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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Debrox@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

Happened to me a few days ago, and I just can't believe how bad this redesign is!!

It's hard to comprehend what goes into the heads of that dev team, but they basically ruined everything nice about the platform. The API changes were pretty much a fatal shot already, but this new redesign seems to be what tipped the scales for me, and hopefully many more.

It's a great time to switch to Lemmy, and I think I'm going to make the effort to stick around and abandon the habit of opening reddit multiple times per day.

Do you think forcing this re-design will bring more people here? I'm hoping for that. Reddit betrayed us and I can't find it me to keep forgiving them for every horrible, anti-user decision.

I noticed in some moderator subreddit, that it is planned to kill new.reddit.com as well. Old will likely stay for longer, but new is what I got used to, and if they take it down I won't bother getting used to the newer, garbage UX.

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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Why is anyone here still using reddit? What's the point of not using reddit anymore if you still use reddit? Whats the point in saying fuck u/spez if you keep using reddit?

I've been exclusively on lemmy since the reddit blackout, and it's been great.

Just give reddit up my dudes. Its shit

[-] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 25 points 10 months ago

Momentum, there are active niche subreddits that don't really exist on lemmy yet.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's a fair point, but i think it would be better to encourage those niche subreddits to jump ship to lemmy. Or create the community here yourself.

If reddit has a reason for people to stay then reddit will remain relevant and continue to make money for spez.

[-] throw4w4y5@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago

Recipe for instant good Lemmy community

Effort required from you: 1 hour

  1. Sign up two or three Lemmy accounts. 5 minutes
  2. Go to a niche reddit community and grab half a dozen good submissions in the last year or so. Post them to your Lemmy with different accounts. 10 minutes
  3. Now for the hard part. Go and create some good quality original submissions. Work hard on 2-3 good pieces of content that don’t exist on reddit. 35 minutes.
  4. Post links to those submissions on reddit. 5 minutes
  5. Spend a few seconds voting up and engaging with any commenters in your new community. 5 minutes

Even simple upvotes from your few accounts can catalyse engagement and make the community start to come together.

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

While browsing all, seeing the effects of #2 is a signal to block the community. When I see 10 posts from the same community in a row on all, it gets blocked.

[-] throw4w4y5@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

ok cool, so what is your alternative?

[-] mrbm@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Stagger posts? Make the posts a month apart?

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Simple in practice but obviously harder to grow a community… but the answer is to post like a normal person. Stagger posts a few hours apart at a minimum.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Pretty solid advice

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Because lemmy isn't useful. Open the app and all I see is anti capitalism, Linux, Elon musk, and a bunch of unfunny memes

I had a specific question about Iceland yesterday I had to go to reddit for because lemmy has no Iceland community

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

And when reddit started it wasnt useful. I dont want to repeat what i already said in another reply but essentially it boiled down to: the only way that lemmy replaces reddit is if people create the communities here and encourage people to move here.

Reddit is great for info but its gotten quite alot worse since the blackout when alot of people deleted their comments in protest. I have had a number of situations where a comment with a bunch of replies saying "thanks that solved it" has beem deleted and my problem goes unsolved.

We all need lemmy to become more popular so it can replace reddit as a massive repository of useful information about everything.

Reddit wont be useful at all in a few more years.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Just give reddit up my dudes.

Aren't you subscribed to this community? ,,,, 🤔

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Oh! I am. If i recall, i moved to lemmy and subbed to this community when reddit went dark to keep in the loop on how the protests were going and if there had been any real impact on reddit overall. I guess i never unsubbed.

Either way, it doesn't change anything i said.

If anything it juat raises the question of what the purpose of this community is. Is it reddit recon, is it a space to point and laugh at rhe choices reddit makes, or is it a place for those who can't let go to cling to the past?

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