Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there’s even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?
I don’t have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I’d post myself.
I’m on Lemmy for the first time today after discovering it because Reddit was doing this to me today. Good Riddance. Happy I found an alternative.
Welcome :)
Hi! We joined on the same day for the same reason :D
Edit: Nevermind, the little number next to my account name says I’m wrong. Apparently I have trouble reading a calendar.
A million and one people said they’d leave Reddit if
old.got shut down. Let’s see if they come.I didn’t leave I was asked not to come back
I left and didn’t go back.
I’m not sure that’s the flex you think it is
You get banned there for saying trump rapes children, it’s like the emperor has no clothes except instead of fake clothes, it’s raping children. Fuck reddit dude.
I got banned for saying US healthcare is a scam and should be a human right, got banned for it
Reddit bans you for not being a rightoid these days.
they ban you for even looking at the site wrong. apparently they dont like “non organic behaviour” like comment too fast after account creation, old inactive accounts become active, or comment in subs(rare) that have some kind of requirement. you are also measured on a hidden thing called CQS score. other things is if your fingerprinting is off.
They also ban you for suggesting Fascists need to fuck off. They tell you its “inciting violence.”
Fuck Reddit. They caved to the fucking Nazis.
Bro they ARE the fucking nazis, ghislaine maxwell is literally a known supermod, the owners are trump funders.
spez loves Musk.
dont even need to say anything, just having a account with sudden activity is enough. plus they do waves of purges.
their AI moderation is terrible now, and it’s ruining the website.
I’ve long suspected these companies were doing this, but now it’s overt
Honestly it’s been great because the login lock finally has broken my doom scrolling habit. Lemmy helps me keep a pulse on some of my interests without being a firehose of bs that was r/all. Mental health and sleep habits have been soaring lol
Well, I’m just one, but here I am. I left reddit a few days ago when they forced login for
old. I’m having fun learning about lemmy and fediverse now.
I joined Lemmy like a lot of others, when Reddit shut down the API. I soon went back to Reddit but also stayed on Lemmy.
The big problem for me with Lemmy is it’s still way too small to use it the way I use Reddit. I’ve subscribed to a whole bunch of communities equivalent to the subreddits I read and comment on. On Reddit those subreddits have a few hundred people active on a daily basis, whereas on Lemmy they’re lucky to see 1 post and 2 comments a week.
Small communities and real discussions were always what I liked about Reddit, never the big subreddits with millions of users. For now, anyway, Lemmy’s communities are just too small to foster those discussions (on the topics I’m still on Reddit for, anyway; there’s plenty of politics here obviously).
While I agree there isn’t a ton of discussion in a lot of communities here, I have had pretty good success just posting the questions myself in communities where relevant even if the community currently has almost no activity. Sure you don’t get 100s of responses but I do feel the response quality is higher here and ultimately that’s the only way to help lemmy grow to be more active in those communities
I’m not really a question poster though, I’m a question answerer. I think most people are like me, which is why tiny communities (but non-zero) don’t have any discussions: there aren’t enough question posters, just a lot of question answerers waiting around like kids at the school dance.
Maybe a good middle ground would be to make posts answering questions others might have but that weren’t asked yet?
Me too! I never went back to Reddit though. I lost my account with rif that was carefully built over years. I still can’t figure out lemmy, fediverse, whatever it’s called. The tech is not something I care about. I want a simple and easy to use interface, like rif. But this is 1000 times better than dodging ads, bots and trolls on an over-capitalized website.
I want a simple and easy to use interface, like rif.
I also used to use RIF. Have you tried Boost for Lemmy? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy&hl=en_US
we need a larger userbase, and more niche communities. I try and sub to every new one I see that I’m interested in
Brother Lemmy has slowly taken over my news aggregator usage, conversations are better, with old reddit gone its even more of my usage going to lemmy
Glad to hear this! I really want Lemmy to thrive while Reddit continues its enshitification.
While I miss some hobby subreddits like blender. I lowkey get more inspo off ig, didn’t realize how many artists never post or get posted to Reddit. It’s a bubble that feels like it has everything. Also seeing other people’s work is oddly demotivating and I end up just scrolling/commenting more than I end up doing anything. Applies to any hobby really. I get all the dopamine of discussing stuff and imagining myself doing it, end up not doing it.
League of Comic Geeks replaced the comics sub for me, I wish it had a feed that wasn’t just time based tho. (only shows recent posts) Reddit was better for getting reccomendations.
i blocked the politics.world comms, so i wouldnt get any of those posts. only they were becoming quite low key zionists.
God I hope the fediverse gets bigger than it is now
I don’t want to be mean but Reddit has a fuckload of really niche and weird interests and hobbies that I happen to be in that lemmy just doesn’t have.
Start posting then buddy
Doesn’t even need to be niche. There are no active major sports communities, much less local teams, which is about the only pleasure I get from browsing that place anymore through Redlib instances. Among others, BSky built cachet from sports journalists adopting the platform. Attracting a core of these otherwise apolitical mainstream interests may be necessary to kick start the network effect.
Aside, I would say it’s ironically the more peculiar cultures I’ve hung around that never had Reddit or Discord supplant their surviving forums and chat servers that are doing the best these days in consistent quality engagement. While I think the post and threaded comment format inherited from Digg is adequate for news and current events, I hope slower-paced subs seeking to migrate seriously consider if they’d be better served by a different kind of service too.
God I hope the fediverse gets bigger than it is now
Haven’t checked your post history so saying that generically, but hope must be accompanied by action. So to those that have the same feeling, I invite to look for ways they can help.
There were many art subs that I followed that I don’t have the skill, imagination, or time to create and post on. There were many technical subs that I enjoy reading about but know almost nothing about.
Many people don’t have time or energy to prepare and share things online, or don’t like sharing online, let alone the skill to create the things they would like to read about. There are many types of people in the world with different capacities for different things. Sometimes commenting is the only way some people feel they can participate. Sometimes it’s only voting.
I haven’t posted on Reddit since they killed third-party apps. Funny thing is, I was a paid subscriber for years before they did that.
Here to be the change I want to see in the world. Go Lemmy.
I got hit with that BS yesterday. They claimed it’s to “keep reddit safe” lol. Just say it’s because you want more money.
They’re only doing it to stop scrapers from having free access to posts. That’s their main product right now and they want to make sure they get paid for it.
I always browsed Reddit without logging in, created an account once, and deleted it hours later because the algorithmic feed was too much filtering for me. I want to click on posts as a one-off without permanently altering the way the platform sees me. Now I can‘t browse Reddit anymore, which gave me the final push over to Lemmy. It‘s tragic how much collective knowledge we lost though, as the „You scrolled too much!“ tracking/blocking also applies to search results.
in old reddit, i use the all function, you can filter out the subs you dont want your feed. i did it to subs.
I made this firefox extension that might help with the transition. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-lemmy-reposter/
All files are free and opensource here to do whatever you want with it. https://github.com/jamesey10/reddit2lemmy
I don’t understand how anyone can be an unpaid mod on that site now. Don’t they see articles and headlines about stock prices and shit and wonder why aren’t they getting a cut?
have you seen the mods behaviour they love the power they hold. they were also likely forum mods to, and they are just as bad. ive been on 2 forums, 1 was about the armed services, they dont like any contradiction, calling them rude will cause them to spam you(about why you cant join or whatever). and another dislikes the mentioning of anything that labels a certain groups of people(not in a negative or demeaning way).
Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
It appears this has become the tried & tested means of choice to minimize pushback. Users frogs in slowly boiling water.
sooner or later they will follow the FB method, require facial recognition, ID scans. and google which is the most common email reddit usually attaches to account started thier more invasive datamining, by requiring QR code scan with your phone to make an account on google.
I’m leaving any platform that tries this without a second thought. Already left discord. Left reddit and joined here with the account requirement (even though I have an account, just hate the principle).
google is allegedly doing it to stop spamming with thier requiring yuor phone to scan qr code, we know they just want your phone details, and that benefits reddits own datamining, fingerprinting too.
I got the reddit block about a week ago, so I’ve given this place another try (first tried it after the reddit API fiasco). I would like lemmy if it were more active. I mostly used reddit for news headlines, and I haven’t found any communities here that are nearly as quick for breaking news and whatnot. I feel like my head has been buried in the ground since leaving Reddit. Still not going back though.
I would like lemmy if it were more active
You are the activity.
i normally get breaking news far quicker on the microblogging section of the fediverse. have you considered setting up a mastodon account maybe?
I have Mastodon, but I just get infosec updates there. How would I get general news updates as well? Just follow a vunch of media outlets?
Cricket said it good below
AFAIK the key to discovery of content you want in Mastodon is to follow specific hashtags, then follow any accounts that you find interesting from there. There are definitely major network effects on Mastodon. Maybe check #news to see if it might be a good starting point for you.
this
Media outlets usually have RSS feeds, so you could send these feeds to @birb@rss-parrot.net so it generates a bot for tracking each feed.
maybe try surf.social
most real
filled to the brim with ai bots
AITA and all its variant are mostly AI bots/.
Reddit is dead to me. I blocked them at the router at my house. I should redirect them to a landing page that says simply.
“Don’t be a sucker”
