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Reddit already looks different for me (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by phase_change@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@beehaw.org
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It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC.

I moved to Reddit during the Digg migration. Thus, I got the default subscriptions from back in the day. Over the years, I’ve unsubscribed to things I felt were crap, and I’ve added a number of subreddits.

Already, many have gone dark. My old.Reddit.com homepage already looks much different than normal, and I know that a few subreddits that do show have announced they’ll go dark. I assume they are US based and timing that locally.

I’ve spent more time in the Lemmy fediverse than on Reddit since joining, but I’ve spent time on both.

I’ll admit to cynical skepticism of the impact of the darkening. I still don’t think it will make a difference in Reddit policy, but I now believe it will have a larger impact on Reddit traffic than I imagined.

I still expect it to have no change in Reddit attitude or really in Reddit users.

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[–] Hellstormy@beehaw.org 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I just hope that most of the people who migrated here to Lemmy will stay and not just go back to Reddit like nothing ever happened.

The huge activity in even small communities is what always kept me on Reddit, and I really look forward to see if Lemmy continues to grow to become what we all hoped Reddit would be for us.

I'll be abondoning Reddit completely and deleting everything as soon as RiF stops working.

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there are many like me who have not had fun on Reddit for a long time and were sticking around because they weren't aware of a better alternative for relatively anonymous social media. I've been wanting to step back away from the internet monoliths for a long time and the fediverse has been pretty promising to me so far.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was a Sync user. Decided to not even wait. Account deleted, app uninstalled. Fuck em

[–] snakesnakewhale@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Did the same this morning, down to the same app

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heard a rumour that the Sync dev was thinking of making Sync for Lemmy. Just read it in a comment on here and can't find any proof so don't get too excited yet, but that would be fuckin awesome.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That would be amazing, he could probably even reuse a lot of the UI elements even.

[–] ott@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I'm probably going to end up back on Reddit to some extent, but I think Lemmy will stay in my rotation of stuff I open when I'm bored. Or until they inevitably kill old.reddit.com, then I'll be outta there for good...

[–] toadmode@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

based on mastodon servers blowing up when people "left" twitter, like 90% of new users will be gone in a couple weeks

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To replace Twitter you need public figures, celebrities, sports teams, etc. to move to the new site, unfortunately I don't see them moving to a federated system like mastadon. Reddit would be easier to replace, as you follow communities rather than content publishers.

The Twitter migration will probably be to Meta's new app once it comes out, it'd be an easy port since most of the accounts people follow on Twitter already have the Meta products.

[–] sergio@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I followed George Takei on mastodon when he announced he was leaving Twitter and I haven't seen a post of his ever 😔