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niche communities for your stupid hobbies are pretty cool.
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Quotey posted:niche communities for your stupid hobbies are pretty cool. Niche hobby spaces where I can yell at strangers for having bad taste.
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Quotey posted:niche communities for your stupid hobbies are pretty cool. Not like those dont exist on here
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Ahundredbux posted:Not like those dont exist on here Some of them exist (not all of them), but they're far lower traffic. Got some niche subs I follow with 20+ decent posts a day on Reddit where the SA thread is lucky to get a post every 2-4 weeks. Not remotely the same.
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almost1337 posted:Soon we will see how many people continue to use reddit without the 3rd party apps. I'm guessing it will be more significant than the protests, but also short lived. I think the thing people will notice more is actual discussion getting drowned out by hordes of spambots because all the tools Mods used to deal with them(and the sometimes the mods themselves) are no longer available.
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Just got a push notification from Reddit Sync that it has now shut down. RIP
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Reddit Unsync
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what happened to twitter?
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Apollo and RIF are officially dead
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The Voice of Labor posted:what happened to twitter? Elon went agro and said "gently caress YOU IF YOU CANCELLED YOUR ACCT." which I did So lol. Guess no more tweets for me. (Which gently caress it, I needed to move on anyway. Little hypocritical of me to make a show of canceling my account but then still going there if I saw a good tweet, or news tweet.)
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The Voice of Labor posted:what happened to twitter? Twitter isn't gay enough for Elon.
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Bacon reader died for me a couple hours ago. Hopefully I can tighten up my gym routine instead of procrastinating scrolling reddit.
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I believe in you, you can exercise without making GBS threads your pants!
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Mega64 posted:I believe in you, you can exercise without making GBS threads your pants! Someone has to be able to.
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solidarity
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look at Reddit and Twitter killing themselves both on the same day
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Ogma posted:Someone has to be able to. You'd think that about reddit users, but
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poisonpill posted:look at Reddit and Twitter killing themselves both on the same day ![]()
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"Elon shooting a load into his Grimes body pillow" : "Ah, another successful venture."
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Someone please stuff Elon into a Groversub that will drown him, and I will buy you an av.
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I got banned from r/metaldetecting
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Professor Moriarty posted:You forgot option 4: lurking like we always did, and only posting just to prove someone wrong I guess I'll be trying SA again for lurking, but I did like having access to writers in the print science fiction forum or having tiny forums for tiny sci fi series
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I'm leaving RIF installed because it's doing a good job now keeping me off reddit. All the reddit links default to that app which is now erroring out. Honestly probably going to free up a lot of my time but now I'll have to find something else to follow the commute once I'm caught up on my SA threads.
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There are still niche forums out there for loads of stuff, cycling, woodworking, hiking, cooking. I’ll miss the locale specific subs most as they’re helpful to find new bars, cafes, gigs etc. and the only alternative to find out what’s happening is horrifying places like Facebook.
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poisonpill posted:look at Reddit and Twitter killing themselves both on the same day Now if only Facebook and YouTube could go down too.
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Spaceguns posted:I'm leaving RIF installed because it's doing a good job now keeping me off reddit. All the reddit links default to that app which is now erroring out. If you follow enough artists or just browse art tags, Instagram can be an almost a meh way to kill some commute/break time, except that it aggressively pushes you ads, and does everything it can to avoid just showing you stuff you specifically asked for, but if you wrestle it enough you can get yourself a feed of cool art and comics and niche interests or whatever. Reddit was never good for art, especially it's main art subs really love to select for garbage. Little art blogs and just other people are usually how I find new artists I like, but IG and I guess Tumblr are the two ways through a phone app or site to get a feed of just art, avoiding like the worst news headlines of the day discussed by collection of worst idiots.
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It will be interesting to watch if things develop in the next few days. Either way, I'm not bothered- but it would be really funny to see Reddit negatively affected in some way.
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wooger posted:There are still niche forums out there for loads of stuff, cycling, woodworking, hiking, cooking. Check out the LAN threads here
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poisonpill posted:look at Reddit and Twitter killing themselves both on the same day I didn't even see the twitter poo poo, wild apparently these companies are racing for speedrun platform death any%
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Tragicomic posted:I guess I'll be trying SA again for lurking, but I did like having access to writers in the print science fiction forum or having tiny forums for tiny sci fi series One of the writers of The Expanse series of novels would post from time to time in The Expanse sub. That's pretty cool.
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redshirt posted:One of the writers of The Expanse series of novels would post from time to time in The Expanse sub. That's pretty cool. For me, it was u/cstross, who would answer questions about his books and the overall industry
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Elon has put up the wall so I can’t read a danganronpa screenshot tweet LP
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redshirt posted:One of the writers of The Expanse series of novels would post from time to time in The Expanse sub. That's pretty cool. That was the thing that brought me to reddit in the first place, one of the devs for the game Stunts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)) that I played the gently caress out of as a kid was just hanging out answering questions about the game and I was like, what the gently caress is this place, this is awesome
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I've spent some time on Lemmy now and it's cool despite the bugs. Small enough communities that you get discussions unlike Reddit. Just good to supplement this place because things move slow here, too.
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redshirt posted:One of the writers of The Expanse series of novels would post from time to time in The Expanse sub. That's pretty cool. I need to get back to reading those, I think I started book 5 but reading books has been more effort than it used to
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Incredulous Dylan posted:I've spent some time on Lemmy now and it's cool despite the bugs. Small enough communities that you get discussions unlike Reddit. Just good to supplement this place because things move slow here, too. yeah, the unpopularity is a feature rather than a bug. you're also much likelier to be talking to people and not bots or paid microinfluencers. Insanite fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jul 1, 2023 |
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Tragicomic posted:For me, it was u/cstross, who would answer questions about his books and the overall industry Oh nice, as in the Stross behind the Laundry Files? That would scan, he's always been a bit more online than other authors
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Ahundredbux posted:Not like those dont exist on here There’s a few niche folk instrument subreddits that don’t really have equivalent threads here. Even then Reddit kinda punches below its weight in that department. All the really active Celtic music communities are stuck in 2004 and still using forums of one kind or another.
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Joey still works so last day for me I suppose when not on desktop. I just can't deal with intrusive ads. Something about promoted posts in the feed annoy me. Anything deceptive like that just makes me want the company to wither and die. I never really been bothered by the ads on SA, because they were specifically boxed in a predictable size, shape, and location. I just want the ability to customize my experience based upon what is available to work with rather than what is gated behind jackoff motions
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 00:46 |
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Weirdly, RIF is working this morning but it forced a logout (attempting to log in results in "invalid client") so I can't use account features through it, but I can read anything I get linked to... It looks like there are ways to patch your client and host it as your own instance, thereby appearing to be a low use third party app. I don't think I can be hosed to bother but it's something to look into if you care. They'll probably crack down on it if everyone does it though
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