Blackout is still on IGNORE THE FUD

3 years ago by manitcor to c/lemmyworld

Important to remember only 3200 subs originally committed to the blackout. We had almost 3x that number join. More than 2x are still dark!

kadu 196 points 3 years ago

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edgerunneralexis 49 points 3 years ago

I really want to exclusively switch to Lemmy, but as it stands I'll probably end up starting to use Reddit again as soon as the the vast majority of the blackout ends (I'm not gonna give in easily, but once it's mostly over, there's no point in me continuing).

The problem for me is that on Reddit even extremely niche communities had a substantial amount of members and activity, whereas Lemmy is smaller than Reddit, so everything scales down proportionally, meaning that suddenly communities that were niche on Reddit are infinitesimally tiny or even just absent on Lemmy. Like, there's no malazan community, elitedangerous and wheeloftime are dead, amiga is dead, and so on.

I actually got a ton of extremely high quality, positive interaction on the subreddits I was on, because I almost entirely stayed away from the really popular subreddits, and I'm losing all that moving to here, where the popular communities have higher quality interaction but the smaller communities have way worse interaction. Also, Reddit is a massive treasure-trove of useful niche information for me.

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tryinghappy 23 points 3 years ago

Yeah I might hop onto reddit on desktop only with an ad blocker JUST for the smaller interest based communities that took years to build up. But the big stuff like gaming or news? I'll be using this plus Mastodon.

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RomeCallen 7 points 3 years ago

ya i think that build up is important

really if you can just get enough people over here, that shit starts to really ball up

tho im also kinda into the small community thing, i would love to start recognizing UN like i did in older forum days

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angrylittlekitty 7 points 3 years ago

I'm taking the same mindset - curating social media vs big gulping it. Thank you spez and elon for me reboot.

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Rhaedas 21 points 3 years ago

I can appreciate that. I would suggest do both - go back to the niche reddits while they work for you, and hopefully things don't get even worse to affect that. Meanwhile, check back to these newer alternatives often to see what's going on. Perhaps at some point you can either have both worlds or even finally transition away. You have to do what works for you in the end.

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edgerunneralexis 8 points 3 years ago

Yup, that's kind of my plan

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Cube6392 6 points 3 years ago

Right now the baseball team specific subredditd are all I'm missing. I've strongly considered hosting a sport zone kbin instance once my financials look a little different

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danomite 19 points 3 years ago

When you go back you can gently encourage those folks to come here. If you aren't interested in modding a community here, you can ask the mods of those subreddits to start them.

There's a lot of chatter about joining the fediverse in subs like /r/RedditAlternatives, but you don't see people talking about the selling points in those small subs. You can start those conversations. Maybe there's no takers, and that's fine. But if you like it here theres a good chance others will too.

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DarkDarkHouse 8 points 3 years ago

“You’re the worst social media I’ve ever heard of”

“But you have heard of me” - Capt. Jack Lemming

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boopinsnoots 3 points 3 years ago

Nah man, that goes to the short lived and hate filled Voat.

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edgerunneralexis 5 points 3 years ago

That's a really good idea! If there's anything I feel I'm good at, it's communication, and selling people on ideas!

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BarrelAgedBoredom 10 points 3 years ago

Same, I had a lot of hobby communities on reddit that I really enjoyed. I will probably use it when I want that experience while Lemmy grows. Hopefully one day, and with people like us' encouragement to migrate, Lemmy instances will have enough traffic to host these more niche groups.

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edgerunneralexis 9 points 3 years ago

I hope so! I'm definitely going to do my best to promote Lemmy on Reddit in those niche communities. I wish I had the time and personality to actually start the communities I want to see on Lemmy, but sadly I don't.

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Landrin201 5 points 3 years ago

I'm trying to help get engagement in the WoT community! I just don't know what to post lol

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ironsoap 7 points 3 years ago

A digression, but it is the same high quality niche information that LLM's are after I believe. I'd be curious about what you think the trove's longevity in terms of relevance is? I ask as the more timeless it is the less chance it will be replaced, and the more valuable it is a s a learning resource.

I woulad also agree that it makes sense to split your time, personally. I hope some of those communities begin to shift, but it is a idol dream.

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DigiWolf 42 points 3 years ago

Exactly. I don’t care about the blackout anymore. I want this to be the digg moment for Reddit, especially with how Spez is behaving towards his users which are transitively his content creators. The idea of a federated internet sounds a lot better anyways.

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IsThisLemmyOpen 30 points 3 years ago

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kadu 25 points 3 years ago

Funny you should mention that, one of the first things I noticed on Lemmy is the culture on emojis, people like them. I for one am totally onboard 😁

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Cube6392 32 points 3 years ago

The emoji hating folks on reddit were a weird subculture. Acting like you're too mature for emojis is... Really immature imo

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eric5949 12 points 3 years ago

They really be like "lmao emojis are childish ¯⁠\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯"

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DigiWolf 11 points 3 years ago

The reason for it is that emojis are very heavily used in conjunction with low quality content. That’s why the backlash was there. That and the people who litter their comments with dozens of them. Emojis are fine in moderation but Reddit just went 100% against

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buckykat 8 points 3 years ago

Women tend to use emojis more and if there's one thing reddit hates it's women

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maporita 26 points 3 years ago

Lemmy is more than worth it just for the lack of "he gets us" ads alone.

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Celivalg 19 points 3 years ago

Same feelings, however, I do want to watch it go down with popcorn, this amuses me greatly

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mintopiasystem 31 points 3 years ago

I think we should stick to our guns until Reddit capitulates. The blackout is very effective at disrupting the site's normal functions and getting the word out about 3rd party apps.

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taj 1 point 3 years ago

I mean, I agree. But... I hate to say it, but my husband is probably a perfect 'case in point'. And he hasn't really noticed the blackout at all.

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ShinNoodleBlackCup 7 points 3 years ago

Do you mind explaining further in what way hasn't he noticed ? Does he not use reddit or ?

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AndreTelevise 17 points 3 years ago

What we need to grow our community is to advertise Lemmy/KBin to the world and the federation concept as a whole