What was your motivation for seeking out non-mainstream platforms? Why did you choose this platform?
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distribution of power is good for the humanity. If no one control the whole network, risk of platform-wide abuse of power reduces
Because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and corporate greed. Also, the mods are power-hungry chodes.
escaping surveillance, algo feeds, and detoxxing myself and reducing screen time (works like a charm so far)
So I was actually on Mastodon a long time ago in ~2016, where someone very programmer recommended it to me. I didn’t get it and so skipped out but I was aware of it.
Years later, before the API-pocalypse, I was getting frustrated with Reddit and then-Twitter and so bailed out on them. A friend had brought up trying to ditch Facebook and algorithms, and I recalled Mastodon and went to looking at it again, this time giving it a proper try.
Well I stuck around obviously and went to browse around at other Fedi-stuff and stumbled upon Lemmy/PieFed, joining it a short while later.
API gate started it for me. Logged out of my account, never logged back in (refused to contribute to reddit after that), stayed on reddit a few months longer using old.reddit.com, but once they rolled out the forced sign on just to use that it was a straw too far.
Ironically, it was talklittle. I say ironically because even though he directed people to lemmy he himself ended up on tildes.
i used tildes for awhile but it was way too group-thinky for me.
The video showing exactly how Musk helped Trump steal the election.
I speak loudly against immorality because of my neurodivergence, interests and character and it was all okay until I started talking too much about Western imperialism and Israel in the wrong places at the wrong times… so I ended up being banned4lyfe. 🤷♂️😬
They have “auto ban filter” for any anti Zionist content, they directly work with pro Israel agencies. Its not even mods of personal preference, the site itself have ties with pro Israeli agencies.
Oh fosho. 😬
But yes, iirc either a group of subreddits or at least a major one was moderated by Ghislaine Maxwell so the Mossad was deep in it. Oh well.
Reddit went to shit, and Lemmy is a lot like reddit was back in 2010 or so.
reddit in 2010 wasn’t fully of ideological extremists.
it was mostly nerdy nice people.
People keep saying this but I haven’t really seen that yet. I guess I need to stay longer. For the most part its your run of the mill lefty talking points, not very different from Reddit.
You must be right, as many people say it, I just personally haven’t seen it.
Yeah. I don’t remember Reddit being this cringy
Seeing the evolution of “cringe” has almost made me lose touch of what cringe even is. What do you classify as cringe…? Because for me it’d be stuff like copypastas :3 oWo XD. Roflcopter.
Cringe basically just means “Acting in an unpleasant & embarrassing way that isn’t outright harmful”. uwu roflcopter is still cringe, but so is being a reddit mod for example. If something is outright harmful such as punching someone, that isn’t really ‘cringe’ anymore. The word doesn’t fit.
world has changed, real life is way more cringy than it was in 2010 too.
and if you don’t embrace the cringe, people basically accuse you of being a bigot, that’s the new thing.
Updooting a Luigi post apparently got me perma banned for “inciting violence” or something stupid.
A lot of youtubers I watch in tech spaces had their mastodon listed for social media, and after looking into it I found the concept of the fediverse neat, so I decided to try out a couple of platforms, and see if it’s any better than the cesspit that is mainstream social networks
I’m in various FGC circles, and when Twitter had… I don’t even remember which of its many controversies, it was a few years ago, but something or other resulted in fgc.network being launched and I immediately signed on to the idea of a federated alternative that no CEO can destroy.
At the time I also did peek around some of the other parts of Fedi, uploaded some of my Splatoon stuff to PeerTube but it was a complete ghost town. My first impression of Lemmy was that it wasn’t there yet, not enough critical mass.
Then Reddit had its API debacle, and I decided to commit to trying Kbin for a while, for at least as long as the blackout lasts. My impression was still that it wasn’t ready to replace Reddit, that it unfortunately can’t replace the kinds of niche hobby and fandom communities I used Reddit for, but I thought Kbin’s software felt like it had more potential, and I would stick with it. Then the Reddit admins turned sour, the sub I moderated that participated in the blackout had our mod team threatened by the admins, and I knew I was just never going back to Reddit.
Plenty of things that brought me from reddit to Lemmy.
:the algorithm deciding what subreddits you see instead of upvotes
:removal of r/all
:the kind of racist and misogynist shit that kept propping up
:Especially true in Indian subreddits, a kind of action, reaction whiplash. One subreddit says something, gets backlash on other, and this cycle.
:subreddit pollution, again an Indian subreddit problem, where you get 5 different subreddits for same topic, and all of them are getting astro turfed by politics
: and the fact all of these subreddits were being shoved down my throat. Look, there’s few Indian subreddits I like to visit, but why does the algorithm keep shoving down the bad ones? And how bad you may ask? I was called out for spreading propaganda for pulling statistical figures from UNs official sources.
:also bots. Plenty of bots. Karma farmers who tell fake stories, which was easier to spot before reddit doubled down on making accounts private.
And that’s it. Reddit has gotten so bad I don’t even feel like scrolling r/popular or r/all anymore. And atleast for me, it’s a quality problem.
Never been interested in being bubbled and having an algo rammed down my throat - I deliberately go places online that aren’t necessarily for me. I like to see how others live and think. Hate the omnipresence of advertising. Heard about Mastodon, did some reading, ended-up here…
This. I came after seeing a post about lemmy on reddit, but at it’s core my move was less about reddit specifically and more about wanting to escape algorithms generally.
Edit to add: I also want to see places outside my comfort zone. How am I meant to learn and grow, if my beliefs are never challenged?
Yeah - the whole thing about the internet for me at the turn of the last century was to discover cool and interesting new stuff, to see things from other perspectives and learn… then one year September didn’t end / became eternal and a generation later here we are. Surfers drowning in algorithms and adverts.
Reddit admin and mod corruption.
