Whats the best way to take action for me as a single user? What kind of posts should I focus on making? Ive heard of fetching reddit posts, maybe I could do that if theres like an easy process to do so, I’d happily feed some communities I like with posts from the silicon valley mafia platform to this platform!
Also whats the name of this platform? I registered under feddit org, is the umbrella term called fediverse? Accroding to wiki then this(fediverse) should be linked to platforms like pixelfed and mastadon too, is it? How do I see content from them or in what way are these platforms interlinked with this reddit styled one?
We’re not interested in being competition. Just a nice alternative.
We’re not? I’d love to see this take down Reddit, as miraculous as that’d be.
Most people here do not give a shit about Reddit anymore and frankly are tired of hearing about it. We really don’t want the dregs of Reddit coming over here. We got most of the good people when the API bullshit started 2 years ago, and that’s why this place is great. We don’t want to become what we left behind.
Take down Reddit ≠ turn into Reddit
Making the mission be about taking down Reddit gives Reddit a lot of power and credit. Focusing on making an open future for social media creates a new path forward while treating Reddit like what it is—yesterday’s platform.
There will be people who want to stick with the old platform—just look at boomers and Facebook. That’s ok—if we play our cards right, we will be gaining young users while the older demographic shrinks on Reddit.
Yeah the thing is we don’t want that either. We just don’t care. We see these posts every time there’s a sizable Reddit emigration. I’m not shitting on you, just telling you that you won’t find a lot of interest in that topic here.
Then this place would be just as infested with bots, paid actors, corporate shills, and government agents trying to shape the narrative. No thanks.
(To be clear I’m not saying there’s none of that here, there is, just not at the same scale of Reddit)
No one can speak for everyone else, but I personally would prefer reddit remains the main stream aggregator and lemmy can just rumble along.
I’d love to see lemmy mature and evolve and be awesome but IMO it’s a mistake to think that attracting reddit users is the way to achieve that.
True, fair! ∆ (Oops, wrong platform.)
If anything takes out Reddit, it will be Reddit itself
People around here have better things to do
I hope it ends up being flipped upside down for profit like the Meta platforms.
It’s all small video posts although their essence was connecting with friends and exhibiting pictures/memory/photography. Now these use cases are actively changed into smartphone zombie habits through their UX.
I hope reddit will follow the same fate and this platform here will be the new forums-for-everyone and all the useful questions will be found through fediverse when entering your hyper specific search engine request
But currently I haven’t found my communities yet and most of which are kinda inactive. Some having only a monthly post, others even none at all
…we do???
I mean… I do. Doesn’t mean I’m doing them, though.
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