Unpopular Opinion

I circumvent the endless discussion about the platform by just sorting by Hot under "All". I'm totally with you though, there are some seriously insufferable people who meta-post about Lemmy crowding the front page. I just want to ignore that and see how it goes. If I don't like Threads or whatever, I can just move instances to one that blocks them. No big deal. I'm just trying to get my fix of conetct and connect with people.

Just go ahead and block them if you want. I block a lot of the accounts that repost news articles that talk about Reddit’s latest shenanigans. I don’t care, I deleted my reddit account, our relationship is over.

Most "normal" people are not too bothered with what reddit is doing, so they stayed there.

The question is how worthwhile it is to be "normal", or rather why it's so bad to "not be normal".

Also if you just block the meme stuff on one account and have another for memes (as a workaround until you can set up different lists), you get to the deep discussion like you want.

In fairness. i don’t consider myself tech adept, I don’t know how to run a server but I know the importance of privacy and open source. Maybe take it as a good thing that these are being openly talked about here, otherwise the mistakes of reddit will just be repeated. Supporting closed source is a ticking time bomb.

Companies can and will betray you in the name of profit.

On to privacy and security, they ARE important. You have no idea how many people lost money in their banks or have to deal with lengthy lawsuits and procedures just to get their life back after someone impersonated them by stealing their data or ID.

In our area, OTP scams are very rampant. And people constantly fall victim to random calls asking for OTP and other details ; then have their banks withdrawn huge amount of money precisely because the issue of security and privacy aren’t openly being talked about.

Please don’t take it as a negative, but a good thing that these types of things are being discussed.

As a popular quote (paraphrased) says “those who fail to learn the past is doomed to constantly repeat it.”

We don’t want another reddit or twitter.

People are still healing from reddit’s bad decisions. Let them mourn. Let them be angry, let them go through the stages of grief in their own pace.

Well described. What subs were you subbed to on Reddit?

This is a refreshing post. I get really tired seeing the same shit again and again, Meta this, Elon that, Linux is great, FOSS is religion, fuck capitalism, etc. I agree with a good percentage of the things I see here (although there are many cases where people go to extremes) but I need to see some "normal people" content. I feel like a depressed social outcast reading the same nerd stuff without any other content, no offense.

There are a lot of niche communities that will stay on reddit for a long time.

But let's face it, the prolific posters on the big subs, the ones that generate lots of views and engagement and comments, are already leaving reddit. They were posting there because it was fun and easy. They weren't paid, except in laughs and comments. When reddit decided to sacrifice usability on the altar of revenue, they started to drive those people away. As reddit makes more changes to align to revenue generation, they'll drive the most prolific posters away, and eventually regular consumers of that content will quit coming.

Many will come to lemmy and kbin and Mastodon, in time.

Just want to point out reddit was open source, and built on top open source software. Techie weirdos built that community and the masses came along later. I expect we'll see the same around here for a while, but people will contribute what they want to contribute.. infosec and oss is pretty niche, I suspect it'll be out grown eventually.

It is understandable but also lemmy is so new you can't expect the number of community and user as reddit

Yeah, I missed Digg when I switched to Reddit back in 2011. It took a few years before I got comfortable there. I assume the same will happen here on Lemmy.

The memes are so stale here.

I get where you’re coming from and I’d have to agree. Soooo many memes right now. Wish they were fewer and further between.

find the communities you like.

I don’t miss Reddit. I do miss Redditors. I’ve been through 20, or 30 different social media platforms from open source to Nostr to here for now, and what they all lack is that snarky something Redditors had. That’s not Reddit though. That was the people.

Ok, Zuckerberg. You can just go back to reddit.

I'm sorry, but what was even the point of this post? What have you accomplished by coming here and then complaining about the content here?

It seems like the root of the problem is that you're not really clear on why you're here in the first place. A lot of us are here because we're sick of corporate social media. For those of us that this applies to, we have seen what Reddit has done, we have seen what Meta has done, and we have decided we have had enough. Seems like you kinda just came here because of Reddit's API changes, and have not done any thinking about the broader trends this is indicative of with regards to the way tech companies operate and destroy friendly communities on the Internet like these. To me, they have shown that they see this group of users as a business opportunity and money they are missing out on, and they will do everything in their power to take advantage of it.

If you have so much faith in these companies that you are even ambivalent about them following you to the Fediverse, what are you doing here, in an environment that was created to escape them? You've literally heard from former artists whose dreams and livelihoods were destroyed by Meta changing its algorithms, and you want to see what Meta brings to the Fediverse? Can you not see why we, who moved here to escape Meta, Reddit, and tech companies, would be annoyed and frustrated by that? I see you apologizing for that user's loss, but are you really sorry if you're chill with bringing those things back into the one refuge we have left?

Please just figure your shit out. If you don't like memes, you can block meme communities. If it's too much, you can go back to Reddit or Meta. Lick their boots and pretend they have a motive of anything but profit, and will do anything but attempt to poach users from harmless, open source projects like these and destroy them. I don't care. But complaining about a platform to users on that platform accomplishes nothing. And for the love of Lemmy, don't be surprised that people are angry when you maintain the facade of keeping an open mind to something that has destroyed so much for so many. In my opinion, you may as well be a part of them, because the attitude of indifference you display toward these companies is what enables them to destroy good things for the rest of us.

Okay, this is a redditism that should be avoided.

A community that's opinion-based, yet people run into it just to rant. There is a difference between the two. We already have a venting community here on Lemmy.

I agree, the content is just not here at the moment and I want to back to Reddit. I'm holding strong for the moment but we'll see where it leads.