in rural America sone information is only posted to Facebook, from private businesses to small county or town governments

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Additionally FB Marketplace killed Craigslist, at least in my area (also US). Nextdoor somewhat is a counter but that has its own problems.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meta probably is the hardest one given that in many influencal countries WhatsApp is the app everyone uses for communication

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Yep, agreed. The biggest problem there is that Meta is generally not making life worse for its users than they're used to. Facebook and Instagram are giving you almost the same shitty experience you got a decade ago.

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[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I left Reddit 6 months ago when I was permabanned for asking a question about what is forbidden. They can kiss my ass. And I hope they go broke.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aw man. I left Reddit on my own terms as soon as the writing was on the wall re: 3rd party apps.

To have access ripped away without notice must have bred some deep hatred for the platform.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I left Twitter for much the same reasons. All the replies are basically unusable now, because bots just pay to get put at the top of the sorting algorithm, and it's now full of bait and spam, since the website formerly known as Twitter now pays for engagement, since that apparently worked out well for Quora (!).

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Like what the hell are they even protesting about now? What is left to protest about? And why? Just go.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely tried to leave but lots of communities didn’t leave Reddit and therefore had to stick to Reddit. I did with RRSS-feed and avoided their app.

Recently figured out we can Sideload Apollo app with almost all functions available. So did that.

Thankfully never used twitter! I read valuation dropped from 44B to 9,4B recently.

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can create the community and begin the migration

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m not the right person to start a community, that’s the main problem. I’m not fit to be a Moderator and such.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's super easy, the main problem is no one will move. I still moderate a couple on reddit, but it was hard enough getting people even there, certainly no one will come here.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I feel like internet users have become so lazy, stubborn, and resistant to change. I'm pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo, IRC, ICQ, AIM... people used to try new things

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Companies have done this on purpose. They all want you to stay in their walled garden, their "ecosystem" of various products. So they make it easy to get into and get connected to people and things, and then make it hard to leave because you're "invested."

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo

In some respects it was somewhat easier to get them to be on multiple platforms instead of moving. Think of the original messenger proliferation, where sometimes people would be on IRC, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, or etc. so much so that you had software like Pidgin and Trillian to help consolidate server/chat rooms and friends lists to more easily chat with all your contacts.

Even with Ventrilo, I remember being open to also switching to Mumble or vice versa if there was some hiccup with either.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 months ago

Gee, I sure wonder why…

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Eh, not everyone is fit to be a moderator.

I don't feel I have the time (this issue is made worse by my timezone not aligning up with the most active hours for communities), nor do I have the maturity and level-headedness to be a fair and impartial moderator.

E: oops replying 3 days later. I'm surprised this thread is still in my feed...

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There have always been people like that, it's just more noticeable now because the numbers are larger.

People still use MySpace and Digg, and there are people on Bluesky, Mastodon, here, etc.

[–] spector@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

It's in its afterlife phase right now. Much of the comment sections on any given subreddit are full of newbies using colloquialisms from other platforms. e.g. Users call subreddits "groups" which I think originates from Facebook. Or users trying to "bump" posts. There's a lot of signs that the core userbases are gone.

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