Reddit is just pissing me off more and more by the day. Every single post (at least a solid 4/5ths of them) ends up getting auto-filtered. Sick of it…
Get. Off. Reddit.
Yeah. It was bad two years ago, and it got worse and worse until I dropped it a year ago. Can’t even imagine (beyond what I’m reading here) how bad it is now.
I left with the api purge, but seeing things here it seems to be much worse. And will continue getting worse, as is the way of for profit platforms like it
Most people are still on Reddit, lemmy isn’t big enough yet…
And it’s a paradox because if we keep using Reddit its user base won’t shrink and people won’t move.
So what do we do? Maybe keep going there to keep finding these really niche advices or fixes, but without interacting? IDK TBH
Think of it like an investment. Right now a person goes to reddit/fb/twitter/etc. because they get a quick payoff. By switching to fedi, you get less of a payoff now, but by helping to build it you get an even bigger payoff later. Anything worth doing involves some kind of “payment” or sacrifice this way. And like other investments, the more you put into it now (with content and getting others to switch), the sooner and bigger will be your payoff.
But as a bonus, there are immediate benefits to using fedi, so you get to enjoy those right away while you wait.
That’s a really nice way to put it, thanks!
Do you think we should completely leave the quick payoff platforms?
Ultimately yes, but I know that this isn’t always possible. I’ve left reddit completely for here (and yes, there is a lot of fun content that I really miss), but occasionally if I am looking for information and my search turns up little except for a link to reddit, then I’ll go look. You have to judge for yourself how much you can “invest”, just don’t do it because it’s less fun or whatever. And while reading is less of a problem than contributing, the more of that you do there, the less of it you are likely doing here, which diminishes the investment in this platform.
Preaching the choir here, but please use it as a motivation to feed the fediverse more. 👌
And related to this, a good use of the fediverse is that, if there’s nothing inherently bad about what you’re trying to post but your chosen instance is tripping like Reddit, you can just give the finger to it and pick another instance. Or if the community is the one tripping, you can make your own, or look for an already existing alternative.
If doing it hurts, you should stop doing it.
That’s what my doctor said to me!
I browse by c/All here, usually open a dozen or so tabs. Pretty regularly I come back to them hours later to read through them and at least one or two has the Error Post not Available message so the issue is present on Lemmy too, probably not to the same degree but still. I haven’t put effort in to figure out which kinds of posts get purged but maybe I should.
That might be because of the current issue of users creating an account, make one post and then after a short while deleting post and account. It’s often something divisive or clickbaiting.
The discussion has been popping up in a few communities, for example here: https://lemmy.world/post/42127013
