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Get ready for the next reddit exodus. Honestly I can't wait.
Reddit is the new FaceBook. People won’t leave so much as younger people will use the next thing.
Facebook is still around in a somewhat diminished form. I expect Reddit will persist, too.
Reddit is quite literally Facebook these days. I really think most of the userbase right now is the people who started using the Facebook app on their phone thinking that's what the internet is. Finally after much inertia they've ventured over to the reddit app to explore another part of this "internet" thing.
So many users call subreddits "groups" because that's the colloquialism they brought over from Facebook. They don't know what to call subreddits. So they fumble around different phrasing. They say things like "this group", "this reddit", "this r". Yet never seem to come around to understanding it's called subreddit. It's a sign of how the long standing tradition of new users adopting local culture is no longer a thing. New users come in and ignore everything while doing whatever the fuck. God forbid they start getting mod power after some exodus cause then the subreddit is definitely done for.
Quite frankly it's full of idiots. Not the usual reddit idiot of past years. Reddit's current userbase is a whole other beast right now. So many users seemingly never used technology in their life before. They can't even reply to correct comments. People are posting top level comments instead of replying to the proper one. A concerning amount of people think it's a flat, time sorted message board. They can't wrap their head around the technical mechanics of a comment section.
Worst of all they have zero internet literacy. Zero idea of internet lore. It's like talking to my grandparents about technology. They have no idea about anything.
Nobody can speak or understand when I reference internet history either. Pretty rare to find anyone anymore that can reply knowing what I'm talking about when making historical internet references that any adult should be able to know about.
A concerning trend I've noticed is that often it will be a right wing troll that comes in to lie whenever mentioning their sordid history of right wing hate and violence on the internet. Must be one of the troll farms that actively flood the zone with shit. For some reason people are so eager to believe the lies. This rant is kind of going off topic now anyways.
Oh yeah and seemingly a lot of people are dictating their reddit replies. That's just bizarre to me but okay. I guess it makes sense why internet posting has changed so much. In particular, walls of text (such as this) aren't common anymore. Nobody does brain dumps anymore. Because to them, this reply would be said out loud into my phone like some lunatic instead of typing out a string of thoughts real quick.
Honestly. i think Facebook only still exists because of Marketplace.
Just installed Blorp and created this account.
Been meaning too, but my 3rd party app just became useless because of their API BS, so there's that too.
I never even heard of Blorp.
That's what makes this piece of the internet so cool.
I really liked the name.
It's missing a bunch of basic stuff though, ATM.
Doesn't even have a file access permission option to save pictures, but it appears to save when you click Download. Just does nothing. Have to click Share and 'save with a file app' or 'copy to folder' or whatever instead
A few missing features aside, it does work.
Blorp dev here. Are you using Blorp on web, iOS, or Android? I would love to sort out the saving image issue.
What is "Blorp"?
https://github.com/Blorp-Labs/blorp
They still have 3rd party Reddit apps? And they fucked them on API use again? lol
They didn't officially, apart from RedReader for accessibility reasons. But you could unofficially use some of the old apps with some minor hacks I think. Maybe they clamped down on it again.
Welcome to the Fediverse
Don't wish for that. The more mainstream Lemmy becomes, the more it'll become a target for the regime's surveillance apparatus.
I think all the people that are going to leave have left. I don't see that many people griping about anything anymore. (I browse /r/all and I mod a couple of local subreddits, but otherwise don't participate much anymore)
If you are a mod, then that’s the most kind of participating my guy
I used to be a mod of default subreddits, "my guy". I'm also the 'father' of /r/nottheonion - it was abandoned years ago and I did a reddit request and got it and built it up to 20k subs, brought on a team of mods, and when we were around 200k subs, decided to step away as my vision conflicted with the rest of the mods, and I thought they were doing a good job, so I stepped down.
I used to hang out with the reddit admins in IRC back in the day.
So compared to that, "my guy", my participation is minimal.
Would love for your mod experience to come over here!
There's a lot of growth and community organization we need at Lemmy!
I think they were questioning your “otherwise don’t participate much” comment.
What did you think they were saying?
Seems like you responded to the wrong person