News of Reddit's new block function gets 175 upvotes on r/RedditAlternatives. Most users are excited for the Digg relaunch.
If you still have a Reddit account, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on the Digg relaunch compared to Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed :)
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It's super frustrating how everyone's excited for the next centralized thing that'll just start anew on the road to eventual enshittification.
Especially since they don't know anything about it yet - they just know that some capitalist is brushing off an old trademark to create something with shining new AI moderation, and somehow they manage to get their hopes up rather than looking to existing functional alternatives.
Then again, I think this place benefits from a slow and steady growth rate. If 500 000 disgruntled Reddit users decided to move in tomorrow we wouldn't know where to put them. I would rather see us grow through individual communities setting up camp here and making the place their own because they like it here, not a bunch of users coming all at once because Reddit decided to do some thing or another.
ikr. I'd rather be in a cafe than a cafeteria. Cafeterias are only really useful if you want to advertise to people.
Me too, but just because the platform is a cafeteria doesn't mean individual communities can't be a cafe. With a large userbase comes the growth of niche communities, which is currrently what I miss most from Reddit.
yeah, i really miss my local sub from my city. it was a nicer way to share and learn about stuff happening around me than just the local paper. i also wonder how the duplicates between instances will pan out. the fragmentation of pretty small communities isn’t great imo.
i am happy to be here with all you losers tho. thanks for having me.
Consolidations are happening, see [email protected]
Yeah, that can be problematic. I put together a guide on consolidation over on ![email protected].
While I agree that we couldn't accommodate 500k new users overnight, we could probably accommodate 50k new users, provided they were spread across many instances (and not just lemmy.world).
While slow and steady growth is better, I think we should take any situation where Reddit messes up as an opportunity to onboard more users.
For sure, I'm a big fan of the effort you're making here!
There's just a huge difference between reaching out to a few users and communities telling them there is a better alternative, and a significant portion of the Reddit hive mind suddenly deciding that they want to give Lemmy a try. So as frustrated I am to see people dream about Digg, I'm also kinda cool with it.
According to Fediverse observer, Lemmy has grown by 7400 active monthly users this month (since March 1). That's almost 300 users per day, compared to very little growth the months before. The users who joined the last 25 days make up 13.5% of all our active users. Pretty cool.
And Digg isn't even a new centralized thing. It's the centralized thing which already got enshittified, causing the original exodus to Reddit.
You have to admit that 99% don't know and don't care about such things. They care about meeting friends and people with the same interests (and echo chambers). Caring about being decentralized are rather academic issues to them
Ugh, Digg. Another American commercial social network.
Run by an individual who's last project was the "Moonbirds NFT collection".
Yeah I'm not replacing US social media with another US social media. It has to be decentralised or EU based to make the switch worth considering. The US cannot be trusted anymore.
"Most users" ? There's like 2 mentions of digg and 3 of lemmy.
Yes, but the top mention of Digg has 100 upvotes, while the top mention of Lemmy has only 25.
Eh, new digg is just more novel, and doesn't actually exist yet, so redditors who want to use it are still there. People who want to use lemmy, are already here
Why are we pretending either of those totals is noteworthy?
You're comparing two handfuls of change, in a system that deals with millions on the daily.
The totals may be a drop in the bucket compared to Reddit as a whole, but I think the ratios as an indicator of general opinion is noteworthy, especially on a sub like r/RedditAlternatives.
If they consider to exhume Digg, things must have become a real mess on Reddit. While I still have my reddit account, I only attend as small, non-public subreddit, which has survived fine so far, except for some people leaving because they left Reddit altogether - or got banned for nothings.
At this point, I'd be willing to bet the majority of internet users don't even know what the fuck Digg is because it's been effectively abandoned since they were children. This Digg relaunch isn't going to appeal to most people and I personally don't want anything to do with it if Reddit is involved in any way.
I only remember Digg as a place people came from to find refuge at Reddit, about a decade ago when I joined.
I tried to reply but got error 500. I guess I'm shadow banned or whatever. It's a shame, my account is nearly as old as reddit itself. Can't say I'll miss it though.
I deleted my 14 year old account last night after scrubbing the comments.
I've been considering doing the same. I kept hearing about people's comments and stuff being undeleted though
I used old.reddit.com/r/PowerDeleteSuite script. It wasn't great. I had to delete a few pages of left over comments.
Even on older deleted comments from years ago I had people pestering me for professional advice. I wrote a two page essay on ankle sprain including details for every therapy option that I knew of and people would still DM asking for something personalised, even after I deleted the initial post and left the career/industry.
God Game! YOU decide who to seal away, BUT other people also can seal away you. Is it better than Populous?