https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/
Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you’re doing.
- macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.de ) 31•1 year ago
Neat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn’t that great?
- 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 21•1 year ago
Corporate does corporate things.
- empireOfLove ( @empireOfLove@lemmy.one ) English7•1 year ago
They’ve always been doing it, they’re just gonna stop hiding it now.
- privateger ( @privateger@lemmy.plasmatrap.com ) 20•1 year ago
This really doesn’t sound legal.
- Justin ( @jlh@lemmy.jlh.name ) 9•1 year ago
I hope spez has good GDPR lawyers!
- seitanic ( @seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ) 10•1 year ago
Oh, okay. I had no idea. I was like “How far do I have to scroll to find out what reddit did this time?”
Wouldn’t affect me anyway, because I use an ad blocker.
- Thembo McBembo ( @ThemboMcBembo@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
It still means they’re selling your info to advertisers
- verysoft ( @verysoft@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Why are these people still there, do they just stick around on reddit to complain about it?
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 9•1 year ago
Because other people are there
- treadful ( @treadful@lemmy.zip ) English1•1 year ago
Network effects are real
- Lugh ( @Lugh@futurology.today ) English110•1 year ago
I think fediverse people are wildly overestimating how much 99% of Reddit users care about this. The mod team on r/futurology (I’m one of them) set up a fediverse site just over a month ago (here you go - https://futurology.today/ ) It’s been modestly successful so far, but the vast majority of subscribers seem to be coming from elsewhere in the fediverse, not migrants from Reddit.
This is despite the fact we’ve permanently stickied a post to the top of the sub. r/futurology has over 19 million subscribers, and yet the fediverse is only attracting a tiny trickle of them. I doubt most people on Reddit even know what the word fediverse means.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 22•1 year ago
People who would leave a site like Reddit because of a principled stance often mistakenly believe that the rest of society cares as deeply as they. Spoiler: society mostly doesn’t care; at least, not enough to go out of their way to change anything.
- KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ ( @Kushia@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 year ago
There are a lot of people that are actually too dumb to change platforms and assume apps like Reddit are the actual internet.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 7•1 year ago
My father had a doctorate of engineering. He was a brilliant man. When I saw him search for Google and then follow the search link to google.com, to then search on their home page, I started to tell him he should search from the address / search field in his browser. He was instantly becoming confused and so I said, “nevermind,” because his way got him satisfactory results so why bother. Some people aren’t dumb at all. They just don’t care about the same things you or I mighty enough to learn them (beyond basics).
- rockerface 🇺🇦 ( @rockerface@lemm.ee ) 18•1 year ago
I’m technically from elsewhere in the fediverse, but I’m also a Reddit migrant (back in June). Thank you for setting the community up, I’ve missed it from Reddit days
- redcalcium ( @redcalcium@lemmy.institute ) 16•1 year ago
Even the head mod of piracy subreddit was ousted from the subreddit for attempting to migrate the sub to a lemmy instance, and the redditors that remain there actually cheered! It’s wild, you would expect pirates, who always at risk of having their subreddit shut down, would understand the need to migrate.
The quality of content in /r/piracy is shit nowadays when compared to !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Black_Gulaman ( @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•1 year ago
Those remaining were probably the leechers. Just there to find content but not give back to the community.
So, good riddance?
- ADTJ ( @ADTJ@feddit.uk ) 11•1 year ago
It’s also likely that most visitors don’t go to the sub directly so the stickied post is easily missed
- Lugh ( @Lugh@futurology.today ) English2•1 year ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/
It’s hard to know exactly how many people see them from the stats Reddit gives Mods. Reddit gives a figure within the post for views, which stands at about 160,000 for the post I mentioned. That includes the times people have been served the title in their feed & and the times people clicked on it (sadly Reddit doesn’t differentiate further).
The fediverse site has been going for 6 weeks and has about 620 subscribers. My guestimate from looking at addresses in comments is that maybe 100-150 are reddit migrants. So roughly speaking 1 in 1000 r/futurology people who saw something about our fediverse site were motivated to join.
A sobering thought for people who think the fediverse is about to crush reddit.
- treadful ( @treadful@lemmy.zip ) English3•1 year ago
!newcommunities@lemmy.world and some others are also a good places to promote your communities.
Those sub numbers don’t include federated subscribers, from what I’ve read. And a lot of people seem to just browse All all the time and block communities they don’t want to see. Still doesn’t match any numbers in the millions, but things might be a bit more impactful than you think.
- Lugh ( @Lugh@futurology.today ) English3•1 year ago
Yes, its hard to understand. On the other hand our results on cloudflare look way too good to be true. They say the fediverse site had 180K unique visitors in its first month and almost 3 million of what it calls “total requests”.
It’s hard to figure out what this means in terms of how many people on the fediverse are seeing the content, both from our site, and where its coming up in federated instances.
- criitz ( @criitz@reddthat.com ) 2•1 year ago
This is still the early adoption phase. You can’t expect all of the general populace to swap over. But it has been strong enough to start building the fedoverse into a real alternative. The “replacement” of reddit at large is far in the future.
- gila ( @gila@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Literally swap the word Fediverse in that pinned post for Lemmy and you’ll get more engagement with it. Because you’re right, even if the current reddit user has heard of lemmy and mastodon, they still most likely don’t know what the fediverse is, don’t understand the site linked to is a lemmy instance / reddit alternative. Subbed to !futurology@futurology.today btw, if the current activity there can be sustained I think it’ll shape up to be a nice community
- towerful ( @towerful@programming.dev ) 49•1 year ago
Americans confused at what month “27” is
- Waraugh ( @Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 11•1 year ago
I’m American and confused by what the 2023 day is. YYYYMMDD ftw
- towerful ( @towerful@programming.dev ) 7•1 year ago
ISO8601 all day, every day
- pruwyben ( @pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•1 year ago
Quinvigintember of course.
- Morcyphr ( @Morcyphr@lemmy.one ) English2•1 year ago
This is a reddit or even Twitter level shit comment. Please take your ignorant self back to either of those platforms. The dumb American trope is overused, largely inaccurate, and tired. Steal some new material from someone more witty and try again.
- Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English1•1 year ago
I don’t understand it they go through the same Bumtober as the rest of us
- DoucheBagMcSwag ( @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 45•1 year ago
All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving
I saw one that said they would stay until Reddit charges a fee to use the site…like why are they staying??? JUST FUCKING LEAVE
One even said “there are no viable alternatives” when talking about Reddit, like excuse me what the fuck?
- satnififu ( @satnififu@lemmy.ml ) 34•1 year ago
I’ll probably get hate, but the content just isn’t there. I tried using Lemmy as my main, but most of the communities I’d follow on Reddit just weren’t on here, and if they were, they would have a couple hundred of subscribers at most, and there would be 7 different versions of the same community on different instances with no way to measure quality at first glance. Lemmy thrives for geeky hobbies that surround the FOSS space that gave birth to it, so communities like Linux or Unixporn have a strong enough presence, but for pretty much anything else it’s just not there yet. Is this a negative feedback loop? Yes, but there isn’t much to be done about it until shit REALLY hits the fan
PD: As an added, Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times, even more so than Reddit already is. Like seriously at times 90% of the content on my feed is just shitting on Reddit plebs
- SchizoDenji ( @SchizoDenji@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
Lemmy can get incredibly circle-jerky at times
I always assumed that since both upvote and downvote counters are visible, it won’t be the case. But boy I was wrong. The political/news posts are always a constant shitshow reminiscent of T_D.
- ipkpjersi ( @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 year ago
All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving
I think because they are uninformed. They are looking for alternatives, and don’t know about Lemmy, or don’t understand Lemmy, etc.
What a shame. Imagine if all those users were aware about the Fediverse
- Black_Gulaman ( @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•1 year ago
Unfortunately, to understand lemmy is to be on lemmy. You have to be here and experience it.
They have to make that leap of faith. There’s nothing to lose anyway, there’s no requirement to delete reddit to become a lemmy user. So what’s holding them back. Mauve they believe the anti lemmy post on reddit or maybe they just say they want to leave reddit but has no real desire to follow through.
- MiddledAgedGuy ( @MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
There aren’t viable alternatives. We don’t have the active niche (and not so niche) communities reddit does. And even if there was somehow a meaningful mass exodus, these little instances would break like wet toilet paper trying to hold a bowling ball.
I don’t say this to be critical of lemmy. I’m happy here. Just being realistic.
- Black_Gulaman ( @Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•1 year ago
Yeah we don’t need to be like reddit. I’m happy if rss usage becomes stronger . So those niche communities can stay wherever they can thrive but still be reachable through rss.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
There are no viable Alternatives because they won’t come here, to the viable alternative. Seriously I would love to be able to go on special interest boards again but unfortunately the crowd is still on Lemmy.
Who’s prostate do I have to massage with a rubber glove in order to get a simple conversation about Dragon Quest going on around here?
- Ensign Rick ( @ensignrick@startrek.website ) English27•1 year ago
Don’t forget to donate to your chosen instances to keep them going.
- redcalcium ( @redcalcium@lemmy.institute ) 36•1 year ago
Self-hosters donating to themselves
- MBM ( @MBM@lemmings.world ) 4•1 year ago
And the Lemmy devs
- TheBlue22 ( @TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 26•1 year ago
What happened this time?
- derpgon ( @derpgon@programming.dev ) 2•1 year ago
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- TheBlue22 ( @TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•1 year ago
Yes, it was 2 days ago. What happened? I don’t care enough about reddit to open it and find out myself.
- derpgon ( @derpgon@programming.dev ) 1•1 year ago
Wait, I am dumb, somehow I though it’s already November…
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- Ethalia ( @3TH4Li4@feddit.ch ) 20•1 year ago
I assure you that the average userbase doesn’t care about such things. (Lmao - Privacy? I got nothing to hide -type of people) As long as functionality doesn’t break massively there won’t be an exodus.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English11•1 year ago
The best part is, the normies are probably going to stay on read it no matter what. Meeting we can have a picture of what the internet must have been like before the endless September, now that’s a boomer ass reference if anyone ever heard one.
- letsgocrazy ( @letsgocrazy@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
It will be like that, plus political posts.
Because people are addicted to spreading their political opinions like evangelists of old.
And they never think you mean them when you ask them to stop, becuse then other team is evil, and inserting their political opinions in to everything is their personality now. It’s tut only way they can get them likes.
Social media changed society and sadly, I don’t think escaping to the Fediverse can out run the political borest.
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
I think we will see the damage reversed, part of that is going to involve finding these places that have become the centralized forces of the internet go under. Something Twitter and Reddit are doing as they drive things off the platform
- HurlingDurling ( @HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
- Zicoxy3 ( @Zicoxy3@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 year ago
Unfortunately, reddit has been too long and entrenched in society to “remove” it from our browsers. It is very different from Twitter or another social network. Lemmy is a great project. I hope it works and establishes itself as a real alternative, but it still has a long way to go. Unfortunately, the Reddit/Lemmy format is resource intensive, and that’s the problem with a service like this.
It’s my simple opinion. I support any fediverso project, but reddit, today I think it is irreplaceable.
- shaked_coffee ( @shaked_coffee@feddit.it ) 3•1 year ago
That’s very true!
Thanks to the whole blackout thing and the many amazing apps that came to Lemmy (like Sync that I’m using rn and loving), Lemmy is now good enough to replace Reddit for the new content (at least in my opinion)
But Reddit is not (or at least not only) an “what’s happening now” social network like Twitter and there is a huge amount of old content on it that can still really useful. So I guess that, in the best scenario, we’ll have Reddit and Lemmy cohexist and complement each other :)
- cfx_4188 ( @cfx_4188@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•1 year ago
You’re exaggerating a little bit. Reddit is more alive than alive.
- spez ( @spez@feddit.uk ) 6•1 year ago
Fuck spez, man
- ipkpjersi ( @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year ago
Need to replace the star with a clown, but I guess it already has a clown nose lol
- Andrew Tropin ( @abcdw@fosstodon.org ) 5•1 year ago
@ZWho63 Can I comment lemmy posts from mastodon?
My findings so far:
- Can I edit it? (Yes I can)- Pictures attached on mastodon don’t show up on lemmy.
- Some replies don’t show up on lemmy.ml, but visible on fosstodon.org and https://pawb.social.
- Link to pawb.social is not linkified without https:// prefix.
An example of two attached screenshots that are visible only on fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@abcdw/111152102681928222
- ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃 ( @name_NULL111653@pawb.social ) 2•1 year ago
I’m assuming this comment is from Mastodon? If so, yes. You show up as “Andrew Tropin@null.” I’m replying from Lemmy, home instance pawb.social.
- Rambi ( @Rambi@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Huh, the user tag of the last Mastadon user I saw on Lemmy was also @null, although their tag seems to be showing up correctly for me now
- Andrew Tropin ( @abcdw@fosstodon.org ) 1•1 year ago
@Rambi @name_NULL111653 It seems lemmy.ml doesn’t render my repsonses to lemm.ee or other instances accounts :/
- Andrew Tropin ( @abcdw@fosstodon.org ) 1•1 year ago
@ZWho63 It seems pictures from mastodon don’t get it to lemmy.
- Andrew Tropin ( @abcdw@fosstodon.org ) 1•1 year ago
@ZWho63 It is a reply with screenshot of the reply, which is not visible in lemmy.
- Rambi ( @Rambi@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
So on Mastadon do you see Lemmy posts as the Mastadon equivalent of a Tweet?
I never see posts and comments from Mastadon users on Lemmy even though I believe it’s more popular so you would expect there to be more or at least a similar number as from Lemmy users. I think your comment is only the second I’ve seen from Mastadon users.
Like the other reply says, the user tag of the last Mastadon user I saw was [name]@null, though yours is fine for me now. Also odd that your attached images don’t show even though Lemmy has that feature too. Maybe these issues will be ironed out soon
- Andrew Tropin ( @abcdw@fosstodon.org ) 0•1 year ago
@Rambi Yes, you can see how it looks here:
https://fosstodon.org/@abcdw/111152102681928222It seems attaching pictures doesn’t work both ways (I don’t see attached pictures from lemmy user in mastodon too).
- Rambi ( @Rambi@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Huh interesting. So I guess replies appear in order of when they were made and not weighted based on upvotes, seen as there appears to be no equivent on Mastodon? Quite cool (and a bit confusing) how Activity Pub is stitching everything together. I wish I could see more content from Mastodon show up in Lemmy, not sure how that would work with communities though.
Also, I notice the web version of Mastodon has a really nice UI
I really hope that reddit will shut down
- mishimaenjoyer ( @mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
no, it won’t, nor will xitter of facebook. it’s delusional to think multi-billion-dollar-platforms backed by big money, the content industry and several clandestine consortiums will cease operation because a single digit percentage of users decided that some hobbyist internet platforms held together by tape and a hail marry are the future. we’ll be lucky if places like this are still around in a few years.
- sour ( @sour@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
then it wont contain the toxic users
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago