I’m starting to get tired of people talking about Reddit on Lemmy. I personally don’t care about Reddit anymore and am not interested in Reddit news.
I already blocked c/reddit that helped. Is there anything else I can do? Is there a way to hide posts that contain a keyword?
Except we’ll likely get another wave of users coming over, all wanting to rant.
Is third party apps dying really going to move them over here if they haven’t already?
What do you think? Will the average person proactively seek options to their habits, once they know they might have to change them? Or will they continue with their existing habits to the last second, and only then seek options?
I think some people who haven’t left yet do want to leave, but some are ready for the fediverse and others aren’t due to it not being at a stage that feels polished and straightforward to use. For those I think squabbles is an alternative since while it’s destined for the same fate that has met past social media companies at least it’s an effort to move from the current established corporate juggernaut of community based social media.
So I think more options need to be given aside from just fediverse until that is so easy anyone can use it without thought. Otherwise they’ll have to go back to reddit if they can’t get used to it. Which is the sense I got from people who have been using squabbles and started using it over reddit.
What I meant is, most people haven’t even really looked into using something other than reddit, because they still can.
Hence, there will be another wave, when they cannot.
My belief is that people who continue to use reddit normally don’t really care strongly enough to leave. They are only upset about the third party apps, but not enough to quit reddit. They don’t care about wanting a decentralized internet and having a platform for the people by the people. Even the use of the official app isn’t even concerns of the permissions that could extract lot of additional data to build a more accurate profile of users to resell to marketers. I believe for them the outrage will pass. In the end they want to keep using reddit and aren’t looking to leave. It’s just noise in the outrage, but not an actual willingness to follow through.