• applemao@lemmy.world
      62·
      19 days ago

      How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I’ve showed lemmy to is terrified it’s a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        59·
        19 days ago

        What you’re describing is intentional. Keeping people dumb about the tech they’re using while maintaining messaging like “Facebook works day and night to keep you safe” was the point all along so that people don’t understand what they’re doing. Granted that extends far beyond social media, but still

        • applemao@lemmy.world
          2·
          18 days ago

          They don’t realize it’s the big shiny companies that are actually scamming them and stealing their data.

      • nadram@lemmy.world
        28·
        19 days ago

        It is a very big ask… For chat i moved to Signal and convinced my closest relatives and friends to humor me and get the app, but they didn’t let go of Whatsapp. It’s lonely but i enjoy the quietness, and do not miss the endless groups!

      • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.ukEnglish
        12·
        19 days ago

        One of my phone browsers has warned me that one Lemmee instance is a scam, that doesn’t help if it is happening to others.

      • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        19 days ago

        That was the goal of big corporations and more simplification over time and less customization, went from webdev not seeming viable since every mf could make their own website and would to everyone being incompetent to the point they cant use websites and can only use the few popular apps.

      • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.

      • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
        151·
        19 days ago

        No ethical consumption under capitalism.

        EDIT: I should specify I’m not saying that you shouldn’t try to boycott where you can, just that sometimes doing business with these evil corporations is unavoidable unless you want to live off the grid.

      • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        19 days ago

        Could always pick up piracy. Hard to beat a 100% off coupon.

        Simply pick up uBlock Origin and browse some community-vetted streaming sites on FMHY. (Short for Free Media Heck Yeah, a site that showcases community-vetted sites.)

        That’s just streaming, no downloading. Simply find streams of whatever shows you’re invested in and binge as usual!

        I’ve even gone as far as taking old laptops of mine and having them full screen these sites on startup. Then, I simply hook the laptop up to my TV via HDMI, plug in a Bluetooth keyboard, and binge away!

      • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        19 days ago

        Really? I go out of my way to search on duckduckgo when looking for products and filtering out Amazon.

        Its been easy for me. My hatred of that man makes it worth the effort.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        That is the one that’s killing me too. I just received an email that my subscription date is coming up. I want to cancel, at least my soul really wants me to cancel. But my broken body, limited $$, and limited mobility makes me feel like it would be cutting of my nose. It is really difficult to get to, never mind around, local stores.

        • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          18 days ago

          If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).

          The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.

          But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
      8·
      19 days ago

      Out of those, the only one I use is Whatsapp… kinda hard to get away from it where I live, literally everyone I know in real life uses it

  • SpaceCheeseWizard@lemm.eeEnglish
    63·
    19 days ago

    A lot of the niche content I like is still on reddit, however I like the people and experience over here on Lemmy more.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    584·
    19 days ago

    Reddit isn’t as bad as Twitter. Though it’s heading that way. But there is an alternative that is 90% as good.

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      341·
      19 days ago

      What’s annoying is how stubborn they are about moving over to Lemmy. I know it’s not super straightforward, but it’s also not nearly as complicated as they make it sound.

      • Casteyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        18 days ago

        I actually enjoy the smaller community here, it feels like old reddit. Like the good ole days.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        15·
        18 days ago

        Most people use reddit on mobile. All you gotta do is tell them to use on of the many apps and sign up that way. It’s stupid easy to do.

        • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          18 days ago

          What apps do you recommend for Android? I’m using Sync which is pretty nice, but always interested to hear other opinions

          • alcibiades@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            18 days ago

            people don’t realize (and don’t care) there’s an alternative. The point of the reddit app is to make it as easy as possible for someone to access and consume content. I realize it takes literally seconds to set up a lemmy account but it requires way more thinking to interact with this platform than being spoon fed from an algorithm

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
        7·
        18 days ago

        Well, aren’t we all stubborn when it comes to doing new things?

        My guess is that it will be younger people who will go to Lemmy (like Reddit before had been).

      • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
        4·
        18 days ago

        The lemmy community is a very specific subset of reddit’s. Reddit has a somewhat more diverse set of opinions and interests. Despite lemmy not having a specific algorithm, it ends up being an echo chamber nonetheless, a bit more than reddit imo.

        That and of course the fact that if you remove political content and tech/linux, there is hardly anything left.

      • saxoR@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        18 days ago

        Relating to this trying to convince any of my friends to try a new platform or program lol. Yeah, using Voyager on my iPhone and it’s pretty straightforward

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    355·
    19 days ago

    I use Twitter and reddit for porn, nothing else anymore. People/communities I follow are ghost towns elsewhere. Everytime I point this out, people get butthurt, yet none of them link to their porn profile.

    Post the (adorable, lanky, femboy, who has glasses and a thick uncut cock) porn, and as the saying goes, ‘they will cum’.

  • SSNs4evr@leminal.space
    22·
    18 days ago

    Or use Amazon (I’m guilty), or shop at Walmart (sometimes guilty, but not often), or shop at Target, use Tiktok, use Facebook (reunion coordination only - but still guilty, I guess), use PayPal (very guilty), use LinkdIn, use Google (guilty).

    It’s really difficult to live a modern life, without being guilty of using anything exploitative of something. Of course, all the things (and many more) mentioned above are made to make people reliant on them by design.

    Amazon operated in the red for over 7 years, before turning any profit, often selling and shipping items for a lower cost than they purchased the items for. But after that 7 years, they’d driven much of their competition out of business. Now there are fewer choices with regard to finding some items, because Amazon drove everyone out of business. The cheaper prices on Amazon? Nothing like what they used to be - they don’t have to compete.

    How many small towns have Walmart as virtually the only place to shop and/or the only employer?

    It’s very important in our modern, separated society, for people to return to basics…get to know your neighbors, stick together, become friends, and help one another out. Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, “Your co-workers are not your friends.” I wondered if many people ever looked past that, to ask if that’s how HR wants things. How do you ever achieve solidarity in the workplace, when you walk in with that attitude? I’ve certainly had my share of hated co-workers, but much more often, I have been friends with many of them. Co-workers are a great resource to vent, problem solve, find out what’s going on behind the scenes, and if there are problems - a great co-worker can be honest and let me know if I might be the problem, or not.

    But, separated and isolated within our own little tribes/families, too busy working too many hours, for too little money, trying to keep up with too many financial obligations, is exactly how they get us exactly where they want us.

    • Electric_Druid@lemmy.world
      61·
      18 days ago

      Well stated- to your first point, I’d urge folks to take small steps to start replacing those services at least partially with alternatives when they’re available. For example, you may not be able to switch grocery stores entirely but many places have farmer’s markets or services where you can buy from farms wholesale. No matter your food situation, most people can manage to switch operating systems or search engines. Most of us can stand to reduce social media time. Like in your Amazon example, there’s value in aiming to change habits slowly over time instead of all at once.

    • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world
      4·
      18 days ago

      Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, “Your co-workers are not your friends.”

      Reddit is full of the asocial “leave me alone” types (or at least used to be) that make every excuse to not to socialize with others. Taking their advice to heart is an easy way to become a miserable person. There’s lots of nuance between “set up barriers in front of everyone” and “share every detail” and they seem to lack that.

    • misteloct@lemmy.world
      7·
      19 days ago

      I’m only here because I saw it posted on Reddit over the years. Keep doing it, it’s working…

  • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
    191·
    19 days ago

    Twitter got abandoned 1 month after the fascist bought it. Account deleted 6 months ago.

    Reddit is on transition right now. I’m still checking it, but the time i spend there is much less, since i made a Lemmy account.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    19 days ago

    xitter is like 100 times worse than reddit.

    reddit has issues with administration and moderation (especially the aspect of censorship), but xitter also has the overwhelmingly bigoted users on top of the censorship

  • Zaraki42@lemmy.ca
    171·
    18 days ago

    I literally just got permabanned from Reddit after over 13 years and 200k karma! Lol

    • turnip@lemm.eeEnglish
      1116·
      18 days ago

      I got banned for being “anti-immigration” during a housing crisis in my country. Its ridiculous to pretend additional demand doesnt raise prices, its become like a 1984 Newspeak and gaslighting.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.world
        84·
        18 days ago

        It doesn’t, and you are wrong, and if you got banned on Reddit for that, your stance is probably so atrocious I don’t even want to hear it.

      • theblips@lemm.ee
        4·
        18 days ago

        The PE firms buying the entire downtown are raising prices, not muh immigrants

  • nectar45@lemmy.zip
    161·
    19 days ago

    Look…I know we all hate reddit cause they kicked like half of us for no good reason but like…spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is

    Then again…X is arguably still a better social media platform than reddit is…

    Ok nevermind

    • grue@lemmy.world
      181·
      19 days ago

      No. At this point Reddit is evil because it’s censoring anti-fascist content and organizing. It’s becoming a Nazi bar just like the rest of them.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      171·
      19 days ago

      Spez is only less evil because he doesn’t have enough money to be in the oligarch club. He’s just one of their toadies. He’d absolutely be the same way if anyone actually gave him the power they have.

      • FrostBlazer@lemm.ee
        9·
        18 days ago

        Reddit has been about soft power for a while now. Ever since they scapegoated Ellen Pao, imo. They’ve been changing things relatively slowly compared to Twitter in terms of enshitification, and being more careful about who they piss off at any given time. They’ve become more emboldened ever since they banned 3rd party apps, as now they are allowing bot farms and bad actors that commented on behalf of the admins.

        Reddit could be seeing tons of users leaving the site daily, but they’re for sure replacing them with bots to paint a better picture and drive engagement. The same thing applies to Twitter as well. It’s why on BlueSky for instance, I don’t see ragebait dominating my feed due to the more robust moderation tools compared to Twitter and Reddit.

        Lemmy has avoided most bots due to the manual approval processes from what I can see. I think Lemmy should strongly consider implementing BlueSky’s moderation tools though.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      112·
      19 days ago

      spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is

      Nah thats just wrong. Spez has been following Musks orders, so he is exactly as evil as Musk.

    • Sibshops@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      19 days ago

      It’s just a shitpost. It’s poking fun of people being on reddit, with a screenshot from reddit. There’s no deeper commentary than that.