@Acetamide This has been coming for a long time, I'm glad the community is being a chance to move on to spaces which aren't just trying to suck blood.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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It is just sad to see another good thing, build up collectivly by people in their spare time comes down due to cooperate greed.
I will use reddit as long as the subs I'm mainly engaging in haven't migrated and as long as there is a secure & a/tracking free way of accessing Reddit, even if it is desktop only
Bit then again I'm happy that truly free and non commercial alternatives get the attention they deserve
I closed my Facebook account in 2016 and haven't looked back. Hoping I feel the same about Reddit
I didn't care about giving up fb. But giving up reddit is much harder. Lemmy's filling the void tho
Yeah a little bit
Yeah, reddit has always been my favorite type of social media. Especially being able to choose your own communities and being free of most algorithm shenanigans is what made me love it. I hope they turn around, and otherwise I hope Lemmy becomes more active and popular. It would suck to lose such an unique type of social media.
Honestly it feels refreshing
I don't feel heartbroken for reddit itself. But I do think there are a lot of small communities on reddit which will either have terrible trouble trying to continue surviving there, or which won't be able to reconstitute into the alternate ecosystem.
I imagine trying to migrate a community would be quite difficult even if you did have some very tech-savvy mods, and many mod teams will have no idea what this whole 'lemmy/kbin/beehaw' thing is.
So there's a number of communities that I think just aren't going to make it, and that's sad.
And yet, if Reddit backs off enough for people to continue moderating effectively, I think the damage to them in the short run will be relatively low. In the long-run this debacle has done a lot to drive people to the larger 'lemmy' community. Since that has help grow the federated alternative community, that could have lasting implications for reddit as they move forward with... whatever they're doing.
Oh yeah, I mean I find my self wanting to check it right now even, not checking reddit is giving me a huge sense of FOMO but that is reason enough alone to make me want to leave it lmao
Yes I am a little sad. I just deleted my account(s) this morning. 7 years on Reddit, and it was my go-to platform. But it is clear that Reddit does not care about its users, so I won't be using Reddit anymore
For me it's like moving to a small town. Instead of a whole scene into each if my weird interests it's just a few cool people. But thats just a function of population.
Yes. It feels like moving to a new town and having to meet new neighbours, make new friends, know the neighbourhood and all that
Reddit peaked like eight or ten years ago. I am so ready for this. I have been doing everything in my power (completely ineffectively) to get the people and communities I care about to bridge to a libre network.
Nah I used Reddit for 10 years and had been getting sick of it for the last few. I got started with the Fediverse with Mastodon at the end of last year and I am in love with the potential, especially after finding out about Lemmy. I really hope this system hits mainstream appeal.
Or maybe not! I feel mainstream appeal really accelerated Reddit's downhill slide.
Not really, I just miss some of the subs that I used to frequent. Most of them already exist somewhere in the Fediverse and just need to gain some traction. The other thing I miss is my app, RedReader, but the author has plans to extend it to support Lemmy or similar in the future so I'm good.
no I fucking hate Reddit
I haven't mourned the loss of social media since I left my myspace account. That was my first love
My Reddit account was turning 16 in August (that's older than some Redditors I'm sure!). It was a wild ride, back in the days where Reddit worshiped Ron Paul, and the entire front page was "Upvote if !", to today's mess. Kinda bittersweet yes but a change and some competition is long overdue!
Yeah, itβs a really weird feeling. I discovered Reddit in 2011 and itβs been a not-insignificant part of my life ever since.
Now Iβm here, on this new thing that feels really small and inactive in comparison. All the subs Iβm used to reading just arenβt here. Many of them will probably stay on Reddit. I really hope Lemmy takes off, and I donβt end up caving in and downloading the official app a week later.