As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.

As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.

  • vitriolix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    “Lemmy does not have upvote and downvote buttons”

    uh… don’t downvote me for posting this

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I wonder what the atmosphere at reddit HQ is like this week.

    Phew we really fucked that up, but glad that’s over! Now let’s get back to finishing up these new mod tools and releasing a great mobile app and finally releasing the fix to the video player

    -or-

    fires! Spez-ssistant: “Mr. Spez, another investor is blowing up my phone all morning, can I transfer the call?” Spez: “No, hold my calls, I’m searching for a PR company. Did any of those other ones answer your emails yet?” Spez-ssistant: “No Spez, they all said they are too far booked out on this submersible company thing” Spez: “Dammit! What about our moderators?” Spez-ssistant: “Bad news, the top subs are full of literal buttholes and there is nobody to delete them now that we banned most of the mods” Spez: “What if I promote you and all your friends, can you guys stay on top of this for a while?” Spez-ssistant: “I just got an email from CircleJerk Securities, it says they are pulling out of the IPO!”

    *Edit: I see that my battles with formatting will continue

    • deadlyduplicate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      More likely they are expecting this to blow over and people to return to reddit. This isn’t the first-time people have called for a mass exodus and they are expecting it to go like it has before.

      • Jfkevorkian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        Well how many people do you think actually left Reddit or care? Not counting the mods, maybe 0.1% of Reddit users???

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      As far as I can tell, it’s another centralized platform as well? I’m hoping we learn from the mistakes of reddit and move back to a less centralized forum

      • L3s@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t disagree, but it’s definitely a shame the decentralized platforms are hard for the average user. Most want a video feed, ease of use, and loads of content. While we are getting there with content, the other two are currently lacking.

        Hopefully we can make the ease-of-use thing a reality, it’s not realistic to explain to non-tech people how to utilize Lemmy, kbin, etc. Most will lose interest really fast

    • BobQuasit@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      But aren’t Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?

    • levochemist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I set up an account on Squabbles but I hope Lemmy/Kbin really take off as I would much rather not deal with another company.

      • Dick Justice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I did too but it hasn’t really clicked with me the way Lemmy has. I spent a little time in there, and its super slick, love the UI, seems to have a lot of active content coming up, but it also seemed pretty heavy on memes. I’ll still check it out some more though. I like trying new stuff