[PeerTube Video] Reddit is garbage and their stock proves it

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Man reddit is trash?! Almost like people should use an alternative. Something open-source and isn't centralized. If only there was an alternative

Thank you @Fitik@fedia.io , crossposted to !watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works

We gotta be careful though, if reddit goes bankrupt Lemmy may go to shit assuming lemmy communities cant handle the influx of new users

I still hope it happens ofc but still

There may be a lot of garbage on Reddit, but the subreddits I read are non political, and tech mouthpieces like MacRumors and zdnet are easily scrolled past. I usually get the best info about obscure issue, old and new, on Reddit. So i hope that there will remain somewhere, a searchable archive to supplement whatever platform us nerds will go to next.

By the way, Lemmy is not the only Reddit-like (content aggregator) platform on the Fediverse even tho it's the most popular one. For example right now I'm replying from MBin, and there's also Piefed

@gbryant

Oh my Gosh, if you'd asked me 2 years ago, I'd have been the first in line to defend and adore Reddit.

I spent 𝘴𝘰 much of my time moderating some giant sub-reddits and creating content there. But as the various hiccups happened, they burned all of my goodwill.

I left for the last time in November or December last year, and ever since I have been all-in with the #Fediverse and #Mastodon and #Lemmy

I hate what Reddit has become, it is dead to me now.

@gbryant

i didn't manage to get into lemmy much. But thanks for pushing!

@gbryant Reddit's going down the tubes and they deserve their failure.

lemmy is awesome and basically replaced reddit for me.

I basically agree but restricting internet presence only to those that can set up a website is a bit harsh I think

I'm self-hosting Lemmy, but I still end up having to use Reddit :/

I used to really enjoy Reddit as it was useful and informative. I got a lot of help. I kind of followed the move when people were starting to move to Lemmy and gosh that's even better. It's the same but without any advertising. The only downside is that some communities, outside of tech, aren't really active, but that might come and it ain't always the case. I ain't going back!

@gbryant I have to disagree with the idea that one shouldn't have an Internet presence unless one sets up one's own website. That's gatekeeping. For all the many, many, many problems with the modern Internet, it's allowed people without the money or specific skills to make a website to reach people. Those people are disproportionately minorities.

@gbryant "Reddit it's run by monkeys in suits, who don't know what they've got in their hands", this is really well put! No passion, only money.

I tried lots of times to use Reddit but every single time, without fail, that I try to post something I think is interesting my post gets auto-deleted by a bot because of some stupid rule violation like not including the right "flair" or some other nonsense. I eventually just gave up.

Reddit isn't dying anymore than Facebook is dying. It will linger around forever.

Reddit is not going anywhere anytime soon. Their stock price might not be doing great at the moment, but there is no reason to think the platform will die. Lemmy has a chicken and egg problem. In order to draw users away from Reddit it would need sufficient content, but to get that content it would need more users.

Reddit will definitely see some shakeups soon, especially when they introduce paid subs, but I'm not sure Lemmy has what it takes to capitalize on that. I love Lemmy, but at it's core it's a more difficult to use, federated, reddit clone.

The fediverse deserves something new. Not a clone of a commercial network, but something novel that takes advantage of the federated nature of the network. I still very much believe in that 90's internet dream of a democratized social space for all humans, but we're not getting there with janky clones of anti-social media.

Isn't their stock still doubled from what it released at?

Don’t do this. Don’t give me hope.