the upsides outweigh the historical data IMO.

Err… may I ask, based on what?

Personally, I put in hundreds of hours in to hundreds of mini-articles in the body of those ~400 posts I created across ~two years. For me, it would have to be an absolutely stellar set of features and security for me to go to some other instance which didn’t have the means to migrate anything over. Like, what would be the point, mate…?

Oh, right… instead of an absolute URL-style link.
Good point, thank you!

Thanks, Abby Normal!
Btw, if you happen to know of any communities which might be interested in us, please give a holler…

My goodness…

Sorry if you felt I was rude, above, mate.
I’ll try to take a closer look when I get a chance. :S

Good hunting, in any case!

So if I’m understanding stuff like this correctly, it’s R being on the side of big business and user exploitation, etc, but not being willing to actually admit that, and thus, all these bogus ‘threatening violence’ charges.

Maybe part of what their exec team learned from two summers ago is to just STFU publicly, meanwhile letting their AI grind down legitimate critique / dissent.

You’re not disagreeing with anything I said. You’re talking about a completely different issue which I’m certainly sympathetic to.

Because I do get the sense that users are more easily banned these days at the admin level. Having slow or non-existent customer service doesn’t seem to be helping either, based on the anecdotes you all are sharing.

Btw, feel free to list or PM me your Reddit account name. I can run it past some reputation checkers to check it out…

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Bullshit.

I’ve been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there’s at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn’t seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.

But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)

So part of my point is this-- if you’re browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you’re telling me that you haven’t made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.

And if so, what you’re telling me in short here is that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

This is a silly/ridiculous narrative that simply isn’t true.

I’m on both places, and have been doing my best to grow things on the Lemmy side for ~2yrs now, but Reddit is still invaluable to me for plenty of fresh and authentic talk across a number of subjects. Yes, botting may be a problem here and there, and power-tripping mods exist (at both places, actually), but overall Reddit is still a robust, useful site.

Now, do I like forward to the Fediverse growing and attracting more users over time to more and more niche communities? ABS-SO-LUTELY.

But I think we have to make that happen by producing quality comments, posts and communities, not by declaring false victories, nor by making completely disingenuous comments.

I’m fully onboard with all the critique listed here, but I’m afraid I do still use R on a daily basis. Why? Because of sheer (and original / non-bot) traffic, I guess.

This tends to mean that highly-useful, knowledgeable, expert-level commentary is still produced there in significant quantities, even if it does mean sifting hard through the dreck to find it. And that stuff can be hugely useful to me.

That said, I feel like Lemmy has a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio, so it doesn’t have to be remotely as big as R in order to achieve the same level of usefulness, and indeed, L is certainly useful right here and right now.

But I guess the other thing is that most of the smaller and niche communities here could really use a membership boost. Maybe with the next reddit screw-up, that will happen, hehe.

allows for excellent roleplay opportunities.

Sure, if you’re there to stir-some-shit.

In which case-- proceed uponst thine own risk?

I’ve had dozens if not hundreds of accounts silenced by attrition.

I’m sorry, but… why would anyone possibly need more than one acct or two to post within the rules framework of Reddit, or really, any other site?

“Spam,” or deliberate, repeated rule-breaking intent are the two answers that immediately come to mind.

I have seen way, way more calls of direct violence and inciting violence here in the last few months on Lemmy than I ever saw in multiple years on Reddit.

What communities are you talking about? I’m subscribed to many dozens here, and I can’t remember ever seeing calls for violence in the Lemmysphere.