I mean, they said it in their post, they want to be a safe space so... VERY different from what reddit was, someone else already said it, but they'd be better using a forum than the fediverse (specially with so little mods).

[–] Zebov@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Admittedly, it was a knee jerk reaction. I was annoyed since I had just read a bunch of comments/articles that basically said Reddit had completely reverted to normal. Once I really read what they said and poked around, yeah, no big loss there.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, the protest is not even done and Reddit is already booting out mods that have shutdown their subreddit. So Reddit is crumbling too.

[–] Zebov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But for the average person, would new mods opening everything up be worse than staying shut down? The average person doesn't inherently care about mods.

And from comments here, people have either turned against the blackouts, Reddit brass has fixed commenting to seem that way, and/or bots have made it seem that way.

[–] jadedctrl@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds like the issue is too many users for beehaw specifically to handle — doesn't seem to be an issue for other servers, comparatively. All things considered, this is going really well!

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How's it collapsing? Beehaw's the only verse that's falling apart.

[–] sangle_of_flame@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and it's not even falling apart, they just defederated temporarily

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Oh they're falling apart. Just have a look at their modlog and discord.

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

I'm on antemeridiem, a smaller instance in comparison. Because neither beehaw nor sh.itjust.works have de-federated with my instance, I can access both to my liking.

[–] snakesnakewhale@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That attitude on a three day old account surely isn't engaging with a sense of longevity.

[–] Zebov@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Touche. I explained elsewhere, but I was frustrated after hearing that everyone in Reddit had turned against the blackouts. There were a few other reasons, but none worth getting into.

For what it's worth, while I haven't deleted my main Reddit account, I currently have no plans to go back. I've always been a proponent of having multiple options, so everything being at Reddit alone never sat well with me. I had tried lemmy and a few other things some time ago - usually when everyone protested Reddit - hoping something caught on. It usually ended up the same way - influx of people, fighting due to old vs new members, fracturing, quick abandonment, and everyone leaving.

I'm really hoping that doesn't happen in this case, even if Reddit goes back to normal.

[–] snakesnakewhale@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figure it's like any other flood.

Users will rush in, there'll be a high-water point, and the tide will roll back.

It's too early to guess how many folks will remain vs return to reddit, but I doubt anything that happens on Lemmy this week can possibly be representative of what things will feel like one, two weeks from now.

At any rate, reddit's numbers are way too artificial these days due to bots & spammers for their user metrics to be very meaningful, just like Twitter.

Stay the course where you want to see change. For me, that's no longer reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Zebov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm in the same boat, which is why I both got aggregated and why I'm still here.