Fediverse

They've basically banned anonymous accounts. Their whole thing was anonymity.

Reddit has become very strange.

Shadowbanning sucks when your on the other side of it.

Forever mods that have hundreds of default subreddits act like dictators. Banning people from all their collections of subreddits without anyone knowing.

Removing the ability for users to see actual number of votes up/down.

And now with the whole "don't upvotes certain content or you will get a strike". Never mind that isn't how the site works at all.

They haven't come out with a feature that people have wanted in the last couple of years.

Same, it was over for me when they took Boost away thankfully Boost pivoted to Lemmy lol

Welcome!

If you're new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing "all". There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse "all"...

Welcome! It's a great, homely place that still feels a little bit like the old internet.

In addition to the already mentioned Lemmyverse, two other great ways of finding active communities are !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

Welcome!

Just got so sick of reddits smarminess. It’s also just astroturfed corporate BS at this point anyway.

I’ve been boycotting Amazon for over a year (and quite frankly won’t ever stop), won’t shop at Target and won’t visit super corporatized social media.

Reddit has proven time and time again they’re just a whipping boy for corporate interests.

The more people that transition over here the better it'll be (outside of some of some subs). I'm hopeful to see more community engagement.

Yep, I discovered let me during the API Exodus, and then came back recently with this last wave. They're definitely feels like there's a lot more here than last time!

Also finding a lot of value in reading and actually interacting with comments and content, on Reddit I just felt kind of drowned out and a lurker

This was me during the APIcalypse. Since joining Lemmy, I have:

• Realized I'm trans
• Procured a Steam Deck
• Started pirating again
• Been on HRT for over a year and counting
• Developed a chronic dependency on Yuri manga
• Lost 50-60 lbs

I hope you have a good time here as well!

Wait, I've been here almost 2 years, where's my robes‽

The year of PielemmbinBB

Idk I was just thinking that last night, hasn't been active in like 2 weeks. I hope they're ok

Hey everybody! This guy doesn't know about 2/12! Let's all laugh at him! Ha ha ha ha ha!

.........I have no idea. Does ANYONE know what happened?

Hexbear going down, !fediverselore@lemmy.ca

For the story, if i recall correctly, part of hexbear admins were aways so they got a paiement problem.

Their domain reseller put a bid for hexbear.net domain. It skyrocketed to 2500$. I'm glad they didn't have to pay those corpothieve.

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit’s MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.

On the other hand, Reddit's reported users numbers are way too high for the actual activity on the website. I follow /r/BuyfromEU quite closely since the sub blew up, and it's definitely not that active for a place with supposedly 150k subs

Hexbear went offline as the domain expired, went to auction and the domain admin was MIA. They've been restored as the domain admin (unfortunately) came back and reclaimed it

The hexbear.net instance went down, because the admins forgot to renew the domain name

(Technically the server was still running, but federation works via domain names)