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what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don't think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i'm not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This describes me perfectly. Most of the alternatives I saw previously just ended up being coopted by the alt-right crowd who got chased off of Reddit. Lemmy (so far) represents what I want from an online community.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Its so weird that the alt right hasn't tried to seize Lemmy yet from my experience it was always the immediate fate of Reddit alts in curious if the alt right is too busy over at truth social (or rumble) oh could we please get a youtube alt next that would be so great

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The structure of the fediverse (lemmy/kbin/mastodon etc) makes it really difficult for alt-right and troll instances to find a meaningful presence.

Truth Social for example is just a mastodon instance, but everyone immediately defederated (blocked) them, so they have no reach. Hateful ideologies want a large audience on which to inflict their bullshit, and the federated model makes it really easy to cut them off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

The alt-right is so strange it used to be that they wanted to be popular so they would invade subreddits and start cultivating hate until either they took over the subreddits or got expelled (almost like how a virus spreads actually)

But now its like they decided to pretend to be popular and are kinda imploding a bit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You want to know why the alt right haven’t seized this place and won’t? It’s in the name. The fediverse. We’re all a bunch of feds!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or it's because Lemmygrad fought them off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sadly its both welcome to the secret FBI army, IRS branch you'll get your paperwork and stapler in the mail in 21 business days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

21 business days? Now I know you’re not a fed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So you know you can trust me with your SSN :D /j

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ok I will fax it to you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ah shit I didn't know we were patriot front

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

They are out there... I was doing some exploring of instances the other day. If you look at what instances are blocking it's pretty easy to see what is out in the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Peertube is a good federated alternative to Youtube, it also connects to the Fediverse and there is a central search engine called Sepia Search, which makes it easier to find content on the different instances.