You all need to find the courage to close with reddit forever. It's done, don't you see it? Everything was taken away from apps to moderators power, purge of old messages, and soon the reward system. What this suppost to mean? What else will be removed? It is in falldown.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Don't worry... it's all being replaced with direct payment to approved contributors... going tiktok model, it can get way shittier, and it will.
Luckily I won't be there to see it because I no longer give a fuck about Reddit whatsoever. It sucks that much of the knowledge contained there will ultimately die, but we must build anew. It has been a learning experience that hopefully enough of us have taken to heart that a new and better way of doing things will stick.
I would like to, but the fact is lemmy is 99% shitposts and memes. Don't get me wrong, I like that stuff but I also need to know wtf is going on in the world. Since losing rif and refusing to use the official app, I am now basically getting news when my wife sees it on Facebook, which means it's old news by then.
We all have our bias. My lemmy is not like that. Which means you're not curating your feed.
I block every community with content I'm not interested in. It works. My lemmy feed is very interesting.
Same. It might take a minute to curate for the specific news you want, but there are plenty of communities providing substantive news at least daily.
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The reality is that the shitpost and meme communities will be the ones that give birth to the niche communities we need to thrive. It's easy, low-effort, but fun-enough and engaging enough to get people through the door.
It’s a process. Memes are the lowest common denominator, will get a lot of ppl on the site, then small communities will grow. Some are already useful, I curate a list that I follow and see when I open my app, and I can already see world news like the Italy heatwave, actor strike, etc. at the top. Not perfect, but already beter than 1 week ago.
Yeah I get that too, but it just shows we've been too reliant on others to generate content for us
If it's the news you need, there are RSS feeds from news sites, I've also subscribed to them after leaving Reddit
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I gave up on Reddit the day Apollo died and haven’t looked back. Lemmy’s a nicer place.
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Oh, hey! I'm the guy behind tedd.it. Didn't really expect to see it here, but thank you for the mention!
I've been running tedd.it for just about over a year now, and it's heartbreaking for me to end it this way. tedd.it was the choice of thousands for a safer, simpler, more private way to browse reddit. I'm a big online privacy advocate, so hosting this instance was a mission for me more than anything: to help others improve their privacy, even if just a little bit.
Sadly, with how much traffic tedd.it is seeing, there is no way I could possibly pay for API access. Even with lots of caching, we're speaking tens of thousands of dollars at least. With the site constantly rate-limited now, there's no point in keeping it up - it's not exactly cheap to host, even before the API changes. I had to make this difficult choice.
It's worth mentioning that tedd.it is just one instance of the teddit project. Obviously I don't speak for the entire project, but from conversations I had with other hosts I believe the feelings are mutual. The project is already kinda stale with the maintainer very low on activity, and Reddit's third party apps ban feels like the final nail in the coffin.
I'm a big supporter of the Fediverse. I think it's our best attempt at building a better social media for everyone. I'm already on Mastodon and now with reddit going rogue I figured I could use the reach of tedd.it to help more people find their home here.
And for those who asked: why Lemmy? It's just my personal preference. Kbin is also great! I just found Lemmy more user friendly personally. But hey, that's the beauty of the Fediverse: we're all allies here ❤️
Thanks again for the spotlight. Feel free to ask any questions you might have! Cheers ✌️
Thank you!
People like you make the internet a better place.
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I’ll stick with kbin, but we’re all friends here. 👍
That's the neat part: We're all browsing the same content.
People who call this whole thing complicated are just, I dunno, incapable of understanding the concept of logging in? It doesn't matter what door you go in, it's all (mostly) the same room.
It's actually a copy of the original room, and there are invisible goblins synchronising all objects in the rooms so that it looks like the same room. They are also moving mannequins so that they match the movements of all the people in the other rooms.
To us it looks and feels like the same room with the same objecs and same people, so it doesn't really matter.
But sometimes an admin might order that the goblins must not sync one specific room anymore. Then you start to notice differences depending on which door (=room) you actually use.
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Unfortunate but inevitable given the API changes. I only used teddit for a short time to check on a few subreddits during the protest/blackout period. This really marks the end of me visiting reddit in any form or fashion now.
uh oh, i want to kinda keep lemm.ee on the down low cuz it's awesome and I don't want more traffic lol
The admin was saying there is plenty of capacity and was encouraging more people to join recently. Hopefully that’s still the case.
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Luckily the admin really knows what he's doing.
this is just one of the instances
there are many more instances according to https://farside.link/ (which is a thing that will automatically redirect you to one of them: https://farside.link/teddit/ )
so by using this, you help reduce the load on individual instance, resulting in less "too many requests" errors for everyone.
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mlmym.org mimics oldreddit. I was turned on to it this morning, please spread the word. It's like going home. it pulls from whatever lemmy you're using so you don't have to worry about losing your stuff.
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Oh come on, I just started using it two days ago! Libreddit often doesn't work these days.
Libreddit is shut down. They are trying, but it doesn’t seem they have much of a plan.
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So is Lemmy going to stick? Have daily users gone down? I hate to say I stepped back to Reddit because there just isn’t enough content on Lemmy for my taste yet.
Then advertise and market lemmy. Not by literally going on the street with cart boards “use lemmy Plox”, like even sending a link from Lemmy makes Someone question “why everybody is into Lemmy lately? What is it?
That’s how I found out about Reddit anyways. Don’t underestimate word of mouth.
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Well, I'm doing my best to get the !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml community started. Once there is enough activity here, the critical mass becomes self-reinforcing and it takes off.
And it's not as if all of Reddit will switch over right away - Twitter is still somewhat alive too; but Mastodon gained enough momentum now to actually matter and to be at a sustainable level.
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If you don't move then you'll never get more activity, people will move eventually if their favorite apps move to Lemmy or Kbin.
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Ngl that lemmy home page is offputting to non-techy users
Yes, lemmy does not work for non-techy stuff. Sometimes I want to look up random stuff like getting the best sim plan for international travel or what are the best apps for tracking weight lifting workouts. That kind of stuff is not available if the mainstream is not here. And thus reddit is unfortunately still needed.
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It's frustrating when so often techy people produce something but don't go the slight extra distance to anticipate the needs of normal people getting inducted into using the software. You see it all the time.
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The join-lemmy one? Yeah, that looks straight up aimed at coders, like the landing page of a framework
tedd.it is not the only teddit instance, nor even one i knew, with the main one being teddit.net. that being said its heavily unusable in its current state without running your own personal instance to stay under the api limits https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit ... that being said, screw that noise, im here instead.
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I wonder if it’s time for someone to spin up a site like https://killedbygoogle.com/ except for Reddit. Maybe killedbyspez.com or killedbyreddit.com?
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Teddit went out in style with that message. Thank you dev, I used teddit often. Forgive me keeping the bookmark on my toolbar just for a few more days.
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