I don’t see Old Reddit lasting long. They’ve cut beloved features before, and they’re still calling New Reddit a “beta feature”. After they’ve pumped enough resources into developing it, I’m sure they’ll move past the “test” phase and just cut Old Reddit out entirely. That’s probably going to be Lemmy’s next big user surge.
Does Reddit suppress mentioning Lemmy? I remember for a while this past June 2023 there were a lot of auto-deletions for mentioning or linking to Lemmy. I was never clear on who was deleting things and where. I guess linking to the r/Lemmy subreddit (or a fediverse sub) could work as long as the subreddit doesn’t get banned.
I honestly can’t see how anyone can stand the not-old reddit.
there’s lots of people who’ve joined after the redesign and haven’t used old reddit, so it feels unfamiliar to them. some how mamy people were completely unaware of third party clients because they haven’t been using reddit before the official app has been released.
I prefer the full posts over the preview post.
Better to scroll during lunch break.Same. I want to see the full post/picture so I can decide that I’m even interested in the comments. I actually like infinite scrolling.
My Lemmy app (Sync) is also configured for full height and width cards.
Same here
The people that use old.reddit are a very small minority, and many are likely already here.
That small minority being a surprisingly large chunk of their volunteer moderators, which is why old reddit isn’t goin anywhere.
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I modded some subreddits and before they fucked up traffic stats to not differentiate I can tell you that old (and new) was not putting up anywhere near the numbers of mobile. New had a lead over old but not a huge one.
EDIT: From a few years back - https://imgur.com/SJYWbQ5. I’m outing myself if someone does a bit of legwork, but IDGAF because I’m permabanned from reddit anyhow lol. Also, here’s one from 9 months ago, though I don’t remember the subreddit - https://imgur.com/FD0005K, and another from a year ago - https://imgur.com/9SBtazx
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Hi! That’s me! I’m already here!
Old.reddit + ublock + RES.
That’s my desktop setup for ages and ages.
Once old.reddit is gone I’ll not go back
Honestly, I don’t think users would migrate from Reddit to lemmy if they shut down old.reddit.
At this point, and after all that happened, users would switch to the new Reddit and continue using it.
Reddit has a massive amount of users and content there is generated at a huge amount. A lot of users would continue using Reddit even if they aren’t happy with the interface, just for the content really.
If it’s the interface they miss, it can be duplicated on lemmy. Beehaw did a pretty good job https://old.beehaw.org/
I used to think I’d move if old.reddit died, but I migrated here much sooner when the whole API debacle happened, and I don’t know if many people who still care are still in there.
I don’t think that this will be the reason for another mass migration. Maybe some users will switch but it won’t be a significant number
Reddit is going for an IPO after which it will slowly enshittify to oblivion to acquiesce to board demands.
Yeah that’s my hope. I don’t think many people will switch because of the removal of old.reddit.com, but Reddit will probably become much shittier after going public. Hopefully that will cause more people to switch. It worked with Twitter, some people initially switched when Musk took over, but many other people switched later when the service became worse and worse.
I think a lot more people use old reddit than used 3rd party apps, but there would have been a lot of overlap
I think that it will, potentially worse than the APIcalypse, even if there are less desktop than mobile users. They’d be messing with whatever was left of a sane interface, that even mobile users who don’t want the app use. And the alternatives (incl. Lemmy) aren’t just a bunch of ghost towns any more, they’d be reaching actual communities instead of a “make your own community” place.
Agree
By having the same communities that reddit has. What if we all go through our subbed reddits and make them here?
Is there an official gaming community on Lemmy?
What if we all go through our subbed reddits and make them here?
That’s exactly what I did with a fairly niche community, and so far we’ve got 400+ subscribers in only four months. Pretty good for Lemmy, I think.
TBF, I think part of why it took off so well is because Lemmy’s ALL stream is relatively slow enough such that small niche communities have a much higher chance of being randomly seen. Compare that to Reddit, where they’d typically be buried.
So there’s a prime opportunity right now to start a community on Lemmy and have it take off relatively easily. That might not be so true in future.
When Reddit ipos and it tanks. They’ll push more bad decisions. That’ll be when people start to leave.
I have no experience to say whether it will succeed or tank. Why should it fail?
To be clear, I left Reddit and am not going back, but I’m curious what are some indicators the IPO won’t do well.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/
This.
Another issue is if you look at companies that started to push what was perceived as woke agendas, they got thrashed in the market, Target, Inbev.
WHat will also hurt reddit the number of bots. Advertisers are taking a harder look at are their dollars effective on online platforms.
For most the brands I saw advertising on reddit, there is no way they were getting a return on their investment.
Once they go public, most of this information will come out.
We could organise something to advertise Lemmy in Reddit, but I think that organic word-of-mouth is a better approach.
Instead we should make sure that the Lemmy experience is as good as possible. (Plus it benefits us “older” users regardless of any potential migration.)
by existing
On Lemmy, whenever I use the “back” feature of my cell phone web browser, the feed reverts to the default filter. It’s probably a bug, but it prevents ne from clicking without fear that I’ll lose where i was in my doomscrolling…
The thing is a difficult intro, IMHO. Things like coding an instance, understanding the limits, etc. I honestly still don’t know why I can’t upload images to basically any community, but it prevents me from contributing.
