Hey there, I appreciate all the work you guys are all doing to keep this going. We see you and thank you.

m’lady, m’gold me too - just jokes though!!

I left Reddit because of it’s toxicity and general hivemind tone that seemed to take over there in the last year or so. I want to interact with kind people, not worry about exactly where I place every single comma in my comments for fear that someone will think I’m putting emphasis on the wrong syllable. I am 100% all in with the “let’s be nice” statement here, thank you for posting this.

so - as one of those people who really didn’t know much about the 3rd party apps or even what the protest/blackout was, I was wishing for an alternative for quite some time now. Reddit has become an echo chamber where you’re downvoted for having your own opinion, no matter how vanilla the “dissenting” opinion is. The trolliing and constant arguing gets old after awhile, and I don’t think the current state of reddit is what the original intent of the platform ever was. This, for me, was why I gravitated toward Beehaw specifically. I’m not going back to Reddit. It reminds me of a playground full of bullies, itching for an argument. This platform is so much more my speed. And I feel like there are a pretty decent amount of people here who are in the same mind… for us, the alternative is welcome and Spez can wait til he retires for us to return because it’s not happening.

hang on, what leaked internal email, do you know where I can find that?

I made it too!

Heck yeah!!

I’ve noticed the slowness too over here, but embracing it as it must mean a huge increase in traffic, which makes me super happy. Welcome to all the refugees!!

Exactly… traffic is traffic and clicks are clicks, it’s all the same to an algorithm that determines the # of eyes an ad gets.

As someone in the advertising industry - they most likely will just recover the revenue when people flock back after the black out. The only way they truly lose ad revenue is if people leave for a very extended amount of time. Basically - they’ll have *lower *impressions (not zero, because people are still there today) in the next few days but they will recover, and it’ll be seen as a “dip” but not a loss.

This explanation helped, thanks!

Think of it like moving to a new house rather than picking up your house and moving it to a new neighborhood. The excitement comes from the differences even if you miss the other place.

Thank you! Super helpful

Also first time, also don’t know what I’m doing! But I’m having fun and am not going back to the other place

Lemmons

Commenting from beehaw here! I still am figuring out what’s what but super happy!

I’m still learning how to do things right now. I’m trying to find a news feed (?) thread (?) community (?) and learning how to post. But I’m looking forward to contributing as soon as I can get my bearings. I totally agree with you though, good to see posts from other refugees but craving the content

Probably nothing now that I made the change. I really like the people here. I don’t see a bunch of the snark and hate over here and it suits me better. I imagine reddit is gonna go the way of Twitter and Facebook and I just don’t want to give any part of my life to that

Isn’t moderation an unpaid volunteer gig? I agree. He’s gonna have a hard time finding a bunch of people who can /will jump at the opportunity

You… You guys had friends? I don’t think anyone would even think to wonder where I went.

Side comment… How many walked away from reddit accounts will be flagged for the “dead redditors” sub when people just suddenly stop posting?