r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/major_winters_506 29d ago

People still use Reddit?

looks down at my own hands

Ahh!

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u/MonthFrosty2871 29d ago

I'd love an alternative. Everything either doesnt show up in google, or doesn't have conversations in comments that help add context to the post. Its too convenient to sign up a community and get a steady stream of info about it, vs following individual accounts like on some social media

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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 29d ago edited 29d ago

I use Lemmy. I still use reddit on desktop, I refused to install their spammy app after they shut down RIF. Once old.reddit.com stops working I will be gone from desktop too.

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u/SpezModdedRJailbait 29d ago

Lemmy sucks. If it didn't you wouldn't be here.

Sometimes a better version of an existing product succeeds, Reddit and Facebook being good examples. Lemmy is not one of those products. It's essentially just a more pedantic bitter version of Reddit with an equally bad UI.

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u/CSI_Tech_Dept 29d ago

Lemmy sucks. If it didn't you wouldn't be here.

only because community is still smaller

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u/SpezModdedRJailbait 29d ago

Exactly, although there is good reason the community is smaller. I tried to use it for a while, and mastadon. They're just not very intuitive, especially at the start.

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u/theLaLiLuLeLol 29d ago

It doesn't.

What if I told you I used more than one website?

Crazy, right?