I would half move back. There are a lot of niche subs that I can't find here, like r/NonCredibleDiplomacy. But I would still use Lemmy, it is more homey.
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Been on reddit since 2010 and over the years I've gotten less and less interested and the only subs I still had interest in were the niche fashion communities.
I'm gonna be the change I want to see and created the lemmy community for one of my favorite brands (Supreme) and over time other ones will fill out the space. I'm also gonna join a patreon discord for better fashion discussion than the reddit subs anyway and was something I'd been wanting to do anyway before the recent events.
With those as a replacement I should be fine. I'm also way more excited about investing into an exciting new community with lemmy that reminds me of the early reddit days. Reddit will only continue to get worse as it gets more corporate and terrible in the same way Facebook and other platforms went downhill over the years. Lemmy is on the come up
Personally I doubt I'll delete my account on Reddit. But as someone who will cling to old.reddit.com and adguard to the bitter end, I'll happily let my account gather dust unless there's a support question or something for a community that hasn't taken off here.
Keeping Reddit as a backup will at least being me some productivity back. I'm supposed to be a writer, I would probably get more actual writing done.
Iβve been looking for an alternative for a while now, and am quite sure Iβve found it.
Iβll stay here, the decentralized concept makes so much more sense for this kind of application
What if your SO stops beating you?
And then what? They'll magically stop having to make money for their investors?
Reddit isn't getting enshittified for shits and giggles. They're being forced to make money. That requires enshittification.
Reddit is doing a tumblr so I don't think is gonna recover that easy. Reddit is not gonna allow NSFW subs to be seen outside of the official app, who the hell watches porn from the official app? So many people is gonna drop it.
I think is still gonna survive IF subs like askreddit, amitheasshole or entitledparents are still up and have a lot of people posting, because they so many YT channels read from those (and I hear them daily as podcasts) but if the mayor subs go dark or shutdown is not gonna affect reddit only, but also so many people who works reading those.
I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, Iβm not looking back.
I don't intend to go back nearly as much as before, even if the changes are reverted (unlikely, imo). A lot of the aspects of Reddit that I didn't like - but tolerated - are generally not found here, at least so far. While Lemmy still leaves things to be desired, it just feels better to engage with.
However, I may still add " reddit" to the end of a search query to avoid all the bloat articles that crop up in a search. There's still a wealth of useful information on Reddit from all those years for even the most niche questions / topics.
Reddit showed their hand and I'm just done with all these corpos. Reddit is my last hold out and I'm slowly leaving that too. I'm moving to the decentralized FOSS future that I believe in where we the people have the power.
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I'm seeing how things play out.
I certainly like Lemmy and I could very well use both for a while. I'm mostly worried my favorite subs (especially my local City sub) won't migrate or be an active enough group here. Time will tell. I want to follow the community, not the platform.
That's a big issue. Unfortunately there is no way to keep everything after such a thing
I fully support all the reasons for ditching Reddit altogether, but if I canβt use Apollo, Iβll only ever use it on desktop, and even then just to look stuff up via Google.
Installed Mlem and have committed to making this place a good one.
The apollo_for_reddit developer (android) is looking into making their app compatible with alternative platforms, hopefully more Reddit apps follow suit so they can make interacting on Lemmy as frictionless as possible
They've made it clear they won't. And since most subs are only going dark for a measly 48 hours they have no incentive to. It's literally like that "Oh no, anyway..." meme.
And think of it this way: even if you they revert the changes (or you just decide to please /u/spez and only use the official app) do you think the platform will continue to get better or worse? He's shown his hand it's nothing good for the mods or the users.
The last time reddit pulled some shit, I found tildes and expanded the sites I visited regularly/ semi-regularly (and reducing how much time I spent on reddit). Reddit reverting the latest changes will only minimize the damage on my end, as I'll be spending time here that I could otherwise be spending over there.
This stunt reduced the already diminished trust I have for reddit. Having migrated to reddit due to the digg v4 fiasco, over the years, reddit's decisions have been like digg v4 in slow motion. Each fuckup just causes me to further reduce the amount of time I spend using the site. One of these days, they'll cross too many of my red lines, and reddit will become completely useless to me.
What kept me at reddit was the content, not the company. If the content moves here, then this is where I'll stay. If most content remains at Reddit, which would be unfortunate. Then I'd probably try to juggle both, depending on how my time goes here.
So far, it's been rather positive. I've got most of my daily dose of community conversation, but I'm missing that video streak at the moment.
I've wanted to leave since the old shitredditsays days (had the handle /u/outwrangle ), but back then there weren't any good alternatives (SA cost actual money and Tumblr went to shit after it was acquired by Yahoo) so I stayed on leddit out of a lack of alternatives.
The blackout is just the brd finally coming to free us from the hellsite. I will never return.
I forgot all about SRS, back in the day one of the first times a Reddit comment I wrote got a bunch of upvotes some SRS folks came after me and it was super confusing. I got really bizarre messages from angry people who seemed completely unhinged.
People would go back.
Lemmy reminds me of early Reddit and I like that. The mask is all the way off now. Reddit was pretty fun 10+ years ago but that time has come and gone.
I plan on sticking to lemmy and only using reddit on the pc for specific things that I can't find here for the time being
Yep, congrats Reddit you've become StackOverflow for me. Searching for weird answers and taking them. I'm no longer contributing, I have Sync on my phone out of respect, but will not participate there. Not that karma matters, but I see tons of posts here of some super high karma users all leaving - which does mean that they pissed off their largest contributors.
As Facebook before them, let them drive out their content creators and let themselves fall into the corporate ad-riddled hellscape they want.
Lemmy. I actually kinda prefer this to reddit, content feels much more "local" and since I can't spend hours scrolling through it, it doesn't make me a mindless soul just being fed infornation. Also I already deleted my reddit account lol.
I would probably stay here. I do like exploring new things and the fact that it is smaller would likely make me lurk less.
I've overwritten and deleted all my comments and posts and nuked my account. This is my new home.
Lemmy is too good to leave. I don't think I'm alone either. I was wanting an alternative for a while.
Reddit is absolutely, 100% certainly not going to step back on these change. They've made up their mind long ago.
But just for the hypothetical: I think they lost a LOT of trust with the two most essential parts of the community - users and mods. Also the company (or rather, its CEO) may have taken significant image damage due to the "AMA" spez did.
I think business will go on as usual, but the decline will be more and more noticable over time. It will go the way of Digg. Unless of course reddit decides to hire moderation themselves. But we all know they probably wont want do do that. The course seems set to selling the data they have already accumulated.
I doubt reddit will hire mods, they've been crying the platform is not profitable, imagine having to pay several millions more, tho reddit without mods is dead.
I'm not going back, epescially since Apollo will be shutting down. I'm looking forward to what the dev can do with the Mlem iOS app, and I'm very interested in the community that is being built here.
It'd be a mix of both for me. I like what I'm seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enrimous and users won't flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.