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I can guarantee I won't be going back to reddit on mobile if they go ahead with the API changes. I may occasionally use reddit on desktop but 99% of my reddit usage was on mobile via Sync.
Once they get rid of old.reddit (which they inevitably will) that will force my hand and I'll have to fully move to Lemmy. As luck would have it, the developer of Sync is considering re-purposing it to run on Lemmy which would be perfect for me.
I'm a Reddit mod and Sync is one of my favorite apps, so that's exciting news! The ONLY reason I have the official Reddit app on my phone is to stay up to date on my chats when they come in.
Iβm hoping Apollo does the same.
And have them blackmail the Fediverse? I think not!
The amount of new content I'm seeing every day should prevent some of that.
I'm seriously shocked at how much Lemmy has blown up over the past couple days.
I'm never going back (Besides to delete my account).
Lemmy reminds me of when I first joined Reddit. There isn't a constantly changing frontpage (yet). The communities are smaller, but thats a good thing. I actually want to participate.
I've drunk the koolaid. I'm considering starting an instance for my personal professional community that I lost since the pandemic.
Mastodon didnt click for me, but neither did twitter even in its hey-day. Just not my cup of tea. But Lemmy does.
Impossible to say now, but definitely quite a lot of them are not going to be regular users. I still hope/believe the majority will stay though.
Agreed. For a long time, Reddit was the only social platform I've used. But I do not intend to go back. It feels weird.
The community here is much better IMHO
Much less toxic ~~(I'm not talking about lemmygrad)~~
Yeah, but it's still relatively small now. We'll wait and see I guess haha.
and that's a feature haha
Whatβs wrong with lemmygrad? I havenβt been there yet so I donβt know.
Itβs like r/The_Donald but on the opposite end of the political spectrum
At the very least the exposure will put Lemmy on the map
Doesn't matter, this is how these things gain traction. It's all about trends, especially on social media, baby.
It depends on a lot of factors, depends on twitter response and what the mods chose to do about it.
Personally, with the twitter shenanigans, I stopped paying for their blue thing and donβt use it unless someone links to it. So my Twitter usage has down to the floor.
I may take the same approach to Reddit. There is still time to change course, but Iβll go where the crowd goes, and keep tabs on alternatives. I will stop paying for premium and donβt open it as much, and hope Lemmy keeps me occupied enough.
I don't think the kind of people who are willing to try out some geeky experiment of a social network are totally dependent on Reddit culture.
Exodus from one network to another (or to nowhere) is a thing that's happened in the past, and if anything, people aren't willing to go back once they finally take the effort.
Tho I'm guessing lots of people have multiple accounts such as alts for r34, and may keep using those until Reddit finally shuts off all nsfw.
This is still a new frontier of site conglomeration we have no data for. If anything we have contradicting data to previous instances of this occurring because megasites have yet to fail since the rise of Facebook.
There have been MySpace -> FB, Digg -> Reddit, Viber -> WhatsApp, Hotmail -> Gmail, BlackBerry -> iPhone. Neither was 100% conversion, some kept their relevancy in certain markets, but those were quite some waves.
Also, Tumblr completely kicked the bucket with its users dispersing, and while OF managed to save itself by backtracking, people were already migrating to other services.
It may be true that the likes of FB, Twitter and Reddit are too big to fail right now, but people also keep finding alternatives.
So, we'll see.
There's still no mainstream competitor for Reddit. I love Lemmy, but the idea that someone with little to no computer expirence is going to find it easy to join and use is laughable.
I'd like to think that the fedi/lemmy space will be a nice place to still participate in, even a person decides to go back.
I have no intention of installing the official Reddit app. Iβve used Apollo for years and Iβll leave once itβs no longer an option. The way Reddit treated the Apollo developer is inexcusable.
I managed to quit Twitter, Iβm certain I can quit Reddit too.
They're starting by going private for 2 days, but almost unanimously they will continue for longer if reddit doesn't concede. Specifically some of the biggest subreddits like funny and videos, those won't be coming back unless reddit backs off or replaces the moderators.
What is reddit again?
I like it here actually.
If my communities end up dying, then I'll be forced to move back but like I said, I like it here
As a near strictly mobile only user of Reddit for nearly 10 years, they have made the decision for me by forcing everyone to use their completely horrible app. On the rare occasions at work that a search result populates with a Reddit result, I'll probably still go there, but using an adblocking browser.
To me it is extremely difficult to justify Reddit actually achieving a worthwhile IPO when their product is reliant 100% on user generated content and volunteer moderation. As an investor, I would be concerned about the longevity of a forum that doesn't have adequate moderation tools, shows hostility against their own userbase, and a complete disregard for their own "AMA rules".
Reddit is dead. They have struck their own final blow.
I intend to return after the blackout. At least for the rest of June. It is said multiple times, that this is just the first step for many subreddits.
I will continue using Lemmy and use Reddit only for specific communities. If there is no chance in sight on Reddits behalf, the communities can work on travelling to alternatives properly and this needs time and planing.
As of now, this exodus is more like a panicked escape. At least one community I am from means business and I would like to support them as much as possible.
this exodus is more like a panicked escape
lol, you make it sound like literal refugees escaping a war torn country.
My apologies. I tend to exaggerate when trying to be funny.
Depends upon how many people come over here and how much content gets posted. If most communities are ghost towns a lot less people will stay, if it stays interesting more people will stay. Long term depends how quickly devs can catch up in terms of features and user experience.
It depends on how many communities migrate from reddit to lemmy. I will definitely not return to reddit on mobile once third party apps are shut down, but if reddit changes their stance and third party apps come back, I may go back if most of my communities havenβt migrated to lemmy.
Personally, I like it here and will probably stick around. I hope the servers can scale, and that new communities grow.
I'll still wind up looking at Reddit for meme content until it turns up here. There's a lack of goofy pointless shit here currently.
No idea - but I actually think the Fediverse concept maps to Reddit way better than it has other social networks so I could see some iteration of this really catching on over time.
For something like Twitter, the whole value proposition is "one big universal conversation" and the federated stuff gets in the way of that a little bit, but Reddit has always been a federation of communities (who occasionally fight, join together, cross post, etc) - that maps really well to this stuff.
Even if I get bored here, I wonβt go back.
I hope we can create a community that they want to be a part of. It takes a lot more than just lurking like I did at reddit.
I will likely go where Reddit Sync goes. I don't really mind if the content here isn't as vast as on Reddit, if I have Sync I have all that I need
Oh right, until then I'm actually using this platform straight from the browser. It's actually working good enough for me that way.
Same. It would be great if the Sync dev goes through with switching to Lemmy. That would be perfect for me.
I think I'll have a look in a couple of days. But if they go through and kill 3rd party apps that's goodbye from me.
Agreed.
Old.reddit is OK on desktop. But on a mobile browser, it is constantly harassing you to the official app, which is absolutely terrible.
When Relay stops working, I don't see myself going back to reddit much at all.
If there's one demographic of users likely to stick with the fediverse it's going to be redditors.
What makes you say that?
I'd say it's the fact that even as time has gone on and reddit has gotten more casual users there is still a much higher percentage of "hardcore" users on Reddit versus other social media. Or at the very least the hardcore users have a lot more influence then on other social medias, since they're the ones more likely to be posting content lots of people see and moderating content. As well as those users being a lot more likely to be willing to learn a new more complicated platform and more likely to be directly affected by 3rd part apps shutting down. This all combined means that the hardcore users the platform relies on are more likely to leave to places like here which without them will make the website worse and cause more casual users to leave.
Probably a good chunk, I don't mean to be pessimistic either but that's how it usually works on "big" movements.
Some people follow the flow because they're caught into the enthusiasm of the moment while not being actually convinced about what they're doing, those people are highly likely to go back when things are back to normal (tho in my opinion reddit will never be "normal" again).
How many they are is impossible to tell.
The blackout is only the first wave, there will be another one IMO when 3rd party apps actually shutdown (June 30th), after that, things will settle and population on lemmy will lower, that's not a bad thing IMO, it doesn't do any good to have people here that don't actually want to be here.
As for me, since I joined I'm doing my best to be involved in lemmy communities with the specific purpose of not missing reddit anymore and not care anymore when they'll break old.reddit (they will like their doing with the API).
I already feel at home here, I'm not going drastic as to nuke my reddit account or anything, tho I'll most probably make a GDPR request and leave for good.
It depends on whether someone's a member of the community or just because they want to scroll some epic memes. I expect many people are of the latter category and probably don't even understand what the fuss is about.
It's not like I'll never look at Reddit again if there's useful info on it but I won't be part of the Reddit community again after the scorn and disrespect they showed it - I hope to help build something new over here.
I can't do anything about Reddit's decisions but I can vote with my attention and help to build a compelling alternative.
What will make me return to reading Reddit is all those old posts and comments on very specific topics. It doesn't mean I'll stop using Lemmy (especially if some communities I follow migrate here entirely), but there's no proper replacement for Reddit yet.
Also, I've found no app for Lemmy working on Android 7. For Reddit, I'm using Stealth: it's incredibly useful that you can create multiple pseudo-accounts with different subscription lists and saved posts without ever logging in or having an account. API changes are a sad development, but Stealth has an option to work by scraping old.reddit.com - unless they happen to delete it, of course.
Is Jerboa not Android 7 compatible?
Whatever happens, once RIF is offline I won't have the muscle memory and habit of opening it. And RIF was the only way I access Reddit, it's a pain in the ass using Reddit on a mobile browser and their app sucks. So I'm just gonna stop using Reddit daily. I'll still wander in from Google when looking stuff up, but I won't be on it daily anymore.