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I have been on the edge with twitter and reddit for a while and I have finally deleted my accounts that I have had for a very long time there. They are no longer the places I used to know, even more so with twitter. I am ready for my new time here and on mastodon.

Hello Lemmy

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[–] Void_Reader@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same; I've been trying to disengage from anything big tech related recently, not just social media, even Amazon etc. Can't take it anymore. It's all so blatantly exploitative and fucked up. Cancelling subscriptions feels good; hope I stick to it. Can't shake YouTube yet though, need my Rossmann fix. Hopefully we can figure out a viable FOSS alternative; tried PeerTube but it doesn't quite do it just yet.

The Internet can still be a beautiful positive thing.

BezoSpez Zuck-Musk can fuck off.

[–] pinkolik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you tried invidious as YouTube alternative?

[–] Void_Reader@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks very much for recommending this! Tried it and am quite happy. Also just tried NewPipe on my phone and it works really well. Bye bye YouTube

[–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

For Browser there are actually two YouTube Frontends: piped and invidious

[–] thegenesis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Oh yes I’ve still not been able to get out of YouTube. :(

Got out of pretty much every other social media platform!

[–] davetansley@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Leaving Twitter for Mastodon barely had an impact. I was just about done with that whole place, with or without Musk in charge.

Reddit is different... I still loved using it. I had my subscriptions honed, all my interests represented. I suffered none of the toxicity that others saw. Not sure if that was just because I mostly used smaller, niche-interest subs or because I mostly lurked and seldom posted? It was all friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining, a stream of consciousness that I could dip in to whenever I wanted to.

So I'm not leaving Reddit because of the experience, but more on principal (both the API kerfuffle and a general aversion to ad-revenue models, which are clearly harmful to society). Principals sadly don't give me something to read over breakfast...

I hope Lemmy can become that stream of consciousness in time. I'm trying to do my bit by being an active contributor rather than a lurking grazer.

[–] majere@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We might have to accept we're on the "losing" side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We'll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.

[–] kobra@midwest.social 17 points 2 years ago

Honestly reddit lost too. The quality drop in content and comments is noticeable and unlikely to get better. Meanwhile lemmy/kbin/fediverse in general seems to be thriving with hope and energy.

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[–] decus@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

I made the transition from Digg to Reddit way back when, and like you didn't see a lot of the toxicity of Reddit likely by having a honed list of subreddits. 99% of my time was spent lurking tho over the last years - so now I'm going to take more initiative and engage more with the platform

[–] basskitten@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I've been using Apple News as my "read over breakfast" app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.

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[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I deleted my Twitter account when Elon reinstated Donald Trump's account - it was clear there was no saving that platform.

It's a Nazi bar now because the owner is a Nazi.

I still have my Reddit account, but it's becoming quickly like my Facebook account - I barely use it. In Facebook, it's to catch up with friends and family, and in Reddit, it's the more esoteric subs. But I feel dirty & gross every time I load up a page from those sites, so I don't unless I have to.

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[–] popemichael@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

There's no reason for a community driven site like Reddit to do things that hurt the community. It's like they are trying to kill themselves the same way Musk is trying to kill Twitter.

It's better to get away from those properties now before something worse happens.

[–] amaryllisunicorn@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I'm trying to make the change too. So here we are at Lemmy. I'm done with Reddit.

[–] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Same. The new influx of people has made my experience a little shaky, but I’m still very happy to have this non-spezed reddit to enjoy without the guilt. Fuck reddit, I’m glad I left and I hope they get fucked

[–] Peterhuzza@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

I removed my Twitter account around the time Elon took over. I knew it was gonna be bad when he took over. Reddit, I closed my account on the 1st. I hated the official app and saw it was going to die as well.

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Hello to the Fediverse! Hopefully you can also enjoy the rest of the sites such as Kbin, Pixelfed, Peertube, Owncast and Misskey - there's plenty to choose from!

[–] Hikiru@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I’ve checked a few instances of federated YouTube alternatives and just… no. Most of the content is right wing guys looking for a place to spread hate they can’t elsewhere. The type of people that watch Andrew Tate and Admin Ross. Lemmy is Great though, mastodon seems a little boring compared to twitter. The fix to that would be Elon fucking up enough that the very change averse average internet user would be willing to try mastodon.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.

[–] hemmes@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.

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[–] MashingBundle@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd only heard of Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube until now. Pixelfed looks cool, Owncast and Misskey are too but I don't watch streamers or microblog so.

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[–] ThinlySlicedGlizzy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think this is going to be a trend. Centralized social media just isn't financially viable and it's worse for the users in so many ways. We already have alternatives for youtube, reddit, and twitter popping up. I think youtube might be the hardest to replace though because so many people view youtube as a job rather than a place to share content just for the sake of it. Hopefully with all this we can return to the good old days of the internet where a few corporations didn't control the majority of traffic.

[–] MouldyPriestASSHOLE@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of historical content that'll never make it to an alternative site. I don't think it can ever be replaced unfortunately.

[–] ThinlySlicedGlizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

As soon as everyone realizes Youtube is seriously declining everyone at c/datahoarder is gonna start archiving everything. I'm personally going to try and archive as much of my favorite channels as I can. Regardless of everyone's efforts though there's still gonna be so much lost content.

[–] golli@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Another issue with YouTube is that media, especially video is vastly more resource demanding than anything mostly text based.

With something like Twitter or Reddit (as long as you don't directly host all media) the quality and importance of each post relative to it's resources needed don't really matter that much.

Especially with high bitrate video footage on the other hand it does matter. So having a drive for profit somewhere in the chain does in someway help shape the system to be viable financially.

[–] artair@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

This is the problem with modern social media in general. It's no longer about being "social," and all about trying to make a buck. Every time someone complains on Mastodon about their "engagement," my eyes roll.

Fortunately, corporate social media seems eager to cut its own throat: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-twitter-mark-zuckerberg-changes-facebook-social-media-tech-rcna89766

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[–] Zenbach@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I just joined Lemmy today for this same reason. Let's see how it goes.

[–] Orionza@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

For me, I have a nice Twitter feed. Really nice, lots of good people and it makes me happy. Nearly none of them are on Mastodon so I'm having a hard time doing this anew. I expect a lot of those folks will have a hard time moving to Mastodon, but some have left for Instagram. Not the same. I have found a lot of the same forums from Reddit here, and some are empty so I hope to help populate.

[–] 666happyfuntime@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm guessing Mastodon is a Twitter like thing? I could Google but I'm here to chat about things. It's kinda nice being on what feels like an old internet or fledgling community space

[–] aeki@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

Yes, Mastodon is microblogging like Twitter. Usually has longer character counts, my instance has 5000 which helps because I tend to get long-winded.

[–] 666happyfuntime@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm guessing Mastodon is a Twitter like thing? I could Google but I'm here to chat about things. It's kinda nice being on what feels like an old internet or fledgling community space

[–] Jao@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yep. Federated Twitter is one of the best ways to describe it.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dropped Twitter as soon as Musky took over since I rarely used it anyway. Reddit has been significantly more difficult to let go of, so I haven’t deleted my account yet. I’ve tried to open Apollo at least 50 times since the 30th.

[–] ArniePye@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was surprised by how much muscle I memory had to click RIF. I opened it almost instinctually all weekend.

[–] OneThere@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I opened sync to a blank page about 6 times before I had to uninstall it and I still find myself opening the folder it used to be in. I pause every time and sigh before I go find something else to do. I'm excited for the upcoming mobile apps for Lemmy and hope this can be a new home / refuge from the sadness that is now Reddit

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[–] mr_monoxide@vlemmy.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Been on Twitter (with Tweetbot) & Reddit (with Apollo) for 10+ years. I kept to my follow list and subreddits and really did not see a lot of the toxicity that everyone talks about. I think that is largely because 1) I was using third party apps and wasn’t getting any adds or suggested posts, and 2) I was mostly lurking and didn’t have a lot of posts or comments. I did find in Reddit that some comments would get harsh responses, but mostly I would get useful answers to questions.

Now using Mastodon and Lemmy/WefWef. Generally, like the experience with some issues with Lemmy in particular. Main issue right now: I hate having to scroll through read posts every time I open Lemmy or an app.

[–] End0fLine@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

I hope that this is the start of something special on the internet. I hope that this is the beginning of us users taking the power back from big tech companies.

[–] Sterben@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I still use Twitter occasionally, not as much as before, even because I lost interest in many topics I followed before.

I almost cut out Reddit too, since 3th party apps still work at the moment, but when that moment comes I will drop it without any doubts.

Ah, almost forgot, welcome to Lemmy. :)

[–] EdgeOfToday@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's strange, but the 3 day poop challenge meme that swept through lemmy the other day reminded me of what Reddit used to be. It felt like an actual community where people were actually interacting, and sometimes bizarre posts turned into legends. I hadn't noticed the slow transition to just endless bot reposts. With all the spez drama, i decided Reddit was dead to me, and that was sad to acknowledge the sudden end of an era like that. But lemmy showed me that the things that made me love Reddit have been gone for a long time, and I feel more at home here.

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[–] Velkas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Twitter has seriously turned into a right wing cess pool. :( 😞

Can't even watch porn on there anymore. LOL

I was watching one of my favorite gay porn stars and swiped up foe the next video and it was this couple that had like 45 guns strapped to them out shooting printed out faces of Democrat politicians.

Talk about a damn boner killer.

Also, the only comments that show up are right wing nut jobs as well. Idk what the hell is going on there.

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[–] Jao@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I left Twitter like half a year before the whole Elon Musk stuff, and I stopped using Reddit on the day the blackout protests started. I haven't deleted the accounts though.

[–] TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I deactivated my 15 year old Twitter account this weekend.

Then I deleted all my Reddit posts.

Then I created a new email account and I'm migrating off of Google.

I guess I should go check out Nebula or something next, and try out PeerTube.

[–] Peterhuzza@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I removed my Twitter account around the time Elon took over. I knew it was gonna be bad when he took over. Reddit, I closed my account on the 1st. I hated the official app and saw it was going to die as well.

[–] LeHappStick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've never used twitter 😎😎

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You're not alone, I've been on Reddit for a long time, 12 years on and off since introduced. Honestly never used it much at all until finding Boost 5 or so years ago and have been a daily user ever since spending at least a few hours a day on it just interacting and commenting. I commented more than I viewed posts lol just was always talking. They've done a lot over the years to irritate me as a user, getting all mecha PC and destroying all my favorite communities should've been when I quit but it wasn't. Half the site turning "blue" when I'm not really into politics, sparking constant political discourse for every comment I made that didn't strictly fit the current blue rhetoric was another straw but I dealt with it and tried to keep my comments as bland as I could while still speaking my mind. But now killing the 3pa and this whole shitshow? Nah, I hate their official app and have only ever even used the site thanks to Boost, before boost my account was unused, so shall it be after boost. You know what, it's mainly bc of how much I hate spez now. It was one thing supporting a company with a blank face that fucked me over at every turn, always blaming the mods, the admins, whoever. But spez? I just can't see helping that guy out in any way after all this.

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