hey! I went on reddit to invite people over here on a subreddit…
And asked if someone would be interested to create maintain a magazine/community that don’t exist here. I got shit over…
Thoughts?
links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IASIP/comments/14gbtkg/found_an_iasip_community_in_the_fediverse/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacreTruth/comments/14gayv6/anyone_willing_to_manage_a_lemmykbin/
one shared my post elsewhere to laugh at me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CinemassacreTruth/comments/14gcnmk/anyone_willing_to_manage_a_lemmykbin/
Holy. The people in the comments of those posts are completely insufferable. I haven’t seen this much concentrated idiocy in one place in a while, and I’ve been on reddit for close to a decade.
Don’t pay attention to these pricks, OP. All the interesting people are leaving reddit even now, and all that’s left are the wretches who made that site a terrible place to be even long before the API controversy. It’s not worth even trying to invite these people here. They’d only make the fediverse worse with their presence.
Yeah it actually makes me feel like there’s some astroturf going on. The “reddit defense” backlash seemed to start very suddenly, some while after spez’s comments about how the blackout wasn’t hurting them got popularized and people started renewing the subreddit blackouts. Almost everyone seemed at least tenatively supportive up to that point, then suddenly these waves of hardcore “reddit did nothing wrong, won’t someone PLEASE think of the profits! Everything’s fine, just keep posting here, fellow users!” HailCorporate-style comments start pouring into every subreddit and every thread talking about the issue seemingly simultaneously. These is something that seems deeply disingenuous about all of those comments.
I observed this too. Almost two weeks ago (when all of this started blowing up) the overwhelming majority of people who were talking about jumping that sinking ship were upvoted and supported. Folks were discussing the best platforms to migrate to, etc. Then a few days ago I noticed all of sudden a heap of really negative anti-fediverse comments had cropped up. While I’m not some all seeing eye that can perceive all Reddit comments and analyse the data, it was such a big, stark and sudden shift.
I realise it seems cynical and entering into conspiracy theory territory but I like to think I’ve lived through enough of the interwebs at this point (I was on BBS’ before the internet was a thing in my country) and rationally learned enough about corporate corruption, astroturfing and fake reviews to be at least suspicious that something more is going on.
just create your communities here in the fediverse. If they get populated, then you will be able to assign mods from your userbase. You’re preaching to the un-convertible over there now.
I don’t think proselytizing is necessary anymore; we’ve got enough folks on here now to get a sustainable community going, other people gradually finding their way over here over the next year or two (much as it happened with digg) is much better than a crazy server-destroying / spam-proliferating rush.
Reddit was perfectly enjoyable a decade ago with 10% as many users, we don’t need very many of them to be able to offer a worthy reddit replacement to anybody who seeks one. (plus I suspect within 6 months or so we’ll have way better apps than reddit does)
one of them shared my post on another subreddit to laugh at me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CinemassacreTruth/comments/14gcnmk/anyone_willing_to_manage_a_lemmykbin/Well, a considerable portion of his comments seem to be insulting people, so that’s probably about par for the course.
