If Reddit were to revert it’s changes to 3rd party apps would you stay on Lemmy or move back to Reddit?
Most of the people fleeing Reddit aren’t leaving just because of recent changes. A lot of people were already looking for alternatives, yet failing to find one active or familiar enough. So now we’re here.
I dont see most less technical users moving at all without some more UI maturity. The whole federated services thing is just a bit too abstract a concept for most. And right now its difficult to find/join communities outside your instance.
Honestly, there’s a pull request right now on lemmy-ui for instance agnostic linking, that combined with automatically staying on your instance will completely resolve the only issue I see for normal people.
That and a little jank here and there but that’s bound to get buffed out.
Agree those two changes would be good. Along with making the ability to add topic sorting or community grouping where you can view say, all “technology” communities in a url. Or all Linux communities across instances in a big group etc.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1113
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
here’s the issue trackers you’re looking for!
Nice. Thanks!
Thats the beauty, it evolves to meet the needs of the users not some shareholders. FOSS in action , I love to see it
Oh hell yeah! This is the exact feature I want missing!
And implementing it on the official UI means it will be more likely to propagate out to the third party apps
Gonna +1 this issue the moment I get home
I never actually used multireddits on reddit, but multisublems? Yeah we need that.
Yeah thats my biggest issue so far… I can’t imagine explaining how to get my non tech literate friends on here yet. I kinda wish it was more ready before the reddit api fallout happened.
Don’t explain it to them, just set them up with one of the bigger instances, and see how they do.
Honestly, I think people are vastly overestimating what people need to understand in order to use the service, once the links keep you on your instance, federation is going to be seamless aside from choosing an instance to sign up on.
Agreed. I’ve been enjoying this site so far but I know most of my friends would hate it. It needs better UI. They also needa ELI5 all the fediverse shit and then have a TL;DR easily accesible to new visitors.
Or we(the community) needa ELI5 that shit, people can make memes about them, and maybe rename the fediverse because it sounds too generic.
https://calckey.social/tags/Reddit has the best ui i’ve seen in the fediverse but it’s for mastodon
It definitely looks amazing. Though no downvote button made me avoid Mastodon altogether.
Yeah. Best I can describe it is its like email for message boards.
But I can see definate needs for better community discovery, group like communities from other instances, making reccomendations for similar communities etc.
The confusion seems unwarranted to me, though. It’s literally the same as email. Every time I discuss fediverse with people, all of their confusion stems from presumed complexity that doesn’t actually exist. The server they pick matters just as much as it does for their email. So the process is: create an account somewhere, and start interacting with communities. That’s it.
Right. Agree. But searching for communities, especially those outside your instance can be wonky. Finding communities and grouping like communities across instances is difficult as it currently sits. And it takes a bit of understanding how to search to find things.
And the app for android doesn’t seem to let you search for and add new communities. It needs to be done from web browser from what I can tell
A lot of links still open in a browser too. Everything needs to just work in the app and be intuitive. Right now it’s just not. Hopefully soon.
I’m sure that as more users join it will get easier
I don’t think it’s too abstract for people. I think we’re all just really bad at explaining it to non-techies.
When you move to a city, choosing the neighborhood you want to buy your house in doesn’t stop you from being able to drive around looking at others.
It ain’t rocket science.
That’s a very good way of explaining it.
I agree. The software needs a good amount of additional features and UI polish - particularly in the onboarding process - to be attractive to the broad masses.
But the user numbers has doubled in the fediverse these last few days. If that translates into activity this could very well push a bunch of communities over the critical mass.
See my post history if the ui is bothering you. With Sylus browser add on, some very small ui tweaks make the site much easier on the eyes
after I found out about the fediverse I’ve wondered why not more people use it and why it wasn’t already popular
For most people it’s just a bit too arcane.
I think that’s true for mastodon, but I suspect it’s going to be way less true for Reddit
Twitter’s value proposition is roughly “one big giant conversation with everyone” and the federation stuff adds some complexity to that.
Reddit already acted like a federation. There are ui and discoverability issues but they seem very solvable.
Because most people just don’t understand it. It’s has a high barrier of entry (relatively speaking) and there aren’t really any good mobile apps. While I love the idea of the fed Ivette I just can’t imagine trying to explain it to everyone that’s isn’t tech savvy.
Trust is the hardest thing to reclaim once lost, and this isn’t the first break. Big social is having problems, it’s the natural course of things.
This is a great point!
For me, they’d have to
- Replace /u/spez
- Implement some sort of publicly auditable accountability re: shadowbans and database-level comment editing
- Open-source significant parts of their platform.
I have zero expectation that any of these things will happen. The most healthy way forward, for an open and free internet, is the meritocracy of the fediverse.
Did he get caught editing comments again? And the shadowbanning?
Not recently… I’m just completely out trust and benefit of the doubt based on the various controversies and where their (Tencent) money is coming from.
The CEO just tripled down and said they are not changing their intended API pricing regardless of how many subs and users go dark.
Even if they did, I think a lot of redditors have been fed up with some things with Reddit (both the company and the first-party app) for a while.
Of course, there will be people who just don’t care and will continue to go about their redditing as usual, and those who will go back. A fair number of my close friends don’t care at all as they use the first-party app, have no complaints, don’t moderate any subreddits, and don’t follow the Internet news.
I would love to see my primary communities move over to federated social platforms. It reminds me of the Web1.0 and earlier Web2.0 days.
Not just that, they also announced their intent to turn reddit into an even more ad-infested hellhole: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/investing-in-what-makes-reddit-unique-introducing-contextual-keyword-targeting-and-product-ads
This is the future of reddit in the official app everyone: https://www.redditinc.com/assets/images/site/image2.gif
The redditinc thing is freaking hilarious.
Ugh, that kind of makes me want to vomit. What a shame.
You know what’s great for vomiting though? Barf-b-gone! It’s organic homeopathic artisanal small batch natural nausea remedy that I’m recommending you as a fellow user and not a spam bot looking for keywords! Click here to buy it now and try it immediately! /s
That may be the grossest thing I’ve seen yet from a UI perspective. FFS.
That gif looks like the amazon app. Is reddit going to be a shopping destination ?
The CEO just tripled down and said they are not changing their intended API pricing regardless of how many subs and users go dark.
Link? That’s not good news :/
Ah, that’s based off the AMA he “did”. So nothing newer than that?
I haven’t seen any new news compared to yesterday in spez’s AMA. Nothing in regards to him responding to the forthcoming blackout (which is currently 3800+ / 6625 subs)
Right, is that starting at like 12 EST or PST?
I don’t know if it’s specific to any one timezone. They reddark tracker is basing it off of UTC-4 at the moment and I would imagine someone on the other side of the world wouldn’t stay up overnight to match a single timezone. Maybe the mods will move to private when they wake up in the morning. Long way of saying IDK honestly lol.
Yeah, I realized as I was typing it that it was probably going to be pretty random
I think that’s from his AMA response
I already like the community here more
Same. I’ll definitely stay here.
Also same. This community is so welcoming and willing to build something great
Same. I’m here to stay.
I wouldn’t care. The irreversable damage is done.
Reddit’s reaction to API change criticisms showed how little they value the community that keeps them afloat. The way the CEO’s AMA pretty much ignored all important questions (like the extortionate pricing justification) whilst trashing Apollo’s developer… They’ve shown their real colours.
I don’t want to use a platform prioritising profits above everything else now. I used Reddit for over a decade and they’ve eradicated my trust in a few days. Even if they reverse the decision, it’d be a PR move to temporarily save their sinking reputation. They clearly don’t care about moderators, users or anyone who actually makes Reddit the place it is (whilst begrudgenly adding bare minimum app exceptions for blind users becsuse they legally have to).
Its a shame, but at the same time I’m excited to see where things go from here. Reddit’s always had a bit of a quality control problem due to sheer size. Maybe the mass exodus will lead to alternative community discussion platforms like Lemmy with smaller, more refined, engaged userbases.
I’m actually excited to see where things go from here. Maybe Reddit will become a home of doomscroll content like memes whilst more serious discussion happens elsewhere. Maybe that’d be better!
Personally, I don’t see myself going back. I’ll just chill with my new community here.
Same
I think if this works out I may switch permanently if they back out. If not I will only use Reddit as the occasional info lookup and use this as my “social media”
Yup other than the occasional tidbit that will eventually get here I just want something to doomscroll and kill time.
Nope. Everyone makes mistakes. But you don’t go full Armageddon on the people whose blood, sweat & tears built you up from diddly, and then say “oopsie.” It don’t work like that, Spez. Have fun with your IPO.
Well said - my patience ran out about 6 or 7 “mistakes” ago. I’m never going back.
They’ve already posted that they’re going to “double down” on ads on their platform and they are not going to back down on the API rules: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/investing-in-what-makes-reddit-unique-introducing-contextual-keyword-targeting-and-product-ads
Im not going back after that AMA they showed their face and it was very very ugly (not that spez looks good in person either)
Oh, so he ended up doing it?
Edit: Darn it, that’s right. /r/AMA went private. Is the thread archived somewhere?Wasn’t on r/AMA, was on r/reddit. Here you go.
https://safereddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/ LibReddit link so you don’t actually use the Reddit website and give ad revenue.
Thanks. Looks like Reddit is down, so I can’t test the link. Otherwise I’d have replaced it already and I’ll use that link from now on.
I’ve returned to Reddit from Lemmy in the past, but this time it’s different. There are enough people posting content here now that it feels like a community (and not just a few nerds hoping it will take off). Never thought I’d say this but, thanks Spez for creating such a vibrant community.
I don’t trust Reddit any more. I made a comment elsewhere about why.
It wouldn’t matter at all, because it’s just a matter of time before they implement such features and don’t back down.
They’ll just continue shit-testing us until the blowback isn’t enormous if they go this route.
I’m seeing how things play out.
I certainly like Lemmy and I could very well use both for a while. I’m mostly worried my favorite subs (especially my local City sub) won’t migrate or be an active enough group here. Time will tell. I want to follow the community, not the platform.
My city sub had a discord server already so I’m just using that - though I have posted messages there about the fediverse
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That’s a big issue. Unfortunately there is no way to keep everything after such a thing
