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along with the strong censoring that has occurred on reddit throughout the years, they have now removed r/all from the app and while using a desktop/laptop browser. instead of being able to stumble upon new subreddits you never knew existed, it wants to curate what you're allowed to see
This is the reason I am trying Lemmy. I just want some un-algorithmatized internet please. Not sure if this is it yet.
I prefer lemmy more than reddit. My biggest complaint is Lemmy can be a bit of an echo chamber, but idk if there's anywhere I can go that isn't
I think echo chamber is the wring word here so much as humans naturally gravitate into communities and tribes.
In fact, that was the exact appeal of reddit and Lemmy now. People could foster communities and find likeminded people.
Survival by the numbers exceeds the fittest.
One advantage Lemmy has for now is that it isn't under the same corporatisation Reddit fell under.... for now.
I dont have a problem with like minded people. However the echo chamber is the word I meant. Valid criticisms of the popular belief are often downvoted or dismissed. Misinformation is more likely to spread without correction. Sensationalized article titles are likely to be taken at face value without reading even the first paragraph of the article, let alone different spurces of information. People will dog pile and agree with something that isn't even true because it aligns with their existing beliefs. I recognize that's human nature, but that's why it's important to not be so echoey
My experience with Reddit has been no different though. I don't think that is a Lemmy issue but a broader social media issue.
Edit: Looking back at your initial comment, I see that you made this exact point.
I don’t have that in Voyager. Maybe try a few other apps and see what speaks to you.
Reddit was good for niche subjects (certain type of workout, specific sports team), but the overall page became intolerable. I opened it the other day for the first time in a month and didn’t enjoy being fed content and realizing how much of the interaction is just bots.
Lemmy is quieter, and you’ll get fewer responses. However, the responses you get are generally thoughtful and more likely to lead to a functional conversation. Quality over quantity in my experience so far
I've been banned twice this week (so far).
One for pointing out there will be a rise in terrorism against the US for their actions in the middle east.
Another one for saying Pam Bondi is such a hated public figure she's never going to be safe in public again.
Neither of these comments violate any rules. They are not calls to violence.
I know how to circumvent Reddit's methods for keeping banned users off their platform and I know how to check if I've been shadowbanned. Most people don't. So they're undoubtedly bleeding users at this point due to their automated bot banning garbage. People must be getting auto-banned left and right for things that are clearly not violating policy. And those people aren't going to come back. I know how to come back and I'm almost done with putting the minimal effort into it.
Reddit is crashing HARD. And I'm totally into it.
I’ve been banned so many times over there. And I’m not saying this as if I’ve ever done anything to try to be banned over there. The vast majority of the time when I have been banned it’s been because the moderators of certain subs COMPLETELY misinterpreted what I had been trying to say and banned me and then when I contacted them to try to explain the misunderstanding they’ve refused to accept that there was actually a misunderstanding.
Some VERY popular subs have really bad moderators.
I had 12 years on reddit, started catching bans (maybe 1 was legit, and I mean maybe), but after the last one, I deleted. They even gave me a space to put "fuck reddit, fuck spez" for my parting message, and I meant it from the bottom of my heart.
I know how to circumvent Reddit's methods for keeping banned users off their platform and I know how to check if I've been shadowbanned. Most people don't.
Bro can you tell me please 🥺
Reddit and Microsoft, competing for the most anti consumer moves in a day. Hope they both lose their market shares.
For me it was the bots, rage-bait and doxing. I hope Lemmy stays niche, cuz' in my experience - popularity = trash community.
Celebrity worship(or worship in general) is always my stopping point. 9/10 posts on reddit now are meme with, or posts about some actor.
old.reddit.com/r/all still works. i can still hit r/all from the top of the old.reddit.com homepage
Reddit is not dying fast enough
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Using a direct link stopped working today and redirects to your subscriptions. The only reason I looked at Reddit was to go to r/all and sort by new to see what was out there.
I was afraid of that. I still occasionally browsed r/all on my PC after work. I'm not interested in their latest or popular pages. I'm tired of algorithms deciding what I should read or watch.
Just let me discover stuff, damn. :(
Praise the lard & all tha good things in life.
It will be a slow and painful death. I abandoned Reddit last year because enshittification. However, some great stuff from there lands here in Lemmy.and my search engine seems to like Reddit info. Not going back, but sentimental thoughts exist.
For me, the sickness started with forced introduction of the new interface. It was so horrible I just switched to old in the settings.
Imagine what happened? Reddit unchecked that setting for me every fucking month on purpose. Hole fuck this is disrespectful. Also, they replaced direct messages with chat that spams neverending crypto scams at me.
And on top of that majority of big subs are moderated by the same people with iron grip on "truth"
powermods, it was reported on another forum that there were 92 MODS that controlled 500+ subreddits. of course everone favorite"r/conservatives' are controlled by actual russian backed people
Intention driven media consumption is getting killed everywhere.
YouTube hides your subscriptions from you, the public broadcasting institutions from my country recently netflixified the experience (they try to tell you what you want to watch).
It's so stupid.
I had to revive RSS for myself to overcome this. My feed, my decisions!
In their path of killing their own brand, amazed they didn't yet fuck over Old Reddit's RSS feeds, or even ax those completely.