See? Spez isn’t all bad. His charisma-less incompetence is good for something!
I heard through the grapevine [and have no idea how valid it is] that he used to be a moderator on r/jailbait. I don’t know how true that is, but if it is I think he looks the part lol
Thanks spez for making lemmy more popular
Well that took all of 5 minutes to figure out how this federated stuff works. Thanks spez, cya later reddit.
7 year 10 month long on Reddit (until now) and only ever used Apollo and previously Alien Blue until Spez decided to kill the joy out of both. Never posted much on reddit either. Happy to be here with everyone and contribute to Lemmy!
Wow. The number of servers… cool.
It’s great, but can always be better.
Wonderful news. It was honestly time for us to start moving away from Reddit anyway. This just gives us an excuse.
Agreed, the increased ads, detriment to user experience and general toxicity was becoming unbearable. I am very thankful to have found a new home.
Honestly I hope it remains small enough to not attract influencers and low grade content, but also large enough to become a significant source of useful searchable info. It’s a pipe dream but hey
One can hope.
Right now, I love the size and the community feel. It’s as if we are all trying to make this place our home, so we are all figuring it out together, posting often and engaging. I know it won’t last forever, but I’m enjoying it while it is lasting.
That’s supposed to be the idea behind instances: that you can make your community as big or as small as you want. I think it’ll work
Looking forward to the next iteration of Reddit. This reminds me of when I first joined during the Digg exodus
What caused the Digg exodus?
Digg made changes to their site that pissed off a lot of users, so they went to Reddit. And then Reddit did the same, so now here we all are on Lemmy.
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-digg-rivalry-heats_n_699225
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100831122556/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digg_user_rebellion_reddit_on_front_page.php
- http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/30/digg-users-lash-out-at-new-format-join-forces-with-reddit/