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what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don't think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i'm not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I think many people were looking for a reason to leave but kind of felt stuck seeing all the alternatives being either dead or abrasive.

Lemmy seems to have captured the soul of what a significant portion of people have already been looking for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have to agree with you on that I saw a comment earlier about the people who left Reddit being a loud minority but something feels off about that

Lemmy's community feels so familiar I sadly just can't find the right words to describe it though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This describes me perfectly. Most of the alternatives I saw previously just ended up being coopted by the alt-right crowd who got chased off of Reddit. Lemmy (so far) represents what I want from an online community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its so weird that the alt right hasn't tried to seize Lemmy yet from my experience it was always the immediate fate of Reddit alts in curious if the alt right is too busy over at truth social (or rumble) oh could we please get a youtube alt next that would be so great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Peertube is a good federated alternative to Youtube, it also connects to the Fediverse and there is a central search engine called Sepia Search, which makes it easier to find content on the different instances.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy in it's current state feels very similar to reddit did ~14 years ago.

I am just smitten. I'll never go back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Lemmy is great, and is essentially all I wanted from Reddit without the Reddit