This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
Instead of resorting to anger or insults, let’s strive for respectful discussions. Respectful dialogue is key to maintaining a thriving community.
You’re right, I apologize. This came from a place of frustration. I just don’t understand how you could even reason with these people at this point if users are just gonna go back to the way things are and not give a shit.
The last thing I want is for Lemmy to turn toxic like Reddit did.
Some prioritize Reddit’s convenience, others focus on the company’s actions. The majority seem to not care. That doesn’t mean we can’t make something special here! This is a community created and maintained open-source project and I have a feeling it isn’t going anywhere yet.
You mentioned convenience. A big part of that is absolutely having a mobile client. And with so many freaking clients being developed across iOS and Android for Lemmy, that is going to attract so many users. Imagine a Lemmy client as fleshed out as Apollo for iOS, or Boost for Android. When casual users notice this and Lemmy.world blows up, it’s going to create a wave effect across the entire internet. I do have some hope because of this.
(Of course, Lemmy.world does have some stability issues but I have no doubt they’ll be ironed out)
The official Reddit app is not as bad as some of you make it out to be. Still a thousand times more userfriendly than here if we’re being honest.
I honestly thought I was the only one having a difficult time. For some reason the Mlem app crashes on me constantly. I like it but it’s basically unusable for me. The mobile site isn’t great for me either. I feel dumb but I’m not that tech savvy and I’m having a rough time trying to get used to Lenny.
I haven’t gone back to Reddit because I do strongly believe in the protest.
I’m trying out the Memmy app and it has less crashes. Might want try it out.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Mlem and that seems to have fixed it for me.
I’m trying out the Memmy app and it has less crashes. Might want try it out.
Is that in TestFlight?
Yup!
Lemmy is toxic. It’s concerning you don’t see that
…Then leave?
i havent really seen that yet somehow
Why is Lemmy toxic?
Because of the toxic positivity here. You guys want to force everyone to be nice all the fucking time and that’s really fucking annoying. Also I don’t understand why you guys have such a fucking hard on for wanting other people to block shit for you. The user should be able to decide what they want and don’t want to see why the fuck do I need someone else making decisions for me? That makes no sense
I would have directed you towards Voat, but apparently it shutdown. Sort of makes sense. It billed itself as a version of Reddit without censorship at all, and was created in the wake of Reddit banning a lot of communities like fatpeoplehate, jailbait, etc. It took the somewhat predictable course of becoming hate speech and nothing else. If you want a community that allows unfettered free speech, that is the issue you will have to confront. People create content, those with anything worthwhile aren’t going to contribute to a forum that mixes their content in with trash.
You can disagree without insults. You can discuss topics without immediate anger. There are places available where the type of interactions that you seek are already expected and allowed. We don’t need to force an entire multi-federation to change to suit another website’s previous allowances. Just use the previous website if you think it’s better. No sweat off my back, it has nothing to do with me.
It would be like me going to Facebook and being upset that it isn’t like Twitter, or going on Zoom and being upset that it isn’t Myspace. Everything has it’s place. Not everything HAS to be for absolutely everyone. Variety is the spice of life.
Well you certainly sound like a redditor. Go take your anger management pills or go back to Reddit.
Or stay and rant, totally fine either way.
We all have our arrows
I’ll co-sign that. They can have their place and we’ll have ours.
respectful discussions don’t mean much if the person isn’t arguing in good faith though right
I mean, this guy literally just said find another app - the whole point is there won’t be other apps