Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/

Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you're doing.

I think fediverse people are wildly overestimating how much 99% of Reddit users care about this. The mod team on r/futurology (I'm one of them) set up a fediverse site just over a month ago (here you go - https://futurology.today/ ) It's been modestly successful so far, but the vast majority of subscribers seem to be coming from elsewhere in the fediverse, not migrants from Reddit.

This is despite the fact we've permanently stickied a post to the top of the sub. r/futurology has over 19 million subscribers, and yet the fediverse is only attracting a tiny trickle of them. I doubt most people on Reddit even know what the word fediverse means.

Just want to say that every time Reddit does something shitty like this, Lemmy will get a boost. And with Lemmy constantly getting better (both community and platform), I’m willing to bet these boosts come with smaller user drop offs every time.

Which is to say, keep up the good work Reddit!

All these users are suffering there but none of them seem to be considering…. Leaving

I saw one that said they would stay until Reddit charges a fee to use the site…like why are they staying??? JUST FUCKING LEAVE

One even said “there are no viable alternatives” when talking about Reddit, like excuse me what the fuck?

Americans confused at what month "27" is

Just migrated from Reddit to Lemmy. This was my final straw.

Don't forget to donate to your chosen instances to keep them going.
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When Boost for Lemmy went live, I didn't even hesitate to uninstall Reddit.

What happened this time?

Oh wow. I booted up Boost this morning as usual, scrolled for 10-15 minutes, and didn't realize I was on Lemmy instead of Reddit until this post.

I assure you that the average userbase doesn't care about such things. (Lmao - Privacy? I got nothing to hide -type of people) As long as functionality doesn't break massively there won't be an exodus.

Apparently American Reddit has been plastered with ads from a billion-dollar Evangelical Christian campaign for months and Jewish, LGBT amd atheist users have been especially targeted

Religion and Politics were categories you could not opt out of

I find it fascinating that their own app can be so horrible when there are so many amazing alternatives that exist(ed)

Unfortunately, reddit has been too long and entrenched in society to "remove" it from our browsers. It is very different from Twitter or another social network. Lemmy is a great project. I hope it works and establishes itself as a real alternative, but it still has a long way to go. Unfortunately, the Reddit/Lemmy format is resource intensive, and that's the problem with a service like this.

It's my simple opinion. I support any fediverso project, but reddit, today I think it is irreplaceable.

As I removed everything from all my Reddit accounts and deleted them, except my porn account for some nieche fetishes, I don’t care. Let it die and save the porn.

50-50 shot lemmy devolves into a fascist hellsite

Absolutely, though to be fair I trust the anonymous random people running the thousands of fediverse instances and communities far less than a legitimate, traceable company that gets third party audited and has to, at least, follow national laws.

I don't love Reddit's owners obviously, but yeah. When it comes to privacy, I don't have any misconceptions about Lemmy being private in the least. Unfortunately :-(

Fuck spez, man

I really hope that reddit will shut down

Need to replace the star with a clown, but I guess it already has a clown nose lol

The best part is, the normies are probably going to stay on read it no matter what. Meeting we can have a picture of what the internet must have been like before the endless September, now that's a boomer ass reference if anyone ever heard one.

Missing the whole point. Companies will not stop serving ads or selling data. Setup custom dns from somewhere like nextdns or a private pihole computer on your network. It works in windows, can get a micro pc from eBay or Amazon for <$150, then block ANYTHING you don't like.

I don't see ads at all anymore at home, in fact it's jarring when a page takes 2x time to load because of ads and shit.

Get these plugins at bare minimum: Ublock origin Sponsorblock Bitwarden or similar (not LastPass) for strong password management.

Stop crying about companies and take some steps to protect yourself.

You're exaggerating a little bit. Reddit is more alive than alive.

I might be biased but I find that reddit has become insufferably right wing in it's userbase, especially since the last fiasco.

I just lookevery once in a while and it is full of the most reactionary, nationalist shite

@ZWho63 Can I comment lemmy posts from mastodon?

My findings so far:
- Can I edit it? (Yes I can)

- Pictures attached on mastodon don't show up on lemmy.

- Some replies don't show up on lemmy.ml, but visible on fosstodon.org and https://pawb.social.

- Link to pawb.social is not linkified without https:// prefix.

An example of two attached screenshots that are visible only on fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@abcdw/111152102681928222

any script to remove posts and favourites?

I just deleted my account because I was inspired by this post this morning. I hadn't logged in since the last drama here, so fuck them. I'm getting by just fine with Lemmy.