Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.
For me it’s pretty clear, after deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord accounts, the decentraliced Fediverse is my future in social media. Even with an very much smaller community, i’m not willing to be treated as ad-cow for the big corps.
But what do you think about your future in social media? Fediverse or Reddit, Meta, Google and all the others? Or will you go safe and use both, to have an backup option?
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If your girlfriend/boyfriend hit you with a baseball bat but then said sorry didn’t realize you would leave me I wont hit you again. Would you go back?
I would go back, but only because reddit has so much niche content I enjoy. But I am also going to actively support sites like this to bring those communities over here.
If reddit took a step back I will definitely use it, but the fact that you can ask a question without being flooded with bad jokes makes this platform have value for me. I’ll happily use both.
Exactly. About time reddit has some real competition. Also it’s scary how much important info you can get only on reddit, I hope we can get backups.
Yeah. Spez is still a piece of shit and my old accounts with massive gobs of post history are still banned. My “image” that was well respected in a ton of car groups is long gone, and I can’t get it back via alts without running afoul of the “no ban evasion” policy, so fuck 'em. Lemmy has been working just fine for my light, casual browsing needs. Why would I go back now?
I’ve been hearing a lot about the “fediverse” and just haven’t had any motivation to bother looking into it. But here I am now.
Even if Reddit walks this decision back, the fact that a corporation is making the decisions instead of the community/content creators means that similar drama is inevitable. I can’t blame them for making a decision to try and be more profitable, but that also means I will leave and put my effort towards a network that is community-led.
At the same time, running a Lemmy instance isn’t free - I have concerns about how these instances will stay funded in the long term. I’ll also miss the niche communities that haven’t made their way over here yet, but hopefully they will!
No, I am a 16 year redditor and have been meaning to get out for at least 6 of those years. Time to get out.
There will still be something at these subs, though I plan to turn them all into fediverse links until they ban my accounts.
inb4 sorry, long wall of text.
I’ll stay across multiple fediverse instances, likely including lemmy.ml. I won’t be back to Reddit, not even if Reddit rolls back all the third party app changes, and if spez is fired.
There’s a reason my Lemmy account is two years old, not new: I am already extremely displeased with Reddit, for years. (More than two, by the way.)
It is not just the admins and the businesses. It’s also the moderation system:
I don’t think that the users becoming moderators in Reddit are intrinsically bad people, I was myself a moderator there, but the whole moderation hierarchy boils down to “everyone competent will eventually leave, and the top mod will be eventually a clown with too much time at hands, too little reasoning in his head, and too much power hunger in his stomach”.
It’s also in large part the userbase. Users there behave like braindead morons: they’re assumptive, context-illiterate, they don’t even see what’s wrong with “X said it so it’s true/false” and prone to oversimplify complex matters, in a way that boils down to “u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is 0? dats dumb lol lmao”. And they are extremely disingenuous.
I don’t think that it’s due to inability to reason; I think that it’s the environment of Reddit dictating how you should behave there. What I described about the Reddit user might potentially apply to myself, too, when I’m there. And I don’t want to feel disgusted with myself.
It should not be a surprise that the userbase is like this, when the admins set up the example. A site that launched itself by expecting users to be stupid enough to notice “this place is empty, it’s all sock-puppets” is bound to attract stupid users.
Probably not besides looking up old posts and info. After the past week or so of not using Reddit, can’t really say I miss it. Lemmy reminds me of the pre-social media days of web forums and I love it.
Like most of the other people around here, I will definitely stay at Lemmy. But I will also use Reddit as long as it has viable subreddits for me, that I cannot compensate with a Lemmy alternative.
But I hope, that Lemmy will have the same impact than Mastodon had and that many cool communities will rise from this!
Reddit burning its bridge with Apollo’s dev probably sealed the deal for me. Beyond handling things poorly, most of my time on Reddit was on my phone via Apollo. I highly doubt Christian ever works with Reddit again even if they did completely pull everything back.
Things have been pretty good here, I don’t see any reason not to stick around, and there isn’t anything to make me go back. I’ll probably check hockey news on Reddit occasionally, but I can’t see myself being active.
I’m done with Reddit even if Lemmy doesn’t work out. I hope it does though. Even if there are barriers to entry and confusing aspects, there are definitely enough people out there to overcome them and keep this place interesting. I think social media needs to be more socialized.
Spez also talked about a $1 monthly charge, is clearly not trustworthy, wants to add Facebook style ads and looks like a stand in from the country club from ground hog day… I think I’ll pop in for my niche sub reddits but I’m going to make a conscious effort to not feed the monster baby going forward.
I might still google “[question] reddit” when looking for how to do things, and there a couple of subs I’ll check for that kind of purpose, but I’ve already stopped actively contributing to the site and have edited and deleted most of my comments (at least the ones shown on my profile, reddit doesn’t show all of them - need to find a way to automate editing + deleting from the GDPR CSV files).
Hopefully Lemmy will grow and take over to fill the reddit knowledge gap.
What’s more, they’ve blocked old reddit if you’re not logged in. Now it either redirects to new reddit or you get a “you broke reddit” error page. It won’t be long before they block old reddit for existing users, I reckon.
Absolutely. Capitalists are mad dogs. You are never ever safe with them. I like the Fediverse. I’d like to see it improved by becoming fully democratic and publicly funded.
Eh, it’s a misconception to think that capitalism is evil, and the problem. Capitalism is neutral, it’s a simple method of value exchange - it takes x time in man hours to extract raw materials, y to manufacture a product, z to distribute it so the price should be x+y+z.
The issue is with people. People lie and try to inflate or deflate the value of things. They’ll imply that it takes longer to do something, so they can sell it for more, meanwhile they’ll pay their employees less than their time is worth. Capitalism’s main failing is that it is too simple, it is unable to account for these human flaws.
I will be staying for sure. There’s nothing worth saving over on reddit anyway. I’ve hoped for a long time the fediverse would get good enough to challenge the mainstream platforms. and with this sudden influx of people (and hence developers), it just might.
There’s a massive inertia from reddit being the go-to social network for enthusiasts, it will need years if you want it to be fully replaced by something else. I will keep lemmy, but i believe going back to reddit is a smart choice… for now.
It’s not a binary decision, they’re not mutually exclusive.
It’s like arguing about browsers. I use Firefox and I use Chrome every day.
I’ve been using mastodon & reddit everyday, but while I’ve had a lemmy account for a long while but until now the community hasn’t been well aligned with my interest.
If just a third of the current active users stick around I can see it becoming part of my daily scrolling.
Being a member of the Fediverse is an investment in the future I feel. There’s not tons right now like on Reddit, but you can stick around and help build it by posting, commenting and voting. Alternatively, you can come back in a few years when this is the way that new communities form.
Reddit’s behaviour is a statement of intent for the future, to make money at all costs, sell up and become another advertiser friendly walled garden like Instagram. That’s fine for them, but I have no interest in being part of that.
Thats a very fair take.
