for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
Actually I feel excited, because Lemmy has sparked a new interest in news aggregators and the fediverse and I'm enjoying my time here a lot.
Fully agree, I've been TOO excited since I found out about Lemmy's existence. I can't wait to see how it progresses with so many people joining. :-)
Agreed! Reddit was just becoming a karma farming center. Honestly, it’s been nice to burn it all to the ground and start over
A little bit. What I hate is losing the communities related to my hobbies. Reddit is/was very very helpful for me. Finding new music, finding new games, discussing movies and TV, learning about weird movies or cult shows, sharing my stuff to people that find it cool... It was 11 years of that. I needed that site, so many very helpful posts. I hope whatever comes next is better. For now I'm here, waiting to see what happens.
I went from digg to Reddit during that mass exodus and will be doing the same from Reddit to Lemmy. It is a little bittersweet seeing what Reddit was 10+ years ago to what it’s become, but I’m excited for the future and to see what becomes of Lemmy, kbin, etc.
No, actually, I used reddit just to pass time, never really engaged in the community, and without this whole debacle I wouldn't have found out about lemmy and the fediverse as a whole, which is really exciting and a new part of the internet (for me) that feels like a breath of fresh air after years of everything being so centralized around very few companies, I'm getting a vibe of the internet from 15-20 years ago, exploring the wild west of the internet.
I view this as a fresh start. Cut off the old and grow a new one. Just like a gecko. I spent a lot of time on reddit but I can't say I ever actually connected with another person on it, there were just too many people on even the small subs I joined. Maybe lemmy will bring back the small internet forum feel and we'll actually be able to stand out from the crowd better and actually get to know each other.
Yes. I loved Reddit for a LONG time. They started to crumble in my opinion when the added these Snooavatars, which later turned into a NFT scheme. I never bothered with these. The promise of the website was awesome though. Being able to follow interests and communities instead of people was a completely new concept, which I had never seen before. Now it feels like the corporate greed has finally completely taken over.
Time to jump ship.
It’s that exact reason why I could never get into twitter or Instagram beyond personal friends. I want to follow topics, not people.
I had a ton of subreddits curated on my homepage, a lot of which were rather niche. I’m not super optimistic that most of them will be replaced, which is sad.
I hate reddit. But it feels like the library of Alexandria burning down (yea I know). All those google search results and educational subreddits that are shutting down forever, and because they are too small reddit won't force open them again.
A lot are in the pushshift archive, but that cuts of at 2022. Also, it doesn't include a lot of the smaller subreddits.
I have had my PC running 24/7 with multiple VPNs to avoid rate limits downloading as much as I can before the API dies, but with some blackouts moving forward a day I have already missed a few.
Like many others, I would often add "reddit" to the end of my searches to get better results, half the websites on web searches now are either AI generated, copies or are completely AD ridden websites that ask you to turn off your AD blocker.I actually feel more relieved. It has become toxic and dominated by bots. As soon as a real person posts anything, it's immediately down voted
I'm enjoying Lemmy much more. Reminds me of the internet of old.
Reddit was always at its best in the smaller communities that were focused on a more narrow interest. Eg. The ones dedicated to a particular TV show, a particular type of humour, a particular game, a particular fandom, etc.
I think it will take time for Lemmy to develop enough that those sorts of communities can succeed.
It's interesting, too, to see how small the subreddits need to be to maintain that community feeling. I helped found a political subreddit 9yrs ago; a non-partisan US state news & discussion subreddit. Political communities tend to be pretty spicy for obvious reasons, but when we had like maybe less than 500 sub (so maybe like <100 actually active users), there was a nice sense of community, even though people of different political persuasions would argue and debate. I'd see people tend to have fairly civil discussions. They'd chit chat and joke around in less controversial threads. It wasn't always rainbow and unicorns of course, but for the most part, the active users played nicely together. We rarely had to bring out formal moderation tools. A simple "Hey, you two, chill out," was usually enough to settle things. And it was like that for a few years.
As the number of subscribers and active users increased over the years, that sense of community started getting away from us. There was a lot more dogpiling. A lot more incivility. A lot more of the typical rPolitics style low-effort comments. The older active users started dropping off. Reddit tends to lean left, so the left-leaning majority started drowning out the right-leaning users. And my state is solidly right-leaning these days. Not that our sub had to be representative of the state political demographics, of course.
Today, the sub is like under 7,000 users, which is still a smaller subreddit, relatively speaking, but any sense of community is long gone.
I'll admit, we -- and especially me as head mod for most of our existence -- could've done better to tamp down on that stuff. But I also think that that kinda thing is a natural part of growth of a community. That the sense of community tends to disappear. People can't individually recognize and emotionally connect with that many people. It's so easy, especially on the Internet, to simply say something mean-spirited to someone and metaphorically walk away. They may never see or interact with that person again. And if they do, do they really remember who they are?
Obviously my experience is just anecdotal. But it still makes me wonder how Lemmy (and similar sites) will deal with that. How can we maintain a sense of community, while also wanting to allow people in and grow communities?
I feel the same. Just releif. Since the redesign and official app, deep down I knew where it was heading. It's different this time (vs voat) where there is an alternative that has the spirit of why we all enjoyed reddit to begin with and without the commercialism that reddit has become. It's early, surely lots of challenges ahead for this idea but the decentralized nature I think will be very interesting and will allow for the more mainstream community to create a pleasant experience for those that wish it. Also, Lemmy is need of some technical polishing and ease of use, bug fixes, etc. Instances will also need funding by providing transparency and decent moderation. It's like reddit but without trying to monetize your content. Lol
It's all very exciting!
Very late but I also think Lemmy needs to ban bot accounts entirely, to avoid getting algorithm'd. Or at least fight it such that it is reduced maximally.
Not really, I mean, yeah, my equivalent reddit account is 15 years old, is karma rich, one of my comments was added to reddits filing to the FCC in favor of net neutrality (hey, how does this new policy comport with net neutrality BTW?), and I've been added to a bunch of the special/high karma subs...
But what it boils down to is reddit has become hostile to me as a user. They don't want my traffic? My top 1% of karma accounts? That's cool.
Fark->Digg->Reddit-> Lemmy or something else.When your business model is user supplied links to user generated content in user created and moderated forums, that means your business model is INFINITELY replaceable.
Just getting my feet wet with Lemmy and Jerboa, let's see how this shakes out.
I moved to Reddit when Digg destroyed itself. It wasn't too hard to make the switch, although it did take a bit of getting used to. I imagine it'll be the same this time, or maybe a bit easier, as the format of lemmy.ml is not too different in appearance from Reddit.
Kinda. But I don’t care about Reddit itself. I care about a few communities and the people there. I know a couple of them are here. But we are scattered and trying to figure out this site.
Time will tell if this sticks or not. I pretty much hope so.
If someone finds a Lemmy equivalent to r/Grimdank or r/40klore please let me know.
Man, I'm grieving a little. Anger, denial, the whole gamut really.
Mostly anger tbh. We all knew it was coming, once they started moving towards an IPO, but I think we hoped that it wouldn't be this bad. The way spez handled it all makes it even worse. Just shitting on all the mods and users that made the IPO possible in the first place.
It would not surprise me if there's something in the news about a bunch of angry ex redditors going project mayhem on him. The whole "do not fuck with us" thing kinda fits here, and there are some crazy people on reddit
Yes but I think more from a familiarity standpoint (10 year old account). I had my routine of subreddits to visit. I also liked the centralization on content.
This new federation of sites is going to take a bit of time for me to figure out. I used the reddit app and was ok with it. What actually pissed me off the most was the callousness of the admins. Fuck that.
While I hope Lemmy/Kbin takes off (heck, I'd love early internet forums to come back in style) and kicks off a second internet renaissance, the imminent collapse of Reddit legit is giving me anxiety. Hope y'all don't mind if I vent a bit.
Firstly, there are a lot of "niche" communities on Reddit, mostly dedicated to individual games and the like. The kind of thing where fanart, announcements and discussions happen. In the short term, I don't see them surviving the collapse. And if they do, they'll probably move to a not-great platform like Discord or whatever Facebook comes out with.
Secondly, with SEO optimized AI generated garbage topping search results, Reddit has become an important reference when looking for reviews and opinions on things. As well as that, it has become somewhat of an archive of internet culture in a way. With subreddits moving to black out permanently and a push for users shredding their own data, there's a very real chance that all of this content will be lost forever.
I think it's exciting witnessing this platform take off almost literally overnight. The past few days I've been trying to figure out how lemmy actually works with little success. Tonight though it's actually clicking, there's actually content and discussion.
Yes, I'm really upset about it. It feels like i've had so much taken away from me over my life and I was always willing to accept it and move on, but to see something so simple and innocent get taken away seems just so pointless and depressing. Like why am I not allowed to just have my little shitposting community? is it too much that I get to smile without some capitalist coke rat getting a payday? I hate this so much and there is nothing I can do about it. I will mourn for awhile, until I cant even remember why im upset anymore, and when I wake up tommorrow the world will be just a little bit worse. it always is.
I do. Started using reddit in 8th grade and now I'm finishing my masters. So it's been a while. Over the years, it has changed a lot and I've been pretty dissatisfied, to say the least. It used to be a great place for insightful and more-or-less friendly conservation, there was a sense of community. It hasn't been that way in a long time, so I'm ready to move on. Still sad but it's for the best.
I'm hoping Lemmy will have the same spirit as reddit had when I created an account all those years ago. I'm staying optimistic.
12 years of reddit. It will take some time to adjust but I also switched from google to duckduckgo years ago after decades of google, and then too never looked back. Lemmy does need a LOT of work, still, but so did reddit in the early days..
To those working on Lemmy, please don't fuck this up for us. Don't be a spez.
Honestly? Not really, actually I am glad things are getting mixed up again.
While twitter is slowly burning out, and with reddit just deciding to randomly self-destruct, this leaves a lot of space for this project which I find absolutely amazing.
This thing has potential to become so much more than reddit could ever become, and it feels so... Wild-west? Not 4chan style bs but like small communities can persist in a dark corner for a long time, and have less problems of exploding out of control with bots and frequent reposts...
Of course the 'main' instance is seeing some problems atm, but that'll push people away from it and toward smaller instances.
This is going to be great, I want to be a part pf this journey
My biggest worry is a fracturing of some communities. For tech support for various companies, different niche academic communities, etc. that had a free and easy place to have discussions instead of running their own forum. If we end up with those groups splitting and half staying on Reddit, half coming here, that's a bummer all around for someone who previously knew where they would find the best info.
Sure, but here's the thing. If we all just moved to another centralized system, we'd just be setting the timer for the next heartbreak. It's a matter of when, not if.
Lemmy's growth will be slow. It may even stagnate. But, unlike Orkut, Friendster, Google+, etc. it can't be taken away from us. lemmy.ml might even shut down, but the Fediverse will always be here in one form or another.
For me, I'm mostly sad on behalf of the devs who put their hearts into making beautiful apps to help people access Reddit, who've just been hung out to dry with essentially no notice.
But with regards to the site itself; no, not really. Reddit has been questionable for a while now, and has become nothing more than a time suck for me. I get kind of irritated with the endless recycling of jokes and memes, the reposting of things over and over, the bots becoming all you can see. So I'm kinda glad to be moving on.
I feel the same way. It's such a bad way to end things with devs that really propped up the site. I hadn't been on mobile before a third-party app that I liked popped up.
The reposting over and over thing has gotten worse in the last year for sure.
The Reddit admins put way more effort into gimmicks to make money than into fighting spam. Bots have gotten so bad in the past couple years
Tbh I feel more heartbroken about the people that worked so hard to make those 3rd party apps for years just to get fucked by some dude who wanted a bit more money.
It’s a shame. Ultimately, Reddit (like Twitter) was popular because it provided something that people wanted. We may leave because those platforms have gone to rats, but we still want what they once offered.
After going to mastadon from twitter, and now to Lemmy from Reddit, I feel like the fediverse is the future of the internet. The internet was always a very democratic place. It only makes sense it ended up this way. When people can choose a different option at the flick of a wrist it makes it hard to keep autocracies.
The thing that's missing here most is the niche communities (I'm talking about like the ended 10 years ago tv shows and people are still posting about them). On the other hand, I noticed while most countries have 1 or 2 communities, my country already has at least 7 for specific locations and people still want to make more so it feels very much like home already
Absolutely. I was browsing Apollo tonight like I do many evenings for a decade+. And noticed it was June 12 GMT (I thought I had more time!). So, sadness, nostalgia, anger at reddit leadership, etc., but excited to find a FOSS substitute. And having it built at least in part on
rustis amazing.I'm anxious to see what happens in the next few days and weeks. I think Reddit will bring the big subreddits back online with new mods if they have to. The smaller subreddits, though, may not be worth the effort to Reddit, and those are the ones I'll miss the most. I'm hoping some make their way here, but I suspect many won't.
I'm glad to be here, and I'm looking forward to see what this brings.
I have been on Reddit for the last 10 years, and a 3rd party app user for all of it. It feels like the end of an era, and that will be sad no matter what. I won't miss the vast majority of subreddits, especially the bigger ones. It's the smaller more niche subreddits I'm going to have a hard time not returning to and I'm hoping to find similar communities elsewhere.
I am a reddit user from the Great Digg Exodus of 2008. Fifteen years of content and over a million karma that I'm going to overwrite at the end of the month. I'm going to bring as many people with me as I can before I go. I hope all three of them enjoy lemmy.
Yeah, this feels a lot like a bad breakup. I've explored reddit alternatives before, but this time it's for good.
Nah, over the years I have seen many discussions sites rise and fall, and you tend to get over it. Slashdot, Fark, Digg, and countless PHP-based boards for instance. I am happy that there is a real possibility that a decentralized mechanism for discussions is catching on again. To me it's somewhat like Usenet back in the day, but prettier.
A bit. Reddit has been a big part of my life for over a decade. If I lost access to all of those communities, it would be really unfortunate and hard to accept. I'll miss being able to get amazing advice or insightful comments just by adding "reddit" to my google search.
I think the spirit of Reddit will live on though, I doubt that everyone will just vanish and we'll all be stuck on subpar platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tiktok.
I'm really excited about the possibility of the new "Reddit" being a federated, self-hostable platform like Lemmy, and solving these periodic exodii issues once and for all! No more dictators deciding the direction the community should go. I'm really impressed with what Lemmy has accomplished so far with its code and its community.
Nah
Lemmy feels similar enough
I experienced Reddit taking over BBs, Facebook taking over MySpace, the death of Netlog...so much change and I'm too young to have experienced BBS and Usenet in their prime even
It always expected reddit going to shit at some point. Commercial platform without open standards = pain once management makes poor strategic decisions
It's a bit devastating to lose such a good resource. So many communities for niche games and hobbies that I won't be able to comfortably access without my 3rd party app. I just hope Lemmy continues to grow and fill those niches for me again.
Oh man I’m so heart broken about it, and slightly anxiety filled since I spent a lot of my time on there. It just feels off to me and I’m not sure how these next few weeks are gonna go but I will not Go back after the shit u/spez pulled during that AMA which is no surprise. I’m happy to be apart of this website, it’s just going to feel so weird to me for a while. Spent 14 years on that site. I slightly feel like a piece of my heart is dying with it 😆
I feel that. Reddit's bit of an addiction for me. I don't use other social media so it became my one stop shop for news, inspiration, and to connect with all the little niche intrest.
Oddly, I was frequently just doom scrolling r/all to see what was going on the the world. And when I ran out of revent stuff if just sort by new. Super unhealthy behavior.
Hopfully this transition will help me slow down a bit and get back to reality.
im gonna, miss it, I don't wanna leave, I don't wanna go, It feels like reddit is breaking up with me rather than vice versa. As much as reddit sucked, it was the one thing consistent in my life that I could always go back to when things were rough. I just hope that the people and culture of subreddits that are closing down are going to migrate here.
I have this feeling of loss over several good spaces on the internet going down/changing for the worse recently. There was ADS-B Exchange getting sold to a company with a vested interest in certain planes not showing up on the tracker.
Twitter, while never good, was at least a good place for a lot of discussion especially news. From the world's biggest breaking news to smaller local journalists and reporters, you could find it all and talk about it there.
Then imgur wiping all nsfw and non-account posted photos. It was the second coming of photobucket. I can only hope that a lot of the pics posted on forums got saved and can eventually be redirected to the archived versions.
Now reddit cutting off the only good ways to access all of the information on their site. I know the world will eventually move on to the next thing, but I will always remember my time on reddit. I had a shitty home life and my escape on the site was the only thing keeping me going some days.
Okay, dramatic rant over. I need to get good at coding and shit so I can be the change I want to see on the internet.
Yeah, I had 13 years on reddit so it was a nice run. Seems like every online platform dies at some point, so it was going to happen sooner or later.
I’m just a little frustrated that a lot of quick search solutions will only be on Reddit for a while. And asking people for help here might not be as effective as it was with Reddit. That said, like many others, I’m kind of excited about this new frontier.
I just deleted my account and all my content, but I feel like it's going to be hard to not give them traffic. I often end up on niche subreddits searching for specific info.
Yeah, I'm pretty sad about where it's going. Been on Reddit since 2011, and I think it's such a great thing in many ways - so of course it had to be ruined by greed.
I'm genuinely enjoying Lemmy though as a pretty good alternative, albeit one that's a bit quiet for now. Userbase is rocketing though I think, so hopefully we can achieve critical mass.
I'm not 100% hating reddit right now, though I do hate them a lot. So not deleting my >10yo account or anything....but I do recognize that this is near the end.
The default app is garbage. I'm someone who likes my feed and interaction set up EXACTLY to my liking. So losing any customization, etc is just going to make me like it less, use it less, etc.
But I know that eventually, once they have control over how you interact with Reddit, it will only be a matter of time until it looks like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: ad-filled, "suggested content" GARBAGE. I honestly can't use any of those sites/apps anymore they're such cluttered wastelands, I don't know how people stand it.
So I guess less heartbroken, and more like dread as I know the enshittification of reddit is just getting started...
The many communities, discussions, and content I very dear and important to me.
Yes, I feel a bit heartbroken. It's tragic and depressing.
I use the Reddit website on my PC and Relay on mobile. My usage will likely shift, depending on the alternative apps and how the platform develops. I've definitely lost trust in the technical and organizational/directing of Reddit. We will see.
I've certainly found an alternative / an additional platform in Feddit / Lemmy.
What's happening to reddit right now actually opened me to a lot of possibilities. I started learning about the fediverse, what FOSS apps are, etc. I'm actually grateful.
I do. Reddit was this awesome super/meta community of darn near any specific, niche, rare subject you could think of - and that thing would have a community of its own in a subreddit.
The amount of utility, the breadth of concentrated access to subject matter experience on anything, was utterly unmatched anywhere else.
This is, in my view, the dying of that resource, that super-community, and there isn't going to be anything that can replace it quickly. That will hurt in the short and medium term.
On the other side of things, it will lead to a diaspora of sorts, with other communities such as this one (kbin), various instances of the Fediverse, Tildes and others seeing a significant period of growth, and, probably, an infusion of resources to speed and improve development for the better.
It sucks right now, but I do have hopes for what will come from the ashes.
I think because I have left reddit and returned to it so many times over the past 15 years I was looking for a reason to make it permanent. I'm more relieved than anything else. My religion also teaches me that who you are is a result of all of the actions you have taken in your life, and that we should not associate with those whose actions inflict harm on their own community (meaning spez)
My experience with Lemmy feels a lot like my experience with Mastadon after that first Twitter migration. It just seems to be everyone talking about the old platform with no real content.
I am really hoping some people start focusing more on communities and niche content. Would love to see a Hobbydrama community on Lemmy.
I guess it's Lemmy's turn to experience the eternal September effect. At least the "New Platform" is better resilient to greed this time. Long live
DiggRedditLemmy!Ive spent 98% of my time here in Lemmy vs. 2% since last night. I'm not deleting my reddit account just yet, but, overall like what I am seeing here. I'm also just trying to figure everything out here.
There are issues/worries about what happens when an instance goes away, where's that content go? Duplicate/fragmented communities on multiple instances.
I'm more worried about losing the CONTENT that we created on Reddit, etc as a historic/research tool if reddit fails completely. Lot of content with people helping others.
I see/saw a lot of talk about wiping your data before leaving... I'm sure if that happened in larg volumes, they have backups of that content. No idea what legal ramifications there are with restoring them though.
I'm in a wait and see, but w/o RIF I'm gonna be hard pressed to use reddit on my phone, and if old. Goes away that might end it for me.
No, it was going to happen, reddit has been becoming horrible since 2015. It could not die fast enough, except now the problem is lemmy is not ready. There will not be another exodus, the center of mass shifts to lemmy, or it goes back to reddit.
I used Reddit a lot, but I always thought a foss alternative should exist. The thing is most don't care about if things are foss or not, so I thought nothing was going to change.
Just like with Whatsapp, Youtube, Discord, Instagram... You name it. There are foss alternatives out there that do the same thing, but most people just don't care about this issue.
Honestly, I'm glad they fucked up. We can build a strong foss community where there are no crazy CEO's or overall people that you don't even know getting rich from advertisements and shit, and no tracking or obscure algorithms / code too.
Let's hope Whatsapp goes next!
Foss is the way to go.
If I didn't see this coming from a lightyear away maybe I would be, but it's been obvious since at least 2016 the direction reddit was going.
I wasn't too cut up about it until 20 minutes ago when I realised I can never go back to a specific subreddit and will lose all the information there. I've copied some basic stuff but I'll really miss asking a question about this fairly obscure subject then getting a detailed answer in minutes/hours. Really going to miss that 😭
Yes but also no. I missed Digg when I left it for Reddit and I loved the earlier days of Reddit. Reddit was a lot of my college years from 2010-2012. Reddit felt like a very nice community back then, but it's been going steadily downhill for years and I'm not surprised it's come to this at all. Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air, especially given that we're migrating off of corporate controlled media this time rather than just jumping ship to another proprietary platform with a limited lifespan. It hits different this time, in a good way. I'll miss the good times on Reddit and the communities there, but to be honest those communities were best in Reddit's heyday. I'll probably miss the vast amount of information that Reddit built up over the years most, that's over a decade of Internet history killed off by greed. I'm hoping moving to decentralized platforms will stop the cycle of corporate greed putting an expiration date on our Internet homes.
Totally agree. My reddit account is 12 years old, and I was only just now starting to gain confidence that there would already be a sprawling community for a new topic I found. I know it will take a long time to get that feeling again, but it's also refreshing to see the fantastic discussions on this platform.
Other than the niche communities I've been subbed to for quite a while. I don't miss the grifters and professional bullshit peddlers.
It reminds me of when I tried switching to Linux (from Windows). Functional but lacking a lot of mainstream software, especially games. Lemmy feels way easier to use like a normal website, but there is a feeling almost akin to homesickness.
No. Full stop. Fuck spez. I miss Apollo though.
I think a lot of us are going to be going through reddit-withdrawal/detox over the next month. It's going to be tough.
To be honest, I was waiting for an alternative to Reddit to gain steam and I'm glad I found Lemmy. I don't really like what Reddit has become and the changes to the API is the push I needed to really be done with it.
I remember the "narwhal bacons at midnight" phase of reddit when the great digg migration took place. It took years for the geocities from the 90s vibe of reddit to turn into the community it became. Content posts were so few and far between, at first, that I wasn't sure the site would last. Over time the 3rd party apps and general openness of the original dev team made it worth using but slowly, the bigger the site became, the bots and meta comments (and truly awful mods) kind of took over the main subs. The niche subs weren't valuable enough for it to be worth that kind of manipulation, so they were great (at many still are to a large extent).
It's a sad reality that I've watched evolve having been online for the rise of the web. the enshittification of commons seems to be the trend in every network as far as I can tell. That's the problem with network effects i guess.. You need people to have a network, but people are greedy. The more people in the network, the more tempting it is to try and exploit, which makes it lousy for the network. Too far, and the value of he network sinks and the people leave (digg, tumblr, slashdot, etc.). I wonder though, if Aaron Swartz had been around, if he would have been able to keep reddit more aligned with the original vision? Tragic we'll never know.
*edit: an even better deep dive, I hadn't read until lately, the takes the history of enshittification back to the roots - https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
Yeah I'd say so. I used Reddit for 6 years and Boost for around 4. Maybe 5. I dont think im heartbroken yet, I'm just angry. It's a ridiculous move on their part.
On the bright side though, I'm already feeling very at home here especially since a lot of people are pushing hard for Lemmy to become a better version of Reddit. I'll keeo pushing too. Hopefully moving away from Reddit altogether.
Hmm~ I guess I feel sad a little, yeah. Reddit was a pretty cool place. Still is if you hang in the right communities. But I do most of my browsing using a mobile app as of late and if they're killing off RIF and Apollo, I might as well look elsewhere. I also feel a little optimistic about this "migration" slowly taking place, since this time it's not out of some knee-jerk reaction to admins banning some problematic subreddits, spawning places like Voat.
And the federated, open-source nature of Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon reminds me of how a group of friends can create their own Discord server.
15 years and a lot of posts... yeah, a little bummed but Reddit was starting to get a little too big for its britches anyway
Nah, I'm mad as hell, they had years to sort this crap out. They can burn.
The new girl is hot though
No it's long since passed it's prime when it stood for something nows its just a cash grab.
As Ivan Drago says if he dies , he dies
It's like having to shoot a rabid dog. It's not fun for anyone but it has to be done.
Just deleted the Apollo app. Sad times. Hope this turns out to be a viable replacement
16-year user here. Its been a long time coming, I've watched my friend spiral into a bad place and call me an idiot for being concerned. There is no saving these old networks. They will be around as bullhorns of whoever pays for them but even with the different usability I think its only a matter of time before people start to see "True Reddit" style material coming out of the fediverse and things start to grow less due to thee circumstancesbut more for the same reasons reddit and slashdot before them grew to begin with.
Even IF these networks never fall, no original social network was predicated on the idea that it MUST be for everyone. Thinking it needs to be is just monopoly enabler talk IMO.
No. I first joined Digg and Reddit around the same time, but I rapidly came to the conclusion that Reddit was the right choice for me. I just loved Reddit's simpler and less cluttered interfaced, and the smaller (at the time) communities. Then, one day, proper Reddit became 'old' reddit, and it became clear that the end was coming. I started my search for an alternative almost immediately and now, finally, I found one. So, no, I am not heartbroken. To me, Reddit has been dying for years. And honestly, even if reddit survives, I do not want to go back. The feddiverse is a much better proposition, it is the way forward.
Yes, but I also feel like it's a fresh start. I've lurked a lot on Reddit, and am hoping to participate more. And it'll be interesting to watch a new community and culture develop.
Of course I feel heartbroken. Niche communities that I am slowly leaving behind. Many many saved posts that I always intended on going back to but never did. I'm still on Reddit and the reality of the situation hasn't sunk in yet. But I'm starting over here fresh and I'm even ready to actually participate more over here than on Reddit. I'm just ready to start something new
I've been trying to jump for a long time now, I used tildes for a while, but it just didn't have enough content I'm interested in. Now it seems lemmy is gaining enough steam to be my primary social media.
Reddit really peaked with the Obama ama. After that it was all downhill, the place grew too quickly to keep its culture.
Yeah, it’s a really weird feeling. I discovered Reddit in 2011 and it’s been a not-insignificant part of my life ever since.
Now I’m here, on this new thing that feels really small and inactive in comparison. All the subs I’m used to reading just aren’t here. Many of them will probably stay on Reddit. I really hope Lemmy takes off, and I don’t end up caving in and downloading the official app a week later.
Honestly? Yes. That said, this seems nice. I just wish I still had RES. Does anyone know of a way that I could have images open on the page instead of having to open them in a new tab? That's bugging me a lot.
Edit: oh, duh, you can just click the link. Wish I could resize, but this will be fine lol
it is kinda sad, but it's been a long time coming. reddit has just gradually gotten worse and worse over the years, it's far from what it used to be.
reddit used to be different, used to be much less corporate than any other traditional "social media" website, more like the old internet. i think reddits gotten way too greedy and money-driven, and has lost sight of its core users and why they used the site in the first place.
i think lemmy so far is doing an amazing job capturing what reddit used to be like back in the day. it really is a breath of fresh air imo, especially compared to how the internet is today in general.
Fuck technofascists
It's like the Ikea lamp commercial. A person has a well-used lamp they have had for a long time. They go to Ikea and find a new lamp that is better and nicer. In the next scene, the old lamp is left on the curb. In the rain. alone. abandoned. The Ikea person comes on and asks "Do you feel bad for the old lamp?"
I only hope we eventually have some of the local communities that were subreddits of yore - like SacramentoBuyNothing - a place to share your old lamp so it does not have to sit out in the rain at the curb.> waspentalive
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Not sad, just disappointed. They could have the perfect app and they ruined it, all just for more money.
Nah. I never liked using centralized monoliths like Reddit and other social media sites but stayed there due to lack of alternatives. I'm glad to see a federated network like Lemmy getting enough activity that I can ditch Reddit.
I've been a heavy forum user for well beyond half my life, and the social media boom ruined that whole world such that all I really have now is reddit, so I'm pretty upset about it honestly. I'm sure it'll eventually be fine, but the uncertainty sucks right now.
I'm used to the shit I do online eventually being replaced by something else that's better, as I eventually forget the old thing exists for a while. This is a much more harsh ending to Reddit, so I'm really hoping Lemmy becomes all it can be with a healthy community.
@Acetamide Reddit has been pretty terrible for years, I'm excited rather than sad to see their demise.
Yes and no. Reddit had become toxic and a shadow of it's former self. It was a good run for 11 years. Hopefull Lemmy can be an alternative. :)
I'm dissapointed, i loved reddit but seeing them go and make the changes i didn't like. It was heartbreaking for me, i loved Reddit but The Reddit of the Past is not the Reddit of today
Absolutely. Most of my 20s and 30s I've been on reddit. It was game changing for the early web. I decided today that I'm going to delete all my previous comments, posts, and accounts. It's time to move on.
I wouldn't really consider myself a "refugee".
I've been feeling like the internet has been become a more isolating and nonconstructive place for a long time, and I have been following the fedverise & other projects for a while, hoping that we might be able to build something better.
I am interested to see where things go.
I'm really hoping some of my smaller communities focused on specific novels or games make the leap over.
No I don't get attached to things like social media sites.
Yes Reddit was great before it betrayed its users with a level of discourse and creativity not seen anywhere on the internet
I've been meaning to get off Reddit and social media for a while, just not happy with the posts on there and the way things are handled. I have a stuffed animal manatee named Manny and I love him dearly, and all other manatees to keep me happy and hopefully everyone here. Love to all !
I do yes. I've been on that place for 4 - 5 years and moving out for the first time is quite a change.
I'm gonna miss the posts, communities, and history. But Reddit itself, not really. It's just one big, bloated fourm site with a reputation that was already on a downward slope. Hopefully Lemmy will grow to be even greater, seeing as it's in the hands of the users than a company.
Not really. Fuck em. Been on Reddit for 8 years and I've been disillusioned for a while. I just hope this place grows and I figure out how it works well enough to not feel the need to go back.
No. All I got from reddit was negative interactins and videos of decapitations... I think this is a good time to get away from that place.
I was always aware this could happen, but never expected it would happen. Reddit has been a part of my life for years. I never felt good about the company, but thanks to the communities on there, I found so many amazing things and learned so much. As absurd as it sounds, I had completely life changing moments begin on Reddit. So yeah, I'm sad about what happened, but I'm optimistic that we can build something better.
I'm mostly sad about losing the communites i loved, for which I have not yet found a comarable one on lemmy. r/cars and r/cartalk mostly
No. I am very happy at discovering a new place. I also miss the social media, pre 2010s. like in 2005, it was amazing and people felt much closer. One had a feeling that everyone is genuinely here to help and enjoy while socializing, rather than karma farming.
I am talking before Facebook grew big. The time of Orkut, Gazzag, old reddit, Slashdot. or even yahoo messenger, mIRC, before all those websites became a thing. I was not afraid of posting something, and wasn't looking for votes, or afraid of down votes. Main aim of contributing to a post of joining in the discussion.
I've been on giant, corporate owned services for so long, I kinda forgot what it's like to be out in the cottage industry of small websites.
In a way I'm a little sad but I'm also hopeful. I started on Reddit 13 years ago and it was a very different place than it is now. I liked it better then, and I think I'm sad and will miss it for what it was, not what it is. I'm hopeful for a fresh start here on Lemmy where it feels like I'm getting back to the actual conversation with other users, which is what I miss about the current Reddit. There's very little conversation there anymore, so much of it is just pictures and jokes and bots.
It’s a little sad. I got really into reddit because of my gf. At the same time this is kinda exciting. Lemmy feel like early days of the internet. There is no ads, no algorithm trying to guess what I like, and I need to make the effort to find something I like
I'm from the state of Kerala in India. We had 4-5 active n quite decent subreddits on the state, local memes n all.
People are moving into lemmy, but many might not. Some might stay away from reddit, even after the blackout ends. Overall, I think they were fun people to interact with and since it's not sure whether an equivalent community will be built up here, it's sort of a loss.It feels like when you leave a toxic relationship. You realize how unhappy you were and are enjoying your refound freedom but there is that pang if sadness when you remember the early days of the relationship when it was good and you were happy.
I sucks but I did the same thing with Digg when it turned to shit.
Nah, they were just a company after all. The strongest feeling I get is that it's just a bummer because I've grown to depend on the platform so much and now I've got to try and adapt.
At the same time, as this thing that was previously an interesting little curiosity on a corner of the web grew to be a big time suck and addiction, the dopamine hit returns and actually helpful interactions I was getting from Reddit were diminishing anyway so when there was finally a convenient push to make me try harder to either find an alternative or just ditch it, I was strangely grateful.
I do feel like I'm losing something that was very useful resource and which also filled a need, albeit one that it created in the first place, but at the end of the day, it's just a forum. I can't really feel betrayed or heartbroken by an entity that was only ever intended to make money and had no obligation to my approval.
I am not sad. It started to feel a bit like a bad addiction. The huge increase in casual users also brought a whole bunch of corporate accounts running heavy PR activity on reddit, and quality of discussion has tanked, probably from a lot of bots commenting.
I stayed on Reddit a lot for support forums that were prone to brigading attacks. I know how hard the mods were working to keep the spaces constructive. Reddit is not only trying to sell my attention as a commodity they own, but also under appreciating the mods volunteer hours for why the site was worth it.
Nah, this is exciting, like getting out of a mildly abusive relationship that all your friends and family knew was bad and had been trying to get you to leave the jerk for years and now you’re finally out the door. And you feel that spark in your chest, the stirring of anticipation you’ve not felt in a long time.
Get into it, you fucking hedonist
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, particularly for the more niche communities
Yup, I loved reddit. But they changed and idk if there is any going back to normal.
tbh i've been so sick of reddit lately that i've been spending time on 4chan again, which is really saying something
hoping the fediverse will put a stop to that lmfao
I deleted all my content on reddit using power delete suite, and I didn't even opt to take a local backup. I feel like we're still reddit, just under a different name. Reddit is bigger than the site itself. Too bad the reddit admins didn't realize this.
Definitely! I will miss my late-night reading and scrolling. Also, getting invested in comment sections and learning new things from strangers. I will miss Apollo so much.
Not really, just annoyed. I used reddit for just over 10 years, and I was getting sick of it for the last few years anyway. I am really excited about Lemmy, I really hope it catches on. I got on the fediverse with Mastodon at the end of last year and I’m just so excited about the potential of it.
It's weird abandoning something I've used for nearly a decade, where I've made some genuine friendships and gained a lot of knowledge. Reddit has been a shitshow for years though and I use it less and less, particularly for hobbies (my main use case). I've started going back to old-school forums for a lot of things.
The federated approach will definitely take me some time to get used to, but I think once I settle in it'll be fine. My main concern is that if a particular host decides to stop upkeeping their server for whatever reason, it just vanishes and nukes all the accounts made with it. That doesn't inspire confidence in any particular community's longevity and makes me somewhat hesitant to engage.
Maybe now I'll be abit happier lol seeing nothin but mad American politics and videos of nazi rallies just makes me lose hope for humanity, at least of it's more out of sight that'll be better for everyone's mental health
A little sad and a lot salty, my main account got suspended by reddit in retaliation for actions taken as a moderator and got totally ignored by members of the mod relations team and their oh so smugly named "anti evil operations" drones.
I'm sad Reddit is no longer the site it was
I'm glad that Spez and the rest of the reddit execs get to see their precious cash-cow die in flames.
Absolutely. I had 86k karma, and wasted 3-4 years on there...
Not that much compared to some people but I like to think that I contributed a lot of content to the site.
Now I saw this crap and decided to move.
Nah, it's one of 1000 sites that rose and is now falling.
I guess I'm still in the denial phase. I haven't technically left reddit yet. I guess during the blackout, then I'll really know how I feel without it. I'll definitely have to leave once RIF stops working.
I'm just having a really hard time getting used to kbin and Lemmy.
A bit, yes. I'd been on Reddit for over a decade, and grew attached to the site and the many different communities that were there. I could find a subreddit for nearly anything.
But over time, one could see it begin to change. It started with "new" reddit, then NFTs, and it all felt like it started to move away from what it began as. It also became more toxic (though this may be more due to users than the site itself).
But now, we can plainly see that Reddit/Spez is all about profit and greed, nothing else. Gotta get that IPO for shareholders, right?
Though Lemmy is still small, I'm excited to see what it can become.
Eh, good content was less and less common in a sea of low effort fluff and reposts. Once I started actively blocking subreddits I didn't care about, I got deeper into the fluff much more quickly.
There will always be nerds pooling quality content. Reddit was the best place for that for a while, but like all pools it had grown stagnant. I'm excited to witness the revitalization afforded by migration. The site is just a site. It was nice, but all things must pass, and metamorphize in passing.
Been on reddit for almost a decade. Watched it fall from a great website to the current day shithole. I'm relieved actually.
I’m more upset about losing Apollo than anything. That app was the best thing to happen to the Reddit experience for me, and losing it will be weird for a while.
Haven’t been on KBin too long, but I’m glad to have found it.
Personnellement je ne viens pas sur Lemmy à cause des mauvaises décisions de Reddit, mais tout simplement parceque je pense que Lemmy est une meilleure place. Le fediverse est pour moi une révolution de l'internet actuelle et je me sens tellement plus confortable sur ces plateformes qui respectent mes valeurs. Donc non, je ne vis absolument pas mal le fait de quitter Reddit
Nah, honestly this is great. I missed the old Reddit with less people and a more community feel. This is fantastic!
The number of sites I have to forget about keeps going up! Now Reddit is gone. Deleted and I shall not return. Add it to the list: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. I’m sure I am forgetting some.
I'm sad, as my account is many years old since digg days. But I hardly comment or post, and dgaf about karma, so I am considering deleting in total rather than just stop using. At the same time, I'm interested to know how it'll play out.
Like Netflix, despite the public outcry, we may well see that reddit is still alive and well after this. /shrug.
I'm not breaking up yet but I'm definitely gonna cheat a little while Reddit goes through their drama!
Yes, I do. Reddit was a great source for troubleshooting and interesting knowledge. But without the drama and the resulting digital diaspora I would have never found out about lemmy.
I'm excited to be diving into the federated side of things, but yeah. I've been an avid user of Reddit as a discussion board since the old days. There are some great technical communities there. Love the platform, but am struggling to deal with it any longer.
I'm used to the layout of RIF and my niche subreddits NCD/Ukraine Conflict, NBA but I'm posting here and trying to add to the community. Hoping for a better mobile app one day though:X
I felt sad at first. When I saw that disaster of AMA it motivated me to just leave and delete my account.
I was a lurker on Reddit but here I get to participate and you really feel heard.Absolutely! I was able to find so many communities and started new hobbies there. Any random thing I can think of, you can probably find a sub there. But I just have to remind myself that I was there for 12 years so it just takes time to find that elsewhere.
It's complicated. joined in 2018 right before they introduced new reddit and even back then there was a stigma reddit was "getting bad". However, reddit has been the best place for me to discover new things and the niche communities and interests were really great. I use an extension (that will surely die alongside the 3rd party apps) to find reddit comments associated with any youtube video that made my browsing really great.
The thing that makes me most upset is how they pulled out the rug from so many people and then acted like it was the people on top of the rug's fault it was pulled.
I have been on Reddit for 13+ years and it's gone through a lot of changes. I do miss the old days when it felt like one big community. These days, I have found my niche pockets of Reddit where I can get a small semblance of that old community feel which I have been content with. There really isn't a strong contender to genuinely replace Reddit, but I guess that's just the way it goes. If Reddit does really go the way of Digg, I will still miss it. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. Happy to try out something new, though.
I haven't mourned the loss of social media since I left my myspace account. That was my first love
No. Sites and communities come and go. Before Reddit, I was on slashdot and would occasionally use others like kuro5hin, fark, etc. Reddit had a lot more going on and was much better for comments when it came along. Then it got huge and only the small subs were any good for a sense of community or discussion. For a long time, it’s mostly been good for doom scrolling outside of some niche hobby subs. If anything, it’s kinda nice that some people are motivated to try other things like lemmy and kbin.
I have used Deddit on and off for years now and whilst I miss the communities and the sheer mass of useful/amusing information, I am happy we can start a new on something like this.
Yeah, totally. But I'm also finding extremely cool Lemmy and the concept behind the fediverse
Not at all. Instead I feel excited, since it seems decentralization might finally happen. Never was a fan of the big, centralized content silos.
Now, we just need to find a way to decouple identity from instances, since those might come and go. But that's a thing for another day...
Life is full of cycles. Every beginning has an end. And we are currently in a new beginning.
Years ago I would be heartbroken. So many good communities lost. So many posts erased. But this is for the better, I think. This time, let's rebuild those same communities stronger, and better.
Open-source is the future, and I'm willing to invest my time on it.
I don't really care... Reddit is constantly spamming me with follow bots from Only Fans, and I have never posted in a NSFW sub.
I'm also hopeful the way this is structured we will see a bit better moderation of servers/subs.
more irritated than anything - mostly because there arent a lot of lemmy apps on android yet. it'll get better in ~6 months
I feel excited because I see the potential here. It's not just another app, it's another internet if it becomes very popular.
I like that it's back to small communities. Like Reddit once was.
i'm sad that reddit is dogshit, but excited to watch lemmy grow and to have the opportunity to be a part of its growth
It turns into relief meanwhile. Actually, I want Reddit to die as fast as possible.
I deleted my Facebook-account a couple of years ago. At the beginning it felt a bit weird. But in hindsight it was one of the best decisions. My Twitter-Account got deleted in fall last year. And again: It was a good decision. I expect the decision to delete my Reddit-Account to be equally liberating.
I just keep thinking to myself, "it's the end of an era"
Reddit has been the only social network I've used for 12 years. I've watched it go through so much change over the years, but it always felt like even at its worst, it showed its users more respect and gave them more control over what content they saw than any other social network out there. I am cautiously optimistic about the future of Lemmy, but it makes me sad to watch RiF and Reddit phase out of my life.
I feel like I’ve been evicted from a house I loved and I’m kinda struggling with this feeling
It only really sets in as I'm scrolling through the replies. I'm going to miss all the communities I was a part of, especially r/otomeisekai and r/withesvspatriarchy. And I'm also going to miss the ui. I didn't have any social media until relatively late in their development process, so I'm not used to the look here yet.
In some ways, absolutely. I have distinct memories of finding the perfect solution to a problem I had, discovering a major headline, and more.
A little but it's not like we didn't know this was coming. I mean, Lemmy was made because they recognized that centralized platforms all follow the same cycle.
Kind of - I'd just hung around because they hadn't given me a single, strong reason to leave. 3rd party apps getting crushed was the kick up the ass I needed
Honestly not really. I am not fully abandoning reddit either but in my case it's less about a boycott and more the fact that I almost exclusively access reddit on my phone and I find the official app genuinely too frustrating to use. This isn't even like an anger thing, I literally can't figure the piece of shit out. So once Relay is dead I am just going to be visiting reddit way, way less. From my perspective this wasn't my choice, reddit has forced me out. But for a good few years now I have been looking for an excuse to branch out. It's been a toxic cesspool of fascist enabling for some time so I am actually a little grateful this is happening now. I needed a little push to get myself off their platform for the most part. And so far the Lemmyverse looks pretty promising to me.
Not really. I didn't comment much, hell I've had an account over ten years and barely interacted with any community. Really, I'd just use it as a news source for my interests. Or to kill time on breaks at work and shit. Probably will miss some subs but my theory is they will pop up elsewhere. Perhaps not ran by the same people but that might be a good thing.
A little bit, there's a lot of specific subreddits I enjoyed browsing and talking in that have yet to reach a good critical mass here on Lemmy. I've been sharing my own custom Zelda monsters for Pathfinder 2e on the ZeldaTabletop subreddit and there's no substitute for that subreddit over here yet (I might make one once RiF dies on June 30th).
Not much. There's so much mod & admin abuse nowadays that I developed kind of a resentment. On top of that there's a lot of rude or downright hateful user behavior that seems to not just not get punished, but in some cases even encouraged. The only thing that lets me endure it for now is simply the community relevant content. As for kbin it needs exactly that. More users and content. Functionality of the site is good enough to be usable for me and will surely also improve but we really need the people and content to bring everything together.
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 <insert wildly popular thing>!", to today's mess. Kinda bittersweet yes but a change and some competition is long overdue!
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.
Annoyed, really. I'm reminded of how Usenet went to shit in the early 2000s due to major servers utterly failing at spam mitigation.
As they say, "this is why we can't have nice things."
I think everything trends this way. I almost feel more excited for new opportunities in new platforms than disappointed at reddit.
My big fear right now is that Bandcamp will try to emulate Sp0tify instead of enhancing their unique strengths. Then I'd be seriously disappointed, and musically homeless.
I had reddit filtered to the eyeballs to avoid the random drama and bullshit that seemed to infect the larger subs. I was hugely into Ruqqus before it imploded, and have always held out hope for an alternative to take off. The key now is for the blackout to actually be a lasting protest, and not just a "uwu we stopped for 2 days but we're all back now"
Of course, change is hard. But I'm excited to scope out and learn new technology like Lemmy. Decentralization is the future, and it's pretty exciting.
It does suck a little, but I will say that once I had my main account on reddit banned, it felt like I realized I spent so much dumb effort trying to up my karma, that I took a step back and thought, wow I'm addicted to this and it's ultimately meaningless. I still post on reddit, but definitely more constructive, and the Fedeverse is much better since it's decentralized, and there's no central karma aggregate if that makes more sense.
A bit heartbroken, but I always wanted decentralized forum like the old days. Having it federated makes it better and I hope Lemmy can succeed as an alternative. Using something that is too centralized make it hard if something like this happens.
Though I hope I can still search for x topic + lemmy (instead of x topic + reddit) for when I want to find some opinions on x topic.
I came back to Apollo for a while on a new iPad. I am so sad to see it go - it's one of the top parts of iOS I actually miss. Certainly sad to not use it nor Boost anymore.
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.
I am a bit disappointed, as Reddit was definitely more sane than the other popular social media platforms out there, but really, I have been meaning to join the fediverse for a long time and this new influx of users was the perfect opportunity.
Yes. It feels like moving to a new town and having to meet new neighbours, make new friends, know the neighbourhood and all that
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 do feel some kind of sadness, but I feel... free. Reddit started becoming addictive to me some time ago and I have noticed that Lemmy seems to have less trolls, perverts, power tripping mods and just simply batshit crazy people. I do feel an urge to check out how Reddit is doing, but I'll soon go to a place without a proper internet connection so I think I'll finally be able to cure my Reddit addiction. My experience with Lemmy has been very positive so far.
I loved reddit for a few years at the beginning, but after that I became disillusioned and found myself waiting for a better alternative to come around for a long ass time. I even made an account on voat and the users were just terrible people.
But yeah, I spent a fuckton of time on reddit and I'm hoping to do the same on lemmy, with the difference being that I hope that lemmy will enrich my life and give me the opportunity to enrich the lives of others, whereas reddit was often a toxic cesspool that made us angry and miserable.
Oh wow I forgot about voat. Glad I learnt of some better alternative!
I’m not heartbroken, I’m just annoyed. But I’m really excited about Lemmy, I was introduced to the Fediverse with Mastodon at the end of last year and I absolutely love the potential. I hope it reaches mainstream appeal.
I'm sad for the hidden gems of smaller communities that I loved but couldn't move to lemmy/didn't know about lemmy or generally rely on mass platforms to get the action going being so small. I hope one day they migrate.
Not going to lie. This all feels like Google+ to me. The communities and networks are all over the place
Honestly yes, I had been using Reddit since at least 2010 and I was a strong forum user before that. Losing the community hurts, and fuck spez for forgetting his roots.
Nothing is forever, not even social media platforms. Yesterday was Digg, today is Reddit, tomorrow will be whatever platform takes its place. Sadly, greed always appears and things like these happen. The morale of the story is don't be greedy.
Yes, i do. I just deleted my main account using the PowerDeleteSuite, I am (was) used to log in every morning. I will miss it, but it was inevitable; eventually, al social media platforms die off due to "enshittification".
I hope for a long stay with Lemmy! I deleted Facebook in 2011, Twitter when Musk bought it, never jumped on Instagram, Tumblr or Tiktok. Stumbleupon for me died when the VCC capital forced the site to redirect to advertised pages. Popurls is now upstract.com, a shadow of its former self....oh well. I guess I am getting old and starting to yell at clouds LOL.
I'm excited, I've been fediverse curious for a while. This gives the power back to the people
Yeah, but this is also pretty cool. I remember when I first started really using reddit, it was crazy when things hit 3k points. It's fun to relive that.
I go by the thought that the Reddit I cared about died a few years ago. I was a very vocal/active membre of the french community, but once it reached its critical mass, it all went downhill. The recent efforts to hire powermods to create more content has been the last nail in the coffin.
Same as you OP. Lots of years and lots of memories. But it's for the best and I'm looking for something fresh.
I miss Relay haha such a great app
No, not heartbroken at all. Maybe you can call it the R-word? Ha!
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.
Yeah a little bit
Honestly it feels refreshing
I miss the way Reddit was 12+ years ago...When the Narwal Bacons era...
I'll miss using Google to search Reddit for an answer to a niche question.
I don't miss what it has become in the past few years. Really, this is for the best, we were growing apart & I was just in that relationship out of habit.
@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.
I did at first, but the more acclimated I get to Lemmy/Fediverse that feeling has mostly gone away. I'm mostly going to miss the Apollo app, because it was just that good and is where I spent the most time browsing Reddit. I sincerely hope Christian Selig makes a Lemmy app and I will gladly pay for it if he does, but I understand if he wants a break or wants to focus on other projects.
Um. Yeah. Taking a break from it for a few days during the blackout. Checking out the fediverse and am loving lemmy, pixelfed, and mastodon. Just joined kbin today but am a bit confused about it because I haven't found a mobile app that supports it. There are a ton of subreddits that I am missing incredibly, but you know it'll be all right. I'm hoping lemmy grows a bit, but not too big. I just enjoy a string of random posts.
Not really... I was looking for a way out for a while - I feel like I wasted too much of life there already and I'm now looking to cut back on social media time overall. Although I am a fan of putting "site:reddit" on my search queries, not sure what I'll do about that...
I am a little bit excited. If Lemmy sticks (well, activity pub), then we may never have to move again.
There is no central entity that we need to work for/against, and as the needs/wants move along, then activitypub/lemmy/some other implementation will take it up and add to the federation.
Mr Lemmy though is goign to have a MUCH harder time keeping backwards compatibility, but i think it can be managed.
A wise man once said "I for one welcome our new insect overlords"
Reddit has made me discover many things in 5 years of using it, and I would have never become a Linux user without it. Nevertheless, platform come and go, and it's time to move, as usually happens once in a while. It's not wise to get affectionate to websites
Agreed. UNIXporn got me interested in Linux, which helped me get a career as a Linux admin. I literally wouldn't have the life I have now if not for Reddit
Yeah Reddit has a lot of really valuable communities that are not ruined imo. For some of those niche communities the other option for discourse/information is Tiktok which I don't like because the discourse is super fragmented and hard to follow.
Ya. But I’m kind of relieved. Place has been pretty toxic and the content has been getting more and more lame. I’m excited to be somewhere new and start fresh. Maybe reverse some of the bad habits that are contagious with how I engage too.
A little sad, but I am not as attached to specific communities online. I’ve seen subreddits rise and fall too, so this just feels like another chance to find something new.
I knew reddit was going down this path for ages but I never thought it'd happen this fast
I'm going to miss reddit but I'm also excited because I really like the idea of the fediverse and I'm hoping this makes it take off even more. People need to start moving away from centralized social media IMHO, how many times do platforms need to get ruined before people realize centralized platforms run by megacorps always end the same?
The sad part is potentially losing all the information, communities, etc. You can pretty much expect any company to go bad, so it makes no sense to get attached to a company.
It just took so long for reddit to get to its current level of popularity. I was on it since late 2010 and it took a while.
It’s definitely a strange feeling, I’m not sure that heartbreak is the right term for me. It’s more uncomfortable - I don’t mind the change but the ease of access to all the content I wanted in one place was just so fucking convenient! I know this community will grow with time, and I don’t hate that I’m more comfortable interacting here, but I look forward to the day where I can go back to my room scrolling lurk like the good ole days lol.
On one side yes, on the other side I see it as an opportunity to spend more time being active and or outside doing things that are truly good for myself.
Sad to see what’s happened with Reddit but actually excited to try something new here.
It may take off, it may not but I haven’t been involved in something new online in a long while as most of the main online spaces are pretty much entrenched with the few big players.
The thing I’ve found most odd is now that I’ve uninstalled BaconReader, is the way I instinctively went to where the icon used to live on my Home Screen, such a weird feeling.
Was I doing it out of pure habit or was a little addicted? Cutting it off like this is making me think I just went on BaconReader/Reddit without actually wanting to… Worrying when I think about it.
I’ll see if that behaviour sorts itself out now it’s gone.
no I fucking hate Reddit
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.
Not at all. Probably because I was not a mod of any subreddit. I've commented every now and then, but that bit is the same here.
I do. I’ve gotten so much value out of it. I ended up deleting my account and comments to give as much teeth to all of this as I can, and while I realize there’s not a lot of value for me personally in my history, it does make me sad for the knowledge lost. I think it’s necessary for Reddit to feel enough pain to change course (if they will at all) but it still makes me sad.
No; good riddance.
It's been in steady and obvious decline for a long time, so I've had plenty of time to emotionally distance myself. It's not a surprise what's happening at this point, it would be more surprising if it changed for the better.
Yeah, it's a lot of value destroyed and many communities and individuals will never make the switch. It's a sad thing, even if there is new opportunity as we see with Lemmy.
Not at all, I'm glad open alternatives are getting attention!
Sometimes it's time for a change.
My main issue is all the useful information that might be gone with a decent chunk of people editing and removing their comments or even subreddits going private
Otherwise, I got perma-banned from Reddit for commenting the navy seal copypasta in a thread where people were clearly sarcastic so I don't careNothing is forever, not even social media platforms. Yesterday was Digg, today is Reddit, tomorrow will be whatever platform takes its place. It's a shame, but sadly greed always appears and things like these happen.
Not really sad. I never found reddit inspired deep connections to communities anyways. It's not so bad to change things up now and again.
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
Honestly, reddit was a maswive timesink. I'll miss it, but I also think long run this is better for me.
I feel sad and a bit annoyed.
Even though I rarely actively participated Reddit was a centre piece of my bubble for years. The place I would visit to pass time, the place I would go when I needed Information or the place in which I would delve into different topics or hobbies.
A little
It feels weird. I'll still be using reddit because that is the link site i still enjoy the most. but i hope one day will be the day that something else takes over. (lets hope its not chinese like tiktok)
@Acetamide I don't understand why though. We live in a capitalist system, and therefore Reddit has to make money in order to survive. On the current path, Reddit won't exist AT ALL. So we either get a Reddit with some fees that devs don't like, or no Reddit at all.
I'm permanently suspended anyway, there's no way back. They somehow find me if I create a new account lol
Been waiting for a change from the cesspit for ages tbh.
It's so stupid that people would react so emotionally as to relate their feelings to a breakup. This should be a concern to each and every one of you. It's a website. You can get your dopamine hit elsewhere, with TikTok and other sources being still available.
The rage from the Reddit community has been surprising but this broken form of emotional regulation is embarrassing.
It's so stupid that people would react so emotionally as to relate their feelings to a breakup. This should be a concern to each and every one of you. It's a website. Reacting this way is delusional. You can get your dopamine hit elsewhere, with TikTok and other sources being still available, so why the breakdown?
The rage from the Reddit community has been surprising but this broken form of emotional regulation is embarrassing.