Reddit

If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.

But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I've already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.

So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.

I won't go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.

I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.

I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.

Reddit will be fine IMO. But there is now a real chance for the fediverse to become the non corporate alternative.

I think there's room for both. Lots of people don't care about all the API drama or about what the CEO says in interviews, and there are easily enough of those people to maintain critical mass. But I think Lemmy isn't far off from also having critical mass in enough communities to have some staying power.

I'm now checking Lemmy before I check reddit when I want my doom-scrolling fix. But I still visit Reddit, even if less often than I used to, because it still has some unique communities that don't have analogs anywhere else. For example, there is no fediverse equivalent of /r/AskHistorians (that I'm aware of).

reddit has too many toxic people

Reddit will be absolutely fine but I don't see myself going back. I realized I only ever used it for a few things, mostly memes. I can get that here so I'm sticking it out and helping build something new

Does reddit have a chance? Yes. Is there a chance i go back? Getting slimmer with move spaz makes.

People will keep using Reddit until an easier alternative arises. Most people don't care about any of the benefits the fediverse offers, they just want a service that's easy to use delivers content to them, that's it.

I don't care much for reddit as a whole. Since I joined lemmy have I used my phone so many more hours per day that it is scary. I was only on reddit for a few minutes per day... So reddit is maybe better for my health 😂 The only sad thing is that the niches subs I liked didn't even seem to know about this whole thing and nobody seems to come over either... So no I won't go back to reddit. But I am not as black and white either, for morals sake will I not use reddit until after July and after that may I check out my niched subs maybe once a week or less. But we will see maybe I don't even care to have a look when that time comes. Just like fb I just logg in to see i don't miss any major events maybe 4 times per year haha

I have no loyalty to reddit and if there's one thing I realized in the past week, it's that I am completely fine not using it on a daily basis. If instances here continue being active (kudos to warframe@dormi.zone for hosting their instance, promoting it on reddit and actively working to make it a nice cozy place here!) I have no reason to go back. I will miss smaller game subs, maybe go back sometimes to see them there but also do my best to support them here if they decide to move.

Reddit will survive. I'm a little tech savvy and even I have difficulties moving to alternatives. I think for most people, bad reddit is better than no reddit.

Reddit has been getting worse over the past couple years, to the point that I've stopped browsing Reddit's front page altogether. Since Lemmy is scratching my forum itch just fine, I see no reason to go back except for the handful of my favorite communities which haven't migrated yet, and I see no reason to ever give them money again in the form of ads, Reddit Premium, awards, or my data from their mobile app. I don't really care what happens to Reddit anymore.

A chance...for me to still use it? Sure. I've always just had my list of niche subs, never used /all or /popular or whatever. It's fine. It's like french fries. But it's great to have an alternative where the goal isn't "i want to be a complete antisocial goblin and spew hate everywhere".

Taking some time to learn about the Fediverse, it almost feels like an IRC network. Individual networked nodes cooperating with each other to facilitate communication. It's an old school idea with a very modern perspective. I love the idea and I hope it grows.

Reddit permbanned me with no explanation, so I can never go back.

I deleted my Reddit account, and now just kind of wander the digital world, like Caine in Kung Fu.

Nah I think they’ll weather it. But once third party clients go there’s really nothing left to stop them going into full user-hostile monetisation mode. So next will be old Reddit, more ads, maybe the mobile site finally gets removed, nsfw banned, etc.

They’ll kill themselves in the process of trying to look profitable for an IPO.

It will linger on for some time but I see it ending up like facebook.

The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it's understandable: they're a giant platform on the web, but they're unprofitable - they'd like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I've already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.

My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This "mass exodus" is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don't care. But I'm enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I'm just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.

I tried migrating when voat got popular and for awhile I used both. Voat started attracting worse and worse people though so eventually I left.

I would probably use both and hopefully Lemmy can avoid voats fate.