For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
Fuck technofascists
Not going to lie. This all feels like Google+ to me. The communities and networks are all over the place
Going to sound sad but I’m a more than a bit bummed.
Outside my family and my job, reddit and the community was a massive social outlet for me. I don’t have as much contact with friends any more and being part of some of the communities there made it not so bad.
I went from digg to Reddit during that mass exodus and will be doing the same from Reddit to Lemmy. It is a little bittersweet seeing what Reddit was 10+ years ago to what it’s become, but I’m excited for the future and to see what becomes of Lemmy, kbin, etc.
Yeah, Reddit had a lot of communities that I loved interacting with and finding advice with. I do hope Lemmy gains enough traction to replace Reddit.
I sucks but I did the same thing with Digg when it turned to shit.
Not much. There’s so much mod & admin abuse nowadays that I developed kind of a resentment. On top of that there’s a lot of rude or downright hateful user behavior that seems to not just not get punished, but in some cases even encouraged. The only thing that lets me endure it for now is simply the community relevant content. As for kbin it needs exactly that. More users and content. Functionality of the site is good enough to be usable for me and will surely also improve but we really need the people and content to bring everything together.
A little bit, there’s a lot of specific subreddits I enjoyed browsing and talking in that have yet to reach a good critical mass here on Lemmy. I’ve been sharing my own custom Zelda monsters for Pathfinder 2e on the ZeldaTabletop subreddit and there’s no substitute for that subreddit over here yet (I might make one once RiF dies on June 30th).
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 had been getting sick of the direction reddit has headed for the past couple years and have been looking for alternatives. I discovered lemmy at basically the perfect time. So I guess I’m not too heartbroken mostly because I’ve been frustrated with the platform for quite a while.
I figured the Reddit exodus would happen about 5 years ago, but every similar site that cropped up either petered out or went into a fascist hellhole. Let’s hope Lemmy holds up and grows.
Had an account for 11 years but lurked for a few before. Yes. I been expecting it for years since its been declining but still going to miss it.
My biggest worry is a fracturing of some communities. For tech support for various companies, different niche academic communities, etc. that had a free and easy place to have discussions instead of running their own forum. If we end up with those groups splitting and half staying on Reddit, half coming here, that’s a bummer all around for someone who previously knew where they would find the best info.
On the flip side, I’d love if companies put up their own instance. Raspberry Pi hosts their own mastodon and I think it’s a good way for a company to have representation.
It is just a matter of time. Either Reddit win this war and everyone goes back to Reddit, or Reddit bankrupts and chaos rules for a while until someone else win this.
Nah, they were just a company after all. The strongest feeling I get is that it’s just a bummer because I’ve grown to depend on the platform so much and now I’ve got to try and adapt.
At the same time, as this thing that was previously an interesting little curiosity on a corner of the web grew to be a big time suck and addiction, the dopamine hit returns and actually helpful interactions I was getting from Reddit were diminishing anyway so when there was finally a convenient push to make me try harder to either find an alternative or just ditch it, I was strangely grateful.
I do feel like I’m losing something that was very useful resource and which also filled a need, albeit one that it created in the first place, but at the end of the day, it’s just a forum. I can’t really feel betrayed or heartbroken by an entity that was only ever intended to make money and had no obligation to my approval.
I cared more about the niche communities than I did about Reddit as a whole. Once those move over here, I’ll be just fine.
right! it’s the people, not the product
i think someone forgot that
No, it was going to happen, reddit has been becoming horrible since 2015. It could not die fast enough, except now the problem is lemmy is not ready. There will not be another exodus, the center of mass shifts to lemmy, or it goes back to reddit.
