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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

Right now, yeah. It had become part of my daily routine, and it's challenging. With a little effort, I'll release myself from their evil grasp.

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.

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.

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.

I'm sitting here having lunch and out of habit I went to open Reddit. Got confused for a moment and realised there's no more reddit for me. Was sad for a few seconds, opened Lemmy and now I'm happy again.

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...

No, because you're all here, and hopefully together we'll start building healthier, more tight-knit communities.

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 😆

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 rust is amazing.

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 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'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'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.

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. 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.

I miss how easy it is to find everything, even things that are very niche. Yes i'm talking about porn stuff

9 years on Reddit and it actually felt quite cathartic to click the yes delete account! In the last 6 months that’s Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and now Reddit gone. I’ll miss some of the stuff but not enough to want to stay.

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.

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

really sad about this. lemmy won't be the same. we're also losing 15+ year of history with all the people purging posts and comments..

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.

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

Kind of cautiously optimistic at this stage, Reddit has been going steeply downhill for the last few years - if the "blackout" does nothing for Reddit then maybe it could succeed in drawing attention to alternatives.

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.

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 ~~Digg~~ ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy!

I've been on reddit since the diggification. And to be honest, I miss the people. Reddit itself? I don't miss it at all.

But lemmy is turning out to be a nice place. Reminds me a lot of the old days of the internet, which I hope that we can some day go back to.

I'm a little sad because I met my partner of nearly 10 years on Reddit on that account. I will keep the account because our original DMs are on there and would like to preserve them. Will probably wipe all the content and contributions, and just keep those DMs

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

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.

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've been waiting for reddits death for ages, so no. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. I actually really like the idea of the fediverse, keeps any singular entity from having too much power.

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.

Nah, I'm mad as hell, they had years to sort this crap out. They can burn.

I honestly don't feel that way about Reddit but I do feel that way about sync... I'll miss sync, unless he ports it over, which he is giving consideration.

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.

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.

I closed my Facebook account in 2016 and haven't looked back. Hoping I feel the same about Reddit

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.

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.

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 feel like it's a break up with an abusive partner. I'm relieved but also sad.